Best Portuguese adventure movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch adventure films from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo

    Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo 2012

    One tries to con. Another keeps stealing. And there's even someone that doesn't know what he's doing... The truth is life is hard for Cultara, Rato and Bino. But it all changes when Tone, the man of the world, returns home to save his dad on the deathbed. And when the four get together, they leave for the most surprising adventure yet. If everything was bad, it's about to get worst!

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  • Poster for Balas & Bolinhos: O Regresso

    Balas & Bolinhos: O Regresso 2004

    A group of friends meet after some years apart and decide to go on a treasure hunt.

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  • Poster for Adrift

    Adrift 2017

    When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.

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  • Poster for Real Playing Game

    Real Playing Game 2013

    In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.

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  • Poster for Misantropo

    Misantropo 2017

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  • Poster for Between the Shadows

    Between the Shadows 2018

    Natália, trapped in a tedious routine, leaves in search of a stolen heart. In a surreal world where hearts are the common currency, she endures several perils, in order to decide if she wants to give her heart up or keep it for herself.

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  • Poster for Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes

    Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes 2019

    The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.

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  • Poster for Morangos com Açúcar - O Filme

    Morangos com Açúcar - O Filme 2012

    Through the madness of summer and to the sound of music, the past and the present of 'Morangos com Açúcar' cross paths in a unique adventure. Between the beach and the pool, the campsite and the holiday camp, long-time friends meet again and new friendships happen.

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  • Poster for 2020: An Odyssey on the 3rd Left

    2020: An Odyssey on the 3rd Left 2022

    During a perilous maneuver, Socks has his spacecraft damaged. To repair it, he embarks on an unprecedented journey through the vastness of outer space, where a much greater threat dwells: the Astro-Zombies.

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  • Poster for Christmas Wrapping Paper

    Christmas Wrapping Paper 2014

    Dodu, a fearless little cardboard boy, Camilla, an enchanting 8-year-old girl and Santa, a Father Christmas for every day, rescue Camilla’s father from the claws of the Waste Monster. As part of their adventure they recycle the wrapping paper from the Christmas presents and are able to breathe in pure air with all Sky-Forests ad Earth-Forests.

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  • Poster for Cândido

    Cândido 2024

    A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life

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  • Poster for 100Volta

    100Volta 2009

    Zé Galinha, an undercover federal agent, investigates Aduzer, one of the world's biggest organized crime bosses. When he accepts an order for 32 cars bound for Brazil and Israel, Zé Galinha begins to lose sight of the standards established by the law. In the middle of the investigation, Zé Galinha accidentally steals the car of Russian mafia boss Dimitri Kruchev, which contains a program that provides access to the global computer network. Sousa and Meireles, agents of the Judicial Police, investigate the Russians, and they all become involved in high-speed car chases in a dangerous and frantic game.

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  • Poster for Terra Nova

    Terra Nova 2020

    Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances.

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  • Poster for 98 Octanas

    98 Octanas 2006

    He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

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  • Poster for Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage 2017

    Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.

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  • Poster for Hay Road

    Hay Road 2012

    This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.

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  • Poster for O Ídolo

    O Ídolo 2021

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  • Poster for Luís, The Explorer

    Luís, The Explorer 2023

    Luís, the explorer, and his brother Vitor set off on a great adventure to discover the whereabouts of a missing person. Throughout this journey, Luís will learn more about himself and his past, which hides great secrets.

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  • Poster for Lacrau

    Lacrau 2013

    If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

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  • Poster for Idle Road

    Idle Road 2014

    Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave the set, but all the roads seem to hit the same spot, where they find a dead woman that walks.

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  • Poster for A Ilha dos Cães

    A Ilha dos Cães 2017

    Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.

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  • Poster for José do Telhado

    José do Telhado 1945

    The legendary life of José Teixeira da Silva, José do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his heroism during the civil war.

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  • Poster for O Segredo da Princesa Lili

    O Segredo da Princesa Lili 2007

    Lili is a princess who dreams of participating in a singing contest, however, she fears for the image of the royal family. Didi and Arthur help Lili, who hides her identity. However, Lili's cousin Lucélia wants to destroy Lili's plans.

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  • Poster for Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies 1984

    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

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  • Poster for A Força do Atrito

    A Força do Atrito 1993

    Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.

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  • Poster for Um Desejo de Natal

    Um Desejo de Natal 2019

    Several stories of love and hope, united by invisible threads. There are those who call these threads magic, some who call them destiny. What matters is that they will lead all of our characters to the same outcome, on the same day: Christmas Eve

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  • The Strange Inhabitant 2023

    In 1200, a sacred relic is sought by the Mad Bishop, surrounded by the Knights Templars, he sends them on a mission to recover it, but that won't be so easy to achieve.

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  • Poster for A Moura Encantada

    A Moura Encantada 1985

    A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “enchanted moura,” sparking a poetic journey that intertwines ancient Arabic folktales with contemporary rural life. Drawing on medieval prose and verse, the film explores cultural memory and pagan traditions through visual folklore rooted in Portuguese-Arab heritage.

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  • Poster for Sarilho de Fraldas

    Sarilho de Fraldas 1967

    During a tour of the province, someone mistakenly leaves a baby in a singer's car without him noticing. António decides to take the child in, with Madalena, a fellow artist. But the presumed mother, claiming it was a mistake, enlists the help of her brother, a police officer, which leads to a chase to Porto.

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  • Terra Nova, Mar Velho 1983

    Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing.

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  • Poster for A Rota do Brilho

    A Rota do Brilho 1990

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  • La Troisième Mi-temps 1981

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  • The Intrepid Explorer 0

    An aspiring explorer at heaven's doors, prays for someone to help and save him from certain death, and someone answer.

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  • Poster for Bacanais na Ilha das Ninfetas

    Bacanais na Ilha das Ninfetas 1984

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