Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours — Jules Verne's 1872 adventure novel — follows Phileas Fogg, a punctilious Londoner, and his newly hired French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days on a £20,000 wager with fellow members of the Reform Club. Fans of it tend to love journeys with momentum and wit: globe-spanning quests, unlikely partnerships, and adventures that balance propulsive plotting with a warm, slightly absurdist sense of fun.
Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
From the Wikipedia article Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days, available under CC BY-SA.
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Around the World in 80 Days
A direct adaptation following Fogg's race to circle the globe within eighty days, blending adventure with comedy and family warmth.
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Around the World in 80 Days
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief, and a French artist on an eighty-day race around the world.
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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
An industrial-age scientist is kidnapped to build a super-bomb, echoing Verne's fascination with invention and high-stakes adventure.
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Carry On Abroad
Holidaymakers arrive at an unfinished Spanish hotel to find chaos, delivering broad comedic misadventure in the spirit of the original.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Passepartout, a marmoset who dreams of exploring, joins a frog's wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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Two Worlds
A French tradesman travels through time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
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Around the World in 80 Days
The same £20,000 wager and Reform Club bet drive Fogg and Passepartout around the world pursued by a relentless detective.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Fogg's outrageous bet gains a journalist companion hungry for the story, adding an extra layer to the race against time.
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Around the World with Willy Fog
Willy Fog, a British millionaire, wagers he can replicate the exact eighty-day circumnavigation — pure animated homage to the source.
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De Slimste Mens ter Wereld
A quiz show that asks who is truly the smartest, testing knowledge across culture, sport, and current affairs.
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Helgoland 513
Survivors on Germany's only offshore island ration dwindling resources after an apocalypse has overrun the rest of the world.
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3 on Tour
A travel programme exploring eco-destinations worldwide shares the spirit of discovery and movement that animates the eighty-day race.
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80 Days
1872, steampunk twist: Phileas Fogg wagers an eighty-day circumnavigation; you play Passepartout choosing the route across a 3D globe.
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Wanderlust Travel Stories
A digital journey through destinations from Bangladesh to Antarctic seas, evoking awe and discovery as you explore the world.
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Verne: The Shape of Fantasy
Jules Verne appears as a character whose imagination is humanity's last hope against forces threatening to destroy an alternate world.
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Bientôt l'été
Two players separated by lightyears of space communicate across the void, exploring longing through a quietly strange shared world.
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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
A disgraced writer steps inside fictional worlds to steal artefacts, turning literary adventure into a desperate personal quest for freedom.
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Wanderlust: Transsiberian
Two men with opposing desires board the world's longest railway line for a Siberian odyssey across Eurasia.
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Le Cœur des deux mondes
A family flees a flooded London by sea, journeying toward a world thrown into turmoil by earthquakes and eruptions.
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Doce cuentos peregrinos
Latin American wanderers scattered across a strange Europe encounter magic and humour in stories of pilgrimage and displacement.
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Illegal
A boy named Ebo undertakes a dangerous cross-border journey alone to reunite with his missing sister and brother.
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Teoría y práctica de los finales
A chess manual examining every endgame configuration, describing how pieces and pawns should move to achieve mate or a draw.
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Autour de la lune
A projectile sent around the moon in the same scientific-wonder era channels Verne's appetite for audacious journeys into the unknown.
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De aanslag
A wartime assassination in a Dutch suburb sets off consequences that ripple across decades for the families involved.
Both the 1989 TV miniseries and the 2021 TV series Around the World in 80 Days faithfully follow Fogg and Passepartout's globe-trotting wager, with the latter adding a sharp journalist companion for extra drama.
80 Days (2014) is a near-perfect match — a steampunk narrative game where you play as Passepartout and plot a route around a 3D globe in exactly 80 days, winning TIME's Game of the Year for its rich branching story.
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) and Verne: The Shape of Fantasy (2023) both draw directly from Verne's imagination — the former a cinematic sci-fi adventure, the latter an indie game set in an alternate 1888 world he inhabits as a character.