Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like New Year

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

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#1
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

#2
Angel Face

Angel Face

1953★ 7.1

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

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne....

#3
Pitfall

Pitfall

1948★ 6.8

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

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator....

#4
Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find o...

#5
Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

1964★ 6.2

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

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him....

#6
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945★ 7.6

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

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter....

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