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The Dramas based on classic literature category on Netflix is identified by the secret code 13158 . Below are 28 Dramas based on classic literature titles currently traceable on Netflix, sorted by rating. Top picks include There Will Be Blood (2007), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Pride and Prejudice (2005).
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There Will Be Blood (2007) An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
Year: 200770075473 · IMDb
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) This sweeping epic is set in a World War II Japanese prison camp, where British prisoners are forced to build a bridge as a morale-building exercise.
Year: 195760002970 · IMDb
Pride and Prejudice (2005) In Jane Austen's tale of 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet hopes to marry her daughters to prosperous gentlemen, including new arrival Mr. Darcy.
Year: 200570032594 · IMDb
A Little Princess (1995) 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: 1995705734 · IMDb
Deliverance (1972) A canoeing trip down a Georgia river turns sinister when redneck locals descend on a group of friends and force them to kill or be killed.
Year: 1972433193 · IMDb
A Man for All Seasons (1966) When Henry VIII seeks approval from the aristocracy to divorce, Sir Thomas More finds himself caught between the king and the Roman Catholic Church.
Year: 1966732905 · IMDb
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) When rugged frontiersman Hawkeye saves the Munro sisters from a Huron ambush, he ends up in a battle between the British and the French.
Year: 1992686619 · IMDb
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Facing poverty after their father's death, three sisters are obliged to rely on the generosity of others in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
Year: 1995948002 · IMDb
True Grit (2010) After drifter Tom Chaney murders her father, 14-year-old Mattie Ross hires alcoholic U.S. Marshal Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn to help her exact revenge.
Year: 201070142543 · IMDb
Les Miserables (2012) The musical version of Victor Hugo's epic tale of love and sacrifice, first produced for the stage in 1985, now receives the big-screen treatment.
Year: 201270244167 · IMDb
The Thin Red Line (1998) In this lyrical account of the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal, several soldiers become a tight-knit group as they each struggle with the horrors of war.
Year: 199818171134 · IMDb
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Two privileged and bored French aristocrats make a bet focusing on the corruption of virginal Cécile de Volanges and the virtuous Madame de Tourvel.
Year: 1988418224 · IMDb
The Painted Veil (2006) Shunned by a husband who's more interested in his scientific research than his marriage, simpleminded Kitty Fane embarks on a quest for fulfillment.
Year: 200670045268 · IMDb
Howards End (1992) 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: 199260029366 · IMDb
The Way Back (2010) After escaping from a World War II labor camp, a band of soldiers undertake a journey to traverse Siberia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas.
Year: 201070121494 · IMDb
A Room with a View (1986) 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: 198660035684 · IMDb
Little Women (1994) Four sisters and their mother battle life's vicissitudes in Civil War-era America after their father leaves to join the conflict.
Year: 1994707114 · IMDb
Out of Africa (1985) 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: 198560000019 · IMDb
The Age of Innocence (1993) A well-bred New Yorker engaged to an appropriate, cultured woman puts society's mores to the test when her alluring cousin comes along.
Year: 199360011002 · IMDb
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) Thomas Hardy's classic tale follows a clever 19th-century heroine who, through humble beginnings and sudden wealth, keeps her own romantic counsel.
Year: 201580023346 · IMDb
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016) The first German film adaptation of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' dramatizes her inner world and her life spent in hiding in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Year: 201680239504 · IMDb
Anna Karenina (2012) Keira Knightley stars as the titular 19th-century Russian aristocrat who enters into a forbidden love affair with the well-heeled Count Vronsky.
Year: 201270243443 · IMDb
The Four Feathers (2002) A British officer resigns before a battle against Mahdi rebels and must redeem himself to his fiancée and friends, who have branded him a coward.
Year: 200260023637 · IMDb
The Banquet (2006) Surviving an assassination attempt, a prince schemes to exact revenge on the usurper who killed his father, the emperor, and married his mother.
Year: 200680031899 · IMDb
The Blue Lagoon (1980) Two shipwrecked children, stranded for years on a deserted island, fall in love as teenagers and attempt to forge a life in the isolated paradise.
Year: 1980318448 · IMDb
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) With the world's economy in dire straits, corporate protagonist Dagny Taggart searches for a solution amid the rubble of a long-abandoned factory.
Year: 201270248595 · IMDb
Fitoor (2016) A young artist falls for an aristocratic young woman whose bitter mother has trained her in the art of breaking hearts.
Year: 201680099083 · IMDb
Maya Memsaab (1992) A wealthy woman engages in extramarital affairs that still leave her unhappy. After a mysterious crime occurs, police are called to investigate.
Year: 199270057994 · IMDb
