The Holiday Film List
Greetings, dear readers, and a warm welcome to December! I trust your Thanksgiving was wonderful and hopefully brimming with delicious food and good company. I loved being home at my dad’s in Maryland. It was such a cold week and certainly felt festive having a good reason to huddle cozily inside by a crackling fire, with nothing to do! However, I did brace the freezing temps for small Saturday roaming around downtown Frederick. The lights were twinkling in the trees and all the shops were decorated so beautifully. I also scored the most chic Armani down feather coat in our favorite antique shop—I can’t wait to wear it all winter long. A good day.
Now I’m heading southward to Vero Beach, where I’ll bask in Florida’s golden sun for a couple of weeks. We’re planning to usher in an early Christmas at the condo with my mom and brothers. Though the festive spirit feels uniquely different from the wintry charm of Washington, DC, I’m leaning wholeheartedly into the Christmas season. Our home will be fully decorated (thanks mom!), we'll delight in The Nutcracker in Palm Beach this weekend, and we’re planning to fill some evenings with our favorite holiday films.
So now, as December unfurls, it feels only fitting to share my annual holiday film list—a beloved tradition I hope brings you as much joy as it does me. Happy watching!
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An Autumn Film List
Hello readers! Hope everyone has had a wonderful September so far. This week has felt particularly autumnal. I returned from a fabulous Florida weekend to a very dark and gloomy week here in DC, and honestly, couldn’t be more pleased. I bought fixings for chili and broke out the crockpot. I’ve started decorating for fall. I think I may bake cookies later. I wore a sweater this week. I’ve said it time and time again, I thrive off fall weather and blustery days.
Since we are well on our way to autumn, it felt appropriate to go ahead and post my autumn film list—an annual tradition I’ve come to really adore! It’s so fun to see you all print these out and check off your favorites. I’m so ready to cozy in for the season with candles and darker evenings and all the feel-good or haunted repeats I lean into this time of year. Hope you all enjoy this throughout the season!
Over 100 Cozy Films with Dreamy Sets
Those that know me or have followed me for a while know how much I adore a night in with a good film. Whether a Nancy or Nora romcom with a gorgeous home, a romantic regency era or period drama, across the sea and somewhere dreamy, a little New York apartment or an old home with beautiful bones, or something that simply gives you that cozy feeling when you step into the story’s world… here are the movies I return to over and over when I simply want to escape or need some inspiration.
Beautiful Homes
About Time, 2013
Addicted to Love, 1997
Because I Said So, 2007
Father of the Bride, 1991
Home Again, 2017
It’s Complicated, 2009
Julie & Julia, 2009
Kate and Leopold , 2001
Knives Out, 2019
Love Rosie, 2014
Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993
Nights in Rodanthe, 2008
Notting Hill, 1999
One Day, 2011
One Fine Day, 1996
Practical Magic, 1998
Something’s Gotta Give, 2003
Stepmom, 1998
The Age of Adaline, 2016
The Holiday, 2006
The Intern, 2015
The Parent Trap, 1998
The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001
The Time Traveler's Wife, 2009
The Wedding Date, 2005
This Is Where I Leave You, 2014
What a Girl Wants, 2003
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, 2019
You’ve Got Mail, 1998
Old Classics
Annie Hall, 1977
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961
Funny Face, 1957
Funny Girl, 1968
Gigi, 1958
High Society, 1956
La Piscine, 1969
Roman Holiday, 1953
Rosemary's Baby, 1968
Sabrina, 1954
The Graduate, 1967
Another Time
A Single Man, 2009
A Walk in the Clouds, 1995
An Education, 2009
Anna Karenina, 2012
Atonement, 2007
Becoming Jane, 2007
Brooklyn, 2015
Cafe Society, 2016
Coco Before Chanel, 2009
Colette, 2018
Emma, 2020
Enola Holmes, 2020
Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015
Goodbye Christopher Robin, 2017
Gosford Park, 2001
Jane Eyre, 2011
Lady Chatterley's Lover, 2022
Little Women, 2019
Mansfield Park, 1999
Marie Antoinette, 2006
Miss Potter, 2006
My Fair Lady, 1964
My Man Godfrey, 1936
Persuasion, 2022
Phantom Thread, 2017
Pride and Prejudice, 2005
Rebecca, 2020
Saving Mr. Banks, 2013
Somewhere in Time, 1980
Sound of Music, 1965
The Dig, 2021
The Duchess, 2008
The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014
The Great Gatsby, 2013
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, 2015
The Notebook, 2004
The Phantom of the Opera, 2004
The Theory Of Everything, 2014
Wanderlust
A Good Year, 2006
A Little Romance, 1979
A Room with a View, 1985
Amélie, 2001
Before Trilogy
Call Me By Your Name, 2017
Chasing Liberty, 2007
Eat, Pray, Love, 2010
Hundred Foot Journey, 2014
Leap Year, 2010
Letters to Juliet, 2010
Mama Mia, 2008 & 2018
Midnight in Paris, 2011
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, 2021
P.S. I Love You, 2007
The Last Letter to Your Lover, 2021
The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999
Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003
Cozy Magic
Christopher Robin, 2018
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968
Finding Neverland, 2004
Harry Potter Series
Hook, 1991
Matilda, 1996
Mary Poppins, 1964
Paddington, 2014
Penelope, 2006
Peter Rabbit, 2018
The Little Princess, 1995
The Secret Garden, 1993