The Best New Year Movies
by mariakizilova | created - 20 Sep 2014 | updated - 26 Jan 2015 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976 TV Movie)
TV-G | 192 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Votes: 13,537
2. Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
New Year's events take place in 11 cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Perm, Ufa, Bavlakh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Yaroslav Chevazhevskiy, Ignas Jonynas, Dmitriy Kiselev, Aleksandr Voytinskiy | Stars: Dmitry Medvedev, Alina Bulynko, Sergey Pokhodaev, Ivan Urgant
Votes: 3,739
3. Yolki 2 (2011)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shortly before the New Year, Borya loses his memory, and the only clue that can help is the inscription Z.G. which he discovers on his hand. At the same time, the police captain is trying to solve personal problems.
Directors: Aleksandr Kott, Aleksandr Baranov, Levan Gabriadze, Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Sergey Svetlakov, Ivan Urgant, Evgeniya Abramova, Irina Arkhipova
Votes: 2,686
4. Yolki 3 (2013)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two years later, they are with us again: our beloved Yolki heroes in the most incredible New Year stories. Borya and Zhenya, whose one-year-old children will take their friends to a psychiatric hospital on the eve of the holiday.
Directors: Aleksandr Kott, Levan Gabriadze, Aleksandr Karpilovskiy, Olga Kharina, Dmitriy Kiselev, Anton Megerdichev, Ekaterina Telegina, Zaurbek Zassev | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Tatyana Dogileva
Votes: 1,762
5. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 499,487
6. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
PG | 114 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J.T. Walsh
Votes: 43,894 | Gross: $17.19M
7. A Christmas Carol (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine
Votes: 129,584 | Gross: $137.86M
8. The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (2004 Video)
G | 82 min | Animation, Family
Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's classic story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouseking" is the tale of a spoiled prince who lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle, Drosselmeier.
Directors: Tatyana Ilina, Michael G. Johnson | Stars: Wolfgang Völz, Rufus Beck, Hannes Jaenicke, Florence Joy
Votes: 354
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam | Stars: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon
Votes: 59,053
10. The Nutcracker (1973)
27 min | Animation, Short, Romance
A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.
Director: Boris Stepantsev | Stars: Hans Conried, Shirley MacLaine
Votes: 1,076
11. Home Alone (1990)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family
An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
Votes: 653,175 | Gross: $285.76M
12. Yolki 1914 (2014)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
100 years ago, the Russian Empire Christmas Eve. December traffic jams, festive festivities, luxurious balls and modest holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, progressive poets, everything was different, except for the holiday.
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Yuriy Bykov, Aleksandr Karpilovskiy, Dmitriy Kiselev, Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Sergey Svetlakov, Ivan Urgant, Leonid Arkhangelskiy, Dato Bakhtadze
Votes: 1,272
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