Twenty best New Year movies for adults and children

The magic of the New Year holidays inspired thousands of filmmakers and screenwriters to create fun movies about this magical season.

If you want to feel the New Year mood with the help of motion pictures, edition “Life hacker”20 made a list of New Year's films for adults and children, based on their high ratings among viewers.

Soviet New Year movies

1. Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath

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

The film is divided into quotes, and the New Year without the “Irony of Fate” is not the New Year. Every December 31, Muscovite Evgeny Lukashin and his friends go to the bathhouse. This time, after it, the tipsy protagonist flies to Leningrad instead of his comrade. Waking up at the Leningrad airport, Lukashin takes a taxi and goes 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 fit perfectly to the front door. Therefore, the real owner of the home will be very surprised when she finds an unexpected guest on her sofa.

2. Wizards

• Musical, fiction, romance, comedy.
• USSR, 1982 year.
• Duration: 160 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

This New Year's movie tale filmed on the script brothers Strugatsky and partially overlaps with their book, Monday begins on Saturday.

The main action takes place in Kitezhgrad, in the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services (NUINU). Scientists have finished developing a magic wand and are preparing for its presentation before a special commission. One of the university staff Alyona Sanina is going to marry Ivan Pukhov from Moscow. But the deputy director in love with her, NUINU does not want to let go of the girl and weaves intrigue. Alena falls under the influence of evil spells, which only true love can conquer.

3. Carnival Night

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

Employees of the House of Culture are preparing for the New Year carnival, but also. about. The director of the institution offers his own concert program, consisting of classical music and performances by lecturers. The heroes have to come up with various tricks in order not to give up the fun.

4. This fun planet

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

Aliens fly to Earth and get to celebrate the New Year in one of the research organizations. Nobody notices the newcomers, because all the participants of the party are dressed in fancy costumes. And while the aliens are trying to declare their existence, earthlings teach them to feel, upset, to love.

5. old New Year

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

An intellectual Peter Poluorlov disillusioned with life. He understands that the new apartment and wealth is not what it was worth living for. His neighbor, a representative of the working class, Peter Sebeikin, encountered similar experiences. Tired of life will unite the main characters, and together they will decide how to live.

6. Zigzag luck

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

Employee photo studio Vladimir Oreshnikov wins the loan 10 thousand rubles. This amount should be enough to fulfill your dreams. But his colleagues also claim for a part of the winnings, as Oreshnikov took the money for the purchase of bonds from the mutual aid fund. Only a New Year's miracle can make peace in the staff of a photo studio.

Modern New Year Movies

7. Happy New Year, Mom!

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

The film consists of five short stories that show the relationship of heroes with moms. Such tapes usually do not claim to be the title of a cinema masterpiece. Sensory tales, famous people in the frame, including Alain Delon, correctly placed emotional accents will not turn the world of the viewer upside down, but they will make it possible to have a good time.

8. Orphan of Kazan

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

Teacher Nastya is not familiar with her father. All she knows about him is a name. She publishes in the newspaper a letter 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 father.

9. Come see me

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

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

Tanya goes to desperate tricks to please her mother, and unusual things start to happen in a regular apartment.

10. Poor sasha

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

Cracker Berezkin loses money, which carries on behalf of the boss of the mafia. In order to save himself and return the missing amount, he penetrates the apartment of a rich banker, where he meets her daughter Sasha. The girl offers him a deal more profitable: rob a mother's bank. As a result, Berezkin will receive the money, and Sasha will return the mother to the family. So everything should go according to plan. But, of course, events will not evolve quite as planned.

11. What's going on with me

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

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

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

12. What else men talk about

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

On the eve of the New Year, the company of men is locked in an office. Pals talk about love, family and adultery, male friendship and life problems. In parallel, in the apartment of one of the heroes, their wives are getting ready to celebrate the New Year, and from these scenes you can find out what women are saying.

13. Christmas trees

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

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

In 2010, nothing foretold that the film would turn into an endless franchise with not always good parts. "Yolki" cope with their task of the New Year's skit, so if you approach the cinema without high expectations, 90 minutes of the modern New Year's fairy tale are waiting for you.

14. Family man

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

Bachelor and big businessman Jack Campbell in Christmas morning finds himself the father of the family, he has two children and a dog. His wife is a 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 year.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Englishwoman Iris Simpkins and American Amanda Woods will swap houses during Christmas and New Year holidays. Iris from a snowy English province will fall into the warmth of Southern California, Amanda will watch not palm trees, but drifts. But vacation will change not only the landscapes behind their windows, but also their lives.

New Year's films for children

16. Frosty

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

An evil stepmother sends Nastya to her stepdaughter in the winter forest. So she hopes to get rid of the girl. In the forest, Nastya meets the old man Frost. He saves her and brings her to the terem. At this time, the girl is looking for her fiance Ivan. Lovers have to go through many trials to meet again.

17. Twelve months

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

Stepmother before the New Year sends her stepdaughter into the forest for snowdrops to get a reward for flowers from the naughty queen. Wandering through the snow-covered forest in a severe blizzard, the stepdaughter sees the light of a fire, behind which 12 months have gathered. They decide to help the girl.

18. New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti

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

Soviet schoolchild Vitya believes only in achieving scientific and technological progress. His girlfriend Masha believes that miracles happen. They will be able to check their theories when they go to save the Snow Maiden from Koshchey the Immortal.

19. Snow tale

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

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

20. The Snow Queen

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

The snow queen kidnaps the boy Kay and turns his heart into ice. Gerd goes in search of a missing friend. She is waiting for a lot of adventures, funny and dangerous meetings. Although the fairy tale does not mention the New Year, it creates a magical winter atmosphere and says that true friendship, bravery and love can be the most important miracles in the world.

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