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Key Features:
Road trip, Travel, Documentary, Self-discovery, Minimalism, Couple, Dog companion, South America, Nature, Adventure, Personal journey, Off-grid living
Tone:
earnest, restrained
Target Audience:
Travel enthusiasts, Documentary viewers, Adventure seekers, Nature lovers
Emotional Arc:
Curiosity → Joy

Expedition Happiness

2017-05-04
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A German couple and their dog travel across North America in a school bus searching for a state of pure bliss.

Genres
Documentary
Cast
Felix Starck, Selima Taibi
Crew
Felix Starck, Selima Taibi
Rating
6.4(125 votes)
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Go Trabi Go
5.654

Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.



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7.2

Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.



Away We Go
6.7

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.



Seventeen
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7.315

To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.



Xico's Journey
6.6

The peace of a small town is endangered when a corporation wants to destroy the mountain that protects them. A girl named Copi and her best friend Xico, a Xoloitzcuintle dog, will go into the mountains to try to save the town.



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7.6

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Ana
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6.313

Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.



Dutch
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6.4

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school... only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.



Tutto l'amore del mondo

Four friends to the discovery of the most fun and romantic of Europe: Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Scotland. A road trip that will bring our protagonists to know each other better and to fall in love.



Transamerica
7

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.



Wiener-Dog
5.6

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.



Old Joy
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6.3

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.



The Leisure Seeker
7.068

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.



Wendy and Lucy
6.835

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The Continent
6.2

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The Road Within
6.9

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The True Adventures of Wolfboy

Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.



Spy Cat
Spy Cat(2019)
6.7

Four crazy antiheroes on the run. Their leader is the unworldly innocent, naive Marnie, a house cat who is not allowed to leave the house and only knows about real life from television



RV
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5.9

Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the Munro family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one seriously small space has a way of cramping their style.



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A Dog's Journey
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Lassie Come Home
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.



The Bodin’s in Thailand

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Wieners
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4.394

A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.



Olé
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4.137

Two quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.



A Dog's Way Home
7.4

The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.



The Adventures
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Joy, a secretary at a large multinational company, has an online shopping problem, likes to read adventure novels and watch travel and adventure shows. She daydreams about living a life of adventure.



The Kids Are Alright: Destination Asturias

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Happy Old Year
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While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.



My Life in Ruins
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A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.



Honeymoon Trips
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The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.



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The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student

Two best friends embark on a life-changing adventure abroad as exchange students.



Gold
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A Dog's Purpose
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A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.



Girl on a Bicycle
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Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.



The Polar Express
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We Will Go
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Four strangers meet through an app to share a car ride that turns into an adventure destined to change the lives of those involved.



Volare
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6.6

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America.



Tracks
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6.9

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.



Werner - Gekotzt wird später!

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6.9

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I'm Off Then
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The Health Journey
4.14

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Recep Ivedik
4.9

A man finds the wallet of a rich man and takes a rigorous trip in an old car to return it, finding an old love and a new life of luxury awaiting.



Easy
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6.8

A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy.



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All the Places
6.8

Two siblings who haven't seen each other in 15 years mend their relationship while fulfilling a childhood dream: a motorcycle road trip through Mexico.



Bombón El Perro
6.9

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Lapland Odyssey
6.4

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Explorers
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6.263

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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

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Take Me Home
6.5

In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital. Not knowing what to do, Claire hops in Thom's cab and orders him to just drive and so he does. They find themselves in Pennsylvania and Claire makes the rash decision to drive across the country to California. On the road, there are many detours as the obstacles and secrets force them to learn about themselves and each other.



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5.8

Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.



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6.6

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Bolt
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6.5

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House
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4.4

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Snowroller
6.229

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Jess & James
6

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Kon-Tiki
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6.9

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Wanderlust
5.5

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5.4

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Vacanze in America
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A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.



Harry and Tonto
7.1

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.



The Lighthouse of the Orcas

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.



Paris, Texas
8.093

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.



Breakup Buddies
6.132

Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.



The Incredible Journey

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?



The Milky Way
7

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

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