Sure, you could spend New Year’s Eve drunk, cold, and shivering on the sidewalk outside of bars… or you could just stay in and watch some New Year’s Eve movies on streaming.

Below, 13 New Year’s Eve superstitions encompassing cultures from around the world to incorporate into your December 31st festivities. To new beginnings! Midnight Kiss.

And for a night as ritual-bound as New Year’s Eve, it’s no bad idea to lean on the classics, and tap into the accumulated vibes of all the New Year’s Eves that have come before.

What lesser New Year’s Eve movies like New Year’s Eve and 200 Cigarettes get wrong is their understandable insistence on packing as much one-crazy-night action as possible into 24 hours or so ...

The 2011 Gary Marshall movie New Year’s Eve is also not on this list because, c’mon, it’s too easy. The pilot of Futurama is not on the list because it’s a TV show, not a movie.

These New Year’s traditions from around the world are memorable ways to usher in a new year. Hot List: Midi Dresses, Crocs Clogs, Travel Backpacks, More July Must-Haves IE 11 is not supported.

Around the world, people are eating certain foods on New Year's Eve, hoping to ensure that the upcoming year will be full of luck, prosperity and love for them. Here are three.

Follow New Year's Eve 2025 celebrations around the world. Alaska and Hawaii will be among the last spots to ring in 2025. By David Brennan and Emily Shapiro. December 31, 2024, 8:17 PM.

"The Times Square New Year's Eve celebration has been a tradition for 120 years now, and we take immense pride in how this historic event showcases the very best of New York City," Tisch said.