Celebrate the best winter has to offer with these frosty films.
Private Fears in Public Places A snowstorm that shuts down Paris sets in motion the individual stories that converge to create the lovely movie. | ![]() |
The Chronicles of Narnia When little Lucy Pevensie hides in the wardrobe she stumbles into the wintry world of Narnia, held snowbound by the icy White Witch. | ![]() |
Winter Light Ingmar Bergman sets his film about man's relationship with God against the cold winter landscape of a Swedish village. | ![]() |
Snow Dogs A Miami man moves to snowy Alaska to claim his inheritance-- a team of sled dogs. | ![]() |
Winter Sleepers A stolen car and a disastrous crash set off a series of events in a mountaintop villa. | ![]() |
The Shining The Torrance family experiences severe cabin fever while snowbound in a remote Colorado resort. The final scene in the frozen hedge maze is doubly chill-inspiring. | ![]() |
Fargo Snow is an uncredited character in the Coen Brother's Oscar-winning film, dictating, amplifying and stultifying the characters' actions throughout. | ![]() |
8 Women After the murder of a wealthy industrialist, the members of his family (who are all suspects) are trapped in the house by a snowstorm that cuts them off from help but brings them together to accuse, insult and attack each other. With song and dance numbers. | ![]() |
Groundhog Day (VHS) A snowstorm traps weatherman Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, PA where he is forced to relive Groundhog Day over and over and over again. | ![]() |
Misery A serious accident during a blinding blizzard leaves novelist Paul Sheldon crippled and in the care of "his number one fan," an ex-nurse with boundary issues. | ![]() |
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