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10 Best Movies Like The New Year That Never Came

If you loved The New Year That Never Came, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Vermiglio

Vermiglio

2024★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the last days of the Second World War, a deserting soldier disrupts a tranquil and isolated mountain community. For one family, his arrival brings excitement and romance, but tr...

#2
Sabotage

Sabotage

1937★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will ...

#3
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

2005★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospit...

#4
This Time Next Year

This Time Next Year

2024★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — they find themselves thrown to...

#5
Familiar Touch

Familiar Touch

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identit...

#6
The Merry-Go-Round

The Merry-Go-Round

2020★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Year That Never Came for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A study, in the form of an experimental film, on a couple's relationship in which the sentimental distance is increased by the forced approach in a confined space....