7 MOVIES TO INDULGE IN THE COLD — FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR SOFA, BLANKET INCLUDED

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7 MOVIES TO INDULGE IN THE COLD — FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR SOFA, BLANKET INCLUDED

By Laura Martínez

The Holiday (2006)

Director: Nancy Meyers

Two women who have never met —a movie trailer producer in Los Angeles (Cameron Diaz) and a journalist from a small English village (Kate Winslet)— swap homes over the Christmas holidays. What begins as an escape soon turns into an emotional reset filled with unexpected encounters, romance, and new ways of understanding love. The snow-covered cottage specially built for the film is, without question, one of winter cinema’s great icons.

 

 

Force Majeure (2014)

Director: Ruben Östlund

A family spends their holiday at a ski resort in the French Alps until an avalanche triggers a crisis as uncomfortable as it is revealing. Beyond the incident itself, the film explores the fragility of family roles and masculinity when pushed to the limit. Cold, ironic, and visually pristine, it turns the snowy landscape into an emotional mirror.

 

The Eight Mountains (2022)

Directors: Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch

A deeply moving story of friendship built over time in the Italian Alps. The mountain, snow-covered for much of the film, becomes home, wound, and refuge all at once. A contemplative and honest portrait of belonging, roots, and the inevitable pull of returning to where it all began.

 

Little Women (2019)

Director: Greta Gerwig

Set in New England during the American Civil War, the story of the March sisters unfolds amid cold winters, warm homes, and the intimacy of family life. This adaptation offers a contemporary take on a timeless classic, where snow, candlelight, and shared dinners reinforce a constant sense of refuge, nostalgia, and sisterhood. Starring Florence Pugh and Timothée Chalamet.

 

 

Carol (2015)

Director: Todd Haynes

A restrained romance blooming in 1950s New York, wrapped in coats, gloves, and snow-covered streets. Two women (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara) meet and recognize each other in a social context that forces them to live their relationship discreetly. Winter here is silence, desire, and longing. Sophisticated, melancholic, and deeply sensory.

 

 

Fargo (1996)

Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen

In the endless white landscape of Minnesota, a criminal plan as absurd as it is clumsy spirals into a chain of violent events. Snow is far more than a backdrop —it’s a constant presence that heightens isolation, dark humor, and a sense of quiet despair. A winter classic with a personality of its own and, in my humble opinion, one of the crown jewels of the Coen brothers’ brilliant filmography.

 

 

Wuthering Heights (1992)

Director: Peter Kosminsky

While waiting for the much-anticipated upcoming version by Emerald Fennell, starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, this 1992 adaptation is the perfect way to warm up. Set on the moors of northern England, this take on Emily Brontë’s novel is winter in its purest form. Wind, mud, fog, and cold run through the obsessive love story between Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes) and Catherine (Juliette Binoche), a bond as wild as the landscape itself. Far from sugary romanticism, this version embraces a raw, physical, and sensory approach that turns nature into a character of its own. Intense, harsh, and deeply atmospheric.