La bonne année (also known in the United States as Happy New Year) is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

Disguised as a rich old man, Simon gets to know the manager by choosing items for an alleged sick sister.

As Simon ties and gags the manager, the place is surrounded by police because an alarm had been triggered.

He eludes his pursuers and finds Charlot, who gives him his share and drives him to the airport for a plane to Brazil.

The film was remade as Happy New Year (1987), directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Peter Falk, Charles Durning and Tom Courtenay.