The 60 Best Travel Movies that Inspire Wanderlust: part two

Travel movies, adventure movies, surf movies… I love them all! Around one year ago I wrote a list with the 30 best travel movies ever. Today, I will update this list to the 60 best travel movies ever!!! Yesss! =) This list contains 30 more travel movies! Enjoy!

The 60 Best Travel Movies that Inspire Wanderlust: part two

Buddymoon (2016)
This movie is about a guy who got dumped by his fiancé days before his wedding and will go on honeymoon with a German friend instead. The movie contains some really nice natural surroundings, but especially a lot of humor.

The Blue Lagoon (1980)
This is an old classic movie. I am sure that most of you are familiar with it. It is about two children that are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific.

Return to the blue lagoon (1991)
This is kind of a part two of The Blue Lagoon (1980). The two children that are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific are more grown up now. If you like the first movie, I am sure you will like this one as well.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
Another movie than the two before, but with the same idea. Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island. They must survive on the island.

The hundred-foot journey (2014)
I watched this movie when I was staying in Denmark. It is a great movie about an Indian family who are opening a restaurant in France. They face a lot of culture changes and some serious business competition of a Michelin-starred restaurant across the road.

The shallows (2016)
This movie is about a girl who loves to surf. When she is surfing on a hidden beach, she is attacked by a great white shark and strand on a rock, where she has to fight for her life.

Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Another surf movie! Within this movie, a young guy discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists. He is doing everything he can, to try one day to surf (and survive) this Maverick.

The Road within (2014)
A must see! A young guy with Tourette’s Syndrome takes a road trip together with his OCD roommate and an anorexic woman. The movie contains hilarious scenes and beautiful landscapes.

Sisterhood of travelling pants (2005)
A movie about four girlfriends who are spending their first summer apart. One stays at home in Bethesda, one is traveling to Mexico, one to Greece and one to South Carolina. The movie contains some beautiful landscapes along Greece and Mexico. Great movie.

Road trip (2000)
This movie is about four boys who take a road trip through the United States to get a videotape back that was sent accidentally to somebody that should not receive it. The boys will face some road tripping difficulties but especially a lot of funny situations.

Mama Mia! (2008)
Well, I am sure that almost everybody knows this movie! It is a typical lady feel good movie and contains some nice surroundings of the Greek islands. It is about a woman who has a little bed and breakfast in the Greek islands and who is preparing for her daughter’s wedding. Her daughter secretly invites three men from her mother’s past in hope of meeting her real father.

Hector and the pursuit of happiness (2014)
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. Within the movie, he travels to countries within Africa, China and Los Angeles.

Una Noche (2012)
This is more an adventurous action movie about a guy who must escape Havana. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean to Miami. The movie contains some nice American landscapes.

One day (2016)
This movie shows the amazing island Hokkaido in Japan. Within this movie, a group of colleagues go on a trip to Hokkaido. One guy doesn’t get along with his co-workers, but falls in love with one of them. This co-worker tries to commit suicide, but failed, what resulted in losing her short-term memory for a day. The guy then decides to tell the girl that they are in love and try to get a relationship with her. It is a romantic and adventurous movie with nice scenes of Japan.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
A must see! I have read the book of this movie and really liked it. The movie is great as well! It is about a Japanese child that is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a traitorous rival, the girl turns into a legendary geisha.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
This movie is quite hilarious. It is about the adventures of a hotel concierge and a lobby boy who become friends. The movie is about the theft and recovery of a Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.

The Canyon (2009)
The canyon is about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the Grand Canyon mountains and need to survive and find help. This is definitely one of my favorite movies!

Letters to Juliet (2010)
I am sure that most of you are familiar with this movie and are with me that this movie should be part of this list. When a young girl is visiting Verona, Italy, she visits a wall where the heartbroken leave notes to Shakespeare’s tragic heroine, Juliet Capulet. She finds one letter from 1957 and decides to contact its author. Together with the author and her grandson, they set out to find her long-lost lover.

Sully (2016)
This movie tells the story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River to save the flight’s passengers and crew.

Enchanted April (1991)
This movie is rather old, but still nice to watch. Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to have some holiday. Within the movie, you will see the woman changing personalities, reassessing their goals, but also wonderful Italian landscapes.

The Snow Walker (2003)
A pilot and his passenger crash in the Arctic tundra and need to survive to find their way back home.

The trip to Italy (2014)
Two men make a road trip through Italy and try six meals in six different places. The movie shows the nice Italian landscapes of Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi, and Capri.

One week (2008)
A school teacher decides to buy a motorcycle and ride from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. He stops at landmarks that are both iconic and personal on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Copenhagen (2014)
This movie is about the romance between a late twenty-something traveler and a grown-up teenager. The film also features the theme of searching for one’s family and includes several beautiful shots of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Due date (2010)
This is a really funny movie. The official genre is comedy and drama, but it definitely fits in the travel genre as well. It is about two strangers that are forced to take a road trip together.

Bekas (2012)
This movie takes place in Iraq. Two homeless brothers of six and ten years catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. They decide that they want to go to America and live with Superman. Together with their Donkey, they try to follow their dream.

In Bruges (2008)
This is more a crime and comedy related movie, but takes place in Bruges, Belgium and can therefore, be considered as a travel related movie as well. It is about two guys awaiting orders from their boss in Bruges, Belgium. This movie shows some really nice sceneries of Bruges and makes you want to visit this city.

Kon-Tiki (2012)
Five Norwegians set sail on a raft across the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia.

The White Masai (2005)
While a young woman visits Kenya for holiday, she falls in love with a Masai. She decides to leave her boyfriend and stay in Kenya. There, she has to adapt to the Masai’s way of life and living in a tribe.

Leap Year (2010)
This is more a romantic movie with some travel aspects. A young woman plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose marriage to her boyfriend. However, her flight makes an emergency landing in Whales due to bad weather conditions. From Whales, she needs to get a ride to Dublin. With the help of a nice guy, she travels across the country.

I can watch those movies over and over again, and never get sick of them.
What is your favorite travel movie?

Got inspired? Check out the other
30 travel movies that are mentioned in part one of this list!

Author: Daphne

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