20 best New Year movies for adults and children

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Good old classics and highly rated modern films.

Soviet New Year films

1. Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath

• Melodrama, comedy.
• USSR, 1975.
• Duration: 184 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 3.

The film is disassembled into quotes, and the New Year without "Irony of Fate" is not a New Year. Every December 31, Muscovite Yevgeny Lukashin goes to the bathhouse with his friends. This time after her the tipsy main character flies to Leningrad instead of a friend. Waking up at the Leningrad airport, Lukashin takes a taxi and drives to his Moscow address. It turns out that in the northern capital there is the same street, the same house and Lukashin's keys will perfectly fit the front door. Therefore, the real hostess of the home will be very surprised when she finds an unexpected guest on her sofa.

2. Wizards

• Musical, fantasy, melodrama, comedy.
• USSR, 1982.
• Duration: 160 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

This New Year's movie tale is based on a script by the Strugatsky brothers and overlaps with their book "Monday Starts on Saturday".

The main action takes place in Kitezhgrad, in the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services (NUINU). Scientists have finished developing the magic wand and are preparing to present it to a special commission. One of the university employees, Alena Sanina, is going to marry Ivan Pukhov from Moscow. But the deputy director NUINU, who is in love with her, does not want to let the girl go and weaves intrigues. Alena falls under the influence of an evil spell, which can only be defeated by true love.

3. Carnival night

• Musical, melodrama, comedy.
• USSR, 1956.
• Duration: 78 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

Employees of the House of Culture are preparing for the New Year's carnival, but also. O. the director of the institution offers his concert program, consisting of classical music and lectures. The heroes will have to come up with various tricks so as not to give up the fun.

4. This fun planet

• Comedy, musical, fantasy.
• USSR, 1973.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 3.

Aliens arrive on Earth and get to celebrate the New Year in one of the research organizations. No one notices the aliens, because all the party members are dressed in fancy costumes. And while aliens are trying to declare their existence, earthlings are teaching them to feel, grieve, love.

5. Old New Year

• Comedy.
• USSR, 1980.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

The intellectual Pyotr Poluorlov became disillusioned with life. He understands that a new apartment and prosperity are not what it was worth living for. His neighbor, a representative of the working class, Pyotr Sebeikin, faced similar experiences. Fatigue from everyday life will unite the main characters, and together they will decide how to live further.

6. Zigzag of luck

• Comedy.
• USSR, 1968.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

Photo studio employee Vladimir Oreshnikov wins 10 thousand rubles on a loan. This amount should be enough to make your dream come true. But his colleagues also claim part of the winnings, since Oreshnikov took the money to buy the bonds from the mutual aid fund. Only a New Year's miracle can reconcile the staff of the photo studio.

Modern New Year's films

7. Happy New Year, mothers

• Comedy.
• Russia, 2012.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

The film consists of five short stories that show the relationship of the characters with their mothers. Such tapes usually do not claim to be a movie masterpiece. Heartbreaking stories, famous people in the frame, including Alain Delon, correctly placed emotional accents will not turn the viewer's world upside down, but will provide an opportunity to have a good time.

8. Kazan orphan

• Melodrama, comedy.
• Russia, 1997.
• Duration: 82 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The teacher Nastya does not know her father. All she knows about him is his name. She publishes a letter in the newspaper that her mother wrote to her lover, but did not send. And on the eve of the New Year, three candidates come to her for the role of her dad.

9. Come and see me

• Melodrama, comedy.
• Russia, 2000.
• Duration: 101 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Before the New Year, elderly Sofya Ivanovna tells her only daughter, lonely Tanya, that she is going to die. The woman has spent the last 10 years in a wheelchair, and she blames herself for the fact that her daughter has to look after her and cannot build personal happiness.

Tanya goes to desperate tricks to please her mother, and unusual things begin to happen in an ordinary apartment.

10. Poor Sasha

• Comedy.
• Russia, 1997.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

Burglar Berezkin loses money, which he carries on behalf of the boss of the mafia. To save himself and return the missing amount, he enters the apartment of a rich banker, where he meets her daughter Sasha. The girl offers him a more profitable business: rob her mother's bank. As a result, Berezkin will receive the money, and Sasha will return his mother to the family. This is how everything should go according to plan. But, of course, events will not develop exactly as planned.

11. This is what happens to me

• Drama.
• Russia, 2012.
• Duration: 72 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

An independent film directed by Viktor Shamirov, most likely, will not give a magical New Year mood, but it will suit those who want philosophical reflections on life.

Two brothers - a provincial Valentin and a successful Muscovite Artyom - on New Year's Eve find out that their father is terminally ill. Valentine is trying to fly home, as he promised to spend a holiday with his family. Artyom is preparing for a corporate vocal competition in order to impress the boss and move up the career ladder. But the situation is spiraling out of control.

12. What else do men talk about

• Melodrama, comedy.
• Russia, 2011.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 6.

On New Year's Eve, a bunch of men find themselves locked in an office. Friends talk about love, family and infidelity, male friendship and life problems. At the same time, in the apartment of one of the heroes, their wives are preparing for the New Year, and from these scenes you can find out what the women are talking about.

13. Trees

• Comedy.
• Russia, 2010.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

The events of the film take place in 11 cities of Russia. The heroes of the eight novellas are connected according to the theory of six handshakes, and thanks to this they manage to create several miracles.

In 2010, there was no sign that the film would turn into an endless franchise with not always successful parts. "Yolki" cope with their task of a New Year's skit, therefore, if you approach cinema without high expectations, 90 minutes of a modern New Year's fairy tale awaits you.

14. Family man

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2000.
• Duration: 125 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

Jack Campbell, a bachelor and businessman, finds himself the father of a family on Christmas morning, he has two children and a dog. His wife is the girl he left in his youth to go up the career ladder. Campbell can appreciate what would have happened if he had not made this decision many years ago. Christmas and New Year with his family will make him rethink his life.

15. Exchange leave

• Melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2006.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 9.

Englishwoman Iris Simpkins and American Amanda Woods will switch houses during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Iris from the snow-covered English province will fall into the warmth of Southern California, Amanda will not observe palm trees, but snowdrifts. But a vacation will change not only the scenery outside their windows, but also their lives.

New Year's films for children

16. Morozko

• Melodrama, comedy, fantasy.
• USSR, 1964.
• Duration: 84 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 0.

The evil stepmother sends her stepdaughter Nastenka to the winter forest. So she hopes to get rid of the girl. In the forest Nastenka meets old man Morozko. He saves her and brings her to his tower. At this time, the girl is looking for by her fiancé Ivan. Lovers will have to go through many trials in order to meet again.

17. Twelve months

• Fantasy.
• USSR, 1973.
• Duration: 135 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Before the New Year, the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the forest for snowdrops to receive a reward for flowers from the capricious queen. Wandering through the snow-covered forest in a severe blizzard, the stepdaughter sees the light of a bonfire, behind which they have gathered for 12 months. They decide to help the girl.

18. New Year's adventures of Masha and Viti

• Fantasy.
• USSR, 1975.
• Duration: 71 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

The Soviet schoolboy Vitya believes only in the achievement of scientific and technological progress. His girlfriend Masha believes that miracles happen. They will be able to test their theories when they go to save the Snow Maiden from Koshchei the Immortal.

19. Snow tale

• Fantasy.
• USSR, 1959.
• Duration: 68 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

Schoolboy Mitya tells his classmates that he has a magic clock, supposedly they can revive a snowman and stop time on the planet. Friends consider Mitya a deceiver, but fantasies begin to come true: the snowman turns into a girl Lyolya, and the Old Year begins to hunt for hours, which does not want to give up its place to the New Year.

20. Snow Queen

• Fantasy.
• USSR, 1966.
• Duration: 85 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

The Snow Queen kidnaps the boy Kei and turns his heart into ice. Gerda goes in search of her missing friend. Many adventures, funny and dangerous encounters await her. Although the tale does not mention the New Year, it creates a magical winter atmosphere and tells that true friendship, courage and love can be the most important miracles in the world.