Best Movies based on Books on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Movies based on Books on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 9889. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Working Title (2019)
Rated 9.4/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 50m. In the '70s, a graduate student works with three incarcerated women from the Manson Family as they look back at their lives.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2003, 3h 20m. Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2001, 2h 58m. From the idyllic shire of the Hobbits to the smoking chasms of Mordor, Frodo Baggins embarks on his epic quest to destroy the ring of Sauron.
9. Dev.D (2009)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2009, 2h 16m. Because they come from different castes, the son of a tax collector and his true love are not allowed to marry, sending them down divergent paths.
10. Surga Yang Tak Dirindukan (2015)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 2h 01m. After saving an unwed expectant mother who's injured in a car accident, a happily married man takes her as his second wife -- without telling his first.