Dramas based on contemporary literature 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

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.

Year: 1972
IMDb: 9.2
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 02:57:03
Netflix ID: 60011152 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1974
IMDb: 9
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 03:22:00
Netflix ID: 60011663 · 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

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

Director Sergio Leone's sprawling crime epic follows a group of Jewish mobsters who rise in the ranks of organized crime in 1920s New York City.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 04:00:56
Netflix ID: 60028306 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Renton and his mates cope with the gritty realities of heroin addiction. But when Renton gets clean, he can't get away from his friends' nasty habits.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 60037022 · 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 young man gives up everything -- including his trust fund and ties to a seemingly stable family -- to lead a solitary life in the wild.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:28:02
Netflix ID: 70075064 · 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

Hoping to earn some cash during the Thanksgiving holiday, a poor prep-school student agrees to look after a blind and cantankerous retired colonel.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:36:20
Netflix ID: 937499 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on Yann Martel's best-selling novel, this coming-of-age tale recounts the journey of Pi, an Indian boy who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:06:56
Netflix ID: 70213509 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sprung from prison, Carlito Brigante vows to use his unexpected second chance to go straight. But as hard as he tries, the bad guys pull him back in.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:24:04
Netflix ID: 351701 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his family moves from Berlin to Poland, a young boy befriends a boy who lives on the other side of the fence, unaware he's a Jewish prisoner.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:34:33
Netflix ID: 70101375 · 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

When a young computer hacker is tasked with investigating a prying journalist, their separate missions become entangled amid a decades-old conspiracy.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:38:11
Netflix ID: 70207663 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a backwater Iowa town, young Gilbert is torn between taking care of his troubled family and a girl who shows him new possibilities for his life.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:57:40
Netflix ID: 60011552 · 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

A Southern woman's correspondence with her sister in Africa and friendship with a singer help her escape an abusive husband and a hardscrabble life.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:33:43
Netflix ID: 60026621 · 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

Two teens meet at a cancer support group, and together they face the challenge of building a relationship under the shadow of terminal illness.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:05:54
Netflix ID: 70298734 · 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

A privileged Afghan man living in the United States returns to his war-ravaged homeland to try to repay a debt to a loyal childhood friend.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:07:51
Netflix ID: 70065118 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An aging Irishwoman teams with a floundering journalist to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years ago.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:38:03
Netflix ID: 70293789 · 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

Born with an acute sense of smell, Jean-Baptiste resorts to dark deeds in creating a perfume that captures the essence of a woman.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:27:23
Netflix ID: 70052701 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After her triumph in the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen travels through the districts on a 'Victor's Tour' while a rebellion gathers steam around her.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:26:12
Netflix ID: 70278934 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an aging flight attendant's caught smuggling cash and forced to help with an investigation, she hatches a clever plan to make off with the dough.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:34:27
Netflix ID: 60010514 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young mother of two stuck in a dead-end job learns she's dying, she makes a list of important things she wants to accomplish in her short life.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:46:00
Netflix ID: 60031223 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A gifted baseball player whose life has taken some startling turns becomes a 35-year-old rookie who helps a cellar-dwelling team get back in the game.

Year: 1984
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:17:44
Netflix ID: 793907 · 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 former defense attorney finds herself back in court when she and her husband are sued for medical emancipation by their 11-year-old daughter.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:49:17
Netflix ID: 70113003 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ryan Bingham flies around the country firing employees on behalf of companies, but he faces losing the job he savors to recent college grad Natalie.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:49:34
Netflix ID: 70117902 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on true events, this story follows a Norwegian saboteur’s harrowing struggle to reach safety after escaping a Nazi attack during World War II.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:10:14
Netflix ID: 80245074 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Visciously abused by her parents, Harlem teen Precious has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:49:47
Netflix ID: 70112456 · 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

With his wife on life support, an affluent landowner reevaluates his marriage and tries to mend his broken relationships with his daughters.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:55:00
Netflix ID: 70142819 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A knobble-kneed colt becomes a winning thoroughbred in this Depression-era drama based on the true story of champion racehorse Seabiscuit.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:20:26
Netflix ID: 60029177 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:29:55
Netflix ID: 70251896 · 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 sequel to Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo, Hache slowly begins to get over his ex-girlfriend Babi when he meets the vivacious Gin.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:58:44
Netflix ID: 70267459 · 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

In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 02:22:30
Netflix ID: 70206672 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A handyman named Germaine befriends 95-year-old Margueritte and finds himself bewildered by the literature that gives Margueritte such pleasure.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:22:18
Netflix ID: 70165459 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After shooting a woman and driving off in her car, a ruthless thug is surprised to discover a crying infant in the back seat.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:34:24
Netflix ID: 70041142 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young attorney and a scrappy paralegal work to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:15:28
Netflix ID: 1181661 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young, thoughtful boy responds to a school assignment with a plan to help three people who will, in turn, help three more, and so on.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:03:21
Netflix ID: 60002965 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A medical apprentice in 11th-century Persia disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:35:02
Netflix ID: 80014996 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two Portuguese priests go to Japan to look for their missing mentor, but their search is hindered by a regime that's hostile to Western culture.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:41:07
Netflix ID: 80146803 · 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

Deceased physician Chris Nielson risks eternal damnation by leaving heaven to save his distraught wife after she commits suicide and ends up in hell.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:53:33
Netflix ID: 18164546 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An Arab Israeli physician offers assistance at the scene of a gruesome suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and then learns that the bomber was his own wife.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 70257410 · 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

A young woman caring for an elderly widower finds parallels to her own budding romance as she reads the man's letters to and from his late wife.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:08:19
Netflix ID: 80020963 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This riveting World War II drama recounts the story of six U.S. soldiers who raised the American flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:11:47
Netflix ID: 70044687 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Charlton Heston stars as a gumshoe investigating the murder of an executive whose company makes a nutritious synthetic food called Soylent Green.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:36:44
Netflix ID: 60029267 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this heartwarming tale, Julie Powell decides to spice up her uneventful life by cooking all 524 recipes outlined in Julia Child's classic cookbook.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:03:13
Netflix ID: 70112732 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Rebellious biker Hache sees his life falling apart, but things start to look up when he meets Babi, a sweet girl from a good family.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:02:53
Netflix ID: 70267460 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This biopic traces the short life of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who overcame racism and adversity to triumph as an international film star.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:59:46
Netflix ID: 459378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hip, irresponsible Londoner Will invents an imaginary son and starts attending single-parent meetings to find available women.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:41:10
Netflix ID: 60022998 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:41:48
Netflix ID: 70060021 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bank robber Jack plays a genteel game of cat-and-mouse with Karen, the stunning federal marshal he meets in the trunk of a getaway car.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:02:39
Netflix ID: 18769558 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this adaptation of the best-selling novel, a young housemaid with a hidden appreciation for art becomes the muse of Dutch master painter Vermeer.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:39:56
Netflix ID: 60031282 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Esteban vows to marry Rosa, a rich man's daughter. But when Rosa dies before he can save enough money to do so, he instead marries her younger sister.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:12:33
Netflix ID: 60020345 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To compensate for her unhappy marriage, young duchess Georgiana Spencer begins a scandalous affair with politician Charles Grey.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:49:57
Netflix ID: 70099610 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An Australian woman finds herself under suspicion of murder after her infant daughter is carried off by a dingo during a family camping trip.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:01:45
Netflix ID: 409892 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A brilliant group of students become card-counting experts with the intent of swindling millions out of Las Vegas casinos by playing blackjack.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:02:43
Netflix ID: 70084788 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a Harvard Law School grad joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife, who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to be true.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:34:31
Netflix ID: 60000210 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When 14-year-old Susie is murdered, she watches from above as her family deals with her tragic death -- and as her killer prepares to strike again.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:15:36
Netflix ID: 70112367 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A traveler learns of a secret beach that purportedly exemplifies paradise, and discovers a bohemian community intent on keeping its refuge a secret.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:59:02
Netflix ID: 60000199 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ambitious Boleyn sisters Anne and Mary compete for the heart of powerful but intemperate King Henry VIII in this opulent historical drama.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:55:22
Netflix ID: 70083114 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this fact-based drama, an American historian accused of libel by a notorious Holocaust denier must prove in court that the Holocaust did occur.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:50:20
Netflix ID: 80115017 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On the run from kids and obligations, a couple hits the road in an old Leisure Seeker RV and sets out for the Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:52:17
Netflix ID: 80189169 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Back in District 13 after demolishing the Hunger Games, Katniss reluctantly becomes the icon of a groundswell rebellion against the Capitol.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:02:49
Netflix ID: 70305908 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After living together for years at a Catholic orphanage, four teenage boys must face the likelihood that they'll never be adopted.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:44:56
Netflix ID: 70075062 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A girl born with a condition that causes abnormal hair growth across her body tries to cope with the challenges of being different.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:57:41
Netflix ID: 80106036 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

By responding to a letter addressed to Shakespeare's tragic heroine Juliet Capulet, an American woman in Verona, Italy, is led in search of romance.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:45:13
Netflix ID: 70123197 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After sleeping with a boy she barely knows, a pregnant teen gets married and discovers her newborn isn't the only one with a lot of growing up to do.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:11:16
Netflix ID: 60021641 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Katniss Everdeen and her allies bring their fight to the Capitol, as they aim to liberate all of Panem by assassinating the dictator President Snow.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:16:53
Netflix ID: 80057972 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mother grows desperate when her 3-year-old son disappears, but he turns up -- nine years later in the town where the family has just relocated.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:48:35
Netflix ID: 18962448 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a faded TV personality decides to jump off a London skyscraper on New Year's Eve, he meets three lost souls who had the exact same plan.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:36:00
Netflix ID: 70299914 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ben Sherwood's intriguing novel is the basis of this ghost story about Charlie, who is devoted to his brother, Sam, even after Sam's death.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:39:13
Netflix ID: 70130443 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A pair of Czechoslovakian resistance fighters sets out to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 02:00:03
Netflix ID: 80198987 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In late '70s New York, a rookie policeman goes deep undercover in the city's gay leather-bar subculture to search for a sadistic serial killer.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:41:51
Netflix ID: 60035951 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Respected Army Gen. Joe Campbell is headed for a hero's retirement -- until his daughter is raped and murdered on his military base.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:56:22
Netflix ID: 22469006 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A conflicted young woman spends the summer with her grandmother, her great-aunt and their quilting circle, whose life stories captivate her.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:56:28
Netflix ID: 607931 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This riveting drama chronicles the life of Elsa Andersson, who defies her father in a quest to realize her dream of becoming Sweden's first aviatrix.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 02:31:37
Netflix ID: 70254978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When lifelong friends Roz and Lil fall in love with each other's teenage sons, they must carry out their affairs in relative secrecy.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:51:19
Netflix ID: 70267398 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Mark Helprin's novel provides the basis for this film starring Colin Farrell as a thief who breaks into an ill girl's home and then falls for her.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:58:00
Netflix ID: 70291841 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This fact-based drama recounts the early days of the controversial but revolutionary WikiLeaks website and the inevitable conflict it wrought.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:02:54
Netflix ID: 70276712 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This faith-based drama follows the trials and tribulations of a couple forced to reevaluate their bond after one of them is injured in a car accident.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:39:40
Netflix ID: 70109684 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on the best-selling novel, this supernatural drama focuses on the romance between Ethan and Lena, the enigmatic new girl in his Southern town.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:03:42
Netflix ID: 70252879 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A broke American businessman trying to sell an IT contract to Saudi Arabia's king finds himself changed by an unfamiliar culture and a new romance.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:38:04
Netflix ID: 80081506 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb