Best Dramas based on classic literature on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Dramas based on classic literature on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 28 titles in category code 13158. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2007, 2h 38m. An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1957, 2h 42m. This sweeping epic is set in a World War II Japanese prison camp, where British prisoners are forced to build a bridge as a morale-building exercise.
3. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 2005, 2h 06m. In Jane Austen's tale of 19th-century England, Mrs.
4. A Little Princess (1995)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1995, 1h 37m. With her father fighting in World War I, young Sara enrolls in boarding school and clashes with a headmistress who tries to stifle her self-worth.
5. Deliverance (1972)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1972, 1h 49m. A canoeing trip down a Georgia river turns sinister when redneck locals descend on a group of friends and force them to kill or be killed.
6. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1966, 2h 00m. When Henry VIII seeks approval from the aristocracy to divorce, Sir Thomas More finds himself caught between the king and the Roman Catholic Church.
7. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1992, 1h 51m. When rugged frontiersman Hawkeye saves the Munro sisters from a Huron ambush, he ends up in a battle between the British and the French.
8. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 1995, 2h 16m. Facing poverty after their father's death, three sisters are obliged to rely on the generosity of others in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
9. True Grit (2010)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 2010, 1h 50m. After drifter Tom Chaney murders her father, 14-year-old Mattie Ross hires alcoholic U.S.
10. Les Miserables (2012)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 2012, 2h 37m. The musical version of Victor Hugo's epic tale of love and sacrifice, first produced for the stage in 1985, now receives the big-screen treatment.