Best Winter Movies of All Time

Last Updated on 5 August 2025

The following list is a compilation of the 300 best Winter movies of all time. These movies either happen during fall, have a theme of winter, or are considered good to watch during winter.

I averaged 31 different ranked lists of “Best Winter movies of all time” to get this definitive compilation. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including all 31 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you’re welcome to print, followed by the full list with links to IMDb.

Best Winter Movies – Viewing Checklist Download

The Shining (1980)
Little Women (2019)
Frozen (2013)
Fargo (1996)
Last Holiday (2006)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Groundhog Day (1993)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
The Revenant (2015)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Home Alone (1990)
Ice Age (2002)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Winter’s Bone (2010)
Snow Day (2000)
Serendipity (2001)
Happy Feet (2006)
March of the Penguins (2005)
The Holdovers (2023)
Snowpiercer (2013)
The Grey (2011)
Knives Out (2019)
The Thing (1982)
The Holiday (2006)
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Carol (2015)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Love Actually (2003)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Anastasia (1997)
Force Majeure (2014)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Pink Panther (1963)
The White Reindeer (1952)
Miracle (2004)
I, Tonya (2017)
Twilight (2008)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Family Stone (2005)
Wind River (2017)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Coming to America (1988)
Misery (1990)
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Eight Below (2006)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Last Christmas (2019)
Wind Chill (2007)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Whiteout (2009)
Anna Karenina (2012)
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
A Simple Plan (1998)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Happy Feet Two (2011)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
This Christmas (2007)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
White Christmas (1954)
Hold the Dark (2018)
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Everest (2015)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Kwaidan (1964)
Werewolves Within (2021)
Little Women (1994)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cold Prey (2006)
Into the Wild (2007)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Snow Dogs (2002)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Black Swan (2010)
Johnny Tsunami (1999)
Hanna (2011)
Transsiberian (2008)
Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Climax (2018)
Jack Frost (Frosty) (1965)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
The Ice Road (2021)
Elf (2003)
Frozen II (2019)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Winter’s Tale (2014)
The Last Winter (2006)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Black Christmas (1974)
Hustlers (2019)
Ravenous (1999)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Troll Hunter (2010)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
The Crash Reel (2013)
Togo (2019)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Into the White (2012)
You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Happiest Season (2020)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Ice Princess (2005)
The Snowman (2017)
Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)
Just Friends (2005)
Tick, Tick… Boom! (2008)
Eddie the Eagle (2015)
The Polar Express (2004)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Apartment (1960)
Stepmom (1998)
The Living Daylights (1987)
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Hugo (2011)
Mulan (1998)
The Corridor (2010)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Let It Snow (2019)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Die Hard (1988)
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (2024)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Ascent (1977)
The Midnight Sky (2020)
The Proposal (2009)
Thin Ice (1937)
Abominable (2019)
The Lodge (2019)
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Rent (2005)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Hit the Ice (1943)
Santa Isn’t Real (2023)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Batman Returns (1992)
Balto (1995)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Trading Places (1983)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Insomnia (2002)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
November (2017)
Past Lives (2023)
Touching the Void (2003)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Downhill (2020)
Joyeux Noel (2005)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Alive (1993)
Vertical Limit (2000)
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
North to Alaska (1960)
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Gremlins (1984)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Nobody’s Fool (1994)
Evenings on A Farm Near Dikanka (1961)
Ikiru (1952)
La La Land (2016)
The Far Country (1954)
Black Robe (1991)
Sin City (2005)
Ski Party (1965)
Black Christmas (2019)
The Edge (1997)
Winter A-Go-Go (1965)
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Girl Happy (1965)
The Alpinist (2021)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
The Woman in Black (2012)
Where the Boys Are (1960)
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Meet the Parents (2000)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Departures (2008)
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Scrooged (1988)
The Bodyguard (1992)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Dead of Winter (1987)
Iceman (1984)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Death Hunt (1981)
Dreamgirls (2006)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Defiance (2008)
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Violent Night (2022)
To Die For (1995)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
Klaus (2019)
Mirror (1975)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Mickey 17 (2025)
Akira (1988)
The Santa Clause (1994)
Eileen (2023)
Reds (1981)
Meru (2015)
The Conformist (1970)
Pontypool (2008)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Crimson Peak (2015)
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Le cercle rouge (1970)
Queen Christina (1933)
Two Night Stand (2014)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Love Letter (1995)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Die Another Day (2002)
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Red One (2024)
Cliffhanger (1993)
About Time (2013)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Society of the Snow (2023)
The Fugitive (1993)
Cold Prey 2 (2008)
Black Nativity (2013)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Till Death (2021)
Paddington 2 (2017)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Titanic (1997)
Holler (2020)
Fall Into Winter (2023)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Goon (2011)
My Night at Maud’s (1969)
Edge of Winter (2016)
The Homesman (2014)
Winter’s Dream (2018)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
No Exit (2022)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Before and After (1996)
Black Widow (2021)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Sunshine (2007)
The Damned (2024)
Molly’s Game (2017)
The Promised Land (2023)
White Nights (1985)
Christmas Perfection (2018)
Ordinary People (1980)
A Christmas Prince (2017)
Fantasia (1940)
The Princess Switch (2018)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Cold Weather (2010)
About Dry Grasses (2023)
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
A Cinderella Christmas (2016)
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
The Great Silence (1968)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (1970)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Smallfoot (2018)