If the hot temperatures have you feeling guilty about having even the slightest bit of nostalgia for winter, don’t fret.

Turn up the air conditioning and turn on a few guilt-free suggestions to relive winter: cold-weather movies.

Oscar winners:

•“Fargo,” 1996 (seven nominations, two wins, including Best Screenplay and Best Actress Frances McDormand) – Freezing and scheming in the Great American North, with the Coen brothers’ warped sense of humor.

•“Doctor Zhivago,” 1965 (10 nominations, five wins, including Cinematography) – Lots of snowy vistas and Julie Christie sparkling in white furs as Omar Sharif plays a Russian doctor during the Bolshevik Revolution.

•“Titanic,” 1997 – With this Best Picture winner about the perils of icy water, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet melted a lot of hearts.

Horror:

•“The Shining,” 1980 – Heeere’s Johnny! A possessed Jack Nicholson terrorizes his snowbound family in an isolated hotel.

•“The Thing from Another World,” 1951, and the remake, “John Carpenter’s The Thing,” 1982 – Creature feature set in an Arctic outpost.

Sci-fi/adventure:

•“Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” 1980 – Only a Jedi on a tauntaun and Han Solo could survive the icy conditions (and wampas) of the planet Hoth.

•“Ice Station Zebra,” 1968 – A Cold War rescue at an Arctic weather station.

Family-friendly:

•“Ice Age,” 2002 – A lively animated film set during the Ice Age, featuring the voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo.

•“A Christmas Story” (1983) – If we have to include one holiday story, it should be “A Christmas Story.” Tongue stuck to pole. Enough said.

Penguin movies:

•“March of the Penguins,” 2005 – Penguins survive the elements in this touching documentary with the tagline: “In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.” Morgan Freeman narrates.

•“Happy Feet,” 2006 – A penguin can’t find his song, but he sure can dance. The all-star voice cast includes Elijah Wood and Robin Williams.

True stories:

•“Eight Below,” 2006 – Hold onto a hanky for this story of sled dogs forced to fend in brutal cold after Antarctic explorers are forced to leave them behind.

•“Cool Runnings,” 1993 – Jamaican bobsledders try to make it to the Winter Olympics.

Cold characters:

•“The Snow Queen,” 1957 – Animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about how to melt a frozen heart.

•“The Chronicles of Narnia,” 2005 – Tilda Swinton’s White Witch gives us the chills.

•“Batman & Robin,” 1997 – George Clooney’s misstep includes Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze.

Unavoidable:

•“Touching the Void,” 2003 – True story of two climbers’ journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

•“North Face,” 2008 – This based-on-a-true-story adventure follows a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps.

•“Vertical Limit,” 2000 – A climber attempts to rescue his sister on K2, second-highest peak to Everest.

Just because:

•James Bond ski chases: “The Spy Who Loved Me,” (1977), “For Your Eyes Only” (1981) and “The World Is Not Enough” (1999).

•“Groundhog Day,” 1993 – February in Punxsutawney, over and over again.