European Alternatives to Netflix

Looking for a European alternative to Netflix? Netflix is a US company whose European catalogue is a fraction of its American one, whose licensing rotates titles out without warning, and whose recommendation profiling sits under US jurisdiction.

European streaming services carry the arthouse cinema, national productions and public-broadcaster archives that global platforms never license — several of them free, and most of them cheaper.

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7 European Alternatives to Netflix

MUBI

Hand-picked cinema, one new film every day

8.8
United Kingdom

ARTE

Free public-service culture, documentaries and concerts

8.7
France / Germany

Filmin

Independent and European cinema on demand

8.4
Spain

Viaplay

Nordic originals plus live football and motorsport

8.2
Sweden

Videoland

Dutch series, films and RTL originals

7.9
Netherlands

Rakuten TV

Free ad-supported channels plus new-release rentals

7.8
Spain

Pantaflix

German pay-per-view platform with no subscription

7.2
Germany

Frequently Asked Questions

MUBI is widely considered the best European alternative to Netflix. Based in United Kingdom, it offers hand-picked cinema, one new film every day. Other strong options include ARTE and Filmin.

Yes. Every provider on this page is established in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which means GDPR (or its UK and Swiss equivalents) applies to them directly rather than through standard contractual clauses. In practice that gives you an EU-law data processing agreement, EU data residency and a supervisory authority you can actually complain to.

Netflix is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, so the data it processes falls under US jurisdiction and can be reached through instruments such as the CLOUD Act regardless of which region you select. A European provider keeps processing under EU law, removes the transfer impact assessment from your compliance workload, and keeps the money inside the European technology economy.

This page compares 7 of them, chosen for European establishment, GDPR compliance and genuine feature parity rather than for being merely available in Europe. See our full video streaming category for the wider list.

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