Films set around New Year

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola

Rocky is a 1976 American independent sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

2013 film directed by Shane Black

1960 film directed by Billy Wilder

When Harry Met Sally… is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron. Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby, it follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago and share a drive to New York City through twelve years of chance encounters in New York, and addresses the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"

1993 film directed by Nora Ephron

1979 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

2014 animated film directed by Carlos Saldanha

1933 film by Frank Lloyd

2017 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Snowpiercer () is a 2013 post-apocalyptic action thriller film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon Ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson. An international co-production, the film marks Bong's English-language debut; almost 85% of the film's dialogue is in English.

1976 television film directed by Eldar Ryazanov

1989 film directed by Ivan Reitman

1983 film directed by John Landis

Now You See Me 2 is a 2016 American heist film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Ed Solomon and a story by Solomon and Peter Chiarelli. It serves as a sequel to Now You See Me (2013) and the second installment in the Now You See Me series. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Ben Lamb, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot has the Four Horsemen and their leader Dylan Rhodes recruited by Walter Mabry, a criminal mastermind, to steal a data chip.

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

2006 film by Wolfgang Petersen

1999 film directed by Peter Hyams

1999 film by Jon Amiel

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

1995 film directed by Jon Turteltaub

2011 film by Garry Marshall

1994 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1990 film directed by Warren Beatty

1995 film by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders

1972 film by Ronald Neame

1995 film by Kathryn Bigelow

1992 film by Roman Polanski

1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Seryj

1987 film by Woody Allen

1995 film by Joseph Ruben

2011 film by Gavin Wiesen

2005 American film directed by Brian Levant

1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone

1960 film by George Pal

1921 film by Victor Sjöström

2023 film directed by Jean-François Richet

2000 film by Stephen Hopkins

1956 Soviet comedy film

1982 film directed by Barry Levinson

2005 film by Jean-François Richet

2013 Hindi film directed by Ayan Mukerji

1942 film by Mark Sandrich

1936 film by W. S. Van Dyke

1950 film by Akira Kurosawa

1999 film directed by Risa Bramon Garcia

2015 film directed by James McTeigue

1977 film by Richard Brooks

2006 film by Wayne Wang

1992 film by Kenneth Branagh

1938 film by George Cukor

2004 film by Kunal Kohli

1987 film by John Mackenzie

2014 film directed by Pascal Chaumeil

Yolki (, meaning New Year Trees), also known as Six Degrees of Celebration, is a 2010 Russian comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov. As of 2024, eleven films have been made in the series. It is the most successful non-animated film franchise in Russia.

1996 British-American-Canadian television film directed by Geoffrey Sax

2023 film directed by Roman Polanski

2007 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov