The New Year plays a major role when it comes to having time to see a movie, especially fiction.
Beyond the typical New Year’s resolutions (learning foreign languages, going to the gym …), on the big screen, a robbery, the end of the world, couple reunions, confessions of pending accounts, even catastrophes.
For those looking for another New Year, here are 10 ideal movies to watch, in a selection from the Europa Press agency.
1. Peter’s Friends (1991)
Directed in the lead role of Kenneth Branagh, Peter (Stephen Fry) takes advantage of the fact that his parents are not there to celebrate New Year’s Eve with those friends he had not seen in a long time. A very sweet reunion, in which frustrations and broken dreams come to light.
Summary: Taking advantage of his parents’ absence, Peter (Stephen Fry) invites his best friends, whom he has not seen for years, to celebrate New Year’s Eve at his mansion: they are close friends from school, with whom he performed songs and magazines. of music. Together they have fun, but their problems, dreams and hopes come to light, too, but what neither of them can imagine is the surprise that Peter has in store for them at the end of the party.
2. WHEN HARRY WAS FOUND HIM (1989)
What makes “When Harry Met Sally” in a New Year’s movie is its end, because it’s New Year’s Eve, when both protagonists (Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal) reconcile, in a mythical sequence and consider one of the best of the film Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron.
3. THE APARTMENT (1960)
One of Billy Wilder’s best films has one of the film’s most memorable scenes on New Year’s Eve, starring Jack Lennon and Shirley MacLaine. Framed throughout the holidays, on New Year’s Eve, both characters reveal how they feel.
4. CAROL (2015)
Todd Haynes’ film evokes classic films, with an exceptional ending, in which New Year’s Eve is the background again. The final meeting between Therese (Rooney Mara) and Carol (Cate Blanchett), in which there are no dialogues, because they are not necessary, because they look like both, in which happiness and joy are reflected. A final touch for a unique film.
5. MY GREAT NOEA (2015)
Because not everything is a love reunion or a group of friends. Álex de la Iglesia entered the back room of the recordings of the New Year’s galas, which, as the public knows, are made a few weeks before they are broadcast. A fake New Year’s Eve script with which Álex de la Iglesia draws his sharp eyes again.
6. THE ADVENTURE OF POSEIDON (1972)
Because the New Year can be synonymous with misery, if not, ask the 1,500 passengers of the luxurious transatlantic Poseidon, who will go from living a New Year’s dream to fighting to survive, after a fierce storm turns him Poseidon on the Titanic.
7. BRIDGET JONES JOURNAL (2001)
As Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) was one of the most beloved characters in 2000’s cinema, her reconciliation with Darcy (Colin Firth) just before New Year’s Eve made the film one of the most iconic of the decade.
8. THE ASSAULT ON DISTRICT 13 (2005)
The remake of John Carpenter’s cult film “Assault on District 13” mixes thriller, action, crime and the New Year: what can go wrong in such an explosive combination?
9. WITHOUT CONTROL (2010)
Borja Cobeaga brought one of the best New Year’s films with “No Controls”, which was the final impetus in Julián López’s film career and in which Unax Ugalde showed that he can make comedy. A very funny film that came from the previous success of “Pagafantas”.
10. FOUR ROOMS (1995)
Four different segments, four filmmakers, four floors inside a hotel, all on New Year’s Eve and with a button (Tim Roth) as conductor, on the first day of work. The result: a cult film.