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10 Best Movies Like Santa Claus Is a Stinker

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#1
French Fried Vacation 2

French Fried Vacation 2

1979★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane....

#2
French Fried Vacation

French Fried Vacation

1978★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing a...

#3
Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1985★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 th...

#4
Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hu...

#5
The Antidote

The Antidote

2005★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to ...

#6
The Visitors

The Visitors

1993★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Santa Claus Is a Stinker for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquo...