# 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)

## 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)
* 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)
* While You Were Sleeping (1995)
* 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)