Best Dutch adventure movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch adventure films from Netherlands, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Captain Nova (2021)
Captain Nova (2021)
A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
The Little Vampire (2000)
The Little Vampire (2000)
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.
Admiral (2015)
Admiral (2015)
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Redbad (2018)
Redbad (2018)
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks.
The Flaming Arrow (1912)
The Flaming Arrow (1912)
At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father's shop. This became his first film, Wigwam, with his own family as cast. Black Eagle, a bad Indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farmer's family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young director, saves the child from the kidnapper and brings her back to her family. No better conclusion than smoking a peace pipe. Although filmed in the spring of 1912, the film had a theatrical release in December 1915.
De film van Dylan Haegens (2018)
De film van Dylan Haegens (2018)
Dylan is very successful at running his own lunchroom and YouTube channel. Then IJsbrand comes into his life and copies everything he does. Dylan decides to get to the bottom of this and puts fame and friendship at risk.
Help! I’ve Shrunk the Family (2014)
Help! I’ve Shrunk the Family (2014)
Nine-year-old Johannes Blom gets blown away when he discovers a little man in the kitchen cupboard, hidden behind the peanut butter jar. He’s even more astonished when he realizes that this little man, ‘Wiplala’, has magical powers. When Wiplala accidentally transforms the Blom family to little people, the adventure begins. Will they ever go back to normal-sized people?
Eep! (2010)
Eep! (2010)
Viegeltje looks like a girl but has wings instead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine decide to keep Viegeltje and raise her like an ordinary girl. But Viegeltje isn't an ordinary girl and she flies away. She wants to go to the South with the other birds. It becomes a long and adventurous journey.
Anubis and the Path of 7 Sins (2008)
Anubis and the Path of 7 Sins (2008)
A group of teenagers are on a school trip to Croatia, but when the bus flat-tires they have to stay in an abandoned village. There the group of friends get sent to another dimension in a medieval time zone, they must now walk the path of 7 sins to save themselves and return home.
Gruesome School Trip (2005)
Gruesome School Trip (2005)
The sensitive Onnoval is the best student in his class and he loves Liselore, who was the girlfriend of the bully Gino. His teacher Meester de Vriend believes he is a promising writer and poet. Gino picks on Onnoval all the time, but Onnoval does not fight against Gino because he believes he is a werewolf. When the successful writer of horror tales Nol van Paulo comes for a lecture in his class, he advises Onnonval to never write a story for the evil Ferluci. However, Onnoval is humiliated by Gino and very upset and jealous he writes a story about a class excursion in a horror bus to a horror park, where Gino is killed by a vampire, and gives his story to Ferluci. Later he regrets, but Nol van Paulo tells him that the only way to fix the situation would be stealing his note book and rewriting the conclusion.
The Flying Liftboy (1998)
The Flying Liftboy (1998)
Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he's mistaken by a rich woman who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel's and Johnny's family, in time for an even weirder finale.
Crusade in Jeans (2006)
Crusade in Jeans (2006)
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
House of Anubis: The Return of Sibuna (2010)
House of Anubis: The Return of Sibuna (2010)
Nienke is studying medicine and working at the hospital when Appie is suddenly brought into the emergency room. She discovers that he has been cursed by a Germanic Order. There is only one way to help him and that is to get The Club of the Old Willow back together. It will be a race against time to save Appie, but even more a battle for the old friendship. Can the lure of adventure bring The Club back together? Can the old residents put aside their own differences and disputes?
Sprookjesboom de Musical - Een gi-ga-gantisch avontuur! (2014)
Sprookjesboom de Musical - Een gi-ga-gantisch avontuur! (2014)
"Klein Duimpje" has had enough. He doesn't want to be small anymore, he wants to be big! "But how does someone become big?" Klein Duimpje wonders. Witch has a cunning plan for that... "Strength of big, strength of small, let one become the other!" Poof! She casts a spell, making Klein Duimpje ten times bigger! But is being bigger actually more enjoyable?
Long Live the Queen (1995)
Long Live the Queen (1995)
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
Witches Don't Exist (2014)
Witches Don't Exist (2014)
On her 13th birthday Katie, a talented young girl, receives a magical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch to complete the order of the star witches. Because in it's incomplete form, the order is unable to protect earth against the evil witch Concuela. While Katie is exploring her new magical powers together with her best friend Roy, Grimbeck, the dandy gatekeeper of the star witches arena, as well as the evil Concuela are desperately trying to find Katie.
Storm - Letter of Fire (2017)
Storm - Letter of Fire (2017)
The film is set in 1521 Antwerp, in a Europe ravaged by religious wars, and during the early years of the Reformation. It tells the story of the twelve year old, Falko Voeten – a printer’s son. When Falko’s father, Klaas Voeten, a printer of forbidden literature, is caught by the Inquisition for printing a letter written by Maarten Luther; Falko is unwittingly propelled into helping his father and into searching for the letter. Threatened by the Inquisition but aided by Marieke, a Catholic orphan girl from the underground sewers, Falko is faced with a race against time if he is to save his father from being executed for heresy.
The Last Island (1990)
The Last Island (1990)
After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue fade as the survivors come to realise that the world may have suffered a major disaster.
The Letter for the King (2008)
The Letter for the King (2008)
Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty.
Erik or the Small Book of Insects (2004)
Erik or the Small Book of Insects (2004)
Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.
Jack (2014)
Jack (2014)
While looking for a missing limb on a junkyard, Jack discovers what he really misses is a friend.
De Scheepsjongens Van Bontekoe (2007)
De Scheepsjongens Van Bontekoe (2007)
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
King of Katoren (2012)
King of Katoren (2012)
The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.
The Little Gangster (2015)
The Little Gangster (2015)
Rik and his dad Paul are bullied by the kids in their neighbourhood. Rik wishes his dad would be tougher. Inspired by a mafia movie he saw on TV, Rik fantasizes about being the son of a mafia boss. Everybody would show him respect. So when his dad is promoted and they move to a new town, Rik decides to tell everybody his dad really is a Mafia boss - but what happens when his lies turn against him?
The Johnsons (1992)
The Johnsons (1992)
According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
Labyrinthus (2014)
Labyrinthus (2014)
Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, discovers a sinister computer game that uses real children from his neighbourhood as players. In a race against time Frikke must find the evil creator of this horrible game.
Until Sunset (2023)
Until Sunset (2023)
With the very first day of high school right around the corner, a final summer night turns out to be a deciding moment between childhood and adulthood for a close-knit group of friends, when one of them mysteriously disappears.
Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba (2015)
Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba (2015)
Dummie realizes that he is not as famous as his father, an ancient pharaoh, so he decides to rely more on himself and enters a special contest with the help of his best friend.
The Skippers of the Cameleon 2 (2005)
The Skippers of the Cameleon 2 (2005)
The twinbrothers Sietse and Hielke Klinkhamer want to raise money for their ill friend, Marieke.