List of mainstream films with skiing scenes

The following is a list of mainstream films featuring skiing or snowboarding scenes. Skiing has been recorded on film since at least the 1910s, but did not work its way into Hollywood features until the 1930s, when it began to be popular as a leisure activity in the United States. Snowboarding's entry onto the screen paralleled its rise to popularity in the late 1980s and early 90s.

Action[]

• Dusty Ermine (1936)
• Ski Patrol (1940)
• Northern Pursuit (1943)
• Ski Troop Attack (1960)
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
• Footsteps In the Snow (1966)
• Caprice (1967)
• The Double Man (1967)
• Assignment K (1968)
• The Devil's Brigade (1968)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Snow Job (1972)
• Runaway! (1973)
• The Ultimate Thrill (1974)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Bear Island (1979)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• The Soldier (1982)
• A View to a Kill (1985)
• Jing cha gu shi IV: Jian dan ren wu (a.k.a. Police Story 4: First Strike or Jackie Chan's First Strike) (1995)
• Hamilton (1998)
• The World Is Not Enough (1999)
• Extreme Ops (2002)
• xXx (2002)
• Deep Shock (2003)
• Taxi 3 (2003)
• Fantastic Four (2005)
• Inception (2010)
• The Last King (2016)
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Animation[]

• The Insects' Christmas (aka Rozhdyestvo obitateli lyesa) (1911) short
• Betty Boop's Snow-White (1933) and Thrills and Chills (1940) shorts
• Looney Tunes' Alpine Antics (1936) short
• Popeye's I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936) and I’ll Be Skiing Ya (1947) shorts
• Goofy's The Art of Skiing (1941) short
• Dumbo (1941)
• Plenty Below Zero (1943) short
• Woody Woodpecker's Ski for Two (1944) short
• Mr Magoo's The Ragtime Bear (1949) and Magoo Goes Skiing (1954) shorts
• Daffy Duck's Duck Amuck (1953) short
• Tom and Jerry's The A-Tom-Inable Snowman (1966) short
• Pink Panther's Pink Streaker (1975) short
• Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas (2005)

Comedy[]

• Max Linder: Max Goes Skiing (1910),^[1] Max Asthmatique (1914), Max and His Mother-in-Law (1914) and Max Wins and Loses (1916), shorts
• The Great Leap (1927)
• Love on Skis (1928)
• The Champion of Pontresina (1934)
• A Rare Bird (1935)
• Schlitz on Mount Washington (1935)
• Winter Night's Dream (1935)
• The Moon's Our Home (1936)
• Thin Ice (1937)
• Dollar (1938)
• Paradise for Three (1938)
• Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
• Two-Faced Woman (1941)
• You Belong to Me (1941)
• Hit the Ice (1943)
• Love Goes Up and Down (1946)
• Les Amours de Blanche Neige (1947)
• The Singing Hotel (1953)
• All for Mary (1955)
• Three Men in the Snow (1955)
• Fjols til fjells (1957)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
• Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
• Help! (1965)
• Ski Party (1965)
• Winter A-Go-Go (1965)
•  [de] (1966)
• Wild Wild Winter (1966)
• Caprice (1967)
• Après-ski (a.k.a. Snowballin') (1971)
• Snowball Express (1972)
• Blue Blooms the Gentian (1973)
• Beim Jodeln juckt die Lederhose (a.k.a. There's No Sex Like Snow Sex) (1974)
• Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
• Sunnyboy und Sugarbaby (1979)
• The Four Seasons (1981)
• Copper Mountain (1983)
• Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)
• Snowballing (1984)
• Better Off Dead (1985)
• Sällskapsresan 2 – Snowroller (1985)
• Watashi o ski ni tsurete itte (a.k.a. Take Me Out to the Snowland) (1987)
• Ski Patrol (1990)
• Ski School (1991)
• Dumb and Dumber (1994)
• Ski Hard (a.k.a. Downhill Willie) (1995)
• Ski School 2 (1994)
• Snowboard Academy (1996)
• Extreme Days (2001)
• Out Cold (2001)
• The Ice Dream (2002)
•  [de] (2002)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003)
• Peak Experience (a.k.a. Lost Lake) (2003)
• Snow Job (a.k.a. Winter Break) (2003)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
• Extreme Dating (2004)
• Snowfever (2004)
• Water to Wine (2004)
• Frostbite (2005)
• Swamper (2005)
• Shred (2008)
• Shred 2 (2009)
• Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
• Chalet Girl (2011)
• The Anderssons Rock the Mountains (2014)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Eddie the Eagle (2016)

Documentary[]

• Moscow Clad in Snow (1908) short
• Put Your Cares on Ice (1919) short
•  [de] (1920)
• The White Stadium (1928)
• Se Norge (1929)
• Cinerama Holiday (1955)
• 13 jours en France (1968)
• Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (a.k.a. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) (1974)
• The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
• The Sword of the Lord (1976)
• White Rock (1977)
• Different Slopes (1979)
• Aspen (1991)
• Blizzard of AAHHH's (1988)
• Ski Bums (2001)
• Spirit of Snow (2002)
• Au: A Snowboarding Film (2005)
• Bode Miller: Flying Downhill (2005)
• First Descent (2005)
• Trulli Love (2005)
• The Pipe Dream (2006)
• Snow Blind (2006)
• Thermos (2006)
• Let It Ride: The Craig Kelly Story (2007)
• That's It, That's All (2008)
• The Art of Flight (2011)
• Ready to Fly (2012)

Drama[]

• Avalanche (1923)
• Beverly of Graustark (1926)
• Body and Soul (1927)
• Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
• Young Sinners (1931)
• Service for Ladies (1932)
• Everything Happens at Night (1939)
• Escape (1940)
• The Mortal Storm (1940)
• Spellbound (1945)
• My Reputation (1946)
• Winter Wonderland (1946)
• Swiss Tour (a.k.a. Four Days Leave) (1949)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961)
• Snow Treasure (1968)
• Downhill Racer (1969)
• The Ski Bum (1971)
• The Stepdaughter (1974)
• The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
• Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
• The Other Side of the Mountain II (1978)
• Swan Song (1980)
• Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985)
• Striker's Mountain (1985)
• True Colors (1991)
• Aspen Extreme (1993)
• Winterschläfer (a.k.a. Winter Sleepers) (1997)
• Friends & Lovers (1999)
• Avalanche Alley (2001)
• Familie (2001)
• Getting There (2002)
• Stolen Good (2002)
• Crazy Canucks (2004)
• Last Holiday (2006)
• Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)
• La Science des rêves (a.k.a. The Science of Sleep) (2006)
• White Air (2006)
• Switch (2007)
• Into the White (2012)
• Force Majeure (2014)

Horror[]

• Jūjin Yuki Otoko (a.k.a. Half Human) (1955)
• Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
• Snowbeast (1977)
• Iced (1988)
• Shredder (2003)
• Ice Queen (2005)
• Scarce (2008)
• Frozen (2010)
• The Truth Below (2011)

References[]

• Skiing Catalog of Feature Films, American Film Institute
• Craddock, Jim (ed) (2007) VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Gale ISBN 9781414429465. Category Index: Skiing
• Armstrong, Richard B.; Armstrong, Mary Willems (2009) Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series, McFarland & Company Incorporated ISBN 978-0-7864-4572-1 page 183
• Halliwell and Walker (1993) Halliwell’s Filmgoer's and Video Viewer Companion Harper ISBN 9780062715708 page 703
• Davidson & Adler (1993) Sport on Film and Video, New-York: The Scarecrow Press ISBN 9780810827394
• Wallenfeldt (1989) Sports Movies: A Guide to Nearly 500 Films Focusing on Sports ISBN 9780933997240
• Bowker's Complete Video Directory ISBN 0-8352-3586-6