As the saying goes, New Year, new you. The countdown to the New Year is full of possibility and promise, making New Year’s one of Hollywood’s favorite holidays to capture on the silver screen. The best New Year’s Eve movies can look like anything. This can be a wildly romantic time to profess your love for someone, à la When Harry Met Sally or The Apartment. Sometimes it’s a day when it feels like world-ending panic could strike at any moment, a premise used in films such as Snowpiercer and Ghostbusters II.
Ahead, find 31 films to fill your New Year’s schedule, from classic rom-coms to time-traveling sci-fi, and every Paul Thomas Anderson movie in between. Just make sure you watch them before the ball drops.
An Affair to Remember (1957)
- Release Date: July 1957
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Director: Leo McCarey
- Noteworthy Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant’s tragic romance begins with a fateful New Year’s Eve kiss. Though both are engaged to other people, the couple agrees to meet on top of the Empire State Building in six months’ time. By now, many of us know how that deal soured—but their love affair is teeming with possibility at the start of the year. (Of course, the film would later inspire Sleepless in Seattle.)
Carol (2015)
- Release Date: November 20, 2015
- Studio: The Weinstein Company
- Director: Todd Haynes
- Noteworthy Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler
Speaking of New Year’s kisses, the then forbidden relationship between Cate Blanchett’s Carol and Rooney Mara’s Therese is consummated on the holiday. It’s a brief honeymoon period for the pair, who first meet in a department store during Christmastime, and are separated by early 1953. They may have ultimately had a blue Christmas, but Carol and Therese were red-hot on NYE.
Ghostbusters II (1989)
- Release Date: June 16, 1989
- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- Noteworthy Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
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