If you're spending New Year's Eve at home, there are plenty of great films you could stream as you see in 2026

If you’re anything like us, you’ll spend the past month of your life trying to get through every Christmas film you can possibly lay your eyes on, from the cheesiest and most low-budget romantic comedies to acclaimed films that have stood the test of time.

But when all that festive fun is over, you might suddenly find yourself with a hole in your viewing schedule.

While you’d be forgiven for thinking that New Year’s Eve is a little neglected compared to Christmas when it comes to dedicated seasonal films, there are actually some brilliant films out there to watch in the lead-up to 31 December, from fun-filled family favourites and timeless love stories to serious dramas and even modern horror classics.

If you’re planning on celebrating at home this New Year’s Eve, here are 10 films you can watch that are perfect for the occasion…

Bridget Jones’s Diary

The pinnacle of British rom-coms in our opinion, the very first Bridget Jones film centres around our heroine as she tries to turn her life around over the course of one year, beginning and ending at the same point, which feels fitting for anyone putting together their list of New Year’s resolutions right now.

Of course, 2025 will also see the arrival of the fourth film in the franchise, so if you did want to use Bridget Jones’s Diary as a way of kicking off a rewatch of the whole series, we can’t say you wouldn’t have our support.

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New Year’s Eve

Yeah alright, this might seem like a bit of an obvious choice, but we could hardly leave it off our list, could........

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