The 25 Best Classic Movies That Every Film Fan Needs to See
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In an era of reboots, CGI spectacles, and streaming fatigue, sometimes the most refreshing thing you can watch is a black-and-white film with razor-sharp dialogue and unforgettable stars. Old Hollywood—the period spanning the 1920s to the 1960s—gave us some of the most iconic movies ever made, from sweeping romances and gripping dramas to groundbreaking thrillers and musicals that still dazzle.
Whether you’re a lifelong cinephile or just curious about what made these films so legendary, this list of 25 essential classic movies from Old Hollywood is the perfect place to start. Consider it your passport to a bygone era of glamour, grit, and golden-age storytelling that continues to influence modern cinema.
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25 Classic, Old Hollywood Movies You Need to See
1 | Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Metro-Goldwyn Pictures
If you’ve never seen a silent film before, this Buster Keaton classic is the perfect one to start with—a silly, romantic romp about a film projectionist who fancies himself an amateur detective and is framed for a crime by a romantic rival. It’s filled with innovative sight gags and sequences of physical comedy that still hold up a century later.
2 | It Happened One Night (1934)
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One of only a handful of films to win the top five Oscars : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, this screwball comedy follows two strangers (played by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert ) who meet and fall in love during a cross country bus ride… despite a series of mishaps and hijinks along the way.
3 | Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Universal Pictures
Frankenstein is better known, but the sequel is the better film. The original’s Dr. Frankenstein has sworn off of playing God until he is coerced into creating a female companion for his first monstrous creation. A filmmaking triumph on every level, it has in decades since been reexamined for its subversive queer subtext (director James Whale was a closeted gay man).
4 | Gone With the Wind (1939)
MGM
One of the greatest spectacles in Hollywood history, this adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell novel is epic in every sense of the word, from its production (famously featuring multiple directors and a “cast of thousands”), to its length (nearly four hours), to its box office success ( $3.4 billion in today’s dollars ). Its Civil War-era subject matter and post-reconstruction racial attitudes are problematic today, but its central romance between Scarlett O’Hara ( Vivien Leigh ) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) is forever.
5 | The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Warner Bros.
This delightfully dense crime film embodies all of the style and tropes that would come to define the film noir—a jaded detective ( Humphrey Bogart ), a sinister villain ( Peter Lorre ), a seductive femme fatale ( Mary Astor ), and a labyrinthine plot that mostly serves as a framework for scenes of bad people doing bad things in pursuit of selfish ends.
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6 | Children of Paradise (1945)
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France’s answer to Gone With the Wind , this epic drama, filmed clandestinely during the German occupation of World War II , is set in 1830s Paris and unfolds the story of a courtesan (French fashion icon Arletty ) and four different men who fall in love with her over a period of years.
7 | The Red Shoes (1948)
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This lurid Technicolor spectacle from British filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is the story of a ballet prodigy Victoria Page ( Moira Sherer ) who falls under the sway of a charismatic and demanding dance instructor Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ) and struggles with the demands of performing to his expectations and sacrificing everything else in her life to meet them. Drenched in dreamlike imagery, it’s most notable for a 17-minute recreation of the titular ballet, which uses filmmaking tricks to take us inside Victoria’s fractured psyche.
8 | The Third Man (1949)
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This cynical post-war thriller from the U.K. gave Orson Welles one of the best roles of his career—although the movie makes you wait for it. Joseph Cotten plays an American who moves to Vienna to work for his war buddy, only to discover his old friend is dead and there’s a conspiracy afoot. To say much more would be a spoiler, but consider that Welles’ mid-film entrance is considered one of the greatest in cinema history, and the unusual soundtrack—performed entirely on the zither—became an unlikely hit.
9 | All About Eve (1950)
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Hollywood loves nothing more than navel-gazing, and this is unquestionably the greatest movie about movies ever made. Bette Davis plays aging screen siren Margo Channing, whose fame is fading as she ages—helped along by the conniving and scheming of young upstart Eve ( Anne Baxter ), who will do anything to become a star. The acidic script is filled with some of the most memorable lines ever written, so fasten your seat belts, because it’s going to be a bumpy night.
10 | Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
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Another behind-the-screen romp, this musical comedy stars Gene Kelly , Donald O’Connor , and Debbie Reynolds as three actors in an industry struggling to make the transition from silent films to talkies. Filled with silly physical comedy, catchy songs, and one bravura dance sequence after another, it’s rightly regarded as one of the best Hollywood musicals ever made.
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11 | High Noon (1952)
Stanley Kramer Productions
A literal ticking clock drives this propulsive western, which unfolds in real time in the hours before a marshal in a wild west town ( Gary Cooper ) must decide whether to face off against a gang of criminals or run away and let the place fall into lawlessness. Former President Bill Clinton loved this one so much , he screened it at the White House more than a dozen times.
12 | Seven Samurai (1954)
Toho
Japanese filmmaking master Akira Kurosawa made a number of classics, but none has endured like this epic story of a small village under assault by bandits and the unlikely band of warrior misfits who unite to defend it. If that setup sounds familiar, it’s because it has served as the backbone for any number of quasi-remakes, from The Magnificent Seven to A Bug’s Life .
13 | The Night of the Hunter (1955)
United Artists
Actor-turned-director Charles Laughton had never made a film before attempting to adapt Davis Grubb’s novel The Night of the Hunter for the screen, and his inexperience (and the film’s limited budget) are apparent onscreen in all the best ways. Laughton used acting and staging techniques he’d learned on Broadway to lend a surreal blend of realism and artifice to the story of two young children fleeing down the river, pursued by a fanatical, self-styled ex-convict preacher ( Robert Mitchum ) in search of the loot their father hid after a bank robbery. Audiences and critics at the time didn’t know what to make of it, but it is now considered a masterpiece.
14 | The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
United Artists
In this deeply cynical quasi-film noir, Burt Lancaster plays powerful, corrupt newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (based on the real-life Walter Winchell ), who uses his influence to ruin people’s lives, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, an eager press agent all too willing to do whatever it takes to earn Hunsecker’s favor. The barbed screenplay delves into the rotting heart of the media, unapologetically focusing on a pair of irredeemable scumbags each destined to be the other’s undoing.
15 | North by Northwest (1959)
Warner Bros.
A perfect blend of humor and high-concept thrills, this spy caper about a Manhattan ad man ( Cary Grant ) who is mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country by nefarious forces stands as the most purely entertaining movie Alfred Hitchcock ever made—and that’s saying something.
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16 | Some Like It Hot (1959)
United Artists
This hilarious, subversive comedy from director Billy Wilder follows two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon ) in Prohibition-era Chicago who must go on the run after witnessing a mafia hit. They elect to disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band on tour. Their undercover act leads to complicated relationships with Sugar Kane ( Marilyn Monroe ) and enamored millionaire Osgood Fielding III ( Joe E. Brown ).
17 | Breathless (1960)
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This freewheeling classic of the so-called “French New Wave” finds director Jean-Luc Godard breaking all the rules of Hollywood filmmaking to enrapturing effect as he follows the brief, doomed romance between a young French criminal ( Jean-Paul Belmondo ) and his American girlfriend ( Jean Seberg ). Shot on location with handheld cameras and employing then-novel techniques such as improvisation and jump cuts, the film’s casual depiction of sex, violence, and youthful narcissism shocked contemporary audiences and remains daring today.
18 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Columbia Pictures
Even 60 years later, director David Lean’s adaptation of famed adventurer T.E. Lawrence’s autobiography stands as one of the greatest adventure epics ever filmed. The film depicts Lawrence’s experiences in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and delves into his dueling allegiances to his homeland of Great Britain and the tribes of Arabs he meets in the desert and comes to deeply respect. Grappling with issues of colonialism that persist to this day and filmed with an epic scope and grandeur, it went on to inspire generations of filmmakers and films, from Star Wars to Dances With Wolve s to Mad Max .
19 | The Graduate (1967)
Embassy Pictures
A certain brand of youthful disillusionment with the American dream was crystalized in this coming-of-age dark comedy in which Dustin Hoffman plays a directionless college graduate who doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life but will do anything to avoid becoming his father. Along the way, he falls into love affairs with an older woman ( Anne Bancroft ) and her daughter ( Katharine Ross ). Although circumstances have changed in the nearly 60 years since its release, its air of existential angst remains as indelible as its Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack .
20 | Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
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A masterpiece of slow-burn horror, Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Ira Levin novel follows the titular Rosemary ( Mia Farrow ), who moves with her actor husband into an imposing apartment building in Manhattan occupied by a strange assortment of people who seem way, way too invested in her pregnancy. As Rosemary becomes convinced her neighbors have sinister plans for her child, she grows more isolated and paranoid, and the film captures her unraveling with an atmosphere of unrelenting dread.
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21 | The Last Picture Show (1971)
Columbia Pictures
This coming-of-age drama marked the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich , who co-wrote the screenplay based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Larry McMurtry ( Lonesome Dove ). In stunning black-and-white cinematography, it captures the aimless generational ennui of a group of teenagers growing up in a small town in Texas in the early ’50s. Jeff Bridges , Ben Johnson , Ellen Burstyn , and Cloris Leachman were all Oscar-nominated for their performances (with Johnson and Leachman winning), while the film’s screenplay, direction, and cinematography were also honored.
22 | Cabaret (1972)
Allied Artists
Bob Fosse’s adaptation of the Kander and Ebb stage musical is a dark and dour masterpiece about the rise of Fascism in 1930s Berlin. Liza Minnelli became an international superstar playing Sally Bowles, a performer at the seedy Kit-Kat Klub (overseen by Joel Grey’s creepy, charismatic emcee) attempting at embracing a freewheeling, bohemian lifestyle even as the city is gripped by fear and paranoia. With inventive staging and a grim commitment to Cabaret ‘s moral and political message, Fosse crafted a historical parable that remains every bit as relevant today.
23 | The Exorcist (1973)
Warner Bros.
Demonic possession movies are a dime a dozen, but none compare to the OG classic. Time and repetition of tropes has done nothing to dull the impact of director William Friedkin’s adaptation of the William Peter Blatty novel about a young girl ( Linda Blair ) playing host to a malevolent entity and her mother’s ( Ellen Burstyn ) attempts to save her soul with the help of a priest challenged by a crisis of faith.
24 | The Conversation (1974)
Paramount Pictures
Released between The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II , this paranoia-tinged thriller completes a three-film run from director Francis Ford Coppola unmatched in Hollywood history. Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, a surveillance specialist who is attempting to catch two lovers in an illicit affair and inadvertently records evidence of a murder plot. Fearful for his safety as well as the moral weight of his actions, Caul wrestles over what to do with the recording as his grip on his sanity begins to loosen.
25 | Taxi Driver (1976)
Columbia Pictures
Robert De Niro secured his reputation as the greatest actor of his generation with his turn as Travis Bickle, the titular taxi driver, a mentally unbalanced, angry young Vietnam veteran navigating New York City at its seedy, ’70s depths. Director Martin Scorsese never flinches from depicting the violence and moral decay of the city, which Bickle rails against as a sort of deranged vigilante (taking a particular interest in the plight of a young sex worker played by an adolescent Jodie Foster )—not the hero the city needs, but the one it deserves.
30 Travel Movies to Help Inspire Your Next Trip
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One of the great things about movies is that they can take you places without you having to squeeze into an uncomfortable airplane seat or with all the other hassles that real-life travel entails. There are lots of great movies about people setting out to see the world , so let the big screen scratch your wanderlust by checking out these 31 films.
Some of the movies on this list are romantic, following two people as they come together in that special way that happens when you’re away from home. Others are about journeys of self-discovery, showing what can happen when you hit the road solo. Some movies are uproarious comedies that will transport you away from your troubles as you laugh along to the antics on screen. There are also movies that are less of a vacation than they are an adventure, sure to get your blood pumping. And there are some scary movies about travel—the sort that might make you think, “You know, actually, maybe let’s make this one a staycation.”
Don’t bother packing your bags. All you need to do is hit “play” to embark on any one of these 30 great travel movies.
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Romantic Travel Movies
Diane Lane stars in this charming 1996 movie as a recently divorced woman who travels to Italy in an attempt to break out of her post-divorce funk. (In her defense, her husband was cheating on her and he got to keep the house, so she’s right to be miffed.) Once in Tuscany, though, she somehow becomes the owner of a villa, and as she begins to make a new life for herself, the potential for new love emerges amidst some of the most beautiful scenery and delicious-looking wine ever put to film. It’s the type of movie that will have you looking up flights to Florence.
A destination wedding counts as travel, and the breakout comedy of 2023 was shot on location in Australia. Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney play two people who left on bad terms after a one-night stand only to have to make nice when their mutual friends get married. Anyone But You is enough to make you want to take a trip Down Under, although perhaps without all the rom-com shenanigans.
Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz play lovelorn women who swap homes so that they can get away from their respective heartbreaks over Christmastime. When Winslet’s Iris and Diaz’s Amanda get to Los Angeles and London, respectively, they find new love in Jack Black and Jude Law’s characters. The 2006 movie, from the great Nancy Meyers , works extra well as a travel movie because, thanks to the house-swapping premise, it’s a reminder that everyone’s home is somebody else’s trip.
The first of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy introduces audiences to Ethan Hawke’s Jesse and Julie Delpy’s Céline as they meet on a train from Budapest and decide to spend the night together wandering Vienna. Widely regarded as one of the more romantic movies ever made, Before Sunrise will also make you want to explore Vienna with someone you’ve just met—someone who maybe you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with.
Technically, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris is a travel movie (because Owen Wilson’s character is visiting Paris with his fiancee, played by Rachel McAdams ) and a time travel movie (because he goes back in time to 1920s). It’s a romantic movie both because of the relationship Wilson’s Gil strikes up with Marion Cotillard’s Adriana and because of how it romanticizes Paris and nostalgia—and deftly interrogates that romanticism.
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Movies About Traveling Solo
Dev Patel stars in this 2016 film, which is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley , who was separated from his parents in India at a very young age and adopted by an Australian couple. Once he grew up, he went back to his birth country in an attempt to find his biological parents. Saroo’s trek through India and into his own forgotten past is a tear-jerking, emotional travel story, and Lion was rewarded with six Oscar nominations.
This 2014 adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed sets out to hike from Southern California to Washington State in an attempt to find herself. The tour of the West Coast’s trails is a tour-de-force for the actor as her character remakes her life one hiking boot-clad step at a time.
In 1977, Robyn Davidson set out on a nine-month journey across the unforgiving Australian Outback with her dog and four camels. She later wrote about her adventure in National Geographic and in her memoir Tracks . In 2013, her story was adapted into a film with the same name. Mia Wasikowska plays Davidson in the movie, which features stunning cinematography of the Australian desert in all its harsh beauty.
A lot of solo travel stories are tales of self-discovery where the voyager has learned something by the time they reach their destination. Into the Wild offers no such catharsis, instead telling the true story of Christopher McCandless , a man who hiked across America and eventually ended up in the Alaskan wilderness—an environment he was not prepared for. It’s a poignant, tragic counterpart to the more common celebrations of wanderlust you tend to see in pop culture.
Julia Roberts stars as Elizabeth Gilbert in this 2010 adaptation of her memoir of post-divorce travel and self-discovery. Feeling her life is aimless and without purpose, Liz elects to travel around the world, stopping in Italy, India, and Bali where she eats, prays, and well, you can probably guess.
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Travel Horror Movies
Ari Aster’s supremely disturbing folk horror movie stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who is begrudgingly invited by her not-great boyfriend and his friends to go to Sweden to observe a commune’s midsummer festival. Upon getting there, Pugh’s Dani soon learns that the Hårga are not all sunshine and flowers, and that there are dark rituals and sinister plots. It’s the type of movie that will make you think twice about a Nordic vacation, and you’ll never look at a taxidermied bear the same way.
This 2005 horror movie, from director Eli Roth , is one of the biggest examples of the so-called “torture porn” subgenre, but there’s more to Hostel than just blood and guts. (There are a lot of blood and guts, though.) The film follows some American backpackers who, while traveling in Eastern Europe, become the victims of a shadowy organization that lets the ultra-rich live out their most depraved fantasies by torturing and killing unsuspecting tourists. Let’s just say that Hostel is not exactly a great promotional tourism campaign for Slovakia—something that the country was actually pretty upset about .
This 2022 film, released by the horror-centric streaming service Shudder, follows a social media influencer who, when traveling in Thailand, meets and befriends a young woman. It’s the type of movie that lives or dies on its twists, but let’s just say that Influencer is what you would get if The Talented Mr. Ripley were set in the social media age and a full-on horror film instead of a thriller.
The Creator director Gareth Edward’s 2010 debut follows a photojournalist as he tries to escort a young woman through Mexico, which has been taken over by kaiju-sized alien monsters. There are moments of beauty and discovery along their journey, as well as high-stress moments of terror when they encounter these creatures, which Edwards brings to life on a shoestring budget—though you can’t tell that by watching.
It’s right there in the title: John Landis’ 1980 comedy horror is about an American in London, although he’s not a werewolf when he first arrives in the UK. No, that happens after he’s mauled by a strange beast in the moors of Yorkshire—and that same beast kills the friend he was backpacking with. When he recovers in London, things get gnarly in the light of a full moon.
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Comedy Movies About Traveling
If you like the misadventures of the Griswold family’s first vacation attempt, great news: There are five sequels to this 1983 Chevy Chase comedy. Before the European , Vegas , or Christmas Vacation , though, Clark Griswold tries to drive his family from Chicago to southern California. Their journey makes for some classic comedy, though it might hit a bit too close to home if you’ve had to endure a family vacation that went awry.
A lot of Wes Anderson’s movies are about travel, including his most recent film, Asteroid City , and The Grand Budapest Hotel . His ultimate travel movie, though, is 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited , which stars Owen Wilson , Adrien Brody , and Jason Schwartzman as three estranged brothers who agree to make a trip through India together in the hopes of reconnecting after their father’s death.
Lots of movies are about travel, but are they about a big adventure, the way Tim Burton’s directorial debut is? Paul Reubens stars as his Pee-wee Herman character, who hits the road in an attempt to recover his beloved bicycle, which has gone missing. Following a psychic’s totally legit vision of his bike in the basement of the Alamo, Pee-wee encounters a ghost trucker, biker gangs, and all the madness of a Hollywood backlot.
Netflix’s Oscar-nominated animated movie has a setup that’s not too dissimilar from that of National Lampoon’s Vacation . Aspiring filmmaker Katie Mitchell can’t wait to get away from her family and start film school. Her dad, voiced by Danny McBride , feels his daughter slipping away and opts to have the whole fam drive her across the country rather than take a plane to school. At the same time, an A.I. gone rogue has started a robot uprising. Oops!
In addition to featuring a hall-of-fame cameo from Matt Damon as the singer of “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” Eurotrip is a classic, if not especially intelligent, teen sex romp. It’s not the movie to watch if you want to get a feel for Europe, but it is what you put on when you want to enjoy some good, dumb laughs.
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Adventure Travel Movies
Ben Stiller directed and stars in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , an imaginative adaptation of a 1939 short story about a mild-mannered man who gets lost in his daydreams. When circumstances force Walter to embark on a trip around the world, he starts living his daydreams for real, going to Greenland and the Himalayas. Featuring a fantastic soundtrack and gorgeous cinematography of some truly beautiful, off-the-beaten-path places, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the type of movie that might make you stop just thinking about taking a trip and actually buy a ticket.
William Friedkin , best known for directing The Exorcist , also helmed this 1977 thriller about possibly the worst road trip of all time. When four people, all on the run from their various sordid pasts, find themselves trapped in a remote oil village in Colombia, they are desperate to get out by any means necessary. The opportunity presents itself when the bosses need people to drive boxes of dynamite that are extremely unstable and could blow at any minute across miles of rainforest. There is one sequence in Sorcerer that’s some of the most unbelievably tense filmmaking you’ll likely ever see. (Note that it’s a remake of another classic film, Wages of Fear , should you want another movie that’ll keep you on edge.)
Johnny Depp stars as an average man who finds himself smack in the middle of an international criminal incident when on vacation in Europe after a woman, played by Angelina Jolie , tries to trick the authorities into thinking Depp’s the fugitive they’re looking for. Thrills, laughs, and a little romance ensue.
Charlie Hunnam plays real explorer Percy Fawcett in this adaptation of the book by the same name from author David Grann , who also wrote Killers of the Flower Moon . The film follows the British explorer in the early 1900s as he tries, time and time again, to prove the existence of a mythical city deep in the jungles of Brazil. Think of it as a somber, reflective take on a real-life Indiana Jones, one whose obsession with traveling to hostile environments in search of knowledge may prove to be his undoing.
This gripping survival drama about the infamous 1996 Mount Everest Disaster, as documented by Jon Krakauer in the book Into Thin Air, is the type of film that will probably make you consider an all-inclusive beach resort for your next vacation rather than mountain-climbing.
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Movies About Roadtrips
This biopic follows the man who would become the Che Guevara when he, as a young man in the early ‘50s, travels across South America with his friend Alberto Granado . The film, which is based on Guevara’s trip diary, is both a road movie and a coming-of-age film about an important historical figure, as we see him become radicalized by the poverty and inequality he sees on this journey.
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in Ethan Coen’s romp from earlier this year, and it wouldn’t be inaccurate to call Drive-Away Dolls “ The Big Lebowski , but just the silly parts.” Set in the late ’90s, it follows two lesbian friends who learn that the car they’ve rented has a human head and a briefcase in the trunk—and that some shadowy types really, really want whatever’s in that case back.
Burt Reynolds stars in this 1977 classic, which was the second-highest-grossing movie of its release year after the original Star Wars . He plays a legendary bootlegger who accepts a job to smuggle 400 cases of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta in under 28 hours. Along the way, he encounters a runaway bride played by Sally Field , and Sheriff Buford T. Justice, who wants to stop the Bandit. Smokey and the Bandit also features an incredible theme song, “ East Bound and Down ,” and while the lyrics describe the plot of the movie almost beat-for-beat, you’ll find that it’s a fitting song to blast on your own car stereo when you’re on the road.
Il Sorpasso , which is sometimes given the English title The Easy Life , is a masterpiece of 1960s Italian cinema. It follows a boisterous middle-aged man who decides to take a timid, bookish college student he meets under his wing for a good time out on the road—whether or not the younger man actually wants to tag along or not. Hilarious and poignant when you might not expect it, Il Sorpasso ’s well worth the watch.
This seminal adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel of the same name stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as they drive to Sin City under the influence of an absurd amount of drugs. In that way, it’s the ultimate travel movie. It’s about a trip, but it’s also about a trip .
