Best Romanian science fiction movies

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

  • Poster for Retro Puppet Master

    Retro Puppet Master 1999

    Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

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  • Poster for Snow, Tea and Love

    Snow, Tea and Love 2021

    The story of three friends who, through a less happy situation, end up in prison. There they plan their escape and with the help of a local mobster they manage to escape only to prepare for the next robbery. Too a strange potion with really strange consequences will fall into their hands.

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  • Poster for Omulan!

    Omulan! 2015

    Omulan is traveling through space in search of God.

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  • Poster for Delta Space Mission

    Delta Space Mission 1985

    An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.

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  • Poster for A Fantastic Comedy

    A Fantastic Comedy 1975

    This blend of comedy and psycho-drama is comprised of two disturbing stories. The first tells the tale of a robot who is set to Earth by his home planet to discover new energy sources. In the second a boy is sent into deep space as part of an inhuman experiment designed to create the perfect human.

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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 A Bomb Was Stolen

    A Bomb Was Stolen 1962

    A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.

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  • Poster for Failed Towing

    Failed Towing 1981

    Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series.

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  • Poster for Hyperion

    Hyperion 1975

    Thea, a researcher from an institute for nuclear studies, leaves for a vacation but ends up on an adventure at the boundary between fantasy and reality. On the TV screen the image of a man appears who disappeared 20 years ago after a nuclear explosion. She falls in love with this picture and convinces a colleague and close friend that they can bring back the man who disappeared through a strange reverse process. Her only way to communicate with this picture however is via the TV screen, and her love can only be communicated through dreaming.

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  • Poster for The Planet of the Oceans

    The Planet of the Oceans 1980

    Short film from the Delta Space Mission film series.

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  • Poster for Universe 25

    Universe 25 2025

    Mott the angel is sent on a holy mission in London and Bucharest. In his search for a mysterious saint, he encounters a world that sends him off course and forces him to face his true identity.

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  • Poster for Steps to the Moon

    Steps to the Moon 1963

    An aspiring astronaut prepares his ship for take-off, plugs in a razor and causes a blackout. In the deep darkness the boy imagines himself meeting the literary characters who have enthralled readers past with their stories of space travel.

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  • Poster for The Secret of the Secret Weapon

    The Secret of the Secret Weapon 1988

    In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lot of weapons.

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  • Poster for The Youth Elixir

    The Youth Elixir 1975

    An old geriatrics professor accidentally discovers after a high-school reunion a potion that can rejuvenate anybody and uses it on him and his friends. They all go their new youthful ways but, for most of them, things don't go according to plan.

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  • Poster for Galax Man-Doll

    Galax Man-Doll 1984

    The story of Galax, a robotic 'man-doll', artificially created out of wood and computer circuitry, Appearing to come to life, it becomes a rival for the affections of Marie, a young student and an issue for university authorities.

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