Movies Like Unlocking Christmas (2020)

Unlocking Christmas is a 2020 romance, tv movie film from Don McBrearty with a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas and Noel Next Door.

Romance TV Movie

Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas

2020

Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.

7.0

MagicScore

Noel Next Door

2022

A hard-working, single mom gets into a war of words with a neighbor who she feels is ruining Christmas, only to find that this misunderstood grouch just may steal her heart.

7.0

MagicScore

A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love

2020

After 15 years, Pat moves home from Hawaii with his two sons and through a series of coincidences, or Godwinks, ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart, Margie, at Christmas.

6.9

MagicScore

Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas

2018

Famous musician Heath and small-town girl Cara are each traveling back to Oklahoma for the holidays when they get stranded in Chicago. Despite his fame, she has no idea who he is, but they hit it off—and she even ends up providing some inspiration for the Christmas song he's writing.

6.5

MagicScore

A Maple Valley Christmas

2022

Erica is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.

6.4

MagicScore

A Godwink Christmas

2018

As Christmas approaches, Paula, a St. Louis antique appraiser, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Daniel, a career-focused attorney. When her Aunt Jane senses she has mixed emotions over the engagement, she invites Paula to her Nantucket home. Upon her arrival, Paula plans a trip to the nearby island of Martha's Vineyard where she meets a charming inn owner.

6.3

MagicScore

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

The Year Without a Santa Claus

1974

Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation. Mrs. Claus and two spunky little elves, Jingle and Jangle, set out to see to where all the season's cheer has disappeared. Aided by a magical snowfall, they reawaken the spirit of Christmas in children's hearts and put Santa back in action.

7.2

MagicScore

A Christmas Carol

1971

7.1

MagicScore

#10

The Noel Diary

2022

Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?

6.3

MagicScore

#11

The Bridge

2015

The sweeping tale of Molly Callens and Ryan Kelly, two young students who share a profound friendship their first semester in college, a time that becomes the defining moment of their lives.

6.2

MagicScore

#12

Let It Snow

2019

In a small town on Christmas Eve, a snowstorm brings together a group of young people. They soon find their friendships and love lives colliding, and come Christmas morning, nothing will be the same.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1966

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

7.5

MagicScore

#14

The Muppet Christmas Carol

1992

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

7.4

MagicScore

#15

Scrooge

1951

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

7.4

MagicScore

#16

A Christmas Carol

1938

7.0

MagicScore

#17

A Christmas Carol

2009

6.9

MagicScore

#18

A Christmas Carol

1999

6.9

MagicScore

#19

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

2024

The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Spirited

2022

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Unlocking Christmas?

The top films similar to Unlocking Christmas by MovieMagicScore are Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas (7.0), Noel Next Door (7.0), A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (6.9). Each shares romance/tv movie themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Unlocking Christmas worth watching?

Unlocking Christmas holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10 from 44 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Unlocking Christmas?

Unlocking Christmas (2020) is a romance, tv movie film directed by Don McBrearty, starring Taylor Cole, Steve Lund, Elena Juatco.

Where can I find more recommendations like Unlocking Christmas?

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About movies like Unlocking Christmas

This ranked list pairs Unlocking Christmas (2020), a romance and tv movie film from Don McBrearty, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Taylor Cole 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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