When a film sweeps you off to another place in such manner that you ache to go there, the director has truly been triumphant. A certain measure of passion is a base requirement to move anyone enough to get on a plane.

As we countdown the second half of our Top 10 where a hypnotic suspension of disbelief provoked us to call our travel agents, bear in mind the supreme relevance of place in film. Could these five have possibly been set anywhere else in the world?

With that question in mind and without further ado, here is the rest of our Top 10 Travel and Road Trip Films.

5. Roman Holiday

The film that gave the world Audrey Hepburn and won her an Oscar was as much a love letter to Rome as it was a a love story between Princess Ann (Hepburn) and reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). The classic by director William Wyler gave audiences memorable scenes of the city, from the Colisseum to Trevi Fountain and a wild Vespa ride.

The most notable scene however, is at the Mouth of Truth, the stone face in the portico at Santa Maria in Cosmetin Basilica where legend is that the mouth will bite off the hand of anyone who dares cast aspersions. In the famous scene, Peck feigns to Hepburn that his hand has been devoured and she screams. The shriek was in fact authentic, as Peck had decided to play a practical joke on his naive co-star. Hepburn’s genuine reaction made the final cut of the film.

4. The Darjeeling Limited

From the eccentric mind of genius writer/director Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited is a bittersweet dark comedy that follows three estranged brothers on a train ride across India in search of their mother. With restrained and powerful performances by Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Anjelica Huston, the story first delves into the fraternal rifts, a mutual reliance on prescription narcotics and juxtaposes Western materialism with the relative spirituality of India.

Through forced self-reliance, the brothers learn to fend for themselves and conquer their fears of this strange land. They track down their mother at a convent in the Himalayas and although the outcome is unexpected, they each achieve some measure of peace as a result and shed their excess baggage, in every sense of the term.

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3. Le fabuleux destin d’Am?lie Poulain

With 5 Oscar nominations and a slew of international accolades, the film known simply as Am?lie took the world by storm and gave audiences fresh insight into the city of Paris. Through the eyes and imagination of Am?lie Poulain – in a remarkable performance by Audrey Tatou – we see a magical, dreamy and wondrous City of Light.

A withdrawn, solitary girl who works at a caf?, Am?lie takes pleasure in tiny, everyday miracles and concocts a string of benevolent practical jokes on the people in and around her life. She sends a garden gnome on a trip around the world to the shock and delight of her father, arranges a curious romance between a hypochondriac pharmacist and grouchy malcontent and returns a box of childhood treasures to a speechless owner decades later. The tables turn on Am?lie however, when love enters her world in the form of a quirky young man she has never met. Her adorable attempts to woo him result in a whirlwind tour of Paris that is both unforgettable and aesthetically beautiful.

2. Manhattan

Woody Allen and New York City are inseparable. Manhattan is his most artistic endeavor and a virtual love song to his native city. While other films and directors provoke smarmy and visceral responses to the Big Apple – think When Harry Met Sally or Martin Scorsese – this film is the ultimate ode.

In typical autobiographical fashion, Allen plays Isaac, a comedy writer in the middle of a career and relationship crisis. Fresh off a divorce with a lesbian, Isaac is stuck between polar opposite females in Tracy, a young idealist, and Mary, a cynical neurotic. In memorable performances by Mariel Hemingway and Diane Keaton, the two women represent for Allen a contrast between youthful optimism and the plague of doubt that comes with middle age. While his personal relationships represent dysfunction and chaos, the city of Manhattan is for Allen and his character – can we ever divide the two? – the embodiment of perfection. As a result, Allen took great care to shoot the city as one would the object of his desire. The black and white scenes, the Gershwin soundtrack, remind us why New York City is so grand.

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1. The Motorcycle Diaries

The year is 1952. A biochemist and a medical student set off on a motorcycle from Argentina to see South America. The result is one of the most pivotal road trips in human history. For if Ernesto “Che” Guevara had not been one of the riders, the outcome may not have been so notable.

Gael Garcia Bernal – in his second appearance on our countdown – plays the revolutionary as he comes of age in a cross-country tour of South America as it straddles the line between colonial rule and a new place at the political table in the post-WWII world. Based on the memoirs of Guevara and his road trip companion, the film demonstrates how what began as a quest for adventure and to meet girls unfolded into much more. Faced with the harsh and turbulent socio-economic conditions of the region at the time, the road trip becomes an odyssey of discovery for young Guevara. His ideals come the fore as it becomes frightfully apparent that equality of opportunity and basic rights are not equal or readily available to all. As the pair volunteer their services at a leper colony in Peru, we witness a powerful transformation as Ernesto becomes Che, the freedom fighter the world would soon come to know. This spectacular journey takes place amid the gorgeous backdrop of the continental landscape of South America.

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