Best Austrian adventure movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch adventure films from Austria, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
North Face 2008
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
74The Fourth Phase 2016
Iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends embark on a multi-year mission to follow the North Pacific Gyre's flow. As Rice and the crew experience the highs and lows of a journey unlike any previously attempted, cutting-edge cinematography captures some of the world's most remote environments bringing breathtaking scenery and thrilling action to viewers worldwide.
73Brothers of the Wind 2015
The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of his wife. Killed whilst rescuing the infant Lukas, the boy now carries the burden of her death. Our eagle’s story begins in the nest. The first-born chick pushes his weaker brother to a certain death on the forest floor. But fate intervenes and the chick is found by Lukas. Naming him Abel, Lukas cares for the creature in secret, finding a love and companionship denied to him at home. But when the day comes to release Abel back into the wild, will Lukas find his own release into a new life?
73Help, I Shrunk My Parents 2018
Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the once hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former shrunken and skeletonized school principle to rise again, leading to chaos...
59Schöne Bescherung 2007
80Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser 2019
1984: Searching for an experience that goes deeper than the superficiality of modern civilization, Bruno Manser travels into the jungles of Borneo and finds it with the nomadic Penan tribe. It is an encounter that changes his life forever. When the existence of the Penan is threatened by relentless deforestation, Manser takes up the fight against logging with a courage and determination that makes him one of the most renowned and credible environmentalists of his time. Eventually, it costs him everything. Based on a true story.
77Spy Today, Die Tomorrow 1967
Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.
64Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible 2022
Max, a city rabbit, reaches his goal of joining the master class for Easter rabbits but when the magical golden egg turns black, Max and his friends must act to save Easter being taken over by a family of foxes.
58Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell 2013
Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world.
77Yoko 2012
Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which is called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and children worldwide. Its great value calls attention to two hunters who want to take advantage of the yeti.
60Shadow of the Sword 2005
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.
60Pakan 2017
The story of a young man who goes on a treacherous journey to save his tribe from extinction as a never-ending drought has changed the world forever! It has become a deadly desert, sucking the life out of everything. With his hope set on a mysterious little box, can he overcome to save his tribe?
70The Tall Women 1966
Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
59A Girl Named Willow 2025
What could Willow do with an entire forest? That's exactly what she asks herself when she inherits this forest from her aunt Alwina. That's not all, though - Alwina has also left her a small, crooked cabin and, most importantly, her witchcraft. But the question remains: Will Willow even accept this unexpected inheritance, with all the consequences it entails?
70The Incident 2011
Captive in a foreign city, The Agent must fight his way through several obstacles to fulfill his mission, preserve his sanity, and ultimately, save the Earth.
73For a Moment, Freedom 2008
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
66Glassboy 2020
Pino Gambassi is a child suffering from haemophilia and is animated by an unbridled desire for freedom and boundless courage: he decides to start his adventure in the world and to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.
60Cloud Chasers 2009
After freakish atmospheric conditions force commercial pilot Andrea Schubert to ground her flight, she and her crew decide to investigate. To determine the nature of this new lethal storm system, they fly directly into its core in this thriller.
52Lunag Ri, 2nd Attempt 2018
Follow David Lama and Conrad Anker as they make a second attempt to climb the 6,907m Himalayan peak, Lunag Ri. Weather capers, technical challenges and health problems are just a few of the challenges Lama and Anker face.
65Die Pilgerin 2014
In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela to fulfill her father's last wishes and bring his heart there. Disguised as a man, the pilgrim is hunted by pursuers set on her by her conniving brother.
58Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick 1966
Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
58The Slave Market 1907
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses.
60Mariana's Trench 2024
Since her little brother Tim drowned in Trieste, Paula has lost the will to live. When she encounters old Helmut, a widower who wants to drive the ashes of his late wife to South Tyrol, she sees a way out – to go to Trieste and take her own life on Tim's birthday. But during the journey, an unexpected friendship develops with Helmut – and her lust for life is reborn.
56Tiger Team: The Mountain of 1000 Dragons 2010
The Viennese detective children Biggi, Patrick and Luke find a key in dragon form, and their curiosity is aroused. They realize that the sinister Lady Q is interested in opening the legendary moon palace and find the elixir which is believed that promises eternal youth. The Tigers must prevent that Lady Q enters into possession of the priceless liquid.
49Ainoa 2006
The story of the love between a female robot named Ainoa that discovers how valuable and precious life is and the young resistance fighter Yuri. Thanks to his love of Ainoa he overcomes his fanaticism and, like her, becomes human.
57Mozart in China 2008
Danny and Li Wei, two ten-year-old boys from Salzburg, travel to China, where, with Mozart's help, they rescue an old shadow play from the claws of a hotel chain shark.
60The Abduction of the Slave Women 1907
Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path.
52Lucrezia 1968
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
53Rock Crystal 2004
The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing their mother her Christmas presents, both towns set up rescue missions.
45The Last Soviet Movie 2003
A parody of Soviet action films about an author from Brooklyn following in the footsteps of his ancestors, who played a key role in the Bolshevik coup.
50Caleb Williams 1980
40Und ewig knallen die Räuber 1962
A meek tailor named Nickolaus decides to form a band of robbers to proof his manliness. Unfortunately he soon draws the attention of an actual gang-leader, Der Rote Rollo.
35Das Tattoo - Tödliche Zeichen 2000
Karl and Paula work as specialist divers in Vienna, while their former friend Fred runs a diving school in Croatia. While surveying Vienna's underground, Karl and Paula come across a system of catacombs in which they discover valuable burial objects and a mummified corpse with numerous tattoos. When Karl has an accident during his explorations, Fred is asked for help by Paula. Neither of them suspect what they will soon be involved in.
25The Wonder Kid 1951
Bobby Henrey, the amazing juvenile star of The Fallen Idol, is here cast as 7-year-old musical genius Sebastian Giro. Mistreated by his avaricious adult manager, Sebastian runs away to a remote Alpine village. He then falls into the hands of a gang of kidnappers, led by the basically sympathetic Jack.
25Lenya - Die größte Kriegerin aller Zeiten 2001
She grows up in a village, protected by a foster mother. Her fearlessness indicates early on that heroic blood is flowing in Lenya's young veins. When her village is raided and many of her friends are murdered, she makes it her business to seek vengeance and fight for justice.
20Der Ötztalmann und seine Welt. Das Jahr bevor er schlief 2000
A severely injured man lies in the snow-capped mountains; the next settlement which could offer warmth and shelter from the wind and snow is too far to reach on foot. In a flashback, the dying man relives the last year of his life - a life full of adventure, danger and his daily struggle to survive in a harsh and frightening world.
15Exodus to Shanghai 2015
Exodus to Shanghai tells the story of two lovers who have to escape from Vienna to China after Dr. Ho, the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938, issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. Fannia, a New York Jewish Violin student, falls in love with the Consul's nephew Bruce. Together they must leave Vienna as the Gestapo is chasing them to get the Jews and Hitler's painting.
13How I Taught Myself to Be a Child 2019
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.
10Venti dal Sud 1993
A young woman flees her unhappy marriage for South America. There, she meets another man. They both get caught in the middle of an indigenous uprising against an exploitative German.
10Juanito 1960
In the middle of a revolution, the son of a president ends up in the hands of a German hunter who welcomes him into his home, not knowing his origin.
10Das zweite Schraube-Fragment 1986
10Gasparone 1955
Based on the operetta of the same name by Carl Milöcker. The residents of an Austrian town decide to teach their eccentric mayor a lesson. A young fisherman dresses up as the famous bandit Gaspare and goes to see the mayor. The mayor, terrified, flees from "Gaspare" and commits a series of ridiculous acts, becoming the laughing stock of the whole town.
10Eiger 1974
Conquering the 1,800-meter-high north face of the Eiger is a test of endurance for mountaineers. Tiger and Simmi have also set their sights on this tour.
10The Song of the Hohe Tauern 1955
Austria, 1950s. Safety engineer Peter Dahle increasingly sees a personal enemy in the construction of the power station and the mountain of Kaprun. To protect his workers, he asks the experienced mountain guide Hans Tribusser for help. For the glockner king, the massive intervention in nature is tantamount to blasphemy and he refuses his support. This brings Dahle's former love onto the scene. The wealthy Barbara Fuller is able to change the nature lover's mind, but her intrusion into the men's domain causes new disasters.
10The First Days 1971
In this end-of-the-life scenario, which is designed as an expressive silent film with subtitles, a group of adolescents and scattered loners move through a destroyed landscape. One of the leaders is poisoned by his girlfriend, who now takes his place and demonstrates her power to a newcomer. However, he in turn passes the test of courage, puts himself in the place of the head of the group and leads the ever-growing community into an uncertain future.
10Der Bienenkönig 1990
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