Cold, cold, cold. That's all we hear when the temperatures drop below zero. During these cold months, it's only right to remember some of the best winter movies of all time. No, these are not movies about Christmas and the holidays. Quite the opposite – true winter movies usually don't end happily. Snow, bone-chilling cold and the conceptual question of whether spring will ever come: this is the recipe for a great winter movie. We have selected ten winter films and we think they are more than excellent and, of course, worth watching.
Here is a selection of movies that will cool you down. Winter movies that hide icy scenes and twists are the right choice for cold evenings.
10. Encounters At The End Of The World (2008)
In keeping with his absolute lack of fear of foreign situations, iconoclastic director Werner Herzog made this documentary about everyday life at McMurdo Base in Antarctica. The film has moments of bizarre eccentricity and moments of extreme sadness, sometimes both at the same time. A profound observation about an isolated culture made up of people who have abandoned everything else, it captures an otherworldly picture that moves us. As Herzog warns at the beginning of the film: this is not the journey of an emperor penguin - and he means it dead serious.
9. Never Cry Wolf (1983)
The film is based on the book by Farley Mowat, a famous naturalist. A scientist is sent to the Arctic to study wolves, which are (wrongly) blamed for the decline of caribou. Charles Martin Smith (American Graffiti, The Untouchables, Starman) and Brian Dennehy also play in the film, along with countless wolves. Something unforgettably cold.
8. The Gold Rush (1925)
The 1925 masterpiece stars Charlie Chaplin as Little Trapp searching for gold in the Yukon Mountains. More than a year in the making, the film was Chaplin's most ambitious production. The film contains some of Charlie Chaplin's most famous scenes, especially the scene where Little Tramp and his friend Big Jim are starving in a remote cabin and eating a leather shoe. In a delirium of hunger, they split the top and bottom of the shoe, twist the laces around the fork like spaghetti, and suck every nail in the shoe like a delicious bone.
7. Groundhog Day (1997)
A comedy with a happy ending. But let's not forget how dark the comedy gets in the middle, even though it never stops being funny. Bill Murray plays a narcissistic meterologist who relives the most boring day of his life over and over again. At one point, the monotony is so painful that he decides to commit suicide. Don't worry, it doesn't work.
6. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Want to know where the snow comes from? Apparently, it all started with scissors. This bleak modern day tale reminds us that while the winter months can be desolate and dreary, let's be thankful that our hands are not scissors.
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5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
When their relationship deteriorates, the couple decide to erase each other from their memories. Through the process of loss, they discover what they should really start with. Despite the crazy and surreal elements of the film, the film remains honest and true. It seems like a contradiction, but after all, that's how life is.
4. Misery (1990)
Based on Stephen King's novel, the film tells the story of writer Paul Sheldon, who ends up in the forest cabin of his biggest fan after a car accident in an icy blizzard. She cares for him, but unfortunately Paul has to pay a high price for this. "Cold" thriller, whose title says it all.
3. The Thing (1982)
Skip all newer versions! A great film where twelve members of an Antarctic research crew face evil. Directed by John Carpenter, music by the legendary Ennio Morricone and an eclectic ensemble of actors such as Kurt Russell and Keith David. A classic as science fiction, a classic as horror, a classic study of isolation and paranoia and a legendary, creepy and ambiguous ending.
2. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
For many, this is the best part of the Star Wars series, and for many, the early scenes on Planet Hoth are the best scenes of the film. Covered in snow and ice, the terrain is unforgiving and defeating the Empire is becoming increasingly difficult. Unforgettable sequences include Luke Skywalker in a brutal battle with a Wamp, Han Solo's valiant effort to save a friend from certain death, and an incredible battle in the snow where all seems lost.
1. The Shining (1980)
This film needs no introduction and we remember it, honestly, for its terrifying but brilliant cinematography. Jack and his family are trapped in a not-so-friendly hotel all winter - the season that turns Jack into an unfriendly lumberjack. One of the most famous horror films of all time,
