Movies Similar to Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas

This Christmas(2007)

This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are hung, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. As their lives converge, they join together and help each other discover the true meaning of family.

6.5

Surviving Christmas(2004)

A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.

5.7

Sesame Street The Nutcracker(2022)

Featuring new music inspired by holiday classic The Nutcracker, this animated special follows Elmo’s fantastical adventure through magical lands to retrieve a nutcracker toy, along with his puppy Tango – who can speak for the first time!

7.5

Cosy Dens(1999)

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.

7.9

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas(1999)

Mickey, Minnie, and their famous friends Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto gather together to reminisce about the love, magic and surprises in three wonder-filled stories of Christmas past.

7.1

American Christmas(2019)

It took another ruined Christmas dinner to make Martha finally realize: her kids are jerks. But this Christmas, Martha has had enough. With the help of her grandson, Sully, Martha is determined to make each of her family members face their ghosts of Christmas past. Find out whether Martha's plans will bring her family together or truly tear them all apart. Either way it is sure to be A Very Odd Christmas.

3.3

Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special(2008)

The multi-platinum selling comedian performs his first holiday-themed stand-up special with his friends.

6.6

Santa Claus Is a Stinker(1982)

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

7.3

Curl Aberdeen Christmas Special(2024)

A recreation of the iconic dance from 'Love Actually' (2003) originally performed by Hugh Grant, now by Andrew Lyon.

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Winter in Vail(2020)

Chelsea inherits a house in Vail. She meets Owen and gets a much needed break. Together, they put on Strudelfest to highlight the charm of Old Vail.

6.8

Weihnachtsüberraschungen(2025)

Nurse Nora is looking forward to her first Christmas vacation in years and wants to spend it quietly and relaxed with her mother Ellen. She doesn't really mind that her brother Moritz, formerly Maike, isn't coming, as she has always felt inferior to him. But then not only Moritz turns up, Grandma Lore also changes her plans and, to make matters worse, they are joined by their widowed neighbor Rolf and his detestable son Bent, as well as their daughter Katja and grandson Fritz, due to a faulty heating system.

6.0

Christmas at the Holly Day Inn(2023)

An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.

6.4

Red Lights and Blue(2025)

The WSAP Theater Club is thrown into turmoil when the recently fired JROTC instructor, Sergeant Murphy, begins co-teaching the club as a last ditch effort to save his job. As the winter recital creeps closer, Murphy must put aside his anti-theater biases in order to get along with the club’s seniors and co-teacher, Ms. Austen, before he’s fired for good.

0.0

Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special(2016)

Donald decides to stay home for the holidays instead of migrating somewhere warmer. To celebrate this special time, Mickey hopes to make Donald’s first Christmas the greatest ever!

7.5

In Bruges(2008)

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

7.5

Man spricht deutsh(1988)

A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italian people.

6.7

Christmas in Boston(2005)

Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet. True love is found in the end for all.

5.6

Home for the Holidays(1995)

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

6.2

Troublemakers(1994)

Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.

6.2

Christmas Ransom(2022)

When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.

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