Top 20 drama movies on Netflix

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Jules and Vincent, two dim-witted hit men, work for gangster Marsellus Wallace. Vincent tells Jules that Marsellus has asked him to take care of Mia, his attractive wife. When it's time to work, you both need to "get down to business". His mission: retrieve a mysterious briefcase.

Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Runtime: 154 min

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

8.6 /10 8.9 /10

2. 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

8.2 /10 8.8 /10

3. Gladiator (2000)

In the year 180, the Roman Empire dominates the known world. After a great victory over the barbarians of the north, the old emperor Marco Aurelio decides to transfer power to Maximus. His son, who aspired to the throne, does not accept it and tries to murder Maximus.

Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

Director: Ridley Scott

Runtime: 155 min

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

7.9 /10 8.5 /10

4. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

The story of a young woman with a curse that gives her the look of an old woman. Sophie decides to ask a magician Howl, who lives in a walking castle, for help.

Actors: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 119 min

Genres: Animation, Anime, Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Drama

7.8 /10 8.2 /10

5. Queen (2013)

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.

Actors: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon

Director: Vikas Bahl

Runtime: 146 min

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama

8.1 /10

6. EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² (1997)

After the final Angel's defeat, Shinji Ikari falls into a deep depression. Eventually, Shinji is pushed to the brink of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

Actors: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura

Directors: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki

Runtime: 87 min

Genres: Animation, Anime, Action/Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science fiction

8.1 /10

7. Oh My God (2012)

The story is about an atheist man, who loses his business due to small earthquake. As the insurer cannot fulfill the contract since it is "an act of God", he decides to sue the gods.

Actors: Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty

Director: Umesh Shukla

Runtime: 125 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy

6.4 /10 8.1 /10

8. Castle in the Sky (1986)

Sheeta and Pazu set in motion a chain of irreversible events. They will find a treasure far greater than the power of ruling the world.

Actors: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 124 min

Genres: Animation, Anime, Action/Adventure, Family, Drama, Fantasy, Science fiction, Romance

7.5 /10 8.0 /10

9. Marriage Story (2019)

Charlie, a New York theater director, and his female actress, Nicole, are struggling to overcome a divorce process.

Actors: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer

Director: Noah Baumbach

Runtime: 137 min

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance

7.2 /10 7.9 /10

10. Whisper of the Heart (1995)

A young student discovers that all the books she has chosen in the library have been previously chosen by the same person. When she discovers who he is, she meets the young man who is learning the art of making violins.

Actors: Yoko Honna, Issey Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana

Director: Yoshifumi Kondô

Runtime: 111 min

Genres: Animation, Anime, Drama, Family, Romance, Musical

7.3 /10 7.9 /10

11. Wonder (2017)

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial deformity that has forced him to have surgery 27 times, strives to fit into his new school.

Actors: Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Izabela Vidovic

Director: Stephen Chbosky

Runtime: 113 min

Genres: Drama, Family

7.1 /10 7.9 /10

12. Knives Out (2019)

When the renowned mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his mansion, just after the family celebration of his 85th birthday, detective Benoit Blanc is recruited to investigate the matter. He will move among a network of false clues and interesting lies to try to discover the truth after the writer's death.

Actors: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas

Director: Rian Johnson

Runtime: 130 min

Genres: Comedy, Drama

7.2 /10 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

7.2 /10 7.8 /10

14. Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies his house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the future happiness and security of the family depend on the marriages of their daughters.

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

Director: Joe Wright

Runtime: 127 min

Genres: Drama, Romance

7.8 /10

15. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer (Thomas) is a young German patriot eager to fight. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and his friends are killed or seriously injured, Paul questions the sanity of fighting.

Actors: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer

Director: Edward Berger

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

7.8 /10

16. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

In 1969, one of the most popular trials in the history of the United States took place, in which seven people accused of conspiring against national security were tried. This event would bring with it a series of social conflicts that would go down in posterity at a time of great changes at all levels of American people.

Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen

Director: Aaron Sorkin

Runtime: 129 min

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery

7.0 /10 7.7 /10

17. Beasts of No Nation (2015)

In the midst of a civil war in an African country, little Agu, separated from his mother, loses the rest of his family and becomes a child soldier, manipulated by a fearsome warlord, Commander, who will teach him to kill and instruct him in the ways of war.

Actors: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

Runtime: 137 min

Genre: Drama

7.3 /10 7.7 /10

18. ROMA (2018)

Cleo is the young servant of a family that lives in Colonia Roma, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City. In this love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to paint a realistic and emotional portrait of domestic conflicts and social hierarchies during the political turmoil of the 1970s.

Actors: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Runtime: 135 min

Genre: Drama

7.0 /10 7.7 /10

19. The Wind Rises (2013)

Jiro Horikoshi, who dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, is inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Biographical film that recreates historical events that marked his life, such as the 1923 Kanto earthquake, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic, and Japan's entry into World War II.

Actors: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 126 min

Genres: Animation, Anime, Biography, Drama, History, Romance

7.2 /10 7.7 /10

20. The Game (1997)

Billionaire Nicholas Van Orton has everything a man can wish. But Conrad, his discolo brother, is still able to find a birthday gift that may surprise him: his entry into an leisure club capable of designing to the measure of him adventures and exclusive hobbies.

Actors: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn

Director: David Fincher

Runtime: 129 min

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Drama

7.2 /10 7.7 /10