11 best films about traveling around the world

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The mind-blowing adventures of these characters will surely inspire you to take an urgent vacation.

Who doesn’t dream of becoming a traveler at least for a short time and seeing with his own eyes everything that you can find in ordinary life except on photo stock sites: colorful medieval cities, exotic beaches, majestic mountains, hot deserts or snow-covered poles?

Here are just voyages - a costly business, not easy and not accessible to everyone. And then the world of cinema comes to the rescue. After all, it is enough just to turn on the film to instantly be transported to the most distant corners of the planet.

1. Indiana Jones: In Search of the Lost Ark

• USA, 1981.
• Adventure thriller.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 5.

Archeology professor Indiana Jones devotes his free time to the search for antiquities. One day he receives an important assignment from the US authorities - to find the Ark of the Covenant. But Indiana does not yet know that the Nazis are already hunting for this mysterious biblical artifact.

The character of the legendary Harrison Ford, invented by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is not at all like the brutal action heroes of that time. Courageous, courageous and charismatic, Indiana is not devoid of simple human weaknesses. And, perhaps, this is the secret of audience love.

The list of places on the world map, where in the history of the franchise was brought a desperate adventurer, is impressive. Therefore, the creators also had to travel: filming took place in Hawaii, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Jordan and many other countries.

2. The sun of the Aztecs

• Germany, 2000.
• Comedy, melodrama.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

A young physics teacher Daniel falls in love with the beautiful Turkish woman Melek and goes to Istanbul for her. The hero will have a car trip through all of Europe in the company of a girl who is not indifferent to him named Julia.

Romantic road movie Fatiha Akina is one of the brightest representatives of modern German cinema. The picture tells not only about a fascinating trip to Europe, but also about the search for happiness, which all this time was very close.

3. Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries

• Argentina, USA, Germany, Brazil, UK, Chile, Peru, France, 2004.
• Biography, adventure film, drama.
• Duration: 128 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

The award-winning film by director Walter Salles tells how Ernesto Che Guevara travels around Latin America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado.

In addition to the colorful landscapes of Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, the viewer will also see a real person with their experiences. Indeed, the film is based on the diaries of Che Guevara, in which the famous revolutionary told how the journey he made influenced his personal and political views.

4. And your mom too

• Mexico, 2001.
• Road movie, drama.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 7.

The film tells about the last school holidays of inseparable friends Julio and Tenoka, traveling in Mexico in the company of 28-year-old Luisa. During the trip, the trinity draws closer and opens new, including sensual, facets of their relationship.

The drama "And Your Mom, Too", to the creation of which Oscar winners director Alfonso Cuaron and cameraman Emmanuel Lubezki, had a hand in, is not only a colorful and superbly filmed road movie, but also a movie about the vicissitudes of growing up, about life and death, about the difficult political situation in the country.

5. The incredible life of Walter Mitty

• USA, UK, 2013.
• Adventure, comedy, drama.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty is the perfect movie to embark on an emotional and vibrant journey with the hero. First, the viewer will see the center of New York, then will be transported to Iceland with its fantastic nature, and then to the vastness of Greenland.

In the center of the plot is an employee of the negatives department of Life magazine, Walter Mitty. He leads the boring life of a layman, but secretly dreams of doing something heroic. Mitty's monotonous existence is disturbed by photographer Sean O'Connell. The 25th frame of the film sent by him should go to the cover, but for some reason is missing in the package. Mitty goes looking for O'Connell.

6. Train to Darjeeling. Desperate Travelers

• USA, 2007.
• Adventure film, comedy, drama.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Three brothers - Francis, Peter and Jack - after a long separation find themselves on a train across India to the city of Darjeeling. Not the closest relatives will have to bring each other to white heat more than once and commit many strange things.

Wes Anderson's lyrical film will appeal to everyone who dreams of visiting the beautiful and mysterious India. The conciliatory journey takes place along the real-life Darjeeling Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

7. Around the World in 80 Days (mini-series)

• USA, Italy, Yugoslavia, 1989.
• Adventure film.
• Duration: 266 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Almost everyone knows the classic plot of Jules Verne. Esquire Phileas Fogg (Pierce Brosnan) bets to travel around the world in 80 days. Together with his loyal valet Passepartout, he sets off on a journey where the heroes will face many trials and dangers.

Of all the adaptations of the immortal adventure classic Around the World in 80 Days, the 80s miniseries is arguably the most exciting. After all, the writers diversified Verne's already eventful plot. The heroes fly on a rented engineering vehicle and even at some point manage to be captured by the robbers. And, of course, all this takes place in the most picturesque places on the planet: England, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand and Yugoslavia.

8. Hector's journey in search of happiness

• UK, Germany, Canada, South Africa, 2014.
• Adventure film, comedy, drama.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

A sentimental film by director Peter Chelsom based on the novel of the same name by François Lélor will lead the viewer to exotic China, no less mysterious Africa and the Californian coast.

In the center of the plot is the psychiatrist Hector, tired of life. He goes on a trip around the world to better understand himself and learn the secret of happiness. On the way, the hero will meet amazing people and eventually realize that it depends only on himself.

9. Beach

• USA, UK, 2000.
• Adventure movie, drama, melodrama, thriller.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 6.

Danny Boyle's adventure drama tells the story of a young American Richard. The desire to relax outside the box brings the hero to Thailand. There he learns about a mysterious beach on a secret island. Together with a young French couple of the same tourists, Richard goes in search of a mysterious paradise.

After the success of the film, the secluded Thai beach Maya Bay, where the filming took place, became incredibly famous. It was attended by about 5,000 people a day. At the moment, the beach is closed: a frenzied tourist influx has caused an ecological disaster, and marine life in the bay has practically disappeared.

10. Eurotrip

• USA, 2004.
• Adventure film, comedy.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 6.

An eccentric teenage comedy in the spirit of "American Pie", to the eyeballs filled with 18+ jokes, it is not for nothing that it is included in many ratings of the best travel films. Indeed, on the way to the long-awaited goal - Berlin - many adventures await reckless Americans in other European cities: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bratislava and Rome.

Graduate Scott Thomas is pen-pals with Mike from Germany, who actually happens to be a girl named Mickey. Due to a series of misunderstandings, offended Mickey blocks Scott's mail, so he decides to apologize to her personally and, together with his friends, goes to Europe.

11. Eat, Pray, Love

• USA, 2010.
• Melodrama, drama.
• Duration: 140 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 8.

Ryan Murphy's film is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's autobiographical bestseller and tells the story of the heroine's quest for her inner self in Italy, India and Indonesia.

Compositionally, the plot is built of three parts that complement each other. In Italy, the heroine learns to enjoy life, in India she finds inner balance, and on the island of Bali she finds true love.