World's 12 Best Travel Movies

The enduring themes of love, war, personal tragedy, double-dealing, and an edge-of-the-seat dénouement that can reduce the hardest-hearted grump to a secret sniffle, together with some of the great lines in film history, make Casablanca an all-time favorite. As the expatriate owner of Rick's Café Américain, Humphrey Bogart stalks Vichy-controlled Casablanca, a place of fear and smoky glamour, with brooding intensity. Who wouldn't throw it all in just to be with the divine Ilsa, played by Ingrid Bergman? But Rick is made of sterner stuff. Opposed to the Nazis all along, he sends Ilsa off on a plane and out of his life with her Czech resistance-leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Why? Because if she doesn't leave now, she'll always regret it. "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."