With a winter that is shaping up to be the worst in Vancouver’s history, you won’t need much of an excuse to stay inside for the next four months. However, since you can only watch so many reruns of A Charlie Brown Christmas, here are some gift ideas you can give your favourite film aficionado to avoid the inevitable cabin fever that will occur.

Hollywood
Okay, let’s get this out of the way: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse—the soon-to-be classic tween dream about perpetual damsel-in-distress Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) torn between her love for a glittery vampire (Robert Pattinson) and a shirtless werewolf (Taylor Lautner)—is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on December 4. Pair it up with Destination Forks (also out December 4), a documentary that takes an in-depth look at the sleepy town of Forks, Washington, the setting for Twilight that has become a tourist mecca.

If your cinematic tastes go beyond teenage melodrama, Videomatica’s Graham X. Peat recommends America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, out on DVD on December 14. Producers Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner (collectively working as BBS Productions) were responsible for bringing the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s to the silver screen—as well as developing a cavalcade of stars—with a spate of genre-busting independent films. This collection includes newly restored transfers of seven iconic films: Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; The Last Picture Show; The King of Marvin Gardens; Head; Drive, He Said; and A Safe Place. Watch them with your favourite Twihard, who might develop an appreciation for older films once she sees how hot Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson once were.

If you’re looking for the perfect combination of quality and quantity, the three-volume, 75-film Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary Gift Set (coming to DVD on December 7) includes 46 Academy Award–winning films spanning every possible movie genre. Volume One (1935-1960) offers everything from The Grapes of Wrath and The Seven Year Itch to the DVD premiere of All About Eve. Volume Two (1961-1985) includes science-fiction gems (Star Wars, Alien, Fantastic Voyage), endearing musicals (Hello, Dolly!, All That Jazz, and The Sound of Music), and classic capers (The French Connection), while the last volume (1986-2010) brings together everything from Raising Arizona and Wall Street to recent classics like Slumdog Millionaire and Avatar. The set includes a hardcover book explaining the historical significance, success, and impact of each film.

Canadian
Any list of great Canadian directors will have Winnipeg’s Guy Maddin near the top of it. The four-disc Quintessential Guy Maddin features five of the auteur’s most notable films—Careful (1992), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), Archangel (1990), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2003), and Cowards Bend the Knee (2004)—as well as audio commentaries, six short films, and a 60-minute Tom Waits–narrated documentary about Maddin’s life. This DVD collection will be available on December 14.

Fans of the lower brow will appreciate the Trailer Park Boys double feature Countdown to Liquor Day and Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, two liquor-fuelled caper flicks from Halifax’s most ridiculous criminals, which comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on December 7. Pick up TPB’s Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys (also set for release on December 7) and spend your post-turkey coma with the only people more foulmouthed than your own relatives.

International
Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the 1993 Mexican horror film Cronos arrives on DVD on December 7. The story of an antiques dealer who inadvertently discovers a means to immortality, this film gets the Criterion treatment and includes two audio commentaries; “Geometria”, a previously unreleased short horror film of del Toro’s from 1987 that was finally completed in 2010; video interviews with del Toro, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, and actors Ron Perlman and Federico Luppi; and an essay from film critic Maitland McDonagh.

Attention all action fans! Mesrine: L’instinct de mort (Mesrine: Killer Instinct)—which arrives on shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on December 14—is based on the autobiography of one of the most notoriously violent criminals in France’s history, Jacques Mesrine (played by Vincent Cassel), and follows the bank robber’s life from his early days to the 1972 murder of two Québécois game wardens. You’ll have to wait for the after-Christmas sales to pick up the gory sequel—Mesrine: L’ennemi Public No. 1 (Mesrine: Public Enemy #1) comes out on December 28—which details prison escapes, kidnappings, even more bank robberies, and Mesrine’s eventual death at the hands of the Parisian police.