Top 20 drama movies on Netflix

In 1940s America, Don Vito Corleone is the powerful leader of a New York mafia family. He has four children, including the impulsive Sonny, the faint-hearted Fredo, and Michael, who wants nothing to do with his father's criminal activities. When Don Corleone refuses to get involved in the drug trade, a rival gang orders his assassination, leading to a brutal and bloody war between mafia families.

Genres: Crime, Drama

Continuation of the history of the Corleone through two parallel stories: Michael's choice as head of family businesses and the origins of the patriarch, Don Vito Corleone, first in his native Sicily and later in the United States, where, starting from below , he became a powerful head of the New York mafia.

Genres: Crime, Drama

Forrest Gump suffers a mental retard from young age. But thanks to his tenacity and good heart, he will be the protagonist of crucial events in his country.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man tired of his gray and monotonous life struggles with insomnia. He meets a charismatic soap salesman who holds a very particular theory: perfectionism is a matter of weak people. Both decide then to found a secret club of fight, where to vent their frustrations and their rage.

Genres: Drama, Cult

Private James Ryan launched himself with his squadron of paratroopers behind enemy lines. His three brothers have died in the war and the men of Captain John Miller’s patrol must risk their lives to find him.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, History

"Cinema Paradiso" is a love story about Salvatore, a child from an Italian village whose passion is going to the movies. He believes cinema is magical until Alfredo, the projectionist, reveals the secrets behind films. As Salvatore grows up, he leaves his hometown but receives a message thirty years later telling him to return.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) promises a black slave to release him if he helps him catch assasins. He accepts, then wants to go find his wife, a slave in a plantation of landowner Calvin Candie.

Genre: Drama

A pianist sees a gradually change of Warsaw as World War II begins. He is forced into a ghetto in Warsaw, but later he isseparated from his family during Operation Reinhard.

Genres: Drama, Biography

In the second world war, Shosanna Dreyfus witnessed the execution of her family. After fleeing to Paris, she adopted a new identity as the owner of a cinema. Lieutenant Aldo Raine trained a group of Jewish soldiers ("The Basterds") to attack concrete targets.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Neil is an expert thief. His gang is formed by professional criminals that they can even impress Detective Vincent Hanna. When McCauley’s gang prepares the final blow, and Hanna’s team is ready to avoid it.

Genres: Drama, Crime

Tony Montana is a cold and relentless Cuban migrant who settles in Miami for the purpose of becoming an important gangster. With the collaboration of his friend Manny Rivera begins a fulgurating criminal career, as a cocaine dealer.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Action/Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

In the mid-1980s, Belfort was an honest young man chasing the American dream, but soon at the stock exchange agency he learned that the most important thing was not to win his customers, but to be ambitious and win a good commission. His enormous success and fortune earned him the nickname of "The Wall Street Wolf".

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Vijay Salgaonkar, a cable operator in the small Goan town lives with his wife and two daughters. His teenage daughter goes to a college camp where he is recorded while showering.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

A brilliant student, John Forbes Nash is a lonely boy. Thanks to his prodigious ability to decipher codes he is recruited to help U.S. in the cold war.

Genres: Drama, Biography, Romance

In the crudest of World War I, two young soldiers will have to cross enemy territory. In a race against the clock, they'll have to deliver a message that will prevent a deadly attack.

Genres: Drama, History, Action/Adventure

A story about family, greed and religion. Daniel Day-Lewis plays a wealthy magnate in a miserable city. Years later, he tries to seize a new site, he has to face preacher Eli Sunday.

Genre: Drama

A love story between a mentally ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his adorable six-year-old daughter. The prison would be his home. Based on the 2013 Korean film 7-beon-bang-ui seon-mul.

Genre: Drama

The story of a young woman who decides to go on her honeymoon alone. Rani Mehra puts herself in a situation where she finally makes the most unlikely decision of her life.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Solomon tells the story of a black musician cult who lived with his family in New York. After having a drink with two men, Solomon discovers he has been drugged and kidnapped. He decides not to give up and wait for the right time to regain freedom.

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

On the day of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife Amy has mysteriously disappeared. But soon the police and media pressure makes Nick's portrait of domestic happiness begin to waver. And everyone begins to wonder if Nick killed his wife.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller