Best Romanian adventure movies

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

  • Poster for Anacondas: Trail of Blood

    Anacondas: Trail of Blood 2009

    A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two new aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.

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  • Poster for Two Lottery Tickets

    Two Lottery Tickets 2016

    3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.

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  • Poster for Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles

    Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles 2008

    Princess Luisa and knight Gabriel must face a dragon to save their kingdom.

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  • Poster for Memories of My Childhood

    Memories of My Childhood 1964

    Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.

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  • Poster for The Immortals

    The Immortals 1974

    It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".

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  • Poster for The Outlaws

    The Outlaws 1929

    Based on Romanian legends and folk tales about the outlaws from Carpathian Mountains. The film is the middle episode of an adventure trilogy that almost four decades ago anticipated the series of local films with lawless heroes from the 1960s and 1970s; unfortunately, the other two films, "Iancu Jianu" and "Ciocoii", were not preserved.

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  • Poster for The Bone Srewn Road

    The Bone Srewn Road 1980

    Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

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  • Poster for The Redhead

    The Redhead 1976

    During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.

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  • Poster for The Outlaws of Sevenhorses

    The Outlaws of Sevenhorses 1971

    The third movie in the Haiducii series, set in Muntenia during the Phanariote period. Lady Ralu needs a million galbeni to buy a jewelry collection from Vienna. In order to satisfy her desire, the Phanariot ruler institutes the "birul vacăritului" (the tax on the cowherd), impoverishing the people. The band of outlaws led by Anghel Șaptecai, after the death of Captain Amza, tries to recover the galbeni, forcibly taken from the tormented people. In the end, captain Mamulos catches Anghel and sends him to the pit.

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  • Poster for Transylvanian Garlic

    Transylvanian Garlic 2014

    Two kids run away from their home village to become actors in the big city! The film is about their epic journey and the adventures they go through before arriving to their final destination: Hollywood. Shot on location in Transylvania, Romania.

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  • Poster for High schoolers on alert

    High schoolers on alert 1993

    Former classmates Dana, Ionica, Geta, and Cosmin face adult challenges: Dana, now a reporter craving thrilling cases, ropes Cosmin into playing detective. Meanwhile, Geta and Ionica’s romance is shattered when Ionica is mistaken for notorious drug trafficker “Blondul” and arrested.

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  • Poster for The Mysteries of Bucharest

    The Mysteries of Bucharest 1983

    The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the Prince Gheorge Bibescu from his throne, arms are transported on secret ways, preparing the first popular revolts in Bucharest, as the first act of the Revolution of 1848, which revolution is the first impulse of the later act of the Union of the Wallachia with Moldova (Romanian United Principalities in 1862, Kingdom of Romania in 1881 and Kingdom of Greater Romania 1918, with Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia).

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  • Poster for Michael, the Dog That Sang

    Michael, the Dog That Sang 1979

    The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the purebred dog at the nearest port, secretly brought Michael onto the schooner and hid him in his cabin. Michael was given another name. He became very attached to his new owner, with whom he would have to go through many happy and sad days, break up after a series of dramatic events and meet again.

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  • Poster for The Silver Mask

    The Silver Mask 1985

    Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the gold is recovered by Margelatu for the benefit of the "Brotherhood".

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  • Poster for Păcală se întoarce

    Păcală se întoarce 2006

    Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he decides to return to his homeland, from somewhere "outside" - a timeless space located outside the borders of Romania.

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  • Poster for Iancu Jianu, Outlaw

    Iancu Jianu, Outlaw 1981

    The movie is set in 1788-1843, a tumultuous era for Walla Wallachia, when the Phanariot regime was exercising its power over the people. In a world marked by oppression, the young Iancu Jianu becomes a symbol of resistance, fighting against abuses. Together with his friend Mereanu, Jianu plans courageous actions to stand up to the tyranny of the Phanariots and bring justice to the country. His journey brings him into contact with Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the 1821 rebellion movement, and the two unite in a fierce struggle for freedom and independence.

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  • Poster for The Turquoise Necklace

    The Turquoise Necklace 1986

    The kidnapping of a Viennese banker and his daughter threatens to trigger a diplomatic scandal, which could result in the entry of Austrian armies into the country. Margelatu thwarts this attempt and clears up the story.

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  • Poster for Lara - Aribelle si mana destinului

    Lara - Aribelle si mana destinului 2019

    Aribelle (Ari) is an amnesiac teenage girl stranded in a dangerous metropolis, Lost City, with only the clothes on her back and a heart-shaped locket. She meets Hugo, a very resourceful orphan kid who becomes her best friend. In a rather amusing situation Ari borrows the name Lara because he can't remember her real name. The action takes place in two cities, Capital City and Lost City, before the accident and after the accident in which Lara loses her memory and ends up in Lost City. The two, Lara and Hugo go through all sorts of adventures and end up at the city orphanage. Fausta, the director of the orphanage, is truly evil and has her own plans for Lara and Hugo.

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  • Poster for The Son of the Stars

    The Son of the Stars 1988

    In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.

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  • Poster for The Outlaws

    The Outlaws 1966

    First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.

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  • Poster for The Enchanted Grove

    The Enchanted Grove 1980

    Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized.

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  • Poster for The Kidnapping of the Maidens

    The Kidnapping of the Maidens 1968

    In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.

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  • Poster for Everything is Paid

    Everything is Paid 1987

    Margelatu discovers and annihilates a plot by the Austrians by infiltrating the Fratia organization with a fake envoy of the French revolutionary Alphonse de Lamartine

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  • Poster for Babusca's Adventures

    Babusca's Adventures 1973

    In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.

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  • Poster for The Dowry of Lady Ralu

    The Dowry of Lady Ralu 1972

    Part two of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 5 of the Outlaws series. After a spectacular escape plotted by Anița, Răspopitul and Parpanghel, Captain Anghel sets off once again on the money trail. Kidnapping Caliopi, Șaptecai demands the jewels her husband Ianis bought in Vienna in exchange for her release. After a series of spectacular events, Anghel succeeds in stealing Lady Ralu's precious dowry.

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  • Poster for The Crown of Fire

    The Crown of Fire 1990

    In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.

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  • Poster for Crew for Singapore

    Crew for Singapore 1981

    A ship captain loses his ship and most of his crew in a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Returning home, he has a guilty conscience and nightmares about what happened, which drives him away from his wife. He is given command of a new merchant ship bound for Singapore when its captain is injured shortly before departure. On the new ship he is treated with distrust and hostility by the captain, who hopes to be promoted to captain, and by the crew, who are used to lax discipline.

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  • Poster for Why Does the Fox Have a Tail

    Why Does the Fox Have a Tail 1989

    A story about a young boy and his adventurous holidays out of town.

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  • Poster for Cireșarii

    Cireșarii 1984

    First part of a series of five famous children novels. Adventures of a group of kids in a trip to explore a cave, where they have some surprises.

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  • Poster for Hai hui în timp

    Hai hui în timp 2022

    In a world where parents no longer spend enough time with their children, they will do anything to regain this precious time. The five friends, Maria, Ioana, Mihai, Radu and Andrei, will set off on a glamorous adventure where, together with their new friends from a fantasy world of the past, Ain and Ara, they will cleverly achieve their goal.

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  • Poster for The Ivory Aigrette

    The Ivory Aigrette 1987

    Two pioneer teams fight for the ivory aigrette, the great shooter trophy .

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  • Poster for The Week of the Madmen

    The Week of the Madmen 1971

    The last part of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 6 of the Outlaws series. In the Week of Fools, Anghel's band exchanges Lady Ralu's dowry for arms for Tudor of Vladimiri's army, which they decide to join. Although captured by Mamoulos and savagely tortured by his men, Șaptecai escapes from the dungeon and goes on his way. With the help of Anița, the Răspopitul, Parpanghel and other fellow outlaws, Anghel finally sees his dream come true.

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  • Poster for Circus Performers

    Circus Performers 1981

    A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.

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  • Poster for Black Sea Adventures

    Black Sea Adventures 1972

    A counterespionage office get a mission to go to the Black Sea shore and catch a spy network that got their hands on a secret fuel formula.

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  • Poster for Son of the Mountains

    Son of the Mountains 1981

    An espionage agency is looking to kidnap Alina, the daughter of the Romanian engineer Muresan, to make her father divulge important secrets. On a trip, Muresan's wife and daughter know a young tourist who accompanies them up to a point where they are hosted by Matthew, a very agile little boy, hard-hitting the mountain.

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  • Poster for The Avalanche

    The Avalanche 1959

    The story of the rescue of workers trapped in a snow avalanche in a remote mountain cabin.

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  • Poster for Kingdom of Judas

    Kingdom of Judas 2024

    After her sister's tragic suicide, Anna is determined to uncover the truth about what led to her sibling's death. In her pursuit of answers, she creates an intricate plan involving her sister's five artist contacts, placing them in a celebrity rehabilitation center. As she pushes them to confront their past actions and take responsibility for their mistakes, Anna starts to uncover hidden truths related to her sister's passing.

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  • Poster for Călătoriile lui Pin-Pin

    Călătoriile lui Pin-Pin 1990

    As Pin-Pin the penguin travels around the world, he explains life and nature in different regions.

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  • Poster for The Death of Joe the Indian

    The Death of Joe the Indian 1968

    The film is a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer and his friends, the second part of the Romanian screenplay after the famous novel by Mark Twain. The three friends Tom, Huck and Becky continue their adventures full of puzzles and suspense.

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  • Poster for The Carpathian Castle

    The Carpathian Castle 1981

    In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.

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  • Tolanici 1958

    A little bear cub grew up very lazy. Spring came, but the little bear did not want to wake up and went to chase after the cold Winter's sleigh. Soon Bear got to the palace of Santa Claus, where he had many funny adventures. Here the little boy understood a lot, learned a lot. Now Mishka will no longer be a layabout.

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  • Poster for Tortul de ciocolată

    Tortul de ciocolată 1955

    An animated fairy tale movie about the funny adventures of a bear cub who went to congratulate his uncle and present him with a cake.

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  • Poster for Furtună în Pacific

    Furtună în Pacific 1985

    Ship "Saturn" prepares to return home from the American west coast. The ship is damaged at a very bad time, when a severe storm comes their way, they loose propulsion. The currents are pulling them towards a rocky island and they must try the impossible to save themselves.

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  • Poster for Raliul

    Raliul 1984

    Young Thasica Pribeag follows her passion for cars and rallies, despite all the obstacles she faces.

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  • Poster for The Gold Diggers

    The Gold Diggers 1986

    Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and torturous life, which, due to famine, John Tarwater falls victim to.

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  • Poster for Marinica's Bodkin

    Marinica's Bodkin 1955

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  • Naica and the Little Fish 1963

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  • Poster for Saint Teresa and the Devils

    Saint Teresa and the Devils 1972

    September, 1944. A group of soldiers and resistance fighters set to blow up a viaduct of strategic value.

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  • Poster for Good Evening, Irina

    Good Evening, Irina 1980

    Irina is married with a sea captain, that is away for the better part of the year. She is missing his company, so she is vulnerable to the advances of another man.

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  • The Extinct Volcano 1987

    A young geologist who believes strongly in the existence of a huge copper deposit. He will fight to prove this, while his mentor suffers a serious accident.

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  • Under the Circus Dome 1962

    A kid looses his dog, which went to spend some time with a circus troupe.

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  • Poster for Missing Witnesses

    Missing Witnesses 1988

    At the end of XIX century, Romania, A boyar tries to send a trunk full of jewels to his daughter abroad. Only that the trunk doesn't make the trip, so the daughter comes in the country to recover it, enlisting the help of some outlaws.

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  • Poster for Scopul și mijloacele

    Scopul și mijloacele 1983

    MIhai, a young high school graduate, discovers serios problems in the factory where he just got hired, and gets in conflict with his step father, which is the director.

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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1968

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