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10 Best Movies Like New Year's Special

If you loved New Year's Special, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Late Shift

The Late Shift

1996★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."...

#2
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#3
The Bad Seed Returns

The Bad Seed Returns

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to sus...

#4
The Outsider

The Outsider

2002★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Montana sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder offers sanctuary to an on-the-lam outlaw, Johnny Gault, who is suffering from a gunshot wound. Yoder is a recent widow, and her decision to help ...

#5
Clear History

Clear History

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former ...

#6
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1988★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Year's Special for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate....

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