Top 20 drama movies on Netflix

Drama genre is intended to be a serious genre mixed with intense sensations. A good drama movie can blossom sensations and feelings if you aim to watch series with your partner or alone. Here there are the best drama movies you can watch today in Netflix to have a really intense time.

1. Forrest Gump (1994)

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.

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Runtime: 142 min

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.8 /10

2. 3 Idiots (2009)

Rancho is a boy with a passion for studying and learning. He will become friends with Raju and Farham who will end up becoming his two best friends. When they graduate they lose contact and their two friends decide to find him.

Actors: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Mona Singh

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Runtime: 170 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 8.4 /10

3. Z.N.M.D. (2011)

Three friends decide to go on a singles trip to Spain to enhance their bond. One of them is getting married. What will they learn about themselves and each other during the adventure?

Actors: Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol

Director: Zoya Akhtar

Runtime: 166 min

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Travel, Romance

IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

4. Rang De Basanti (2006)

Sue, an english girl, comes to Mumbai with the idea of filming a documentary based on the diary written by her grandfather, a British officer. She meets disenchanted university students who accompany her in the project.

Actors: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Runtime: 157 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Filmaffinity Rating 6.3 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

5. Barfi! (2012)

A boy with hearing and speech problems falls in love with Shruti. Despite his deep affection for the boy, Shruti gives way to social pressure to marry a "normal" man. Fate will make them meet again.

Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ileana D'Cruz

Director: Anurag Basu

Runtime: 151 min

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

6. PK (2015)

An alien named PK (Aamir Khan) lands on Earth, where he will have to get used to living with humans while fixing his spaceship.

Actors: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Runtime: 153 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Science fiction

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

7. Rush (2013)

It tells of the rivalry between two great Formula 1 drivers, British James Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda, especially in 1976, when Lauda suffered a very serious accident that nearly cost him his life.

Actors: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde

Director: Ron Howard

Runtime: 123 min

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

8. Prisoners (2013)

Keller Dover faces his worst nightmare: his six-year-old daughter, Anna, has disappeared with her friend Joy, and as time passes, he panics. Desperate, she decides to take matters into her own hands. But how far is she willing to go to find out the whereabouts of her daughter?

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Runtime: 153 min

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.6 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

9. Haider (2014)

Haider is a young man who returns to his home in Kashmir after receiving the news of the disappearance of his father. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has been detained by the security forces and that his mother has a relationship with her own uncle.

Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Shraddha Kapoor

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

Runtime: 150 min

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.9 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

10. The Imitation Game (2014)

Biopic about the British mathematician Alan Turing, famous for deciphering the secret Nazi codes contained in the Enigma machine, which determined the advent of World War II (1939-1945) in favor of the Allies. Far from being admired as a hero, Turing was accused and tried for his homosexuality in 1952.

Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode

Director: Morten Tyldum

Runtime: 113 min

Genres: Thriller, LGBTQ, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

11. Lion (2017)

Saroo Brierley is a five-year-old boy who got lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from his home. After a long journey he ended up being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, with the only help of Google Earth, Saroo will try to find his biological family.

Actors: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara

Director: Garth Davis

Runtime: 118 min

Genres: Biography, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

12. Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)

Naina is a serious girl with a very serious life. But one day, her soul is awakened by happy Aman, who teaches her that life is meant to be lived.

Actors: Preity Zinta, Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan

Director: Nikkhil Advani

Runtime: 186 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Musical

IMDB Rating 7.9 /10

13. The Irishman (2019)

Frank Sheeran was a World War II veteran, con man, and hit man who worked with some of the most prominent figures of the 20th century. 'The Irishman' chronicles one of the country's great unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of legendary trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa.

Actors: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

Director: Martin Scorsese

Runtime: 209 min

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography, History, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

14. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

Ricky is a rebellious 12-year-old city boy who can't find shelter for him, except a farm in the middle of nowhere with a couple; she's charming, he's arid and lonely. When he starts to feel at ease, an unforeseen problem will give rise to a human hunt through the New Zealand countryside.

Actors: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata

Director: Taika Waititi

Runtime: 101 min

Genres: Comedy, Action/Adventure, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 6.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

15. Call Me by Your Name (2018)

Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old, spends the warm and sunny summer of 1983 in his parents’ country house in northern Italy. He spends his time lazying, listening to music, reading books and swimming until one day his father’s new american assistant arrives in the great village.

Actors: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Runtime: 132 min

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

16. Road to Perdition (2002)

In the dark years of the great depression, Michael Sullivan is a hired killer who professes an unwavering loyalty to his boss, Mr. Rooney, but he is also a good family father. One day, unexpectedly, Sullivan's son, Michael Jr., decides to follow his father to know what exactly his work is.

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey

Director: Sam Mendes

Runtime: 117 min

Genres: Crime, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

17. The Hangover (2009)

The story of a wild bachelor party in which the groom and three friends are having a big party in Las Vegas. As was to be expected, the next morning they have such a monumental hangover that they cannot remember anything of what happened the night before. The most extraordinary thing is that the groom has disappeared and there is a tiger and a baby in the hotel suite.

Actors: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha

Director: Todd Phillips

Runtime: 100 min

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

18. Sanju (2018)

The Bombay High Court passes judgment in the 1993 Bombay explosion case and Sanjay Dutt is found guilty. Sanju tries to give his life, but is saved by his wife Manyaata, who then asks Winnie Diaz to write his biography.

Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Runtime: 161 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 6.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

19. Seven Pounds (2008)

Ben Thomas, a tax inspector from Los Angeles, contacts some people to help them, but the reasons that move him to act in this way are a mystery. However, when he meets Emily Posa, a young woman who is poorly investigated by tax inspectors and begins to feel attracted to her, her unspeakable plans are shaken.

Actors: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Runtime: 123 min

Genres: Romance, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

20. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

Rahul has just lost his wife, Tina, due to childbirth. His daughter, Anjali, and his mother is all she has left. Tina has left eight letters for her daughter to read on each of her birthday.

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji

Director: Karan Johar

Runtime: 185 min

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Drama

IMDB Rating 7.5 /10