# Movies with SNOW in them...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 5, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272 "2004-09-05T22:10:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MikeCollins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeCollins)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/1 "2004-09-05T22:10:04Z")
Yes I’m talking about frozen precipitation, as in “sleet & snow”.
One of my favourite films of all time is _Northern Pursuit_, a film made in the 30’s (I believe) starring Erroyl Flynn. He plays a Canadian mountie of German descent who has to pose as a traitor in order to infilitrate a Nazi spy ring.
The film is potrayed in various mountainous locations, and all the landmarks are covered by snow. Beautiful, white, meditative snow. It shimmers off the black-and-white film, and gives you this feeling that mixes both warm and chilly together.
Anyway, I just love films with snow. I mean _Die Hard I_ was by far my favourite of the trilogy (plot-wise), but I’d rank it behind _DH II_ just becoz the entire movie is shot in a blizzard.
Same goes for _Detox_, parts of _Seven Years In Tibet_ and even _The Day After Tommorow_, which I only went to watch because of the snow (and I hated, but loved the snow!).
Also, there’s a 1930’s version of a Sherlock Holmes movie that also does some snowy effects.
So boys and girls, indulge me. How many other movies can you think of (please not _Home Alone 2_) that are covered in snow?
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### Author:  [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/2 "2004-09-05T22:21:12Z")
_Smilla’s Sense of Snow_
_Triple X_
_Cool Runnings_
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### Author:  [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/3 "2004-09-05T22:22:54Z")
Oooh, and the new Robin Williams/Woody Harrelson/Holly Hunter movie, _Great White_ or whatever the prerelease name was…
They moved the filming to the Yukon when Saskatchewan ran out of snow this spring…
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/4 "2004-09-05T22:23:13Z")
_Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/5 "2004-09-05T22:23:22Z")
Both versions of _The Thing_.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/6 "2004-09-05T22:25:41Z")
Actually, one of my favorite WWII action/suspense movies is [The Heroes of Telemark](http://imdb.com/title/tt0059263/combined). It’s as taut as the best heist movie, with the added benefit of the “heist” being a heroic deed. Oh, plus there’s Nazis. Anyway, it’s pretty much shrouded in snow from first to last.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/7 "2004-09-05T22:25:43Z")
Gremlins, the original. Not the sequel. There was also a Charles Bronson movie, where he is being hunted by Lee Marvin for a murder someone else committed. I can’t remember the name of the film. But, it takes place in Alaska in the winter.
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### Author:  [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/8 "2004-09-05T22:27:32Z")
_Fargo_ was snowy throughout the movie.
And of course _Edward Scissorhands_, though not in the usual way.
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### Author:  [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/9 "2004-09-05T22:29:04Z")
[Antarctica](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085991/). Beautifully filmed movie, but so, SO sad …
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/10 "2004-09-05T22:30:47Z")
Groundhog day.
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### Author:  [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/11 "2004-09-05T22:32:03Z")
It’s A Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Story have some nice scenes where it’s snowing.
The Dog Who Stopped The War
Empire Strikes Back
Fargo
Reindeer Games
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### Author:  [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/12 "2004-09-05T22:54:38Z")
One of my favorite guilty pleasure films is “Murder on the Orient Express”[with Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot] Snow is the reason for their being immobilized, which gives HP the opportunity to _“exercise the little grey cells”._
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### Author:  [@MikeCollins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeCollins)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/13 "2004-09-05T23:03:44Z")
I forgot to mention _Black Cadillac_ with Shane Johnson - one of my favourite movies in recent times.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/14 "2004-09-05T23:19:24Z")
_The Pink Panther_ – real skiing by OK (not great) skiiers!
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### Author:  [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/15 "2004-09-05T23:22:40Z")
OK - I feel kind of stupid for saying this, but ‘White Christmas’. It’s not real snow, but it gets it’s own songs and it’s a plot point and it’s a great movie.
Goodnight now.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/16 "2004-09-05T23:23:28Z")
**Alive**.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/17 "2004-09-05T23:24:56Z")
About 75% of all Bond movies.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/18 "2004-09-05T23:34:42Z")
D.W. Griffith’s _Way Down East_ (1920), in which fallen woman Lillian Gish, in true melodrama style, is cast out into the snow storm.
California rancher Robert Mitchum follows the _Track of the Cat_ (1954) through a snow storm.
_The Invisible Man_ (1933) is captured when he is tracked through a freshly fallen snow.
When Margaret O’Brien hears that her family is leaving St. Louis, she smashes the family of snow people she had created in _Meet Me in St. Louis_ (1944).
An airborn party of refugees crashes into a mountain in Asia during a blizzard in _Lost Horizon_ (1937), only to discover a hidden valley where time and war are unknown.
_Seven Brides for Seven Brothers_ (1954) are snowbound together for the winter after the latter kidnap the former and cause an avalanche to block a mountain pass.
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### Author:  [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/19 "2004-09-05T23:35:17Z")
**The Color Purple** has an extraordinary amount of snow in it considering the story takes place in rural Georgia.
Probably the most intense scene with regard to winter weather is near the beginning when Celie gives birth. It’s so cold in the room that the baby comes out of her steaming visably (quite disturbing), then Pa comes busting in, and the blizzard swirls into the room. There are five or six other snow scenes too.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/20 "2004-09-05T23:49:34Z")
There’s _Insomnia_, which is set in Alaska. (And it has Hilary Swank, but that’s another thread, or something.)
There’s _Alaska_, which is set in Alaska.
There’s _Mystery, Alaska_, which is set in Alaska and as a bonus has hockey scenes. (Though anyone who says it’s a hockey movie…well, it’s not.)
There’s _The Nightmare Before Christmas_, which is set in Halloweentown and not Alaska, but it has some fake snow.
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