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51. The Gypsy Moths (1969)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson
Votes: 2,469
52. A Country Romance (2021 TV Movie)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman finds romance with a handsome local when she returns home to help her father with the family vineyard.
Director: Danny Roth | Stars: Alix Angelis, Jonathan Bennett, Violet Tinnirello, Randy Wayne
Votes: 399
53. Belle Starr (1980 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
Director: John A. Alonzo | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Cliff Potts, Michael Cavanaugh, Gary Combs
Votes: 148
54. Rocky Mountain Christmas (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Romance
After her breakup with a famous tech entrepreneur makes national headlines, Sarah returns to her uncle's ranch to escape the spotlight where she crosses paths with a Hollywood actor who's looking to prepare for an upcoming role.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Kristoffer Polaha, Lindy Booth, Treat Williams, Chris McNally
Votes: 1,904
55. Full Moon High (1981)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail
Votes: 1,630
56. The Wedding Do Over (2018 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
A wedding planner questions her past relationship with her ex-fiance while working with him.
Director: W.D. Hogan | Stars: Nicole Gale Anderson, Parker Young, Karissa Lee Staples, Alisha Wainwright
Votes: 871
57. Appetite for Love (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
A corporate executive is sent to a small town to re-brand a restaurant as part of a strategic acquisition. However, the iconic diner happens to be in her hometown where she hasn't been in years, and the owner is her high school sweetheart.
Director: David Mackay | Stars: Taylor Cole, Andrew W. Walker, Alley Mills, Marcus Rosner
Votes: 2,498
58. Santa Baby (2006 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Mary Class is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ivan Sergei, George Wendt, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 1,846
59. Christmas on the Menu (2020 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Celebrated chef Josie heads home for the holidays and creates a special festive menu for her mom's new bed-and-breakfast bistro, where she runs into Tanner, the famous food critic who ... See full summary »
Director: Jake Helgren | Stars: Kim Shaw, Clayton James, Cynthia Gibb, Katrina Norman
Votes: 718
60. Spotlight on Christmas (2020 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Dumped before Christmas, famous Hollywood actress Olivia secretly returns to her hometown to eat cookies and avoid the press. Instead, she must step up to take the starring role in her own life.
Director: Ali Liebert | Stars: Tori Anderson, Victor Zinck Jr., Lia Frankland, Janet Kidder
Votes: 952
61. BlackJack (1990)
111 min | Drama, Music
Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The... See full summary »
Director: Colin Nutley | Stars: Helena Bergström, Reine Brynolfsson, Johannes Brost, Ing-Marie Carlsson
Votes: 1,862
62. Sweet Autumn (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Aunt Dee splits her candy shop between her niece, Maggie, and maple farmer, Dex. Following letters Dee left, the two uncover the reason for her decision, during the Sweet Autumn festival.
Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Nikki Deloach, Andrew W. Walker, Daina Leitold, Eugene Baffoe
Votes: 1,499
63. Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Emma returns home to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the house they grew up in. After their parents' recent passing, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane.
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Alicia Witt, Colin Ferguson, Laura Leighton, Jill Larson
Votes: 1,385
64. Christmas on the Vine (2020 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A young marketing executive is assigned to help a struggling family-owned winery in a town that has lost its Christmas spirit due to a large wine conglomerate.
Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Julianna Guill, Jon Cor, Meredith Baxter, Chilton Crane
Votes: 655
65. The Goddess (1958)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland
Votes: 1,145
66. Norskov (2015–2017)
Not Rated | 42 min | Crime, Drama
Raw, brooding drama in which police detective Tom Noack returns home to Norskov, an industrial port in northern Denmark, after 20 years away to clean up the town's all-consuming drug problem.
Stars: Thomas Levin, Claus Riis Østergaard, Jacob Lohmann, Anne Sofie Espersen
Votes: 947
67. 'Tis the Season for Love (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A small-town girl who moved to New York to pursue her dreams returns home for the holidays, only to realize that maybe her dreams aren't miles away, but right in her hometown.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Sarah Lancaster, Brendan Penny, Gwynyth Walsh, Andrew Francis
Votes: 2,051
68. My Christmas Love (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A hopeless romantic who can't ever seem to give a guy a real chance begins receiving each of the "12 Days of Christmas" as gifts anonymously at her door and begins to believe that the mystery suitor may finally live up to her expectations.
Director: Jeff Fisher | Stars: Meredith Hagner, Bobby Campo, Megan Park, Aaron O'Connell
Votes: 2,922
69. Runnin' from My Roots (2018)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Music, Romance
After a very public fall from grace, country-music star Faith Winters seeks refuge in her rural Texas hometown, where she rediscovers feelings for her high-school sweetheart, the local pastor. But her homecoming is bittersweet.
Director: Nancy Criss | Stars: Janelle Arthur, Aaron O'Connell, Nia Sioux, Joel Rush
Votes: 252
70. Rocky Road (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family
Harrison Burke loses his job as trader at a prestigious Wall Street investment bank, so he moves back in with his parents . He eventually settles in, takes a job at his father's ice-cream truck business and rediscovers home.
Director: Brian K. Roberts | Stars: Mark Salling, Nicholas Campbell, Steve Byers, Rebecca Dalton
Votes: 312
71. A Holiday for Love (1996 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Tim Matheson, Melissa Gilbert, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jayne Eastwood
Votes: 758
72. All I Desire (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 2,452
73. Sweet Mountain Christmas (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Romance
As country-music star Laney Blu spends more time in her hometown, it becomes less and less like she remembered it.
Director: David Weaver | Stars: Megan Hilty, Marcus Rosner, Teryl Rothery, Kate Craven
Votes: 740
74. Restart After Come Back Home (2020)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Mitsuomi Kozuka quits his job in Tokyo to return to his rural hometown for the first time in a decade. There, he meets Yamato Kumai, who convinces him to help out on his farm, where their relationship grows and changes them both.
Director: Ryûta Inoue | Stars: Yûki Furukawa, Yukijirô Hotaru, Masahiro Kômoto, Eri Murakawa
Votes: 626
75. The Christmas Dance (2021)
94 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Traumatized by her past, Christmas is not at the top of Sarah's list this time of year. However, waltzing through life's unexpected emergencies, she is taught the Christmas Dance.
Director: Michael Arcell | Stars: Brady Amaya, Richard Karn, Katherine Kelly Lang, Noah Nelson
Votes: 301
76. The Christmas Note (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery
After moving into a new house, a woman befriends her next-door neighbor and helps her track down a mystery sibling she never knew she had.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Leah Gibson, Lynda Boyd, Dylan Kingwell
Votes: 1,527
77. A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Family, Romance
After 15 years, a single father 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.
Director: Heather Hawthorn Doyle | Stars: Brooke D'Orsay, Sam Page, Michele Scarabelli, Rhys Slack
Votes: 1,337
78. Faultless (2016)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
Having been fired from her old job as a real estate agent, 40 years old Constance thinks her former boss will hire her in a vacancy, but he chooses a younger and prettier woman. Constance can't take that and starts her stalking.
Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Marina Foïs, Jérémie Elkaïm, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Biolay
Votes: 1,038
79. Christmas Pen Pals (2018 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After being dumped by her boyfriend, a successful tech wiz dating-app creator returns to her hometown for the holiday season, and her dad gets her to sign up for the annual Christmas Cupid anonymous matchmaking event.
Director: Siobhan Devine | Stars: Sarah Drew, Niall Matter, Michael Gross, Chiara Zanni
Votes: 1,590
80. See Girl Run (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A young adult woman decides to revisit her past relationships in order to find some guidance in her current life.
Director: Nate Meyer | Stars: Robin Tunney, Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, William Sadler
Votes: 1,433
81. A Golden Christmas 3 (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Heather is a charming, free spirit, and Bobby is a naval officer home from serving overseas. Thanks to a fun-filled theater production of "A Christmas Carol," these two unlucky-in-love childhood friends may fall in love.
Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Shantel VanSanten, Rob Mayes, Orson Bean, Nikki Deloach
Votes: 897
82. Rediscovering Christmas (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sparks fly when a Boston department store window designer travels to her family's Connecticut town to help design its annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance and must work with the festival founders' stubborn but devoted grandson.
Director: Colin Theys | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, B.J. Britt, Justine Cotsonas, David Naughton
Votes: 490
83. Missing (2017)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police superintendent Maja Silver goes back to her old hometown in the Swedish Bible belt to see her daughter, when a terrible discovery paralyzes the small community.
Stars: Helena Bergström, Johan H:son Kjellgren, Mattias Nordkvist, Anna Bjelkerud
Votes: 1,193
84. Vulcano (1950)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
The prostitute Anna returns to her home, a volcanic island off the coast of southern Italy. Rossano, a procurer for a prostitution ring sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister. When Anna wants to do something drastic the Volcano erupts.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 336
85. Amazing Winter Romance (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When journalist Julia goes back home to find inspiration, she discovers her childhood friend has built a giant snow maze which prompts her to find her way to true love.
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Jessy Schram, Marshall Williams, Zoe Fish, Melissa Marie Elias
Votes: 1,101
86. It's Christmas, Eve (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An interim school superintendent finds herself in a tough spot when she is assigned to shut down a school's failing music program, and must come to terms with her musical past.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: LeAnn Rimes, Tyler Hynes, Gwynyth Walsh, Laurie Murdoch
Votes: 1,641
87. Hitler's Madman (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 920
88. A Joyous Christmas (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A young self-help author returns to her hometown during the Christmas holidays to promote her new book. She soon discovers the true meaning of Christmas and family.
Director: Allan Harmon | Stars: Natalie Knepp, Michael Rady, Bonnie Bedelia, Steve Bacic
Votes: 1,544
89. Christmas Scavenger Hunt (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Belinda heads back to her hometown for the holidays, she teams up with her ex-boyfriend for the annual Christmas scavenger hunt and things get complicated.
Director: Marita Grabiak | Stars: Kim Shaw, Kevin McGarry, Tom Arnold, Kathryn Kohut
Votes: 1,458
90. D (2005)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deshu, a mechanic from Dubai, comes home to Mumbai, and gets embroiled in a crime by accident. The film shows his meteoric rise from common, law-abiding man to underworld kingpin.
Director: Vishram Sawant | Stars: Randeep Hooda, Chunky Pandey, Rukhsar Rehman, Isha Koppikar
Votes: 1,311
91. Letters to Satan Claus (2020 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Holly returns to her hometown to make a Christmas special before her promotion to a television anchorwoman, but first she must face Satan Claus and horrible childhood memories of him.
Director: Emma Jean Sutherland | Stars: Karen Knox, Jessica Clement, Joseph Cannata, Alex Harrouch
Votes: 524
92. Christmas Harmony (2018)
TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A successful songwriter returns to her small hometown to rediscover music, family bonds and the magic of the Christmas season.
Director: Nanea Miyata | Stars: Kelley Jakle, Adam Mayfield, Peter Porte, Aden Schwartz
Votes: 786
93. Will You Merry Me? (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Rebecca and Hank are ready to marry, and must now meet each others families who couldn't be more different. Set during two important religious holidays, the couple must go through the anxiety-filled process of meeting the in-laws.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Vikki Krinsky, Tommy Lioutas
Votes: 821
94. Christmas Bells Are Ringing (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A freelance photographer, on her way to Cape Cod to celebrate her father's Christmas Eve wedding, enlists the help of an old childhood friend to meet a deadline for a big Christmas spread that could ignite her career.
Director: Pat Williams | Stars: Emilie Ullerup, Josh Kelly, Mark Humphrey, Rebecca Staab
Votes: 1,761
95. Our Christmas Love Song (2019 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a country music star is accused of plagiarizing her new Christmas song, she returns to her hometown for the holiday season to try and find proof of authorship.
Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Alicia Witt, Brendan Hines, Andrea del Campo, Anna Anderson-Epp
Votes: 1,125
96. A Sweet Christmas Romance (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a food stylist finds out the owner of her favorite bakery is retiring and sponsoring a baking contest to see who will be her successor, she enters but then is forced to join forces with a rival chef to try and win.
Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Adelaide Kane, Greyston Holt, Loretta Devine, Hamza Fouad
Votes: 833
97. Min pappa Marianne (2020)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
After breaking up with her boyfriend, 28-year-old aspiring journalist Hanna decides to leave Stockholm and move back in with her parents and brother in her small hometown, Alingsås. After ... See full summary »
Director: Mårten Klingberg | Stars: Hedda Stiernstedt, Rolf Lassgård, Lena Endre, Klas Wiljergård
Votes: 2,250
98. A Christmas Reunion (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
A high-flying advertising executive returns to her hometown following the death of her aunt, whose dying wish was for her niece to re-open her bakery shop and host the town's 50th annual Christmas cookie contest.
Director: Sean Olson | Stars: Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jake Busey, Parker Stevenson
Votes: 848
99. An Evergreen Christmas (2014)
PG | 98 min | Family, Music, Romance
Leaving her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evergreen Lee is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee and her family's once-thriving Christmas tree farm to attend her father's funeral.
Director: Jeremy Culver | Stars: Robert Loggia, Naomi Judd, Booboo Stewart, Charleene Closshey
Votes: 494
100. Two for the Win (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A world champion ski racer and local ski instructor find romance on the slopes as he returns home and prepares for the biggest race of his life.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Charlotte Sullivan, Trevor Donovan, Siobhan Murphy, John Ralston
Votes: 947