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. The Dark Knight (2008)

Batman/Bruce Wayne returns to continue his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman intends to destroy organized crime in the city of Gotham. But suddenly Joker, appears.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 IMDB Rating 9.0 /10

2. 12th Fail (2023)

A sincere small-town man heads to Delhi to become a police officer, facing systemic adversity at every step ahead of the notorious civil service exams.

Genres: Musical, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.9 /10

3. 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.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.8 /10

4. Fight Club (1999)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 IMDB Rating 8.8 /10

5. Untouchable (2011)

A millionaire aristocrat who has been left quadriplegic because of a paragliding accident, hires an immigrant from a marginal neighborhood just out of prison, as a caretaker at home.

Genres: Drama, Biography

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10

6. Django Unchained (2012)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.9 /10 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10

7. Das Boot (1981)

The battle of the Atlantic - german submarines against freighters supplying Great Britain - is underway. We will see relaxation and fun in the port, boredom of the patrol, the stalking convoy tension, and the sheer terror when they become the hunted.

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

IMDB Rating 8.4 /10

8. Your Name. (2016)

Two teenagers embark on a search for each other when they magically switch bodies.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

IMDB Rating 8.4 /10

9. Joker (2019)

Arthur Fleck lives in Gotham with his mother and his only motivation in life is to make people laugh. He acts as a clown in small jobs, but he has mental problems that make people see him as a freak. A series of tragic events will increase his anger against a society that ignores him.

Genres: Drama, Crime

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.4 /10

10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Eight years ago Batman disappeared, he stopped being a hero to become a fugitive. He sacrificed everything for what he considered, like Commissioner Gordon, a greater good. But everything changes with the arrival of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans force Bruce to return from voluntary exile.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 8.4 /10

11. Like Stars on Earth (2007)

Ishaan Awashi is an 8-year-old boy whose world is full of wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. When the problems he causes surpass his parents, he is admitted to a school to be disciplined. He also has to accept to be away from his parents.

Genres: Drama, Family

Filmaffinity Rating 7.4 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10

12. Drishyam (2015)

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

IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

13. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

Benjamín Espósito is official of an Instruction Court of newly retired instruction. Obsessed by a brutal murder that occurred twenty -five years before, in 1974, he decides to write a novel about the case, of which he witnessed and protagonist. Relivating the past, the memory of a woman also comes to his memory, whom he has loved in silence during all those years.

Genres: Romance, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

14. 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.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.8 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

15. 1917 (2019)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.7 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

16. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

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

IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

17. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

After a long career as a top Navy aviator, Maverick is finally where he wants to be. He is selected to attend the prestigious Top Gun Academy to train elite pilots for a dangerous mission. Alongside him is Bradley, the son of his late friend Goose.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Action/Adventure

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

18. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

The peasants of a small village are reluctant to pay the tax that British officials have doubled. They decide to resolve the conflict by playing a cricket party.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Musical, Romance

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

19. 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.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama

IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

20. The End of Evangelion (1997)

After the final angel is defeated, Shinji falls into depression. Seele orders an attack on Nerv, leading Gendo and Rei to terminal dogma. Gendo initiates his own plan, while Shinji's sanity is tested as he must decide the fate of humanity.

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

IMDB Rating 8.1 /10