Best Classic Dramas on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Classic Dramas on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 87 titles in category code 29809. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Rated 9.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 22m. Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.
2. The Godfather (1972)
Rated 9.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1972, 2h 57m. When an organized-crime family patriarch barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers.
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1974, 3h 22m. This second film in the trilogy explores the Corleone family roots, tracing Don Vito's journey from Sicily to a life of organized crime in New York.
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 34m. Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.
5. Schindler's List (1993)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1993, 3h 15m. Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
6. Forrest Gump (1994)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 22m. Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
7. GoodFellas (1990)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1990, 2h 25m. This gripping gangster opus follows real-world mobster Henry Hill, who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead.
8. Leon: The Professional (1994)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 1h 49m. Léon, a hit man in New York, becomes the unwilling custodian of Mathilda, a vengeful 12-year-old whose family was wiped out by a crooked DEA agent.
9. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1988, 2h 04m. When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.
10. Scarface (1983)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1983, 2h 49m. Al Pacino stars as Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who becomes a Florida drug kingpin but makes the fatal mistake of getting high on his own supply.