Post your favorite travel movies!
 

1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Around the World in 80 Days

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y tu mama tambien

Enchanted April

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (documentary on the music scene in Istanbul and greater Turkey).

MaricaMarciaMarica, sweetie, you named my favorite too! :)

I love that movie.

Y tu mama tambien?? En serio??

It's a good movie, but MAN... graphic.

I LOVED "Everything Is Illuminated".

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Two For The Road - Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn and those fabulous cars .... especially the Alfa Romeo (our maque and passion).

Nina

Oddly enough, most of the James Bond movies!

Although not quite as 'cultured' as the previously noted movies, I adore Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as the Griswalds in their Vacation movies. I laughed so hard watching European Vacation.

Before Sunrise
Before Sunset

So romantic!!!

Shirley Valentine - Greece
Summer Lovers - crummy movie but great scenery - Greece again

"Y Tu Mama Tambien" - Mexico as it should be shown; secluded beaches and coastal areas that just take your breath away.

"The English Patient"- Mezmerizing

"Dances with Woves"- the West of the US defines "majestic".

"An American Werewolf in London"

"Michael" - it made a road trip in the midwest US look like fun.

"The Motorcycle Diaries"- WOW!

I agree with "Two for the Road". Also, a microcosm of many marriages that survive.

"It Started in Naples"

"French Kiss"

"The Bourne Identity" and it's sequel.

"Braveheart" (OK, that's a stretch, but it made me want to go to Scotland)

most any Bond movie. :-)

And my all-time fave,

((8)) "THE SOUND OF MUSIC" ((8))

Needless to say, I LOVED the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg. :-)

PS Starrsy, I agree about Summer Lovers, it stunk, but wasn't the scenery in Greece magnificent??

Vacation - dead on with some road-trip stuff - hilarious.

Amelie - not a "travel" movie, but makes me want to hop on a plane every time I catch even a minute of it.

Roman Holiday. What a great showcase for the city!

Only You

A couple more:

"Up at the Villa"

"Under the Tuscan Sun"

"Visions of Provence" and "Visions of the Riviera." Sigh.

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

"On the Riviera," the one with Danny Kaye

"Murder on the Nile"

"To Catch a Thief"

and, of course, " If It's Tuesday It Must Be Belgium"

Along the lines of Underhill's Visions of Provence" and "Visions of the Riviera"...

"Visions of Italy: Northern Style and Southern Style" are wonderful! They feature them periodically on public television, but are available also at our local library.

There is another one called "Visions of Greece" that beautiful too. The music and scenery in this series is very good. They are great to watch for trip planning, as they give you lots of ideas, or also to relive a trip you've already been on!

Chocolat-rural Burgundy
Casanova-Venice
A Month at the Lake -Lake Como
Zorba the Greek- Crete

I can't think of them all right now.

The Italian Job comes to mind. The Indiana Jones movies.

But I just saw again today "The Man Who Knew Too Much"... and enjoyed seeing Marrakech. Excited all over again about heading to Morocco. Hoping to meet a less mysterious group of people than Jimmy Stewart did.

A Room with a View

Just tonight we watched Lion in the Winter w/ Katheryn Hepburn and Peter O'Toole about Eleanor of Aquitane and Henry II. We'll be in the Loire and Aquitane this Fall. The movie was fabulous.

We're also big fans of My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, and Jean de Florette and Manon des Source, both wonderful movies set in the south of France.

And, finally my favorite movie of all time, Cinema Paradiso.

Not sure these are "travel" movies, but they sure make me think of traveling! annieladd

"Until September" (Karen Allen and a french actor named Thierry? something)

"Sound of Music"...uh, the BEST!

"The King and I"....the latest one, beautiful shots.

"Heidi"....the one filmed over there.

"The Great Escape"....cool shots.

"Romancing the Stone"...okay shoot me.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?"

"The Last Emperor"

"The Man From Snowy River"

Anything related to Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters....BBC puts on some GREAT productions..

Loved Horatio Hornblower!
Okay time to cut the list off! :)

Look forward to reading others!
Tara

I Am David


(Tara, I think your family would love this wonderful movie about a boy who escapes from a prison camp post WWII and travels to Denmark from Eastern Europe.)

"The Bourne Identity" and "The Bourne Supremacy".

"Ronin" was scenic and action-packed.

On a lighter note and sort of embarrasing in light of some of the selections above, loaded with sophmoric humor, "Eurotrip" was a hoot. All the classic "American tourist in Europe" sterotypes.

MvK

Eurotrip

OK, as long as someone else admitted Eurotrip first, then I'll admit it too. :D

and I really intended and tried to hate that movie...

National Lampoon's European Vacation, with Chevy Chase and the Team.

My sincere thanks to Clifton and brando.

I didn't want to stand alone in this cultural Mecca as one that enjoyed that movie.

MvK

Never leave a man behind!

Les Vacances de M. Hulot (I think translated as Mr. Hulot's holidays) by Jacques Tati

Avanti
Obscured by Clouds
The Beach
Marrakech Express

Another vote for Enchanted April and from many years ago, The Third Man? Hope that is the name. Old Joseph Cotten and Orsen Wells film with a huge ferris wheel in it and I think the first thriller I ever saw.

So many... but my favourites:

Before sunrise
Before sunset

and...

L'auberge espagnole, it became even funnier when I saw it again while I was actually an exchange student in Barcelona myself. Lots of it was so true!

1. "To catch a thief". Excellent combination of the Cote d'Azur, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.

2. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Villefranche sur Mer, Antibes, Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

1. Sound of Music - will always remain at the top!
2. Das Versprechen - German with subtitles about a couple separated by the Berlin wall.

Okay, I wasn't going to add this, but since others were brave enough to add Eurotrip, here goes...

The other day I was flipping through the guide on the tv and saw "Sabrina goes to Rome". I was bored so I turned it on. If you can get past the talking cat, there are some wonderful shots of the Spanish Steps, Via Condotta, Piazza Navona, the Trevi Fountain, the Forum and the Coliseum!
H

I have never heard of any of these movies. But, I don't really enjoy foreign films because I always miss what is going on in the film for reading the subtitles.

My favorite travel film is "Paper Moon" with Ryan and Tatum O'Neil. I think the black and white scenery of the American Mid-West is hypnotic. Too many rave about Switzerland and France, ignoring the fact that America is probably the most beautiful nation in the world.

Christine

I love
"Much Ado About Nothing" (Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh).
It's set in Tuscany and filmed at Villa Vignamaggio. Beautiful setting and amazing music!
Rosie
:)