Movies Like Happy New Year!

If you liked Happy New Year! (1909), a fantasy and comedy movie directed by Arrigo Frusta, 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.

1
Sufferin' Cats! (1943)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Tom fights with another cat over Jerry.
2
Serafino (1968)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
3
Caprice (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and comedy
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
4
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
It's the night of Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash, but Charlie Brown has to write a book report about War and Peace. Hoping to join the fun for a special dance with the Little Red-Haired Girl, he tries…
5
Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
After finding out her grandmother won't be visiting for Christmas, Lucy decides to cheer herself up by throwing the ultimate New Year's Eve party. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown tries to fulfill one of his resolutions before…
6
The Night Before (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
7
The Tramp (1915)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life…
8
Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess Bride-esque story full of magic, wonder, and zero Fs.
9
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
★ 6/10Also comedy and fantasy
When Brian Conway, a successful businessman whose family relationships have suffered, gets in a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to redo the day and repair the relationships in his life…
10
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
11
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
12
Moonwalkers (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the US administration? This is the premise of a totally…
13
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedy and fantasy
A Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in…
14
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and fantasy
The Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse twosome--Tom and Jerry--returns with another adventure. When Tom and Jerry's irrepressible curiosity gets the best of them, the mysterious magic ring that Tom guards with his life ends…
15
Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead…
16
Sing: Thriller (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
Buster Moon dreams up a star-studded spectacle set to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in this animated short featuring characters from the hit "Sing" films.
17
Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10Also comedy
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…
18
My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
19
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and comedy
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
20
The Railrodder (1965)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.