Movies like Our Little Secret

Why it's similar — Like Our Little Secret, this ensemble Christmas comedy locks an extended family into one house for a long weekend and lets the simmering secrets do the work. Both films use the holiday as a forced-proximity engine — a deadline that won't let anyone retreat to their own apartment — and trust the audience to enjoy watching adult partners renegotiate old grievances under twinkle lights.

Why it's similar — If you came to Our Little Secret for Kristin Chenoweth's high-pitched holiday-matriarch energy, this is the louder version of the same archetype. The film makes the mother-of-the-household character the comic engine and turns Christmas into a pressure cooker, the same structural move Stephen Herek deploys around Erica's increasingly aggressive game nights.

Why it's similar — Preston Whitmore's family-Christmas drama runs the same engine — adult siblings returning home with romantic secrets each one is keeping from the others — and turns the holiday week into a slow disclosure of who is dating whom and what nobody has told mom. The structural rhyme with Avery and Logan's no-tell pact is exact, even if this film plays it as drama where Herek plays it as comedy.

Why it's similar — Robert Tinnell's adaptation of his own graphic memoir sits the audience around a sprawling Italian-American Christmas Eve dinner and lets exes, current partners, and family elders work out who is talking to whom. The interlocking-couples premise is the same one Our Little Secret runs at a higher tempo, and the warm-but-edgy holiday register matches.

Why it's similar — Austin Chick's indie three-hander is the harder-edged cousin of Our Little Secret's premise: a couple from college reconvene years later with new partners and discover the original feelings did not fully clear. Where Herek plays the reunion as Christmas-cookie comedy, this one plays it as adult drama, but the central question — what do you owe the person you used to love? — is the same.