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December 27, 2024 at 3:37pm EST
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With Christmas officially over, we’re already counting the days for the last exciting holiday of the year: New Year’s Eve!
And while we hope your plans include plenty of good food and laughs with your friends and family (and perhaps some exciting New Year’s resolutions!) we wouldn’t be surprised if it all ends in a good movie night too. After all, who says we need to be up and dancing later than five past midnight?
So, if having a cozy night in to bring in the new year is more your speed, we’ve got the perfect list for you.
Below, you’ll see movies that revolve around New Year’s Eve in some way. Whether it’s the 2011 hit movie New Year’s Eve starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, and countless others, or Blake Lively’s touching movie The Age of Adaline, where New Year’s Eves become major moments of transformation, there are plenty of movies to choose from to celebrate the special day.
Find out what to watch to ring in 2025 below!
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‘New Year’s Eve’
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We couldn’t start this list with anything but 2011’s New Year’s Eve. The movie, which has an impressive cast including Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfieffer, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel, tells a series of different stories as they unravel during New Year’s Eve.
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‘Phantom Thread’
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Starring Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread tells the story of dress designer Reynolds Woodcock as his life completely changes when he falls for a waitress named Alma. Of course, a few of the scenes take place at some incredible NYE parties in the 50s.
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‘Trading Places’
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Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis follows a big-time stock market broker as he switches places with a poor small-time con man. The movie starts at Thanksgiving and reaches a major climax by NYE.
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‘Sleepless in Seattle’
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In a movie all about love and loss during the holidays, Sleepless in Seattle tells the story of a young widower (Tom Hanks) as he’s brought together by destiny and falls for an engaged woman (Meg Ryan).
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‘Carol’
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In a movie that spans all holiday season, Carol follows the undeniable bond between a married woman and an aspiring photographer in the 1950s
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‘While You Were Sleeping’
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The 1995 film While You Were Sleeping follows a hopeless romantic (Sandra Bullock) who works as a Transit Authority ticket booth operator, and saves a man she’s been secretly pining over from being run over by a train. But when a nurse at the hospital mistakenly refers to her as the Comatose man’s fiancée, she’s welcomed into his family with open arms.
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‘The Age of Adaline’
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When it comes to Adaline’s curse to never age in The Age of Adaline, it all started after one fateful NYE accident. Eight decades later, Blake Lively’s character’s romance might allow her to finally break the spell.
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‘Snowpiercer’
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In a post-apocalyptic ice age, passengers on a moving train are the only people left alive in 2013 Snowpiercer. As the high society in front of the train gets together to celebrate NYE, the back of the train (led by Chris Evans) gets ready for a revolution.
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‘The Apartment’
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Starring a young Shirley MacLaine, 1960’s The Apartment follows a clerk who lends out his apartment for executives to have their extra-marital affairs. Starting during the Christmas holiday party, drama ensues far beyond New Year’s Eve.
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‘Holidate’
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You know the annoying thing about relatives always asking about your dating life during the holidays? Well, Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey’s characters chose to fully avoid that in Holidate by pretending they’re together, from Thanksgiving to NYE.
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‘Sex and the City’
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Sure, Sex and the City being rebooted into a movie in 2008 was as exciting as it was. But, when so many storylines happened on NYE, we were truly at the edge of our seats.
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‘Waiting to Exhale’
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With a start and end on New Year’s, Waiting to Exhale, a movie about four women supporting each other through life’s ups and downs, is all about how 12 months can be truly unpredictable.
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‘Rent’
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In this legendary musical, Rent follows a group of bohemian outcasts in New York City as they navigate love, identity, the AIDS crisis of the 90s, and how to make ends meet to pay rent.
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‘Holiday’
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Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, 1938’s Holiday follows a young self-made man as he develops a plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life after falling in love with a wealthy woman.
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‘The Godfather: Part II’
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In this iconic sequel, The Godfather: Part II continues to follow the Corleone family as Michael (Al Pacino) begins to do everything to keep his power, including fighting his own brother Vito (Robert DeNiro).
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‘Four Rooms’
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A movie that will have everyone laughing is 1995’s Four Rooms. The movie follows Tim Roth’s character as he starts his job as a bellboy right on New Year’s Eve. Soon enough, he’s wrapped up in dangerous dramas he wasn’t trained for.
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‘An American in Paris’
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In another movie that has been deemed legendary by fans, An American in Paris follows the charming Jerry (Gene Kelly) as he navigates romances with two women: a wealthy woman in America and a French dancer in Paris. The black and white New Year’s Eve ball at the end of this movie is one of our favorite NYE scenes of all time!
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‘Ghostbusters II’
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In this sequel to the 1984 classic, Ghostbusters II follows the same ghost-busting crew, but this time during New Year’s time.
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‘When Harry Met Sally’
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When Harry Met Sally is the second one of Meg Ryan’s rom-coms on this list, and the NYE scenes are truly a highlight in this movie. The classic rom-com follows two old friends who reunite and have to cope with their newfound feelings for each other.
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‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’
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Speaking of rom-coms, Bridget Jones’s Diary follows a hopeless romantic (Renée Zellweger) as she has romantic encounters with two completely different men.
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