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. Heat (1995)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10

2. Scarface (1983)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10

3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.8 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10

4. 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

5. There Will Be Blood (2007)

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.

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

6. 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.

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Family

IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

7. 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

8. 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.

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

IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

9. 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.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

10. Marriage Story (2019)

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

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.9 /10

11. 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.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.9 /10

12. 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.

Genres: Drama, Family

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 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.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

14. The Hateful Eight (2015)

A bounty hunter and his fugitive try to get to the village of Red Rock, by the way, they meet two unknowns. The four rooms take refuge in Minnie’s haberdashery, a stop for errands of a mountain port. When they arrive at the local they come up with four unknown faces .

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

15. Captain Phillips (2013)

In 2009, the "Maersk Alabama" was sailing in international waters near Somalia. It was carrying a valuable cargo.

Genres: Drama, Action/Adventure

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

16. The Big Short (2015)

Four guys outside the system were the only ones who glimpsed that the entire mortgage market was going to collapse. They then decided to do something unusual: bet against the housing market on the downside, against any logical criteria at that time...

Genres: History, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

17. 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.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama

IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

18. 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.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

19. 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.

Genre: Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

20. 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.

Genre: Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10