Summer is a time for escape and adventure, a season meant to be spent on the move.

So here are 12 road trip movies to get you going!

The luscious scenery of the Argentine countryside is reason enough to watch this summer family film.

This movie is a labor of love, and it wears its nostalgia and sentiment on its dusty sleeve.

There are infidelities, secrets spilled, and budding teenage passions.

In bright red lipstick, Poseys Jo is the wisecracking, sarcastic sister of Hope Davis square Eliza.

Carl eagerly shares the details for his novel with Jo and Elizas enrapt mother, Rita.

In Mottolas comedy, shes controlling and kind, acerbic and anxious.

Holy Motors (2012)

2012 was the year for road movies within the sleek confines of a limousine.

before fitting a key into a lock and entering a movie theater.

We travel with Mr. Oscar throughout the streets of Paris in his limousine, driven by Edith Scobs Celine.

But throughout it all they never lose their friendship, charisma, or desire to do good.

Theres also dancing, drinking, and thinly veiled flirtations that lead to a dance hall riot.

Director Salles seems to have a penchant for road movies.

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty provides a comedic edge to the plot with his various accents and disguises.

Its a niche hes famously cornered, particularly two years later in another Kubrick film,Dr.

Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombwhere Sellers has four different central roles.

But the honeymoon doesnt last long.

Almost immediately, theyre hard up for money, and Annie Laurie convinces Bart to rob a bank.

Joseph H. Lewis film noir is a sobering look at obsession and life on the road as an outlaw.

While Quentin Tarantino eschewed CGI and special effects inDeath Proof, Millers film revels in them.

Sissy Spaceks Holly narrates the story and the plight of her romance with Martin Sheens Kit.

Shes 15 and easily impressionable, twirling her baton as Kit flirts with her on the street at dusk.

The murders Kit commits stand in stark contrast against the singsong lilt of Hollys young voice.

Yet, Beatty carries that charisma from Elia Kazans teenage drama to Arthur Penns violent film.

Shortly thereafter, a gaggle of women pull up to DJ Jungle Julias apartment complex to celebrate her birthday.

There are as few things fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel, Stuntman Mike pontificates.

But Arlene, undeterred, claims shell have to take a raincheck.

Sadly, she has every reason for reluctance because shes told to start getting scaredright now.

He later hunts down the rest of the women on a lonely road, crashing into them full force.

Bell and Thomas are stuntwomen and leap at the opportunity to test drive the vehicle.

On the road, they play ship mast where Bell rides the hood of car while clutching seat belts.

Not this weekend, sweetie, Louise quips, Shes running away with me.

And run away they do.

Its still a tragically topical moment for viewers today in the midst of cases like perpetrator Brock Turner.

After confronting the man with a gun, Louise shoots him dead.

Theyre Wyatt and Billy, travelling via choppers to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.

There are often long shots of the expansive wide west that surround our ambling bikers.