These suggestions will help turn your humble abode into a vacation destination you want to hole up in.

Three-Day Film Festival Themes

When Smooth Men Ruled the Silver Screen
That star-powered triumvirate of the 60s and 70s — Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Paul Newman — wore slim, dashing suits, dispatched bons mots with aplomb, and clearly knew their single malts from their blendeds. And they never whined about needing space.

Bullitt

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Great Escape

Barefoot in the Park

The Way We Were

The Great Gatsby

The Sting

Cool Hand Luke

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Road-Trip Movies
Revel in some truly great moments in film — from the sublimely moving to the downright silly — with classics old and new that take it on the road.

Two for the Road

The Sure Thing

Thelma & Louise

Fandango

It Happened One Night

The Motorcycle Diaries

Y Tu Mamá También

The Biggest Tearjerkers
Sometimes you just need to let it out — but in a good way. (Move Kleenex to the top of your list of things to stockpile for this festival.) Any of these should do it.

Terms of Endearment

Shadowlands

You Can Count on Me

Life as a House

Whale Rider

Cinema Paradiso

An Affair to Remember

Finding Neverland

Postcards from Abroad
In which far-flung locales — from the African plains to the City of Light — get top billing.

Out of Africa (Kenya)

Before Sunset (Paris)

A Room With a View (Florence)

Roman Holiday (Rome)

Local Hero (Scotland)

The Last Emperor (China’s Forbidden City)

Shirley Valentine (Greece)

The Secret of Roan Inish (Ireland)