Films can also help against wanderlust - these 7 ingenious road movies, for example

Especially now, in the middle of winter, when Christmas and New Year's Eve are long over and the cold has been in our bones for weeks and months, the wanderlust is often greatest. We all long for the sun, after warmth, to travel. And if you can't spontaneously sit on a plane and go on vacation (and who can just do it?!), You can at least have a cinematicCompany - for example with theBest road movies against wanderlust.

And it is actually astonishing how the psyche deals with it when you briefly disappear into another world with your head. Even if we like to admit: No film evening can replace a real vacation.

The most beautiful story aboutcome from dropouts - including in Sean Penn's great adventure filmInto The Wild, based on the report of the same name by John Krakauer. The film is based onAnd tells of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), who cut his studies with top marks in summer 1990, but has no interest in a "normal" life. So he donates all his savings of welfare and embarks on a trip across Mexico and the United States to Alaska. A poetically staged by Sean PennIn front of a great backdrop over a life -changing (and ending) trip. In any case, a film that has what it takes to alleviate the wanderlust due to the great natural shots.

Also told based on a novel by Jack KerouacOn The Roadfrom an exciting road trip that Sal (Sam Riley) and Dean (Garrett hedlund) take and which leads it across the USA. In particular, the many encounters with exciting people make the trip a single adventure, including people like Marylou (Kristen Stewart), Camille (Kirsten Dunst), Old Bull Lee (Viggo Mortensen) and Jane (Amy Adams). If these 140 minutes do not wake the wanderlust and make you want to travel, we don't know what to do.

Be on the way with that- Infinite freedom. At least all those with penchant for motorized two -wheelers should feel romantic feelings. And not the first, but without a question the classic of the motorcycle film and the blueprint for everything that came afterEasy Rider. The two bikers Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper, who is also a director of the film) want to go with their motorcyclesFrom La to New Orleans smuggling and making big money - and are repeatedly confronted with the intolerant society of the USA on her road trip across the country. To this day (the few) dialogues such as: "If we want to go, go. So go!" And of course the great recordings of the endless landscape that walks the wanderlust on this road trip.

A film about two set men and their sightseeing tour through the wine-growing regions of California-that sounds as exciting as a butter trip through the Lüneburg Heath. ButSidewaysIt actually turns out to be a small road movie championship, in which Paul Giamatti in particular captivates as an outstanding main actor and who walks wanderlust on a tour of the next wine-growing region. What also does the film so well: it is based on a brilliant script, which is why roaring strange scenes alternate in the film with heartbreaking, without it even to be stimulated. Where you often have the feeling that the makers wanted too much in other films, is inSidewaysEverything perfectly balanced like the bouquet of an excellent one. Leaves funny and tragic at the same timeSidewaysIn the end, however, a lively and without bitter aftertaste - but with a lot of wanderlust.

The starting point of the two best friends Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) could hardly be more different: While Tenoch as the son of a politician grows up in wealth, Julios family has to fight for bare every month. Nevertheless: these different requirements can be yoursdo nothing. One day the two get to know the somewhat older Luisa (Maribel Verdú), who just separated from her husband. The two friends are taken with her and tell her about one, to which you should all drive together, and Luisa agrees. Just: the friends have only thought of the beach. So the three embark on an exciting road trip to the beach of their dreams, in the course of which the friendship of Julio and Tenoch is put to the test.

And again Gael García Bernal, this time in the filmThe Junge Che trip, are based on the biographical novelThe Motorcycle Diariesby Che Guevara. Bernal plays the only 23-year-old Ernest Guevara, who later entered the history books as a great revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Before it comes, however, he and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) decide in 1952 to take a four -month road trip through South America. And so the two set out with an old motorcycle from Córdoba to experience the continent from a new, previously unknown side - on a more than 8,000 kilometer trip. An incredibly beautiful, but also sobering journey through the South America of the 1950s.

Ben (Joshua Jackson) is just twenty when he learns that he is dying and no longer has to live for long. Instead of immediately going into therapy to extend the maximum for a few time, he makes a completely different decision: he buys a motorcycle and undertakes - much to the horror of his fiancee, his friends and family - a road trip that leads him through the world and in the end. And the nice thing is: such trips (i.e. that in ourselves), we can all take at any time, even without a motorcycle. Don't you think?