On New Year’s Eve, there are those who wait for midnight with a glass in their hand… and those with a herbal tea, in front of the television (even better with a cover) in the endless choice of the right film to accompany the start of a new one. To save you time, here are five perfect movies to watch on New Year’s Eve or the first day of 2026.
- Snake Relatives;
- Harry ti presento Sally;
- The Substance;
- Bridget Jones’s Diary;
- Ocean’s Eleven.
Parenti Serpenti is one of the unmissable holiday films. The ending… with a bang (perfect for New Year’s Eve) is what we need to avoid getting caught up in the optimistic joy typical of the first minutes of the new year and becoming disillusioned. In Mario Monicelli’s film, a surprising announcement ruins the fragile balance of the family, gathered to spend the holidays together: the parents have decided to go and live with one of their four children.
If there is a tradition of New Year’s movies, When Harry Met Sally can only be present. The friendship between Harry and Sally evolves over the years: Harry is convinced that men and women cannot be friends, yet his friendship with Sally is very solid. But love has a hand in it and the magic of New Year’s Eve is fulfilled.
No one would raise their hand to have the New Year’s Eve that Sue hadthe “young version” of Elisabeth Sparkle, the protagonist of The Substance. Demi Moore gives one of her best performances as a former TV fitness star who, rejected by Hollywood because she is defined as “too old”, gives in to the lure of a serum that promises her a new version of herself. The implications will be horror. Coralie Fargeat’s film was critically acclaimed, but John Carpenter really didn’t appreciate The Substance…
When we draw up the list of good resolutions for the new year we all feel a bit like Bridget Jones by Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary. The film begins on the first of the year when our protagonist (and heroine against clichés) decides to abandon herself to the enthusiasm and desire for change that is instilled in us on January 1st of every year: no more wrong men, alcohol and smoking. How will things go? Find out in the explained ending of Bridget Jones’s Diary!
Eating lentils for a more economically prosperous year is a consolidated habit even if, as the years pass, the ladles of lentils increase but not even the shadow of financial upgrades. Ocean’s Eleven by Steven Soderbergh goes from thoughts to action, promising us a super robbery during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Las Vegas.
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