The Way (2010)

Martin 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, a prickly Canadian and a talkative Irishman, wear down a man who set out wanting to be left alone. It is the film most likely to make you book the Camino, since the route, the villages and the cathedral at the end are all real and still walked. The sentiment is unhurried and occasionally obvious, which suits a walk measured in weeks.