Movies like Bad Santa
Bad Santa (2003) is a comedy movie directed by Terry Zwigoff. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Gremlins (1984)
★ 7.1 · 7,203 votes · Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
★ 6.8 · 8,500 votes · Family, Comedy, Fantasy
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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3. Love Actually (2003)
★ 7.1 · 7,615 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
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4. The Holiday (2006)
★ 7.1 · 5,796 votes · Comedy, Romance
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
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5. Elf (2003)
★ 6.7 · 4,725 votes · Comedy, Family, Fantasy
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
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6. The Santa Clause (1994)
★ 6.5 · 2,387 votes · Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.
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7. Home Alone (1990)
★ 7.5 · 12,948 votes · Comedy, Family
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
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8. Trading Places (1983)
★ 7.2 · 3,813 votes · Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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9. The Ref (1994)
★ 6.6 · 390 votes · Comedy, Crime, Drama
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
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10. Affliction (1998)
★ 6.3 · 338 votes · Crime, Drama
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
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11. Raising Arizona (1987)
★ 7.1 · 2,441 votes · Comedy, Crime
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
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12. Blindspotting (2018)
★ 7.3 · 754 votes · Comedy, Crime, Drama
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
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13. Go (1999)
★ 7.0 · 872 votes · Crime, Comedy, Thriller
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
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14. The Big Kahuna (1999)
★ 6.8 · 379 votes · Comedy, Drama
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
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