Top 10 movies that make you want to travel

Some movies just make you want to pack your bags and go - here is my top 10 movies that make you want to travel.

1) Into the Wild
After graduating from university, Christopher McCandless abandons his privileged life and possessions and hitchhikes through the USA.  Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life, before ending up in the wilderness in Alaska.   Watch the trailer.

2) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
An Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community brought to the big screen.   Watch the trailer.

3) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
When his job is threatened, Walter takes action embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.   The story line is so-so, but this movie has some spectacular footage of Iceland.  Watch the trailer.

4) Motorcycle Diaries
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip across Latin America which Cuban revolutionairy Che Guevara took in his youth and which showed him his life's calling. Watch the trailer.

5) Lawrence of Arabia
The 1962 classic of larger-than-life T.E. Lawrence, a flamboyant and controversial British military figure.  The movie portrays his conflicted loyalties during his World War I service in the Middle East.  Filmed on location in Morocco and Jordan among others.  Watch the trailer.

6) Nowhere in Africa
A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930's Kenya. Watch the trailer.


7) The God's must be Crazy
A comedy with somewhat of a cult-status about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects.  Watch the trailer.

8) Close to Eden (Urga)
A wonderful movie about a Mongolian shepherd who strikes up a friendship with a Russian truck driver and the huge cultural gap between the two. Watch the trailer.

9) Slumdog Millionaire
A teen from the slums in Mumbai slums, becomes a contestant on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is suspected of cheating, and while being interrogated, flashbacks of his life show why he knows the answers.  Watch the trailer.

10) Indochine
Towards the end of French colonial rule in Indochina, an unmarried French plantation owner, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she were her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French army officer, which will drastically change both their lives. Watch the trailer.

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