Movies Like Happy Next Year!
If you liked Happy Next Year! (2024), a movie directed by Lukas Kacinauskas, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Eden (2025)
★ 6.7/10A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the…
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Anora (2024)
★ 7.1/10A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to…
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Dream Scenario (2023)
★ 6.6/10Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to…
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Sex and the City (2008)
★ 6.5/10When Carrie's big step forward in her relationship goes awry, best friends Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are there to help her pick up the pieces.
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Don Jon (2013)
★ 6/10A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
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About Last Night... (1986)
★ 6.1/10A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
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Before Midnight (2013)
★ 7.5/10It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of…
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A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish (2019)
★ 6.4/10Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
★ 7.7/10An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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Two Lovers (2008)
★ 6.9/10A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Infinite (2021)
★ 6.6/10Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue…
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Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
★ 6.5/10When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy…
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The Tender Bar (2021)
★ 6.5/10JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined…
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About Fate (2022)
★ 7.5/10Two strangers believe in love but never seem to be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on one stormy New Year's Eve.
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
★ 7.4/10A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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Threesome (1994)
★ 6.4/10At a sizable public college, high-minded student Eddy is forced to room with the slovenly Stuart, but the pair strike up a surprising friendship. When attractive co-ed Alex is assigned to live with the two male…
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To Catch a Killer (2023)
★ 6.8/10Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass murderer.
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The Maze Runner (2014)
★ 7.2/10A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to…
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Ted (2012)
★ 6.5/10John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
★ 6.4/10After witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as…