Top 21 Travel Movies for Coronavirus Lockdown
The COVID-19 outbreak seizes us unprepared and unexpectedly with high speed. Fortunately, serious measures are being taken quickly by our government and all we required to do follow the guidelines and clear instructions for preventing infection and further spread of the disease.
So, does this mean life has to be put on hold? Not really – there are many ways to employ the time and do something useful until the crisis is over. You can invest time on reading Books, do some exercise, get a new hobby, spend quality time family, learn cooking or even practice singing or dance moves.
Although, there’s no better time to get locked into a new series. There are dozens of brilliant shows across several streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar.
Top 21 Travel Movies for Coronavirus Lockdown
With the entire Earth on some form of lockdown, travel anywhere has become a fantasy for now. The doors will open soon. Yayavar has brought a list of travel movies for you that will inspire you to travel the world from your couch.
This is the absolute perfect moment to binge-watch these movies. It’s good idea to take a mental break from all the news about the pandemic. Some may call it escapism, but switching off can be good for mental health human body.
What better time than a lockdown to think of all the destinations you always wish to travel! Make a bucket list, and begin working on your next trip. If you have zeroed in on a country/city, research on the must-see and the hidden gems, places where you want to eat, where you want to shop.
You can join our enchanting Road trips such as Spiti Road Trip, Himachal Backpacking, Uttarakhand Backpacking and many more which will give you unforgettable memories.
Here are top 21 travel-based movies that you can watch in this lockdown time.
Bollywood Movies
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Four friends escape for adventure sport and find little-known personal aspects of one another. Years later they reunite again and this time the equation is even more combustible.
- IMDb Rating– 7.1/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
The film’s story go along with three childhood friends, who reunite for a three-week road trip. They leave to Spain and meet Laila, who falls in love with Arjun and assist him overcome his compulsion to work. Kabir and his fiancée Natasha experience major misunderstandings. During their trip, each of them chooses a dangerous sport for the group to partake in.
- IMDb Rating– 8.1/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
Tamasha
The film starts with Ved and Tara’s monotonous back stories as people in the corporate world. A flashback shows, as a child in Shimla, Ved is fascinated by the stories narrated by a road side story teller (Piyush Mishra) who keeps mixing up his characters.
- IMDb Rating– 7.3/10
- Available on – Netflix, Zee5
Highway
Highway is shoot in six different states and captures the journey of two completely opposite people who are thrown together by fate.
- IMDb Rating– 7.6/10
- Available on – Hotstar
Jab We Met
A depressed wealthy businessman notice, his life changing after he meets a spunky and care-free young woman.
- IMDb Rating– 7.9/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
Dil Chahta Hai
Three indivisible childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing can come between them until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
- IMDb Rating– 8.1/10
- Available on – Netflix
The Darjeeling Limited
Movie begin after a year their father’s funeral; three brothers travel around India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
- IMDb Rating– 7.2/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
Anjaana Anjaani
Anjaana Anjaani movie is a romantic comedy, where Priyanka is playing a character based in San Francisco, while Ranbir is playing the role of a New York City boy. They meet in New York and travel around cities.
- IMDb Rating– 5.8/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime, Zee5
Hollywood Movies
Holiday in the Wild
Leave by her husband on the eve of embarking on an African safari, a woman travels to the continent alone where she meets to an elephant conservationist.
- IMDb Rating– 6.1/10
- Available on – Netflix
Eat, Pray, Love
A married woman feels that how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life requires to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she escapes on a round-the-world journey to “find herself”.
- IMDb Rating– 5.8/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
The Motorcycle Diaries
The movie is based on dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life’s calling.
- IMDb Rating– 7.8/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
A walk in the Woods
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson come back to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to trek the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz.
- IMDb Rating– 6.3/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
EuroTrip
Get rid of by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends.
- IMDb Rating– 6.6/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
The Bucket List
Two terminally ill men run away from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
- IMDb Rating– 7.4/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
A Good Year
A British investment broker inherits his uncle’s chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he passed much of his childhood. He finds a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold.
- IMDb Rating– 7.0/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
The secret life of Walter Mitty
When a man with colleague are about to lose their job, he takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
- IMDb Rating– 7.3/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime, Netflix
Midnight in Paris
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée’s family, an evocative screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
- IMDb Rating– 7.7/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
In Bruges
Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their merciless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
- IMDb Rating– 7.9/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
Wild
A record of one woman’s one thousand one-hundred-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
- IMDb Rating– 7.1/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
Out of Africa
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a zealous love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
- IMDb Rating– 7.2/10
- Available on – Amazon Prime
Everest
The tale of New Zealand’s Robert “Rob” Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
- IMDb Rating– 7.1/10
- Available on – Netflix, Amazon Prime
TV Series
Tripling
Divorced, jobless, hopeless. Three siblings set up a road trip together. Chandan, Chanchal & Chitvan. Together they start a hilarious trip, to find themselves and their relations.
- IMDb Rating– 8.6/10
- Available on – tvfplay.com
Way Back Home
A travelogue which extends itself to individuals finding self-actualization in a quest for true identity.
- IMDb Rating– 8.9/10
The Trip
Steve is asked to review restaurants for the UK’s Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend Rob who fills in at the last minute when Coogan’s romantic relationship falls apart.
- IMDb Rating– 8.0/10
Away from home
The TV series is about families from around the United Kingdom who swaps their homes with complete strangers to experience new places and lifestyles.
Long Way Round
This documentary series shows two friends escape on a motorcycle to take world tour and travel through such regions as Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Alaska, before finishing the journey in New York.
- IMDb Rating– 8.6/10
The Kindness Diaries
This TV Series shows a man named Leon with a mission who counting solely on the kindness of strangers for food, shelter and fuel and he travels across the world on his vintage motorcycle seeking for the good in humanity.
- IMDb Rating– 8.1/10
Tales By Light
TV Series, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and across the world as they push the limits of their craft. Although, Behind every powerful image, there is a powerful story.
- IMDb Rating– 8.3/10
The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes
The story revolve around a celebration of extraordinary residential building from across the globe with insight from an proficent architect and his enthusiastic co-host.
- IMDb Rating– 7.5/10
Ugly Delicious
The TV Series shows Chef David Chang travels around the world for tasting food from different cultures.
- IMDb Rating– 7.8/10
Night On Earth
This nature series’ shows new technology lifts night’s veil to let out the hidden lives of world’s different creatures, from lions on the hunt to bats on wings.
- IMDb Rating– 8.3/10
Dark Tourist
From a nuclear lake to a haunted forest, TV Series Dark Tourists shows a filmmaker and journalist David Farrier visits unusual and often macabre — tourism spots around the world.
- IMDb Rating– 7.6 /10
Street Food
TV Series Street Food show the rich culture of street food in some of the world’s most colourful cities.
- IMDb Rating– 8.0/10
An Idiot Abroad
TV Series is based on Brit Karl Pilkington who not having done any traveling, he enjoys living within the comforts of what he knows, basically that being what is purely British.
- IMDb Rating– 8.3/10
Unbranded
The TV Series Unbranded tracks four fresh-out-of-college friends as they take on wild mustangs to be their trusted mounts, and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
- IMDb Rating– 7.4/10
Departures
Departures shows an action-packed and personal journey about two travellers who are adventure lover. Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach leave their daily boring lives behind for seeking unique experiences through some of the most beautiful and remote places on earth.
- IMDb Rating– 9.0/10
