Autumn’s here and weekend priorities change. With the arrival of cold and rainy weather, plus days becoming shorter, the most appealing weekend plan is to make yourself comfortable in the sofa, wrap up in a good blanket and enjoy your living room watching a good movie. So in this occasion, we would like to recommend five excellent movie titles about wine.

Sideways (2004), by Alexander Payne. A delightful film about two friends in their forties traveling among the vineyards in California before one of them gets married. Half drama half comedy, it is a film with plenty of great moments of unsophisticated cinema, with no effects, to be enjoyed at your leisure. Perfect for a rainy Saturday evening. If you don’t know Napa, you’ll love it. If you’re a fan of the Merlot grape… well, you might not like it that much.

Bottle Shock (2008), by Randall Miller. Are the French the best wines in the world? In 1976 everybody was sure about that. Nevertheless, a prestigious blind wine tasting held in France crowned a Californian wine as the best wine in the world. Bottle Shock presents the history of this competition and how the passion of a few wine-producers from Napa located the town of Calistoga in the map of the wine lovers.

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), by Stanley Kramer. Santa Vittoria is a village in the North of Italy, famous for its outstanding wine. In 1945, with World War II about to end, German troops occupy the village in order to seize a million bottles of the precious Italian wine. The whole village sets a plan in motion: hide their treasure in a secret place. Wonderful film starring Anthony Quinn.

Corked (2009), by Ross Clenenden. Hilarious comedy shot in a mock documentary format, showing the life of four Californian wine-producers and how far they are willing to go in order to attract a renowned critic’s attention. You will cry with laughter.

Blood into wine (2010), by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke. Another documentary, a real one in this case, showing rock singer James Keenan’s struggle to establish a winery in Arizona, an almost impossible location for vine-growing.