Movies Like Back to Christmas (2014)

Back to Christmas is a 2014 drama, fantasy, tv movie film from Tim O'Donnell with a MovieMagicScore of 5.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Christmas Cure and Return to Christmas Creek.

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The Christmas Cure

2017

A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's practice.

5.8

MagicScore

Return to Christmas Creek

2018

As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend Mike and her estranged uncle Harry, whose mysterious rift with Amelia’s father divided her family during the holiday season when she was a child.

6.5

MagicScore

A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas

2019

Hotel manager Willow returns to her stunning Virginia hometown to help her sister plan a Christmas wedding at the inn her family once owned. She must work with current owner and single dad David, who wants to let go of the past.

6.3

MagicScore

Christmas Hotel

2019

A big city hotelier's boss informs her that she will receive a promotion if she can pull off a major project.

6.2

MagicScore

Just Friends

2005

While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.

6.2

MagicScore

12 Dates of Christmas

2011

In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is magically given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times!

6.1

MagicScore

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

2019

When Belinda heads back to her hometown for the holidays, things get complicated when she is forced to team up with her ex at the town's annual Christmas scavenger hunt.

6.2

MagicScore

A Sweet Christmas Romance

2019

When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery is retiring and has started a contest to give the bakery away to whoever can recreate her famous 12 Days of Christmas recipes. When a local baker also enters the contest, the two adversaries end up cooking up something special together for the holidays.

6.9

MagicScore

Time for You to Come Home for Christmas

2019

A recent widow travels with her son to her Virginia hometown for Christmas. On the way they meet a man who is also heading to the same destination. As they continue to spend time together, the pair grows closer.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

Dear Christmas

2020

Natalie Morgan is an author and host of a popular podcast, Holiday Love, which shares true stories of holiday romance with its listeners. While to the outside world and her listeners everywhere see Natalie is an expert on romance, she's never truly experienced a romance of her own. As Natalie prepares to embark on a promotional tour for her new book, she stops back home to spend Christmas with her family and to celebrate her parent's 50th anniversary where she unexpectedly begins to experience her own holiday romance as sparks ignite with local firefighter, Jack.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

Spotlight on Christmas

2020

Dumped two weeks before Christmas, actress Olivia O’Hara secretly returns to her tiny hometown to hide out, eat cookies and avoid the press. What she doesn’t expect is to be faced with the family she left behind, meeting a charming new guy Casey Rawlins, and a nosy reporter following her every move.

6.0

MagicScore

#12

Sleigh Bells Ring

2016

Recently divorced, Laurel struggles to get into the holiday spirit while heading up her hometown Christmas parade. With the help of a Christmas sleigh and a handsome woodworker, Laurel is destined to turn her luck around, rekindle her holiday spirit and even find time for love.

5.9

MagicScore

#13

'Tis the Season for Love

2015

An out-of-work New York City actress returns home to the quaint small town she escaped 10 years before and finds a place far different than the hamlet she left. She suddenly finds performing possibilities and even romance that kind of blow her away.

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Touchback

2011

A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.

6.4

MagicScore

#15

17 Again

2009

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

When We First Met

2018

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

A Christmas Carol

1984

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

A Christmas Carol

1971

7.1

MagicScore

#19

The Spirit of Christmas

2015

A woman falls in love with a man who is somewhat unavailable.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Next Stop, Christmas

2021

Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the advice of the train's enigmatic conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what — and who — is truly important to her.

6.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Back to Christmas?

The top films similar to Back to Christmas by MovieMagicScore are The Christmas Cure (5.8), Return to Christmas Creek (6.5), A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas (6.3). Each shares drama/fantasy/tv movie themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Back to Christmas worth watching?

Back to Christmas holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.0/10 from 44 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Back to Christmas?

Back to Christmas (2014) is a drama, fantasy, tv movie film directed by Tim O'Donnell, starring Kelly Overton, Michael Muhney, Gloria Loring.

Where can I find more recommendations like Back to Christmas?

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About movies like Back to Christmas

This ranked list pairs Back to Christmas (2014), a drama and fantasy and tv movie film from Tim O'Donnell, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Kelly Overton take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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