10 Best New Year's Movies to Put You in a Good Mood
We have specially collected 10 New Year's films for you that will be pleasant to watch. They have an atmosphere of celebration, love and miracles that always happen.
There is no point in telling you to rewatch The Irony of Fate, you will definitely do it anyway. Instead, we found New Year's films with a romantic theme, a magical plot, fateful meetings and, of course, the spirit of New Year and Christmas.
"Love Actually"
Genre: romantic melodrama
The plot of one of the best films with a festive mood consists of ten parallel stories. The action of the film begins 5 weeks before Christmas, and the culmination of all the stories falls on Christmas Eve, when fate unexpectedly intertwines all the characters. The main characters of the film are absolutely all the characters whose stories were shown to the viewer: from the Prime Minister, who instantly fell in love with an employee of his office, to the writer who fled to the south of France to mend his broken heart. The main meaning and phrase of the film is very simple - "Love is around us."
"All I Want for Christmas"
Genre: family movie
Two children from New York, Eaton and his younger sister Hallie, are trying to reunite their parents, Catherine and Michael O'Fallon, who are divorced. The first obstacle to achieving their goal is their mother's fiancé, who is not so easy to eliminate. But despite all the difficulties, with the help of Santa Claus, they manage to get closer to their dream. And the children want only one thing - a happy holiday with their family.
"The Holiday"
Genre: romantic melodrama
Iris, the author of the magazine's popular wedding column, lives in a beautiful cottage in the English countryside. She is in love with a man who loves another. Far away in Southern California lives Amanda, the owner of a thriving advertising agency that creates commercials for films. She suddenly discovers that her beloved is cheating on her. These two women, strangers to each other, living 10,000 kilometers apart, find themselves in a similar situation. And they accidentally find each other on a vacation home exchange website. Before Christmas, Iris and Amanda decide to take a break from their problems by agreeing to swap houses. But neither of them expected to find love.
"Noel"
Genre: drama
Christmas in New York is the most wonderful time of the year with thousands of festive lights. However, for some people this is not enough. The beautiful Nina is supposed to marry the policeman Mike, but after another fit of jealousy the girl leaves him. Arriving to visit her relatives, she meets Rose, who accidentally dropped by for the holiday - a forty-year-old publisher, who has been forced to take care of her sick mother Helen for the last ten years, and therefore her relationships with men do not work out. And then Rose encounters a miracle that began in the neighboring ward. At this time, Mike himself endures persecution by Artie - an elderly cafe owner, who is sure that after reincarnation the soul of his wife ended up in the body of a policeman. These and other meetings completely change the lives of the main characters.
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Genre: fantasy
Charlie is a boy from a poor family, lives in a small shack with his parents, two grandfathers and two grandmothers. In the same city is Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where the boy dreams of going. But he doesn't even suspect what wonders can await him there: grassy meadows of sweet mint sugar in the Chocolate Room, the Chocolate River with a pink sugar boat, the Invention Room with lollipops that never melt. The viewer, together with the main character, will plunge into a mysterious adventure full of surprises, watching the eccentric Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp.
"Lost Christmas"
Genre: drama
On Christmas Eve, a strange, mysterious man appears in Manchester. He doesn’t remember his name, where he is, or what he’s doing there. On the jacket he’s wearing, he only read the name Anthony. And soon he discovers a unique ability. By touching it with his hand, he can accurately determine what people have lost and help them find it. There’s a reason he’s in Manchester for Christmas, a year after little Gus’s parents died in a car accident. The viewer will find out the touching answer to the question “can this man get everything back?”, which may make you cry.
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
Genre: fantasy, family movie
The residents of the town of Whotown love Christmas and its anticipation, which is shrouded in pleasant white snow, the smell of spruce and the process of preparing gifts. But there is someone who hates this holiday - the green creature Grinch. He lives on a high remote mountain with his only friend, a dog named Max, harboring a grudge against the residents of the town. Since childhood, peers mocked the Grinch for his unusual appearance, which is why he became a hermit. One day, the Grinch decided to carry out an insidious plan - to steal from the townspeople their favorite holiday, Christmas, which caused him anger and hatred.
"Intuition"
Genre: romantic melodrama
One hectic day, right in the middle of the New York crowd, Jonathan meets Sarah. Two strangers in a city engulfed in pre-New Year fever discover that they are irresistibly drawn to each other. And they decide to test fate in a very unusual way: he writes his phone number on a banknote, she - in a book. They exchange the banknote, and give the book to a second-hand bookseller. Jonathan and Sarah are sure that they will see each other again soon, but will fate allow them to meet again?
"A Christmas Carol"
Genre: fantasy, family movie
An instructive story about an old and bitter miserly old man Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates joy and holidays. He changes for the rest of his life in one night, and this is facilitated by an unexpected visit from three ghosts. The Spirit of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to the places where he was born and shows him past events, as well as parting with his fiancée. The Spirit of Christmas Present allows him to see how his clerk, who lives in poverty, celebrates Christmas. The Spirit of Christmas to Come shows Scrooge many people who talk about the death of an old man who loved no one and was very stingy. Interestingly, all the main roles in the animated film are played by Jim Carrey.
"Old New Year"
Genre: melodrama
The film's heroes are residents of a city that never sleeps. New York on New Year's Eve will intertwine the lives of several characters: an elderly man dying in a hospital, a secretary who decided to fulfill her promises to herself, a producer of the famous New Year's show on Times Square, a man who generally hates this holiday. The film is also worth watching for the cast, because it stars Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron and many others.
