20th Century Period Pieces on Netflix

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.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 9.3
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A notorious gang in 1919 Birmingham, England, is led by the fierce Tommy Shelby, a crime boss set on moving up in the world no matter the cost.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80002479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Jewish waiter, his wife and their son are sent to a concentration camp, where the waiter tries to protect his son's innocence by playing a game.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:56:17
Netflix ID: 1192333 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Desperate to reveal each other's secrets, two rival magicians begin to perform increasingly risky tricks -- which soon turn deadly.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:10:16
Netflix ID: 70047095 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This docudrama based on the same-titled book tracks the aftermath of a 1993 bombing in Bombay through the eyes of a journalist covering the story.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:41:49
Netflix ID: 70077720 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:04:10
Netflix ID: 60022965 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning epic tells the true story of T.E. Lawrence, who helped unite warring Arab tribes to strike back against the Turks in World War I.

Year: 1962
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 03:47:04
Netflix ID: 70012020 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your-seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:28:18
Netflix ID: 319867 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The theatrical cut of Wolfgang Petersen's epic drama delves into the lives of a German U-boat crew patrolling treacherous waters during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:29:06
Netflix ID: 70189475 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Martin Scorcese's high-rolling Wall Street drama is based on the memoirs of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose giddy career ended in federal prison.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:59:52
Netflix ID: 70266676 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Amid the holocaust of tribal fighting in Rwanda, one ordinary hotel manager musters the courage to save more than 1,000 refugees.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:01:50
Netflix ID: 70019224 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An FBI agent makes it his mission to put cunning con man Frank Abagnale Jr. behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:21:06
Netflix ID: 60024942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While hunting, Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad and takes off with $2 million in cash, but a psychotic hit man is hot on his trail.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:02:15
Netflix ID: 70071613 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A U.S. marshal's troubling visions compromise his investigation into the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:18:12
Netflix ID: 70095139 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Victorian-era Toronto, Inspector William Murdoch uses unconventional scientific methods to crack complex, high-profile murder cases.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70143861 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Between the world wars, Gustave H, the concierge at a prestigious European hotel, takes a bellboy named Zero as a trusted protégé.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:39:44
Netflix ID: 70295915 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:02:41
Netflix ID: 70253165 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss becomes an unlikely hero on an Okinawa battlefield without bearing arms.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:19:04
Netflix ID: 80108975 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy freshman struggling with depression deals with his best friend's suicide and his first love in this engaging coming-of-age tale.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:42:37
Netflix ID: 70243461 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A reporter attempts to learn more about his dying father by finding the truth behind a lifetime of his tall tales and legends of epic proportions.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:05:09
Netflix ID: 60031268 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An occupying Japanese general challenges Chinese men to duels to prove the superiority of the Japanese, but Ip Man refuses to fight -- at first.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 01:46:33
Netflix ID: 70118799 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This crime drama tells the story of Indian con artists who pose as government officials and execute a massive daytime tax raid on a prominent jeweler.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70273637 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young physician and his beautiful mistress get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic.

Year: 1965
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:19:56
Netflix ID: 449931 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A well-endowed busboy is taken in by a tight-knit group of 1970s porn actors and transforms himself into skin flick celebrity Dirk Diggler.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:35:29
Netflix ID: 1180077 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In May 1940, soldiers and civilians struggle by land, sea and air to evacuate the British army and their allies, Europe's last hope, from Dunkirk.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80170278 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hit man Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family in this acclaimed film from Martin Scorsese.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 03:29:26
Netflix ID: 80175798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 60036227 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Briony fingers a young man for a crime after she discovers a lustful letter and witnesses a sexual encounter between him and her sister.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:02:52
Netflix ID: 70059993 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This cinematic spectacle -- winner of 11 Oscars -- follows society girl Rose and penniless artist Jack as they fall in love just as tragedy strikes.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 03:14:51
Netflix ID: 1181461 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Merchant-Ivory period drama, a dutiful butler dedicates himself to tending his lord's house, turning a blind eye to his Nazi sympathies.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three brilliant African-American women overcome bigotry and sexism to become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80123775 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on author Raymond Briggs' memoir, this animated film honors his parents’ steadfast marriage amidst 20th-century Britain's most critical events.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:34:49
Netflix ID: 80226801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When FBI agent Joe Pistone goes undercover to infiltrate the mob, he starts to identify with the made men he's charged with taking down.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:06:45
Netflix ID: 1151721 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When high school teacher Laurence decides to live as a woman, he must overcome the resistance of his devoted fiancée and his bewildered family.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:48:02
Netflix ID: 70243019 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:37:22
Netflix ID: 705734 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sing, a mobster in 1940s China, longs to be as cool as the formally clad Axe Gang, a band of killers who rule Hong Kong, but can only pretend.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:38:54
Netflix ID: 70020728 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on real events, this chilling drama recounts the actions of a killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues in the newspaper.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:37:45
Netflix ID: 70044686 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When her kidnapped son is brought home, a mother suspects that the boy isn't her child, so the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:21:41
Netflix ID: 70100378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a boy trades boxing school for ballet lessons, he may take his newfound talent all the way to the top - and win over his disapproving father.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 60003378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Flashbacks reveal the remarkable story of soul mates Idgie and Ruth, whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town in the 1920s.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 02:10:13
Netflix ID: 525209 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Cocaine smuggler George rises from poverty to become one of the biggest drug dealers in America before his eventual downfall.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:03:20
Netflix ID: 60020891 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Ludlow clan -- father William and brothers Alfred, Tristan and Sam -- splinters when Sam leaves to fight in World War I against his dad's wishes.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:12:52
Netflix ID: 693960 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While awaiting the return of her soldier husband from World War II, a devout Christian mother of two begins to suspect the family house is haunted.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:44:32
Netflix ID: 60021097 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Jewish master forger is shielded from the atrocities of the concentration camps by agreeing to create counterfeit currency for the Nazis.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:34:20
Netflix ID: 70083950 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Carlos the Jackal is a Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassinations, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:45:26
Netflix ID: 70170424 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This suspenseful drama follows a battle of wits and wills between renowned Russian sharpshooter Vassili Zaitsev and top German sniper Maj. König.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:11:03
Netflix ID: 60004450 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Technical troubles scuttle the Apollo 13 mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew in this chronicle of a true story.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:19:46
Netflix ID: 262866 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Four boys from Hell's Kitchen enter a reformatory where a cruel guard abuses them. Years later, two of them avenge their tormenter and stand trial.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 02:27:07
Netflix ID: 973057 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a vaguely discontented Iowa housewife meets a National Geographic shutterbug, what begins as a guarded friendship erupts into an intense affair.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 70150462 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise's son will change his world.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 02:07:29
Netflix ID: 81004245 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Future Uruguayan president José Mujica and his fellow Tupamaro political prisoners fight to survive 12 years of solitary confinement and torture.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 02:02:22
Netflix ID: 80185375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

New in Hong Kong, martial arts instructor Ip Man perseveres and retaliates against his rivals' opposition to the Wing Chun fighting style he teaches.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 01:48:13
Netflix ID: 70137753 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Scrawny Rudy dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. Undaunted, Rudy works assisting the groundskeeper and joins the school's practice squad.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:53:57
Netflix ID: 60002332 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Mossad agent leads an effort to track down the Palestinian terrorists who killed a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:43:43
Netflix ID: 70038133 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The life of a young Irish immigrant forever changes when she visits 1950s New York. But when summoned home, she finds herself torn between two worlds.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:51:38
Netflix ID: 80037688 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A radical terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction uses extreme violence to combat what they perceive as a new fascist threat in 1970s Germany.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:29:40
Netflix ID: 70112501 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning biopic focuses on painter Frida Kahlo's relationship with her husband and her controversial political and sexual reputation.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:02:55
Netflix ID: 60024997 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A hot-shot Chilean ad executive creates a media campaign opposing military dictator Augusto Pinochet during the referendum on his presidency in 1988.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:57:44
Netflix ID: 70243255 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After working his way up from humble beginnings, respected gangster Sultan reigns over Mumbai's underworld with honor and compassion. But when Sultan's wild protégé, Shoaib, challenges his power, the criminal landscape undergoes major upheaval.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:13:06
Netflix ID: 70153178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Comedienne Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand, in an Oscar-winning role), an unconventional beauty from the Jewish slums of New York, dreams of stardom.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:35:14
Netflix ID: 60010377 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a porn star turns up dead in 1970s Los Angeles, a pair of odd-couple investigators uncovers a darkly comic case steeped in conspiracy.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:55:48
Netflix ID: 80049284 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a husband, acting in his family's 'best interest,' does not accept his wife's deathbed wish, providence dictates that he pay for his duplicity.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:22:31
Netflix ID: 60029366 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two Mississippi families -- one black, one white -- confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming and friendship in a divided World War II era.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:15:02
Netflix ID: 80175694 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On the night before two of them leave for college, four high school pals cruise around town finding love and mischief in this coming-of-age classic.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:52:26
Netflix ID: 70019013 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A film director reunites with his childhood friend, who shares a short story he's written about being molested by their Catholic school teacher.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:45:09
Netflix ID: 70011205 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A London writer bonds with the colorful residents of Guernsey as she learns about the book club they formed during the WWII German occupation.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:03:58
Netflix ID: 80223371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Living in Alexandria during World War II, an Egyptian teen enamored with American films dreams of making it in Hollywood.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:11:07
Netflix ID: 60001801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Diagnosed with a disorder, Susanna Kaysen is sent to a mental institution, where she enters the skewed world of people who truly belong on the inside.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:07:37
Netflix ID: 60000428 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

April and Frank's marriage unravels when a plan to change their 'perfect' lives becomes their last hope to escape lives engulfed in emptiness.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 70100383 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, Max Manus -- who would become one of Norway's greatest war heroes -- joins the Resistance.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:53:02
Netflix ID: 70123013 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy travels to Florence with her chaperone in tow. There, she falls for a fellow countryman's moody son.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:56:52
Netflix ID: 60035684 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When emotionally scarred highway hooker Aileen Wuornos shoots a sadistic client, she begins a journey to become America's first female serial killer.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:44:20
Netflix ID: 60032559 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Notorious pornographer Larry Flynt carries his free-speech campaign from lowly strip clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court in this Oscar-nominated biopic.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:09:29
Netflix ID: 849852 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A single mother and her young daughter move into a peaceful French village and open an unusual chocolate shop during the height of Lent.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:01:43
Netflix ID: 60003116 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this action-packed drama based on an extraordinary true story, four brothers protect more than 1,000 Jewish refugees during World War II.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:16:45
Netflix ID: 70101696 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Denmark native shares a marriage of convenience with a womanizing baron. But when they move to Nairobi, she falls for a free-spirited hunter.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:40:54
Netflix ID: 60000019 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Oliver Stone's biopic chronicles Jim Morrison's rise from obscurity to the pinnacle of fame with the Doors, culminating in his tragic final days.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:20:36
Netflix ID: 454552 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The life of a White House butler who served under eight presidents unfolds against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:12:06
Netflix ID: 70266686 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Director Robert Redford's Oscar-winning, nostalgic meditation about the bonds that unite and divide families is set in Montana in the early 1900s.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:03:35
Netflix ID: 911839 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young British soldier who's separated from his unit in Belfast at the height of Northern Ireland's Troubles must survive a night alone in the city.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:39:19
Netflix ID: 70301585 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Prior to World War I, Cambridge don G.H. Hardy helps Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:34
Netflix ID: 80084348 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A famous prostitute's longtime housekeeper senses the delicate balance of power in the household beginning to shift when a new maid arrives.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:27:51
Netflix ID: 80191987 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A once-promising baseball player who was denied a shot at the big leagues because of his race comes to terms with his life in 1950s Pittsburgh.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:18:50
Netflix ID: 80125981 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, an escaped POW makes his way to Tibet, where he meets the Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 1179053 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Oscar-winning musical set in the Roaring 20s tells of Roxie Hart, who played the media with razzle-dazzle to parlay a murder rap into stardom.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:53:27
Netflix ID: 60024946 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This gripping thriller about Cold War espionage follows an English spy as he returns to MI-6 under suspicion that he's become a Soviet operative.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:07:22
Netflix ID: 70202128 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Decades after World War II, a still-shattered soldier unexpectedly falls in love and sees a bizarre coincidence bring his past back into focus.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:56:33
Netflix ID: 70293617 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This in-depth biopic portrays groundbreaking South African leader Nelson Mandela's fight against political oppression and virulent racism.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:27:04
Netflix ID: 70278999 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler wanted to show the supremacy of the Aryan race, but African American athlete Jesse Owens would prove him wrong.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 80022604 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Allied agent Max Vatan falls for a French spy during World War II. When Vatan learns she might be a double agent, he strives to prove her innocence.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 02:04:34
Netflix ID: 80112565 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A disgraced, exiled woman returns from the sophistication of Paris to her provincial Australian hometown to set a few things straight.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:53:25
Netflix ID: 80113847 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being paralyzed by polio at age 28, Robin Cavendish refuses to be immobile and with his loyal wife, Diana, becomes an advocate for the disabled.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:57:51
Netflix ID: 80144276 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this unflinching drama, four combat photojournalists document the escalating turmoil engulfing South Africa during the final years of apartheid.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:47:50
Netflix ID: 70120138 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A decade after a British glam-rocker fakes his assassination and disappears, a tabloid journalist is dispatched to deconstruct the star's legend.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:03:31
Netflix ID: 5670345 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Trash-TV maven Chuck Barris has a big secret: He's a CIA assassin who kills while escorting his game show winners on their vacation prizes.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:48:48
Netflix ID: 60024947 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The spirit and vitality of 1960s soul music are at the core of this film about a real-life Australian aborigine singing group and their bumpy career.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:38:57
Netflix ID: 70242568 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This drama recounts the 1940 Soviet massacre of 20,000 Polish military officers, and the stories of the wives and children who survived them.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:56:47
Netflix ID: 70084760 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Preparing for the 1988 Olympics, two sibling wrestlers cross paths with a paranoid schizophrenic millionaire in this drama based on a true story.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 02:14:36
Netflix ID: 70291433 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb