Planning Where to Go For Your Next Holiday? Let this List of the Best Travel Movies Inspire You

If you are desperate for some vacation get-away, or a chance to stay as far as you can from your work calls but that is simply impossible with your current crazy schedule, it’s okay. After work, if you have a couple hours, we want you to do some self-care and consult this list for inspiration of where and how you would like to travel when you have the time. Whether you prefer camping, backpacking, staying at a hotel, going out of the country, touring with a guide or flying in a house supported by balloons (see #2 on this list), you will be able to find your inspiration here. The best parta about these movies? traveling is for everyone. Now you might not be able to go as far as Carl Fredricksen did in his old age, or have the money to go all over the world like those buddies did in The Bucket List, we learned that age does not inhibit someone to travel if that’s their heart’s desire. So you who are reading this paragraph right now, it’s never too late to plan your next trip.

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Up

Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer
Pete Docter
2009

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

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8.2 IMDB
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Into the Wild

Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt
Sean Penn
2007

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

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8.1 IMDB
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol
Zoya Akhtar
2011

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

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8.1 IMDB
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Before Sunset

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
Richard Linklater
2004

Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.

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8 IMDB
5

Lion

Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara
Garth Davis
2016

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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8 IMDB
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Before Midnight

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Richard Linklater
2013

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

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7.9 IMDB
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The Motorcycle Diaries

Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán
Walter Salles
2004

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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7.8 IMDB
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Little Miss Sunshine

Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
2006

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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7.8 IMDB
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Lost in Translation

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Sofia Coppola
2003

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

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7.7 IMDB
10

Midnight in Paris

Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller
Woody Allen
2011

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

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7.7 IMDB
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Sideways

Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
Alexander Payne
2004

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

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7.5 IMDB
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The Bucket List

Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes
Rob Reiner
2007

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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7.4 IMDB
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Up in the Air

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Jason Reitman
2009

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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7.4 IMDB
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The Way

Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger
Emilio Estevez
2010

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

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7.4 IMDB
15

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Patton Oswalt
Ben Stiller
2013

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

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7.3 IMDB
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
John Madden
2011

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

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7.2 IMDB
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The Darjeeling Limited

Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody
Wes Anderson
2007

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

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7.2 IMDB
18

Tracks

Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth
John Curran
2013

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

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7.2 IMDB
19

Breathe

Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville
Andy Serkis
2017

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

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7.1 IMDB
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Wild

Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski
Jean-Marc Vallée
2014

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

7.1 IMDB
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem
Woody Allen
2008

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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7.1 IMDB
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Away We Go

John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo
Sam Mendes
2009

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt's parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

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7 IMDB
23

One Week

Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, Campbell Scott
Michael McGowan
2008

Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.

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7 IMDB
24

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette
Peter Chelsom
2014

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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7 IMDB
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Under the Tuscan Sun

Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan
Audrey Wells
2003

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

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6.7 IMDB
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The Beach

Leonardo DiCaprio, Guillaume Canet, Tilda Swinton
Danny Boyle
2000

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

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6.7 IMDB
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Vacation

Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo
John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein
2015

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

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6.1 IMDB
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Eat Pray Love

Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem
Ryan Murphy
2010

Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, the power of prayer in India and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.

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5.8 IMDB