Best New Year's Eve Movies to Ring in 2024

26 Dec,2023

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Here's one you haven't watched a million times already, considering it debuted in December 2021. When the Peanuts gang is sad that Grandma can't visit for Christmas, they're determined to throw the best New Year's party ever.

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Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne (2022)

Not only is this one of the greatest romantic comedies ever made, it also features one of the most killer New Year's Eve scenes (which we won't spoil, just in case). Watch it and weep.

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When Harry Met Sally (1989)

If you want some incredible action scenes with your glass-clinking, try this '70s disaster movie about a luxury cruise ship that gets capsized by a rogue wave on New Year's Eve. 

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This one takes place at a hotel on New Year's Eve, and each room the bellhop goes into is home to its own mini-movie-within-a-movie by a different director.

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Four Rooms (1995)

If you haven't experienced the rapid-fire charm of William Powell and Myrna Loy's Nick and Nora, you're in for a treat. Based on characters by Dashiell Hammett, the pair play a married couple who think they're in for a tiresome New Year's Eve.

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After the Thin Man (1936)

Happy New Year to everybody but Fredo! While The Godfather Part II doesn't take place exclusively on New Year's Eve, it does feature one memorable NYE party in Cuba — which includes a New Year's kiss that you never want planted on your face.

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The Godfather Part II (1972)

This Oscar-nominated romantic film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara follows two women from two completely different worlds who fall in love in the 1950s — and their first kiss happens at New Year's Eve (because there's no better time for a first kiss, obviously).

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Carol (2015)

There's New Year's Eve parties, and then there's the magnificent, costumed, black-and-white ball at the end of this movie. But throughout the movie, you get to be treated to Gene Kelly's incredible choreography (which won a special Oscar at the time, in addition to five other Academy Awards). 

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An American in Paris (1951)

There are a lot of luxe pleasures to watching Phantom Thread: You get to see fancy dresses, stately houses and a New Year's Eve party that'll make you wish you could whisk yourself back to London in the '50s. 

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Phantom Thread (2017)

This movie, which starts and ends on New Year's, is Renée Zellweger at her most charming, and a testament to starting off each year with a fresh, blank page.

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Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)