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Netflix - Top 200 Dramas

Sort and filter through the top rated Drama movies currently in the Netflix catalogue. If it were my choice Forrest Gump would be at the top

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Rated
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Plot
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1

Gardeners of Eden

2014
N/A
72
Austin Peck, Anneliese Vandenberg
8.90
2

The Jones Family Will Make a Way

2015
N/A
91
Alan Berg
8.90
3

Pulp Fiction

1994
R
154
Quentin Tarantino
94
8.90
4

Forrest Gump

1994
PG-13
142
Robert Zemeckis
82
8.80
5

How I Got Over

2014
N/A
87
Nicole Boxer
8.80
6

City of God

2002
R
130
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
79
8.70
7

Black Friday

2004
N/A
143
Anurag Kashyap
76
8.60
8

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

2008
N/A
95
Kurt Kuenne
82
8.60
9

The Best of Youth

2003
R
383
Marco Tullio Giordana
89
8.50
10

Children of Heaven

1997
PG
89
Majid Majidi
8.50
11

Cinema Paradiso

1988
R
155
Giuseppe Tornatore
80
8.50
12

Django Unchained

2012
R
165
Quentin Tarantino
81
8.50
13

The Invisible Front

2014
N/A
76
Jonas Ohman, Vincas Sruoginis
65
8.50
14

American Beauty

1999
R
122
Sam Mendes
86
8.40
15

Braveheart

1995
R
178
Mel Gibson
68
8.40
16

A Clockwork Orange

1971
X
136
Stanley Kubrick
78
8.40
17

Not Yet Begun to Fight

2012
N/A
60
Shasta Grenier, Sabrina Lee
78
8.40
18

Oldboy

2003
R
120
Chan-wook Park
74
8.40
19

Reservoir Dogs

1992
R
99
Quentin Tarantino
78
8.40
20

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962
N/A
129
Robert Mulligan
8.40
21

Above All Else

2014
N/A
95
John Fiege
8.30
22

Amadeus

1984
R
160
Milos Forman
93
8.30
23

Broken

2013
N/A
79
Aldo D. Napoli, Doug Scheiber
8.30
24

Scarface

1983
R
170
Brian De Palma
65
8.30
25

Good Will Hunting

1997
R
126
Gus Van Sant
70
8.30
26

Hoop Dreams

1994
PG-13
170
Steve James
98
8.30
27

How to Die in Oregon

2011
N/A
107
Peter Richardson
8.30
28

The Hunt

2012
R
115
Thomas Vinterberg
76
8.30
29

Inglourious Basterds

2009
R
153
Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
69
8.30
30

It's Such a Beautiful Day

2012
N/A
62
Don Hertzfeldt
90
8.30
31

Limited Partnership

2014
N/A
74
Thomas G. Miller
8.30
32

Winter Sleep

2014
N/A
196
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
88
8.30
33

Barfi!

2012
N/A
151
Anurag Basu
8.20
34

Divorce Corp

2014
N/A
93
Joseph Sorge
39
8.20
35

Into the Wild

2007
R
148
Sean Penn
73
8.20
36

Ship of Theseus

2012
N/A
140
Anand Gandhi
8.20
37

Trainspotting

1996
R
94
Danny Boyle
83
8.20
38

Ugly

2013
N/A
128
Anurag Kashyap
8.20
39

V for Vendetta

2005
R
132
James McTeigue
62
8.20
40

About Elly

2009
N/A
119
Asghar Farhadi
87
8.10
41

Blackfish

2013
PG-13
83
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
83
8.10
42

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969
M
110
George Roy Hill
58
8.10
43

The Conformist

1970
R
111
Bernardo Bertolucci
100
8.10
44

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

2010
UNRATED
115
José Padilha
71
8.10
45

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

2009
G
93
Lasse Hallström
8.10
46

The Hand That Feeds

2014
N/A
85
Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears
63
8.10
47

Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

2013
N/A
231
Edgar Reitz
70
8.10
48

Ip Man

2008
R
106
Wilson Yip
59
8.10
49

Jail Caesar

2012
N/A
90
Paul Schoolman
8.10
50

Kal Ho Naa Ho

2003
N/A
186
Nikkhil Advani
54
8.10
51

Laura

1944
APPROVED
88
Otto Preminger
8.10
52

The Square

2013
N/A
95
Jehane Noujaim
84
8.10
53

There Will Be Blood

2007
R
158
Paul Thomas Anderson
92
8.10
54

The Thin Blue Line

1988
N/A
103
Errol Morris
79
8.10
55

Touching the Void

2003
R
106
Kevin Macdonald
82
8.10
56

The Truman Show

1998
PG
103
Peter Weir
90
8.10
57

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007
PG-13
112
Julian Schnabel
92
8.00
58

His Girl Friday

1940
APPROVED
92
Howard Hawks
8.00
59

In Bruges

2008
R
107
Martin McDonagh
67
8.00
60

Innocent Voices

2004
R
120
Luis Mandoki
66
8.00
61

Kagemusha

1980
PG
162
Akira Kurosawa
8.00
62

Kano

2014
N/A
185
Chih-Hsiang Ma
8.00
63

Little England

2013
N/A
132
Pantelis Voulgaris
8.00
64

Mission Blue

2014
N/A
95
Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
77
8.00
65

Mystic River

2003
R
138
Clint Eastwood
84
8.00
66

Short Term 12

2013
R
96
Destin Daniel Cretton
82
8.00
67

Sling Blade

1996
R
135
Billy Bob Thornton
84
8.00
68

The Way He Looks

2014
N/A
96
Daniel Ribeiro
71
8.00
69

What's Love Got to Do with It?

2013
N/A
84
Rohena Gera
8.00
70

3 Women

1977
PG
124
Robert Altman
71
7.90
71

Almost Famous

2000
R
122
Cameron Crowe
90
7.90
72

Baran

2001
PG
94
Majid Majidi
79
7.90
73

Boogie Nights

1997
R
155
Paul Thomas Anderson
85
7.90
74

The Chorus

2004
PG-13
97
Christophe Barratier
56
7.90
75

Confusion Na Wa

2013
N/A
105
Kenneth Gyang
7.90
76

The Genius of Marian

2013
TV-PG
85
Banker White, Anna Fitch
7.90
77

The Killer

1989
R
111
John Woo
7.90
78

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

2015
N/A
30
Alik Sakharov
7.90
79

Mr. Nobody

2009
R
141
Jaco Van Dormael
63
7.90
80

My Left Foot

1989
R
103
Jim Sheridan
7.90
81

Nightcrawler

2014
R
117
Dan Gilroy
76
7.90
82

Out in the Line-up

2014
N/A
69
Ian W. Thomson
7.90
83

The Quiet Man

1952
N/A
129
John Ford
7.90
84

Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story

1988
N/A
100
Roy Campanella II
7.90
85

The Right Stuff

1983
PG
193
Philip Kaufman
7.90
86

That's Not Us

2015
UNRATED
97
William Sullivan
7.90
87

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

1978
R
115
Chia-Liang Liu
7.80
88

After the Wedding

2006
R
120
Susanne Bier
78
7.80
89

Atonement

2007
R
123
Joe Wright
85
7.80
90

Autism in Love

2015
N/A
76
Matt Fuller
7.80
91

Beasts of No Nation

2015
N/A
137
Cary Joji Fukunaga
79
7.80
92

The Best Offer

2013
R
131
Giuseppe Tornatore
49
7.80
93

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

2008
PG-13
94
Mark Herman
55
7.80
94

Changeling

2008
R
141
Clint Eastwood
63
7.80
95

The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951
APPROVED
92
Robert Wise
7.80
96

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009
R
152
Niels Arden Oplev
76
7.80
97

In Bloom

2013
N/A
102
Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
72
7.80
98

Katiyabaaz

2013
N/A
84
Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa
7.80
99

Kolya

1996
PG-13
105
Jan Sverák
7.80
100

The Longest Day

1962
G
178
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Gerd Oswald, Darryl F. Zanuck
7.80
101

The Magdalene Sisters

2002
R
114
Peter Mullan
83
7.80
102

Moonrise Kingdom

2012
PG-13
94
Wes Anderson
84
7.80
103

Never a Neverland

2014
N/A
53
Ricky Norris
7.80
104

Dear Frankie

2004
PG-13
105
Shona Auerbach
63
7.80
105

The Sandlot

1993
PG
101
David M. Evans
7.80
106

Silenced

2014
N/A
102
James Spione
7.80
107

Silver Linings Playbook

2012
R
122
David O. Russell
81
7.80
108

Twelve O'Clock High

1949
N/A
132
Henry King
7.80
109

Water

2005
PG-13
117
Deepa Mehta
77
7.80
110

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993
PG-13
118
Lasse Hallström
7.80
111

Where Was God?

2014
N/A
89
Travis Palmer
7.80
112

Bang Bang!

2014
N/A
12
Julien Bisaro
7.70
113

The Barbarian Invasions

2003
R
99
Denys Arcand
70
7.70
114

Battle Royale

2000
N/A
114
Kinji Fukasaku
81
7.70
115

Behind the Sun

2001
PG-13
105
Walter Salles
73
7.70
116

Black Hawk Down

2001
R
144
Ridley Scott
74
7.70
117

Carlos

2010
N/A
334
N/A
94
7.70
118

Dead Man

1995
R
121
Jim Jarmusch
61
7.70
119

Desert Runners

2013
N/A
99
Jennifer Steinman
7.70
120

The Forgotten Kingdom

2013
N/A
101
Andrew Mudge
7.70
121

Fresh

1994
R
114
Boaz Yakin
7.70
122

Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!

1994
N/A
206
Sooraj R. Barjatya
7.70
123

Journey of Hope

1990
PG
110
Xavier Koller
7.70
124

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

2005
R
112
Chan-wook Park
75
7.70
125

Love Actually

2003
R
135
Richard Curtis
55
7.70
126

The Machinist

2004
R
101
Brad Anderson
61
7.70
127

On Golden Pond

1981
PG
109
Mark Rydell
7.70
128

Primal Fear

1996
R
129
Gregory Hoblit
47
7.70
129

Shane

1953
APPROVED
118
George Stevens
7.70
130

Sophie's Choice

1982
R
150
Alan J. Pakula
68
7.70
131

A Summer's Tale

1996
G
113
Éric Rohmer
91
7.70
132

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2002
R
129
Chan-wook Park
56
7.70
133

Thomas in Bloom

2006
N/A
14
Jeff Prugh
7.70
134

Victoria

2015
N/A
138
Sebastian Schipper
77
7.70
135

Weekend

2011
N/A
97
Andrew Haigh
81
7.70
136

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939
APPROVED
100
John Ford
7.70
137

13 Assassins

2010
R
141
Takashi Miike
87
7.60
138

Amal

2007
N/A
101
Richie Mehta
7.60
139

An Affair to Remember

1957
N/A
119
Leo McCarey
7.60
140

Beyond the Hills

2012
N/A
150
Cristian Mungiu
79
7.60
141

Boys

2014
N/A
78
Mischa Kamp
7.60
142

Butterfly

1999
R
96
José Luis Cuerda
69
7.60
143

Chaplin

1992
PG-13
143
Richard Attenborough
7.60
144

The Concert

2009
PG-13
119
Radu Mihaileanu
60
7.60
145

Crippled Avengers

1978
R
107
Cheh Chang
7.60
146

The Crow

1994
R
102
Alex Proyas
71
7.60
147

The Enemy Below

1957
APPROVED
98
Dick Powell
7.60
148

Every Three Seconds

2014
N/A
99
Daniel G. Karslake
7.60
149

Headhunters

2011
R
100
Morten Tyldum
72
7.60
150

Inside Man

2006
R
129
Spike Lee
76
7.60
151

Instructions Not Included

2013
PG-13
122
Eugenio Derbez
55
7.60
152

Iron Monkey

1993
PG-13
85
Woo-Ping Yuen
79
7.60
153

The Kite Runner

2007
PG-13
128
Marc Forster
61
7.60
154

Metro Manila

2013
N/A
115
Sean Ellis
65
7.60
155

No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie

2013
PG
79
Troy Kotsur
7.60
156

Philomena

2013
PG-13
98
Stephen Frears
76
7.60
157

Piku

2015
N/A
123
Shoojit Sircar
7.60
158

Queen of Carthage

2015
R
92
Mardana M. Mayginnes
7.60
159

A Single Man

2009
R
99
Tom Ford
77
7.60
160

Sin Nombre

2009
R
96
Cary Joji Fukunaga
77
7.60
161

Tell No One

2006
UNRATED
131
Guillaume Canet
82
7.60
162

The True Cost

2015
PG-13
92
Andrew Morgan
46
7.60
163

The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967
G
125
Jacques Demy
7.60
164

Adam: His Song Continues

1986
N/A
100
Robert Markowitz
7.50
165

After Tiller

2013
PG-13
85
Martha Shane, Lana Wilson
75
7.50
166

Any Day Now

2012
R
98
Travis Fine
60
7.50
167

Arranged

2007
N/A
90
Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer
7.50
168

The Avenging Eagle

1978
R
90
Chung Sun
7.50
169

The Aviator

2004
PG-13
170
Martin Scorsese
77
7.50
170

Beyond Silence

1996
PG-13
109
Caroline Link
7.50
171

Blood Cells

2014
N/A
86
Joseph Bull, Luke Seomore
7.50
172

Boy

2010
N/A
87
Taika Waititi
70
7.50
173

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002
PG
94
Phillip Noyce
80
7.50
174

Dirty Wars

2013
N/A
87
Rick Rowley
76
7.50
175

Dum Laga Ke Haisha

2015
N/A
110
Sharat Katariya
7.50
176

Elizabeth

1998
R
124
Shekhar Kapur
75
7.50
177

Equilibrium

2002
R
107
Kurt Wimmer
33
7.50
178

Even the Rain

2010
UNRATED
103
Icíar Bollaín
69
7.50
179

Fruitvale Station

2013
R
85
Ryan Coogler
85
7.50
180

Harry and Tonto

1974
R
115
Paul Mazursky
7.50
181

The House That Jack Built

2013
N/A
90
Henry Barrial
7.50
182

I'm Not Scared

2003
R
108
Gabriele Salvatores
73
7.50
183

In the Bedroom

2001
R
130
Todd Field
86
7.50
184

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...

2001
N/A
210
Karan Johar
7.50
185

Keith

2008
PG-13
93
Todd Kessler
7.50
186

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944
APPROVED
137
John M. Stahl
7.50
187

King of Devil's Island

2010
N/A
116
Marius Holst
7.50
188

Living on One Dollar

2013
N/A
56
Zach Ingrasci, Sean Leonard, Chris Temple
7.50
189

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991
R
125
Leos Carax
7.50
190

Mississippi Damned

2009
N/A
120
Tina Mabry
7.50
191

The Nasty Girl

1990
PG-13
92
Michael Verhoeven
7.50
192

The Overnighters

2014
PG-13
102
Jesse Moss
89
7.50
193

Passion Fish

1992
R
135
John Sayles
7.50
194

People Will Talk

1951
APPROVED
110
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7.50
195

Pleasantville

1998
PG-13
124
Gary Ross
71
7.50
196

Queen Margot

1994
R
159
Patrice Chéreau
7.50
197

Ridicule

1996
R
102
Patrice Leconte
7.50
198

Stations of the Cross

2014
UNRATED
110
Dietrich Brüggemann
68
7.50
199

Swim Little Fish Swim

2013
N/A
95
Ruben Amar, Lola Bessis
54
7.50
200

Tear This Heart Out

2008
R
107
Roberto Sneider
7.50
1

Gardeners of Eden

2

The Jones Family Will Make a Way

3

Pulp Fiction

4

Forrest Gump

5

How I Got Over

6

City of God

7

Black Friday

8

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

9

The Best of Youth

10

Children of Heaven

11

Cinema Paradiso

12

Django Unchained

13

The Invisible Front

14

American Beauty

15

Braveheart

16

A Clockwork Orange

17

Not Yet Begun to Fight

18

Oldboy

19

Reservoir Dogs

20

To Kill a Mockingbird

21

Above All Else

22

Amadeus

23

Broken

24

Scarface

25

Good Will Hunting

26

Hoop Dreams

27

How to Die in Oregon

28

The Hunt

29

Inglourious Basterds

30

It's Such a Beautiful Day

31

Limited Partnership

32

Winter Sleep

33

Barfi!

34

Divorce Corp

35

Into the Wild

36

Ship of Theseus

37

Trainspotting

38

Ugly

39

V for Vendetta

40

About Elly

41

Blackfish

42

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

43

The Conformist

44

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

45

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

46

The Hand That Feeds

47

Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

48

Ip Man

49

Jail Caesar

50

Kal Ho Naa Ho

51

Laura

52

The Square

53

There Will Be Blood

54

The Thin Blue Line

55

Touching the Void

56

The Truman Show

57

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

58

His Girl Friday

59

In Bruges

60

Innocent Voices

61

Kagemusha

62

Kano

63

Little England

64

Mission Blue

65

Mystic River

66

Short Term 12

67

Sling Blade

68

The Way He Looks

69

What's Love Got to Do with It?

70

3 Women

71

Almost Famous

72

Baran

73

Boogie Nights

74

The Chorus

75

Confusion Na Wa

76

The Genius of Marian

77

The Killer

78

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

79

Mr. Nobody

80

My Left Foot

81

Nightcrawler

82

Out in the Line-up

83

The Quiet Man

84

Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story

85

The Right Stuff

86

That's Not Us

87

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

88

After the Wedding

89

Atonement

90

Autism in Love

91

Beasts of No Nation

92

The Best Offer

93

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

94

Changeling

95

The Day the Earth Stood Still

96

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

97

In Bloom

98

Katiyabaaz

99

Kolya

100

The Longest Day

101

The Magdalene Sisters

102

Moonrise Kingdom

103

Never a Neverland

104

Dear Frankie

105

The Sandlot

106

Silenced

107

Silver Linings Playbook

108

Twelve O'Clock High

109

Water

110

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

111

Where Was God?

112

Bang Bang!

113

The Barbarian Invasions

114

Battle Royale

115

Behind the Sun

116

Black Hawk Down

117

Carlos

118

Dead Man

119

Desert Runners

120

The Forgotten Kingdom

121

Fresh

122

Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!

123

Journey of Hope

124

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

125

Love Actually

126

The Machinist

127

On Golden Pond

128

Primal Fear

129

Shane

130

Sophie's Choice

131

A Summer's Tale

132

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

133

Thomas in Bloom

134

Victoria

135

Weekend

136

Young Mr. Lincoln

137

13 Assassins

138

Amal

139

An Affair to Remember

140

Beyond the Hills

141

Boys

142

Butterfly

143

Chaplin

144

The Concert

145

Crippled Avengers

146

The Crow

147

The Enemy Below

148

Every Three Seconds

149

Headhunters

150

Inside Man

151

Instructions Not Included

152

Iron Monkey

153

The Kite Runner

154

Metro Manila

155

No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie

156

Philomena

157

Piku

158

Queen of Carthage

159

A Single Man

160

Sin Nombre

161

Tell No One

162

The True Cost

163

The Young Girls of Rochefort

164

Adam: His Song Continues

165

After Tiller

166

Any Day Now

167

Arranged

168

The Avenging Eagle

169

The Aviator

170

Beyond Silence

171

Blood Cells

172

Boy

173

Rabbit-Proof Fence

174

Dirty Wars

175

Dum Laga Ke Haisha

176

Elizabeth

177

Equilibrium

178

Even the Rain

179

Fruitvale Station

180

Harry and Tonto

181

The House That Jack Built

182

I'm Not Scared

183

In the Bedroom

184

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...

185

Keith

186

The Keys of the Kingdom

187

King of Devil's Island

188

Living on One Dollar

189

The Lovers on the Bridge

190

Mississippi Damned

191

The Nasty Girl

192

The Overnighters

193

Passion Fish

194

People Will Talk

195

Pleasantville

196

Queen Margot

197

Ridicule

198

Stations of the Cross

199

Swim Little Fish Swim

200

Tear This Heart Out