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  1. 1The Way (2010)The Way (2010) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 10, 2010Martin Sheen plays Tom, a California eye doctor who takes on the 800 km route from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in his dead son's place, scattering the ashes as he goes. Emilio Estevez wrote and directed it, and its best idea is letting the company of other pilgrims, a cheerful Dutchman,…0
  2. 2Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago (2013)Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago (2013) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 27, 2013The documentary companion to The Way, and the better guide if you are seriously thinking of going. Lydia B. Smith follows six real pilgrims through one season on the Camino's nearly 500 miles across northern Spain, among them a devout French mother walking with her three-year-old son. Nobody here…0
  3. 3Saint-Jacques… La Mecque (2005)Saint-Jacques… La Mecque (2005) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 12, 2005Three squabbling siblings learn that they inherit their mother's estate only if they make the three-month pilgrimage to Compostela together and on foot. Coline Serreau's French comedy then fills out the group with a guide, a woman rebuilding her life after cancer and a young man who has been told…0
  4. 4The Milky Way (1969)The Milky Way (1969) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 28, 1969Luis Buñuel sends two French vagrants, Pierre and Jean, walking the pilgrim road from Paris to Santiago de Compostela, then lets the road slip through time. Along the way they meet heretics, schoolchildren reciting heresies, the Devil and Christ himself. This is the oddest pilgrimage on the list…0
  5. 5The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 27, 2023Jim Broadbent's retired Harold leaves his south Devon home to post a letter to a dying old colleague and simply keeps walking toward her hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed, with no proper clothing and not even a cell phone. Rachel Joyce adapted her own novel, and Penelope Wilton gives the wife left…0
  6. 6The Salt Path (2025)The Salt Path (2025) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased May 1, 2025Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play Raynor and Moth Winn, who set out on a 630-mile trek along the Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline after losing their home. The cliffs, wild camping and cold dawns are the draw, and the coast path itself can still be walked end to end. Know before you watch…0
  7. 7Wild (2014)Wild (2014) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 5, 2014Reese Witherspoon carries an oversized pack and a heap of self-destruction up the Pacific Crest Trail in Jean-Marc Vallée's version of Cheryl Strayed's memoir. A thousand miles alone become a way of facing grief and a troubled past, with Laura Dern's ailing mother arriving in flashbacks that hit…0
  8. 8A Walk in the Woods (2015)A Walk in the Woods (2015) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 2, 2015Robert Redford plays Bill Bryson, who decides to hike the more than 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, and Nick Nolte is the out-of-shape old friend who is the only person willing to come. Emma Thompson is the wife who will not let him go alone. The comic option, and the one for…0
  9. 9Tracks (2013)Tracks (2013) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 19, 2013In 1977 Robyn Davidson walked 1,700 miles from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with four camels and her dog, Diggity, and Mia Wasikowska plays her as someone walking away from people as much as toward the sea. Adam Driver is the National Geographic photographer whose visits she tolerates rather…0
  10. 10Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 4, 2002In 1931 three Aboriginal girls taken from their families escape a state-run school and walk home across the Australian outback, following the 1,500-mile rabbit-proof fence as their guide. Phillip Noyce tells the true story through the girls themselves, with Kenneth Branagh as A. O. Neville, the…0