16 Warm Weather Movies to Binge Watch During This Heinous Storm

If, like us, you’re somewhere in central or eastern Canada right now, you are probably either safely indoors watching a harrowing combination of snow, hail and freezing rain come barrelling down from the heavens, or said harrowing combination is currently pelting you in the face (in which case: put your damn phone away! Water damage is expensive).

But there’s no sense in wallowing over yet another calamitous turn in this endlessly crappy winter. Instead, we recommend firing up your friendly neighbourhood Netflix and wishing the cold away with a few of these scintillating warm-weather classics.

1. The Beach (2000)

Long before he wrestled bears (and Oscar voters) into submission in The Revenant, Leo hippied out on a pristine Thai island with Tilda Swinton in this amusingly dated Danny Boyle thriller.

2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

This Hawaii-set instant classic still holds the crown as the funniest romantic comedy of the last 10 years.

3. The Descendants (2011)

Kind of like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, except full of older, sadder people.

4. Life of Pi (2012)

Honestly, given the slushy dreck we’re seeing out our windows right now, being stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger in the middle of the ocean doesn’t sound all that bad.

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

It’s kind of shocking how watchable this movie is compared to all the Johnny-Depp-cash-register-noise bullshit that came after it.

6. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Our mans Sly never seems to have his shirt on, so it must be pretty hot out there, right?

7. The Big Lebowski (1998)

There’s never been a more convincing argument for cruising around Los Angeles and smoking inordinate amounts of pot. As if we even needed convincing.

8. The Endless Summer (1966)

The greatest surfing movie ever made. Other than Blue Crush, that is.

9. Swelter (2014)

Honestly, we’ve never heard of this late-career JCVD action thriller before. But it’s called Swelter, so…

10. Before Midnight (2013)

Between all the horribly intense, marriage-dissolving arguments that comprise this critically-acclaimed threequel, director Richard Linklater managed to stick in a few truly breathtaking landscape shots of the idyllic Greek island on which its set.

11. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Wes Anderson’s dreamlike tale of a childhood romance in New England will make you yearn for the long, lazy summers of your youth.

12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

It’s tough to say exactly what the temperature was in Chicago during Ferris and co.’s misadventures — Sloane, for instance, is wearing shorts and a leather jacket — but any day that’s warm enough for a baseball game, a parade and a joyride in a convertible Ferrari with the top down is fine by us.

13. Bad Boys (1995)

Party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach till the break of dawn.

14. Cowspiracy (2014)

Because global warming.

15. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)

Okay, okay, so this shouldn’t really count. But it does have “warm” in the title, and will certainly make you feel warm in, uh, certain ways.

16. Holes (2003)

Peak Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver in villain mode, and a whole bunch of holes dug in scorching weather. What more could you ask for?