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Getting Away From It All: Favourite Vacation Movies (Letterboxd Showdown)

Here's my 20 favourite movies where characters go on vacation or travel away from home, loosely ranked. This list is part of Letterboxd's Showdown lists.

It's difficult to define what makes a vacation movie, so I've gone for any movie where a key character (or characters) spends significant time away from their home. I've excluded work heavy vacations (e.g. military, detective work) but included certain non-holidaying vacations if they aren't too taxing (medical, writing / journalism, family matters). Either way, this is pretty arbritrary.

  • Persona

    1

  • Die Hard

    2

  • The Shining

    3

  • Wild Strawberries

    4

  • Tokyo Story

    5

  • Chinese Roulette

    6

  • Nostalgia

    7

  • When Marnie Was There

    8

  • Antichrist

    9

  • Jurassic Park

    10

  • Lost in Translation

    11

  • Evil Dead II

    12

  • Summer with Monika

    13

  • The Wind Will Carry Us

    14

  • Toni Erdmann

    15

  • Sightseers

    16

  • Wet Hot American Summer

    17

  • The Cabin in the Woods

    18

  • An American Werewolf in London

    19

  • The Evil Dead

    20