Movies Like Christmas Holidays (1983)

Christmas Holidays is a 1983 comedy film from Carlo Vanzina with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Christmas Vacation '90 and Christmas Vacation '91.

Comedy

Christmas Vacation '90

1990

Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz.

5.2

MagicScore

Christmas Vacation '91

1991

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.

5.0

MagicScore

Christmas Vacation '95

1995

Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.

5.4

MagicScore

Christmas Vacation 2000

1999

Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

5.3

MagicScore

Il Sorpasso

1962

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

8.2

MagicScore

Perfect Strangers

2016

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

7.9

MagicScore

Marriage Italian Style

1964

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

7.7

MagicScore

Totòtruffa '62

1961

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

7.7

MagicScore

The Band of Honest Men

1956

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

1956

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

7.6

MagicScore

#12

Two Colonels

1963

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.

7.5

MagicScore

#13

Neapolitan Turk

1953

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

7.2

MagicScore

#14

Why

1971

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

7.2

MagicScore

#15

Allegro non troppo

1976

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

7.1

MagicScore

#16

Bread, Love and Dreams

1953

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

7.0

MagicScore

#17

1987

2014

In 1987, Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...

6.9

MagicScore

#18

Boccaccio '70

1962

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

6.9

MagicScore

#19

Poor But Beautiful

1957

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

Everybody Wants to Be Italian

2007

Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells everyone she's his girlfriend, including Marisa, a veterinarian his employees set him up with at the Italian singles club. She's interested in him until he tells her about his girlfriend, then he's persistent in asking her to be his friend. As the friendship bumps along, Jake realizes that reality may be better than fantasy, but what if Isabella changes her mind about Jake, and what if it comes out that Marisa, like Jake, isn't Italian?

6.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Christmas Holidays?

The top films similar to Christmas Holidays by MovieMagicScore are Christmas Vacation '90 (5.2), Christmas Vacation '91 (5.0), Christmas Vacation '95 (5.4). Each shares comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Christmas Holidays worth watching?

Christmas Holidays holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 276 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Christmas Holidays?

Christmas Holidays (1983) is a comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina, starring Jerry Calà, Christian De Sica, Claudio Amendola.

Where can I find more recommendations like Christmas Holidays?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Christmas Holidays

This ranked list pairs Christmas Holidays (1983), a comedy film from Carlo Vanzina, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jerry Calà 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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