Here’s my short list of movies that will make you feel warm and romantic and have a little bit of holiday cheer thrown in.

White Christmas It isn’t Christmas until you have watched this 1954 classic musical. Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen, it has everything a holiday romance should. The costumes are lush and the music unsurpassable. The finale is completely satisfying with love in bloom while the snow falls and Bing croons the famous song from the movie’s title.

While You Were Sleeping Sandra Bullock and her disarming charm add personality plus to this sweet tale of finding true love in unexpected places. Sandra falls in love with the handsome traveler she sells train tokens to and rescues him from an oncoming train after he is mugged. Peter Gallagher is the handsome stranger who spends most of the movie in a coma while a misundertanding makes his family believe that Sandra is his fiancee. Complications arise when Sandra and Bill Pullham as Peter’s brother begin to see romantic sparks fly between them.

The Christmas List This 1997 film was made for TV but boasts Mimi Rogers as Melody Parris, a perfume saleswoman whose life and romance is going nowhere. At the urging of a friend she writes her Christmas wish list which the friend capriciously drops into the store Santa’s mailbox. Mysterious things begin to happen and a holiday romance is not far behind. Stella Stevens turns in a wonderful performance as Melody’s mother. Should become a Christmas classic. Watch for it on TV this season.