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10 Best Movies Like Happy New Year

If you loved Happy New Year, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Break-Up

The Break-Up

2006‱★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilar...

#2
The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012‱★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure o...

#3
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023‱★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997‱★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019‱★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010‱★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy New Year for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...