10 travel films to help you fly to your next horizon

The TRAVEL FILMS are perfect for an entertaining time, immersed in a story that often rewards you with beautiful images of stunning landscapes.

For travel enthusiasts, these films also act as a inspiration, and often motivation, to choose the next destination.or document one that you have already chosen.

But just because a film is based on travel, it does not deserve recognition. In the end, people get hooked on stories. Below, we have compiled the best travel stories brought to the big screento compile the definitive list. Here are the 10 best travel films of all time.

Top 10 best travel films of all time

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1.- The Longway Round

We start with a TV series called "Long Way Round" in which Ewan McGreggor and Charley Boorman decide to take a months-long trip around the world on their motorbikes.

Not only is it an incredible journey, but the fact that it was done on a motorbike adds another extra point of excitement. Immediately after watching the programme, you will want to travel the world on a motorbike.

It's also fascinating to see all the trouble they get into and all the interesting people they meet along the way.

If you like travelling and excitement, I would definitely recommend watching this series! And having mentioned the only series on the list, let's move on to the films!

2.- Towards wild routes

Into The Wild is the true story of Christopher McCandless. After graduating from Emory University, and being the valedictorian and valedictorian of his high school, he abandons his possessions.

He donates his entire savings account of $24,000 to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher meets a series of characters who shape his life.

His life from the start of this journey is full of adventures and random experiences as he makes his way to "The Last Frontier". This is what Christopher McCandless' journey is all about.

To learn that experiences, good and bad, make you who you are. And long-term travel is full of new experiences. The key is not to get completely in your head and learn to enjoy what you have in each moment.

3.- Wild soul

Reese Witherspoon donned a pair of ill-fitting hiking boots and a giant backpack for her role as Cheryl Strayed. In the story of a writer who hiked over 1,7000 km on the Pacific Crest Trail after the devastating loss of her mother.

The film is based on Strayed's 2012 #1 best-selling book of the same name. Witherspoon, in the role of Strayed, crosses the dusty Mojave Desert. With its crazy forests, snowy fields and muddy trails, losing toenails, but gaining mental clarity - or at least self-acceptance - along the way.

This film is a good chronicle of a woman's 1,100 mile solo walk undertaken as a way of recovering from a recent personal tragedy.

4.- On the road (En El Camino)

Based on the novel "On the Road"Praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version puts into context how the whole beginning of the story told in the book was forged.

The protagonist of Kerouac's novel, Sal Paradise, is swept up in the vision of a charismatic car thief, Dean Moriarity. He joins him on a series of journeys from his mother's flat in Ozone Park, N.Y., as they cross the continent to Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and then back again, until Dean thinks, "I've never been to the South".

They also head to Mexico, finding on its long, straight, cactus-lined roads, some secrets, lots of drugs and a whole list of experiences. These were then captured creating one of the most iconic stories of the 20th century.

5.- Motorcycle diaries

This impressive film is based on the memoirs of Che Guevara. A time before he became an icon of the Latin American revolution. Guevara (Gael Bernal) and his friend Alberto "Mial" Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna, and Guevara's second cousin in real life) get on an old motorbike.

Together they travelled through South America for eight months and over 14,000 kilometres. The journey inspired the rest of Che Guevara's incredible life. The film will inspire you to learn more about the incredibly beautiful American continent.

This is a story about Che Guevara and how he decided to travel by motorbike and discover his vocation in life. A film that will inspire you to take more chances and not be afraid of risks when travelling. Throughout the film, Che gets sick, almost starves to death, and has numerous stories where he could have died. But he always carries on with high hopes and an open mind.

Through his travels, he discovers that he is more connected to humanity than he ever was.

6.- Easy Rider (Finding my destiny)

This film was released in the year of the Woodstock festival, perhaps the biggest event of the 60's countercultural movement. Easy Rider could not have come out at a better time in history. The film unfolds as a motorbike travelogue, following Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) on their journey from Mexico to Los Angeles to New Orleans.

Shot on a shoestring budget, the film is filled with desert landscapes and towns that the pair of bad guys (and co-stars, as a young Jack Nicholson) traverse on their drug and alcohol-fuelled hippie adventure.

7.- Trip to Daarjeling

A great film by the master Wes Anderson about the crazy story of three rich and spoilt brothers who take an overland train journey through India.

They haven't spoken to each other in a year, and the trip is supposed to heal them and bring them back together. Initially everything goes wrong as they argue and fight with each other. They all suffer from depression, and take painkillers, and constantly make bad decisions.

When it seems that nothing is going right, their crazy experiences along the way finally put things into perspective. The ultimate goal of healing and rejuvenation begins to take effect. They finally start to grow up and become men. The film is hilarious, and beautifully shot too. It will make you want to visit India.

8.- The Beach

This 2000 adventure film allows viewers to feast their eyes on a young, shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio swimming in the fabulous crystal clear waters of Ko Phi Phi Lee.

The film is an icon of the early 2000s' and shot by Dany Boyle, it features fabulous scenes and sequences of nature and self-discovery.

9.- 180º South

180 Degrees South is a documentary that follows the adventure of a group of friends as they travel to Patagonia. They pack their surfboards and climbing gear as they sail and drive along the coast of South America.

Along the way they learn about the losing battle against industrialisation and the destruction of the natural world. Modern commercial interests fuelled by increasing human consumption of disposable goods are ruining the planet. The film shows what some brave people are doing to stop it.

The film's beautiful scenery and fantastic soundtrack blend with a strong message and a travel adventure to create a true work of art.

10.- And your mum too

Julio and Tenoch are two teenagers governed by over-excited age hormones and a rather self-absorbed, inexperienced outlook on life. One summer, the boys learn more about life than they bargained for when they embark on a wild road trip with 28-year-old seductress Luisa, impeccably played by Maribel Verdú.

The temptress Luisa teaches them the finer points of passion, and of course, they both fall madly in love with her on a journey with ever more dangerous curves.

These are top 10 travel filmsin a list that we have taken the pleasure of making, simply to talk about cinema and our great passion, travel. But the truth is that this is a genre in itself, and there are too many films to choose just 10.

We recommend you take a look at these and many more for inspiration when planning your next destination.