Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Dramas based on contemporary literature
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The Shawshank Redemption
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379
The Godfather
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:57:03
Netflix ID: 60011152
The Godfather: Part II
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:22:00
Netflix ID: 60011663
Schindler's List
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724
The Prestige
Desperate to reveal each other's secrets, two rival magicians begin to perform increasingly risky tricks -- which soon turn deadly.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:10:16
Netflix ID: 70047095
Black Friday
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:41:49
Netflix ID: 70077720
Once Upon a Time in America
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.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 04:00:56
Netflix ID: 60028306
Trainspotting
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 60037022
No Country for Old Men
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:15
Netflix ID: 70071613
Into the Wild
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:28:02
Netflix ID: 70075064
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A shy freshman struggling with depression deals with his best friend's suicide and his first love in this engaging coming-of-age tale.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:42:37
Netflix ID: 70243461
Big Fish
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:09
Netflix ID: 60031268
Scent of a Woman
Hoping to earn some cash during the Thanksgiving holiday, a poor prep-school student agrees to look after a blind and cantankerous retired colonel.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:36:20
Netflix ID: 937499
Life of Pi
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.
Released: 2015-11-01
Runtime: 02:06:56
Netflix ID: 70213509
Carlito's Way
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.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 02:24:04
Netflix ID: 351701
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:33
Netflix ID: 70101375
The Notebook
Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 60036227
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
When a young computer hacker is tasked with investigating a prying journalist, their separate missions become entangled amid a decades-old conspiracy.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:38:11
Netflix ID: 70207663
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:40
Netflix ID: 60011552
Atonement
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:52
Netflix ID: 70059993
The Color Purple
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.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 02:33:43
Netflix ID: 60026621
The Remains of the Day
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.
Released: 2017-03-31
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325
The Fault in Our Stars
Two teens meet at a cancer support group, and together they face the challenge of building a relationship under the shadow of terminal illness.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:54
Netflix ID: 70298734
Fried Green Tomatoes
Flashbacks reveal the remarkable story of soul mates Idgie and Ruth, whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town in the 1920s.
Released: 2018-04-10
Runtime: 02:10:13
Netflix ID: 525209
Blow
Cocaine smuggler George rises from poverty to become one of the biggest drug dealers in America before his eventual downfall.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:20
Netflix ID: 60020891
Legends of the Fall
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:52
Netflix ID: 693960
The Kite Runner
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:07:51
Netflix ID: 70065118
Philomena
An aging Irishwoman teams with a floundering journalist to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years ago.
Released: 2015-09-22
Runtime: 01:38:03
Netflix ID: 70293789
Sleepers
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.
Released: 2018-01-18
Runtime: 02:27:07
Netflix ID: 973057
The Bridges of Madison County
When a vaguely discontented Iowa housewife meets a National Geographic shutterbug, what begins as a guarded friendship erupts into an intense affair.
Released: 2018-02-26
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 70150462
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born with an acute sense of smell, Jean-Baptiste resorts to dark deeds in creating a perfume that captures the essence of a woman.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:27:23
Netflix ID: 70052701
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:26:12
Netflix ID: 70278934
Jackie Brown
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:34:27
Netflix ID: 60010514
My Life Without Me
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:00
Netflix ID: 60031223
The Natural
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.
Released: 2017-03-31
Runtime: 02:17:44
Netflix ID: 793907
Frida
This Oscar-winning biopic focuses on painter Frida Kahlo's relationship with her husband and her controversial political and sexual reputation.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:55
Netflix ID: 60024997
My Sister's Keeper
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:17
Netflix ID: 70113003
Up in the Air
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:34
Netflix ID: 70117902
Den 12. mann
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.
Released: 2018-12-30
Runtime: 02:10:14
Netflix ID: 80245074
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Visciously abused by her parents, Harlem teen Precious has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:47
Netflix ID: 70112456
Girl, Interrupted
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:07:37
Netflix ID: 60000428
Revolutionary Road
April and Frank's marriage unravels when a plan to change their 'perfect' lives becomes their last hope to escape lives engulfed in emptiness.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 70100383
The Descendants
With his wife on life support, an affluent landowner reevaluates his marriage and tries to mend his broken relationships with his daughters.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:00
Netflix ID: 70142819
Seabiscuit
A knobble-kneed colt becomes a winning thoroughbred in this Depression-era drama based on the true story of champion racehorse Seabiscuit.
Released: 2016-03-31
Runtime: 02:20:26
Netflix ID: 60029177
Lincoln
Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years.
Released: 2018-02-22
Runtime: 02:29:55
Netflix ID: 70251896
Chocolat
A single mother and her young daughter move into a peaceful French village and open an unusual chocolate shop during the height of Lent.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:43
Netflix ID: 60003116
Tengo Ganas De Ti
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:58:44
Netflix ID: 70267459
Defiance
In this action-packed drama based on an extraordinary true story, four brothers protect more than 1,000 Jewish refugees during World War II.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:16:45
Netflix ID: 70101696
The Hunger Games
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:30
Netflix ID: 70206672
My Afternoons with Margueritte
A handyman named Germaine befriends 95-year-old Margueritte and finds himself bewildered by the literature that gives Margueritte such pleasure.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:22:18
Netflix ID: 70165459
Tsotsi
After shooting a woman and driving off in her car, a ruthless thug is surprised to discover a crying infant in the back seat.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:24
Netflix ID: 70041142
The Rainmaker
A young attorney and a scrappy paralegal work to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:15:28
Netflix ID: 1181661
Pay It Forward
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.
Released: 2015-06-24
Runtime: 02:03:21
Netflix ID: 60002965
The Physician
A medical apprentice in 11th-century Persia disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
Released: 2015-07-15
Runtime: 02:35:02
Netflix ID: 80014996
Silence
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.
Released: 2017-09-01
Runtime: 02:41:07
Netflix ID: 80146803
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:07:22
Netflix ID: 70202128
What Dreams May Come
Deceased physician Chris Nielson risks eternal damnation by leaving heaven to save his distraught wife after she commits suicide and ends up in hell.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:33
Netflix ID: 18164546
The Attack
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 70257410
The Railway Man
Decades after World War II, a still-shattered soldier unexpectedly falls in love and sees a bizarre coincidence bring his past back into focus.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:33
Netflix ID: 70293617
The Longest Ride
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.
Released: 2015-12-02
Runtime: 02:08:19
Netflix ID: 80020963
Flags of Our Fathers
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.
Released: 2017-01-01
Runtime: 02:11:47
Netflix ID: 70044687
Soylent Green
Charlton Heston stars as a gumshoe investigating the murder of an executive whose company makes a nutritious synthetic food called Soylent Green.
Released: 2017-05-01
Runtime: 01:36:44
Netflix ID: 60029267
Julie and Julia
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:13
Netflix ID: 70112732
Tres Metros Sobre El Cielo
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:53
Netflix ID: 70267460
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
This biopic traces the short life of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who overcame racism and adversity to triumph as an international film star.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:59:46
Netflix ID: 459378
About a Boy
Hip, irresponsible Londoner Will invents an imaginary son and starts attending single-parent meetings to find available women.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 01:41:10
Netflix ID: 60022998
Charlie Wilson's War
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.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 01:41:48
Netflix ID: 70060021
Out of Sight
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.
Released: 2016-05-11
Runtime: 02:02:39
Netflix ID: 18769558
Girl with a Pearl Earring
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:56
Netflix ID: 60031282
The House of the Spirits
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:33
Netflix ID: 60020345
The Duchess
To compensate for her unhappy marriage, young duchess Georgiana Spencer begins a scandalous affair with politician Charles Grey.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:57
Netflix ID: 70099610
A Cry in the Dark
An Australian woman finds herself under suspicion of murder after her infant daughter is carried off by a dingo during a family camping trip.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:45
Netflix ID: 409892
21
A brilliant group of students become card-counting experts with the intent of swindling millions out of Las Vegas casinos by playing blackjack.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:43
Netflix ID: 70084788
The Firm
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:34:31
Netflix ID: 60000210
The Lovely Bones
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:15:36
Netflix ID: 70112367
The Beach
A traveler learns of a secret beach that purportedly exemplifies paradise, and discovers a bohemian community intent on keeping its refuge a secret.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:59:02
Netflix ID: 60000199
The Other Boleyn Girl
Ambitious Boleyn sisters Anne and Mary compete for the heart of powerful but intemperate King Henry VIII in this opulent historical drama.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:22
Netflix ID: 70083114
Denial
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.
Released: 2017-05-03
Runtime: 01:50:20
Netflix ID: 80115017
The Leisure Seeker
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.
Released: 2018-11-08
Runtime: 01:52:17
Netflix ID: 80189169
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Back in District 13 after demolishing the Hunger Games, Katniss reluctantly becomes the icon of a groundswell rebellion against the Capitol.
Released: 2015-05-20
Runtime: 02:02:49
Netflix ID: 70305908
December Boys
After living together for years at a Catholic orphanage, four teenage boys must face the likelihood that they'll never be adopted.
Released: 2016-05-25
Runtime: 01:44:56
Netflix ID: 70075062
The Lion Woman
A girl born with a condition that causes abnormal hair growth across her body tries to cope with the challenges of being different.
Released: 2017-10-01
Runtime: 01:57:41
Netflix ID: 80106036
Letters to Juliet
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:45:13
Netflix ID: 70123197
Riding in Cars with Boys
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:11:16
Netflix ID: 60021641
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
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.
Released: 2016-05-18
Runtime: 02:16:53
Netflix ID: 80057972
The Deep End of the Ocean
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:48:35
Netflix ID: 18962448
A Long Way Down
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:36:00
Netflix ID: 70299914
Charlie St. Cloud
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.
Released: 2016-03-16
Runtime: 01:39:13
Netflix ID: 70130443
The Man with the Iron Heart
A pair of Czechoslovakian resistance fighters sets out to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.
Released: 2017-12-31
Runtime: 02:00:03
Netflix ID: 80198987
Cruising
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.
Released: 2018-02-15
Runtime: 01:41:51
Netflix ID: 60035951
The General's Daughter
Respected Army Gen. Joe Campbell is headed for a hero's retirement -- until his daughter is raped and murdered on his military base.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:22
Netflix ID: 22469006
How to Make an American Quilt
A conflicted young woman spends the summer with her grandmother, her great-aunt and their quilting circle, whose life stories captivate her.
Released: 2016-04-02
Runtime: 01:56:28
Netflix ID: 607931
Så vit som en snö
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.
Released: 2017-10-01
Runtime: 02:31:37
Netflix ID: 70254978
Adore
When lifelong friends Roz and Lil fall in love with each other's teenage sons, they must carry out their affairs in relative secrecy.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:51:19
Netflix ID: 70267398
Winter's Tale
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:58:00
Netflix ID: 70291841
The Fifth Estate
This fact-based drama recounts the early days of the controversial but revolutionary WikiLeaks website and the inevitable conflict it wrought.
Released: 2015-10-14
Runtime: 02:02:54
Netflix ID: 70276712
Not Easily Broken
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:40
Netflix ID: 70109684
Beautiful Creatures
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:42
Netflix ID: 70252879
A Hologram for the King
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.
Released: 2017-03-01
Runtime: 01:38:04
Netflix ID: 80081506