List of films set around New Year

This is a list of films set on or around the New Year of the Gregorian calendar.

Action

• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• Friday Foster (1975)
• Poseidon (2006)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

Comedy

• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Bachelor Mother (1939)
• Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
• Carnival Night (1956)
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
• Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• Get Crazy (1983)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• The Passionate Thief (1960)
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
• Junior Miss (1945)
• My Big Night (2015)
• New Year's Day (2001)
• No Surrender (1985)
• Operation Happy New Year (1996)
• Operation Petticoat (1959)
• Party Party (1983)
• Radio Days (1987)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Whatever Works (2009)

Comedy-drama

• 200 Cigarettes (1999)
• Bridge and Tunnel (2014)
• Diner (1982)
• For Keeps (1988)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
• Highball (1997)
• The Holdovers (2023)
• Ladies in Black (2018)
• A Long Way Down (2014)
• Mermaids (1990)
• Metropolitan (1990)
• More American Graffiti (1979)
• New Year's Day (1989)
• Peter's Friends (1992)
• Room for One More (1952)
• Starter for 10 (2006)
• Surviving New Year's (2008)
• Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)

Crime/caper/heist

• After the Thin Man (1936)
• Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
• La bonne année (1973)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Dhoom (2004)
• Entrapment (1999)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Happy New Year (1987)
• Little Caesar (1931)
• Money Train (1995)
• Ocean's 11 (1960)
• Poor Sasha (1997)
• A Simple Plan (1998)

Disaster

• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• Ground Control (1998)
• Poseidon (2006)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
• Y2K (1999)
• Y2K (2024)

Drama

• 54 (1998)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Carol (2015)
• Cavalcade (1933)
• The Divorcee (1930)
• Fruitvale Station (2013)
• Home Before Dark (1958)
• I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
• Middle of the Night (1959)
• My Reputation (1946)
• The New Year (2010)
• New Year's Eve (1929)
• One Way Passage (1932)
• The Passionate Friends (1949)
• Penny Serenade (1941)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• Pollock (2000)
• Il Posto (1961)
• Rocky (1976)
• Rocky II (1979)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)
• The Stud (1978)
• 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
• Two Lovers (2008)
• Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
• Yanks (1979)

Film noir

• Backfire (1950)
• Repeat Performance (1947)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

Horror

• Angel Heart (1987)
• Antisocial (2013)
• Bloody New Year (1987)
• The Children (2008)
• Day Watch (2006)
• Dead of Winter (1987)
• End of Days (1999)
• Ghostkeeper (1981)
• Holidays (2016)
• Iced (1988)
• The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• New Year's Evil (1980)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• The Phantom Carriage (1958)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• The Shining (1980)
• Terror Train (1980)
• V/H/S/99 (segment "To Hell and Back") (2022)

Musical

• An American in Paris (1951)
• Bundle of Joy (1956)
• Carnival Night (1956)
• Get Crazy (1983)
• Holiday Inn (1942)
• New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya (1975)
• Rent (2005) ^[1]

Romance/romantic comedy

• About a Boy (2002)
• An Affair to Remember (1957)
• And So They Were Married (1936)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Baby Cakes (1989)
• Bachelor Mother (1939)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• Café Society (2016)
• Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
• Come Look at Me (2001)
• Desk Set (1957)
• Holiday (1938)
• The Holiday (2006)
• Holiday Affair (1949)
• In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)
• The Irony of Fate (1976)
• The Irony of Fate 2 (2007)
• It's Love I'm After (1937)
• Made for Each Other (1939)
• The Moon's Our Home (1936)
• New Year's Eve (2011) ^[1]
• Remember the Night (1940)
• The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
• Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Someone Like You (2001)
• Untamed Heart (1993)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989) ^[1]
• While You Were Sleeping (1995) ^[1]
• Yolki (2010)
• Yolki 2 (2011)
• Yolki 3 (2013)
• Yolki 1914 (2014)
• Yolki 5 (2016)

Science fiction

• Alien Nation: Millennium (1996)
• Black Lightning (2009)
• Doctor Who (1996)
• Snowpiercer (2013)
• Strange Days (1995)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• The End of Evangelion (1997)

Thriller

• Bitter Moon (1992)
• Night Train to Paris (1964)
• Survivor (2015)
• Taboo (2002)
• Under Suspicion (2000)

See also

• New Year's Eve
• New Year's Day

References

1. "Films for New Year's Eve 2024". Country Living. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2024.