Best Eastern European Films on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Eastern European Films on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 12 titles in category code 5254. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Kolya (1996)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1996, 1h 45m. A financially strapped Czech concert cellist and bachelor stumbles into a chance relationship caring for a 5-year-old Russian boy.
2. Zelary (2003)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 2003, 2h 27m. When the Gestapo discovers her ties to a resistance group, Eliska seeks refuge with Joza, a mountain dweller to whom she had donated blood.
3. Beyond the Hills (2012)
Rated 7.5/10 on IMDb, from 2012, 2h 32m. When Alina tries to rekindle the intense relationship with her childhood friend Viochita, who's now a nun, things spiral out of control.
4. Son of Saul (2015)
Rated 7.5/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 1h 47m. Amid the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a Jewish prisoner must choose between aiding in a rebellion and giving his son a proper burial.
5. Child's Pose (2013)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 51m. When her son Barbu kills a child with his car, wealthy Romanian Cornelia hopes that spreading money around will make Barbu's problem go away.
6. The President (2014)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2014, 1h 59m. When violent revolutionaries topple his brutal regime, a dictator goes on the run with his young grandson among the very people he once tyrannized.
7. Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
Rated 6.9/10 on IMDb, from 2010, 1h 35m. Paul Hanganu is in love with two women.
8. Dovlatov (2018)
Rated 6.4/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 2h 06m. Over six days in 1971, brilliant writer Sergei Dovlatov encounters maddening barriers to publishing his work under the repressive Soviet regime.
9. When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)
Rated 6.3/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 29m. Exploring the truths and fictions of cinema itself, this film-within-a-film portrays a director smitten by an actress in the movie he's shooting.
10. Bathory (2008)
Rated 6/10 on IMDb, from 2008, 2h 20m. While her husband is off battling the Turks, 16th-century countess Erzsébet Bathory fights to protect her family and her land.