Another year has come to end and it’s time to ring in the New year with good spirits. Therefore, we bring you the best feel good movies to watch on New Year’s eve that will set the tone for the months to come. From fantasy to romance and finding oneself – these films teach us a lot about life and let us introspect about our own.
8 Best Feel Good Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve
About Time
At the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past. He can revisit any moment in his life to try things differently until he gets them perfectly right. He decides to use his special new gift to win the heart of the beautiful Mary but finds that the course of true love can be hilariously difficult, even with the ability to try, try and try again.
And even when everything seems to be going well, an unfortunate twist in time means that he never met Mary at all. While his unique gift might just help him find true love, Tim discovers that it can’t save him from the ups and downs that life brings to everyone. In the end, he finds that making the most of love and life will mean giving up the past and living for the moment.
This one is for all of us who wish to go back in past and undo all our embarrassing memories, but never think about how it would change the course of life for us. Maybe we just have to keep moving forward and learn from every experience – good or bad. Watch this film on Netflix.
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Clueless
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother (Paul Rudd) was right about how misguided she was – and maybe even falls for him.
With the Y2K fashion being all the rage again, looking back at this film we can certainly take some notes on fashion that is still trendy. Watch this film on Netflix.
Little Miss Sunshine
In this film, Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program, with no success. Meanwhile, pro-honesty mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover.
Then there are the younger Hoovers, the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behaviour recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her, with riotously funny results.
It shows what a family is really about and includes all the good or bad times. Watch the film on Amazon Prime Video.
Legally Blonde
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Matthew Davis) from proposing: He thinks she is not smart enough for him. That’s when Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back.
New Year makes us feel ambitious about all the resolutions that we think of and while we slack off quickly, maybe this film will help in keeping us motivated and achieve our goals. Watch this film on Apple TV+.
Begin Again
Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major label. But the trappings of his new-found fame soon tempt Dave to stray, and a reeling, lovelorn Gretta is left on her own.
Her world takes a turn for the better when Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a disgraced record-label executive, stumbles upon her performing on an East Village stage and is immediately captivated by her raw talent. From this chance encounter emerges an enchanting portrait of a mutually transformative collaboration, set to the soundtrack of a summer in New York City.
I feel like this is the best film to start your year with, a reset to make all things right and do better. You can watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Does this film even need an introduction? Starting with the mysterious letters arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But on his eleventh birthday, a strange man bursts in with some important news: Harry Potter is a wizard and has been awarded a place to study at Hogwarts. And so begins the Harry Potter adventures.
This film always makes me feel nostalgic and all things magical about my life and future. It will surely leave us feeling good about the life we have lived so far and try to find the magic around us. Watch this film on Amazon Prime Video.
Intern
In The Intern, Robert De Niro stars as Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).
Many would find this film relatable to when starting a new job in a completely different environment and makes us believe that age is just a number, you are never too old to do what you like/ or want to achieve. Watch this film on Netflix.
The Princess Diaries
While we all have dreamt about the day when maybe our parents will reveal that we are actually well off or some royalty, even though the chances of this happening are almost nil. In this film, young Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year.
You can watch this film on Disney+.
Which of the above-mentioned films do you find the best? What more films do you think should be added to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.