There was one flake of real snow in White Christmas. Every last snow scene was shot on a Paramount sound stage in Hollywood.
Grrr!:smack:
There wasn’t one flake of real snow in White Christmas.
Mon Oncle Antoine and a lot of others that have been mentioned before.
A Simple Plan.
The Fast Runner is an Inuit story, filmed in a frigid landscape of nothing but snow and ice. There’s a scene where the title character has to run for his life on the ice – stark naked. I’m amazed at what the actor was willing to go through, and it’s one of the most painful scenes I’ve ever seen.
Okay, I’ll throw in Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.
Out of Sight
Especially the lounge/bar scene where George Clooney’s character meets up with Jennifer Lopez’s US marshall. 
It’s depressing as hell, if you can have any sympathy for soldiers of the Wehrmacht in Russia, but Stalingrad is a great movie, and features more snow than you’ll ever want to know about.
A Midnight Clear takes place in the Ardennes Forest in WWII, and the tranquil snow-covered landscapes contrast sharply with the violence and fear that the characters have to endure. The snow is a big part of the atmosphere of the movie, I think you’d really like it.
Brother Bear
Home Alone 4 (a movie I actually like enough to watch it everytime it comes on TV, because that little boy is just too damn cute. )
The first half of Ron Howard’s The Missing , which seemed to my friends and I to go downhill in the post-snow scenes…
Cold Mountain
Didn’t The Cider House Rules have snow in it?
One of my very favorite films of all time is McCabe and Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. One of the most depressing, hopeless, tragic, beautiful films ever. If you find Leonard Cohen’s music oddly comforting (he did the soundtrack), you might like it. It’s set in the frontier-days Pacific Northwest (filmed, I think, in British Columbia) in the winter, and tells the story of an opium-smoking prostitute and the man who tries to woo her. Rain, ice and snow are present throughout the film, and the final scene, during a snowstorm, leaves the viewer too empty for tears. Very cathartic.
I’ve been beat to the magical snow moments in McCabe, Ambersons and Meet Me in St. Louis, but surprisingly, these are still unheralded:
The fantastic chase through the snow in Nick Ray’s On Dangerous Ground, the snowball fight in Gance’s Napoleon, all of Paul Schrader’s Afflication, and the final moments of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451.
And it snowed way too much to be the mountains of NC.
Kurosawa only (only?) concieved and wrote it, but the final draft was written by Edward Bunker and it was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. And yes, it is a fantastic, underrated, overlooked film. Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts both were nominated for Academy Awards.
The best Bond flick for snow scenes is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Great ski chases (featuring innovative filming methods), a toboggan chase, ice skating, and even curling.
Also:
**The Mortal Storm ** (1940): Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan. Young lovers try to escape the Nazis by skiiing through the Alps.
Beautiful Girls: set in somewhere up north (upstate NY?) in the USA during the winter. Natalie Portman (at around 13 years old) has a funny scene where she stomps on snow.
Grumpy Old Men: Minnesota during the winter has snow, ice, and ice-fishing, beer, and, incongruously, Sophia Loren.
Nobody’s Fool: Paul Newman, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis. Set in upstate NY during the holiday season. Even Griffith and Willis turn in good performances here.
Enemy at the Gates: admittedly has more fall/winter slush than snow, but the opening scene in Siberia is very snowy.
Ravenous: set in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a winter in the 1860’s or 1870’s (although it was actually filmed somewhere in the former Yugoslavia).
Jim Jarmusch’s “A Night on Earth”. I saw this with a friend in California, on yet another perfect day. During the Helsinki sequence, friend turned to me and whispered, “I miss snow”.
Helsinki: dark, dreary, forbidding, stark and depressing. But ever since “A Night on Earth,” I’ve wanted to go there.
Wow, someone besides me has seen this excellent film!
Actually, she didn’t appear until the sequel. Ann Margaret was in both.
Nitpick: Existing Leonard Cohen songs from the 1960s were used.
Bell, Book, and Candle.
Aren’t parts of The Deer Hunter in the snow? It’s been a while since I watched it.
Legend.
If we are counting animated snow then there’s the South Park movie.