TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated September 30, 2025
Trailer: Lift the Veil
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNeophyte reporter Zoe Barnes and congressman's wife Claire Underwood work all angles of the political game. One lusts for power, the other is married to it. And if power has a name, it's Francis Underwood.
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Trailer: Pain
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAs ruthless as he is calculating, Congressman Francis Underwood will step on anyone to climb the political ladder. His only goal is the remorseless pursuit of power, and the only place worse than being under his thumb is under his boot.
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Trailer: Orange Is the New Black
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTo pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable life for an orange prison jumpsuit. From the creator of "Weeds" comes a hilarious and heartbreaking new series about a woman who finds her true self in the last place she ever expected.
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Trailer: Strip Search
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSurprise bunk tosses, shower foot fungus and army-surplus pudding: Litchfield Prison isn't the environment to which Brooklynite Piper Chapman is accustomed. To sum up: "It's like the Hamptons, only f*ckin' horrible."
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Dawson's Creek: Season 1
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe hit TV series focuses on teenagers Dawson Leery and Joey Potter, who've been friends since they were 5 years old and are trying to cope with the way their relationship is changing ... now that their hormones are raging.
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Dawson's Creek: Season 2
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs the new season of this popular series gets under way, Dawson and Joey start to have qualms about the future of their relationship after their first romantic kiss, and Pacey becomes friendly with Andie McPhee -- the new girl in town.
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Dawson's Creek: Season 3
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTeen angst and raging hormones are again on prominent display in coastal Capeside, Mass. This season finds a jealous Jen continuing her quest to drive a wedge between Dawson and his longtime friend and confidant, Joey.
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Dawson's Creek: Season 4
2000 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCentering on three friends on the cusp of adulthood -- Dawson, Joey and Pacey -- this coming-of-age drama continues to chart their loves, friendships and betrayals as they apply to college, play pranks and lose their virginity.
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Dawson's Creek: Season 5
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis season of the prime-time teen soap finds Dawson, Joey and Pacey facing more of life's most difficult issues as Joey heads off to college, Dawson begins a film internship in Hollywood, and Pacey starts a new career working at a restaurant.
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The Job: The Complete Series
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDenis Leary stars in this unconventional comedy series as hard-drinking, adulterous New York detective Mike McNeil, whose toughest assignment is himself. His approach to fighting crime makes him a great cop, but it takes a toll on his personal life.
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Dawson's Creek: Season 6
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCapeside angst hits a fever pitch during the course of the show's final season as Joey and Dawson rekindle their romance, with mixed results; Audrey helps Pacey and tries her hand at being a rock star; and Jen learns that Grams has cancer.
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Sleeper Cell: Season 1
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsShowtime's timely -- and provocative -- series brings the war on terrorism home, charting the lives and activities of four Islamic extremists intent on causing destruction and panic in post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles. Ordinary and innocuous on the surface, the deadly quartet includes charismatic Arab leader Farik, all-American boy Tommy, former skinhead Christian and Darwyn, an undercover FBI agent charged with infiltrating the terrorist cell.
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Odyssey 5: The Complete Series
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter helplessly witnessing Earth's destruction from outer space, a crew of astronauts gets a chance to change history by traveling five years into the past. With a fragment of computer code as a clue, they launch a search for the responsible party.
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Brotherhood: Season 1
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis edgy serial drama follows sanctimonious politico Tommy Caffee and his mobbed-up brother, Michael. When Michael returns home looking to take over the local syndicate, Tommy's task of protecting the community becomes tricky, to say the least.
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Sleeper Cell: Season 2
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMichael Ealy stars as undercover FBI agent Darwyn Al-Sayeed, a practicing Muslim assigned to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell run by Islamic extremist Faris al-Farik (Oded Fehr). The second season of this riveting Showtime drama kicks off in the wake of al-Farik's daylong terror attack (known as Youmud Din, or "judgment day") against Los Angeles. Omid Abtahi, Thekla Reuten and Kevin Alejandro play the new crop of mission-driven jihadists.
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Brotherhood: Season 2
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTommy is a politician and family man. His brother Mike is Tommy's shadowy reflection: a sadistic gangster who rules the neighborhood's underworld. The fate of their Irish-American community depends on this family's struggle between good and evil.
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Brotherhood: Season 3
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe Caffee brothers -- Providence, R.I.'s answer to Cain and Abel -- are back for another season of this gritty Peabody Award-winning series that follows the complicated relationship between siblings on opposite sides of the law.
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Melrose Place 2.0
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCruise on down to Melrose Place, where med student and part-time call girl Lauren, surfer and wannabe chef Auggie, bisexual good-time girl Ella and other residents shamelessly lie, cheat, steal and sleep their way to the top.
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Brotherhood
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis award-winning series tells the story of two working-class, Irish-American brothers -- self-important politician Tommy Caffee and mobster Michael -- whose divergent personalities make it hard to remember that they are family.
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Sleeper Cell
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis timely and provocative Showtime drama examines the motives of those who inflict terror and of those who attempt to stop them by whatever means necessary, even the possible betrayal of their own religious and political beliefs. Darwyn al-Sayeed (Michael Ealy), an FBI agent and fervent Muslim, goes undercover in a radical Islamic sleeper cell run by Faris al-Farik (Oded Fehr), a brilliant leader who threatens to destroy Darwyn ... and Los Angeles.
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Dawson's Creek
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis thought-provoking nighttime soap about a group of close-knit teens, led by dreamer Dawson Leery, frankly portrays the issues of adolescence that obsess young adults as they navigate through high school and college -- including sex, sex and sex.
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Melrose Place 2.0
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe reboot of the smash 1990s primetime soap revolves around the twentysomething residents of a West Hollywood apartment complex, whose social and professional lives intertwine in platonic, seductive -- and occasionally murderous -- fashion.
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Odyssey 5
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter helplessly witnessing Earth's destruction from outer space, a crew of astronauts gets a chance to change history by traveling five years into the past. With a fragment of computer code as a clue, they launch a search for the responsible party.
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The Job
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. His unconventional approach to fighting crime makes him a great cop, but it takes a toll on his personal life.
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Line of Duty: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is transferred to an anti-corruption unit following an accidental shooting during a counterterrorist operation, he and Detective Constable Kate Fleming lead an investigation into an officer's alleged corruption.
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