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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

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)