Dramas on Netflix
Last updated August 03, 2025
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSiblings Jay and Mark Duplass direct this comedy focusing on two brothers -- one a moderate success, the other still living with Mom. A trip to the store for glue, however, turns into an encounter with destiny for the stay-at-home slacker.
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Masterpiece Classic: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCentering on a provincial choirmaster's fixation with a 17-year-old girl, this chilling adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished final novel spins a disturbing tale of obsession, addiction and the darkness that lurks in men.
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Guilty
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this gripping drama based on a true story, family man Alain Marécaux battles to prove his innocence after he's wrongly accused of an unspeakable crime. Jailed and entangled in a legal morass, Marécaux sees his whole life turned upside down.
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Back to 1942
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAt the height of World War II, millions of rural Chinese refugees embark on a desperate journey to escape a widespread provincial famine. Fraught with danger, their trek soon begins to erode the invisible lines separating cultures and classes.
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Welcome Aboard
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a legendary painter meets a feisty teenage runaway, their lives seem destined to connect. Striking up a strong friendship and eventually living together as father and daughter, the two misfits help each other make sense of their lives.
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Wild Bill
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsOut on parole after 8 years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15-year-old sons, Jimmy and Dean, abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
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Masterpiece Classic: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCentering on a provincial choirmaster's fixation with a 17-year-old girl, this chilling adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished final novel spins a disturbing tale of obsession, addiction and the darkness that lurks in men.
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Midnight Cowboy
1969 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTo earn cash as a freelance sex stud and work toward his dream of becoming a kept man, hayseed hustler Joe Buck heads to New York City, where an improbable friendship blossoms when he meets seedy con man Ratso Rizzo.
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Rocky IV
1985 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsRocky must come out of retirement to battle a gargantuan Soviet fighter named Drago, who brutally punished Rocky's friend and ex-rival, Apollo Creed. Seeking revenge in the name of his fallen comrade and his country, Rocky fights Drago in Moscow.
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Hoffa
1992 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJack Nicholson stars as infamous Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa in this biopic that traces Hoffa's rise through labor's ranks to create the most powerful union in the country and posits a guess as to what happened to him when he vanished without a trace.
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Weekend
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis frank drama centers on the cautious relationship between two gay men -- one a genial lifeguard, the other a lusty art-gallery worker -- who contemplate turning a passionate one-night stand into something more meaningful.
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Anastasia
1956 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1928 Paris, a pair of Russian émigrés coaches a troubled girl to impersonate Anastasia, the presumed-dead daughter of Czar Nicholas II, in order to collect a reward. As the hoax unfolds, the conspirators suspect they've found the real Anastasia.
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Soul Food
1997 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTraditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when three sisters start bringing their problems to the dinner table. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad to pull the family together and put the soul back into the weekly gatherings.
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Catch-22
1970 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCapt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air Force commanders that he's crazy. Hilarity ensues -- but so does reality as he watches his close friends (Martin Sheen and Art Garfunkel) die in the ridiculousness of war. Mike Nichols directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.
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The Dresser
1983 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAlbert Finney is by turns poignant and darkly comic as an aging lead actor (oddly named Sir) of a touring troupe of thespians who perform "King Lear" throughout war-ravaged England. Sir's devoted dresser, Norman (Tom Courtenay), is the only man who can keep the harried and increasingly delusional actor from breaking down in between -- and sometimes during -- performances in this heartfelt film from director Peter Yates.
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The White Masai
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen young Swiss woman Carola Lehmann (Nina Hoss) goes on vacation to Kenya with her boyfriend, she becomes deeply fascinated by Masai tribesman Lemalian Mamutelil (Jacky Ido) -- so much so, in fact, that she ends up abandoning her traveling mate to join him. To make this radical choice a success, Carola must adopt the Masai lifestyle -- including taking on what they perceive to be the proper roles and behavior of women.
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Serendipity
2001 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThough strangers Sara Thomas and Jonathan Trager are already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter -- but they soon part company. Years later, they yearn to reunite despite being destined for the altar.
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Intimate Enemies
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn the mountains of Algeria, French army Lt. Terrien (Benoît Magimel) takes command of a platoon and is soon leading the men into a dangerous place called the Forbidden Zone, where Terrien's will is tested by the atrocities of war. Struggling to maintain his morality amid the torture and massacre of innocents, Terrien faces off against Sgt. Dougnac (Albert Dupontel), who asserts a more pragmatic approach to war.
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My Bodyguard
1980 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTormented by a gang of bullies -- led by Matt Dillon, in one of his first film roles -- sheltered new kid Clifford (Chris Makepeace) seeks protection from older student Linderman (Adam Baldwin), a burly loner who's rumored to have killed -- and possibly eaten -- his own brother. Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon and Joan Cusack also star in this coming-of-age story about an unlikely friendship between two outcasts. Tony Bill directs.
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White Irish Drinkers
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn a blue-collar Irish section of 1970s Brooklyn, brothers Danny (Geoff Wigdor) and Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) come of age in a family dominated by their longshoreman father, Patrick (Stephen Lang), whose hard-drinking leaves them scrambling for a way out. As delinquent Danny and dejected mom Margaret (Karen Allen) take the brunt of Patrick's assaults, aspiring artist Brian hides his dreams. But desperate acts will threaten them all.
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Hope Floats
1998 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsYoung mother Birdee Pruitt returns to her Texas hometown after learning (on national television) that her husband has been unfaithful. Humiliated, Birdee tries to build a new life for herself and her daughter as Birdee's mother plays matchmaker.
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Taps
1981 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsStudent cadet Brian Moreland leads his fellow military classmates in an armed revolt to prevent authorities from turning their school into condominiums. But the young men soon discover that playing soldier has serious consequences.
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The Official Story
1985 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsArgentinean schoolteacher Alicia (Norma Aleandro) is forced to question her government's official story of the "Dirty War" of the 1970s when she suspects that her adopted daughter, Gaby, may be the child of a murdered political prisoner. But her quest for truth takes a heavy toll on her relationship with her conservative husband (Héctor Alterio). This wrenching historical drama won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNoted director Wayne Wang helms this adaptation of Lisa See's best-selling novel about two young girls in 19th-century China who are pledged as lifelong companions through an ancient ritual, although their friendship is sorely tested as they mature.
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Rocky III
1982 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNow the world champion, Rocky Balboa is only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring. But after a pounding by powerful young Clubber Lang, the humbled champ turns to former rival Apollo Creed for help in regaining his form.
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