Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Biographical Dramas
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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
Dangal
A once-promising wrestler pursues the gold medal he never won by training two of his daughters to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
Released: 2017-06-21
Runtime: 02:40:39
Netflix ID: 80166185
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version
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.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 03:47:04
Netflix ID: 70012020
A Beautiful Mind
This Oscar-winning drama charts the life and work of famed economist John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant man plagued by the anguish of mental illness.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 02:15:40
Netflix ID: 60021793
Paan Singh Tomar
Paan Singh Tomar goes from celebrated runner to star brigand and rebel when life after sports fails to unfold as planned.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 02:08:36
Netflix ID: 70123126
Catch Me If You Can
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:21:06
Netflix ID: 60024942
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
12 Years a Slave
A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70284282
Rush
This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:41
Netflix ID: 70253165
In the Name of the Father
This biopic examines the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people.
Released: 2016-02-10
Runtime: 02:12:52
Netflix ID: 624536
Hacksaw Ridge
During World War II, Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss becomes an unlikely hero on an Okinawa battlefield without bearing arms.
Released: 2017-05-02
Runtime: 02:19:04
Netflix ID: 80108975
The Legend of Bhagat Singh
This biopic chronicles the life and times of iconic Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, who led an armed resistance against the British in the 1920.
Released: 2017-06-16
Runtime: 02:35:45
Netflix ID: 60033227
The Imitation Game
During World War II, a brilliant mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans' notorious Enigma code.
Released: 2015-05-20
Runtime: 01:54:12
Netflix ID: 70295172
The Revenant
In the 1820s, a fur trapper struggles for survival to exact retribution against a ruthless mercenary who left him to die along the Missouri River.
Released: 2016-09-03
Runtime: 02:36:20
Netflix ID: 80064516
Lion
An Indian man who was separated from his mother at age 5 and adopted by an Australian couple returns home, determined to find his birth family.
Released: 2017-05-30
Runtime: 01:58:23
Netflix ID: 80108447
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
After his wife falls to her death crossing a mountain, a laborer spends decades carving a path through the mountain with nothing but simple tools.
Released: 2017-06-05
Runtime: 01:58:34
Netflix ID: 80165852
Pad Man
Despite public humiliation and resistance, an entrepreneur markets a hygienic, low-cost sanitary pad that even India's poorest women can afford.
Released: 2018-08-21
Runtime: 02:10:17
Netflix ID: 81016191
The Fighter
After a string of defeats, a boxer rediscovers his fighting will with help from his trainer and half-brother, a once-talented pugilist.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:33
Netflix ID: 70113534
Walk the Line
This acclaimed biopic follows country singer Johnny Cash from his hardscrabble days on an Arkansas farm to his time inside Memphis's Sun Studios.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:15:48
Netflix ID: 70023968
Budhia Singh: Born to Run
Born into poverty and sold by his mother to a street vendor, a 5-year-old boy becomes India's first marathon-running champion despite his youth.
Released: 2017-05-01
Runtime: 01:35:22
Netflix ID: 80165849
Hidden Figures
Three brilliant African-American women overcome bigotry and sexism to become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.
Released: 2017-09-01
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80123775
Marathon
Based on the true story of Bae Hyeong-jin of South Korea, this film follows autistic Cho-won, who dreams of running a marathon.
Released: 2017-09-30
Runtime: 01:56:49
Netflix ID: 70205147
Loving Vincent
Rendered in the style of the beloved Dutch master, this animated biopic recounts the tortured last days of Vincent van Gogh.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 01:34:36
Netflix ID: 80171527
Sanju
From the depths of addiction to the heights of stardom to underworld entanglements, this biopic traces the checkered past of Indian actor Sanjay Dutt.
Released: 2018-10-15
Runtime: 02:38:56
Netflix ID: 81020508
Donnie Brasco
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:45
Netflix ID: 1151721
Finding Neverland
This Oscar-winning film reveals how imaginative author J.M. Barrie envisioned a world that was at once so wondrous and perilous.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:41:12
Netflix ID: 70001999
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
When high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he perseveres in leading his team despite becoming disabled.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:27
Netflix ID: 70206819
Changeling
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.
Released: 2015-07-16
Runtime: 02:21:41
Netflix ID: 70100378
Shine
Troubled virtuoso David Helfgott triumphs over a domineering father, schizophrenia and an obsession with Rachmaninoff's 'Piano Concerto No. 3.'
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 01:40:57
Netflix ID: 958964
Only the Brave
While others flee fires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots run toward them. A fateful blaze forges an elite firefighting team of heroes in this true tale.
Released: 2018-09-05
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 80182216
Heneral Luna
Flashbacks reveal Gen. Antonio Luna's tireless fight for Filipino independence from the U.S. and his leadership in the Philippine-American War in 1899.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:58:28
Netflix ID: 80084834
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
Escape from Alcatraz
Lifer Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from Alcatraz in this thriller based on the penitentiary's only successful jailbreak.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:51:52
Netflix ID: 480144
Carlos
Carlos the Jackal is a Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassinations, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:26
Netflix ID: 70170424
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
Midnight Express
Arrested in 1970 after trying to smuggle two kilos of hash out of Turkey, American student Billy Hayes faces a nightmare 30-year jail sentence.
Released: 2017-01-11
Runtime: 02:00:59
Netflix ID: 759396
A Twelve Year Night
Future Uruguayan president José Mujica and his fellow Tupamaro political prisoners fight to survive 12 years of solitary confinement and torture.
Released: 2018-12-28
Runtime: 02:02:22
Netflix ID: 80185375
Rudy
Scrawny Rudy dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. Undaunted, Rudy works assisting the groundskeeper and joins the school's practice squad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:57
Netflix ID: 60002332
42
This biopic focuses on baseball icon Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era.
Released: 2015-05-02
Runtime: 02:08:10
Netflix ID: 70259169
Selma
In the face of violent racist attacks, Martin Luther King Jr. leads a protest in Alabama that culminates in a historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
Released: 2015-09-20
Runtime: 02:08:15
Netflix ID: 80013278
I, Tonya
From her troubled home to the infamous incident, a tongue-in-cheek look at the forces behind the turbulent career of figure skater Tonya Harding.
Released: 2018-07-06
Runtime: 01:59:53
Netflix ID: 80216993
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
Adam: His Song Continues
After their child was abducted and murdered, John and Reve Walsh fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:37
Netflix ID: 70206816
Triumph of the Heart
This drama tells the tale of Ricky Bell, a pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who died of a muscle disease in the prime of his career.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:32:46
Netflix ID: 70206824
The Ryan White Story
After contracting HIV from a tainted blood treatment, teenaged hemophiliac Ryan White is forced to fight for his right to attend public school.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:16
Netflix ID: 70206820
Elizabeth
This Oscar-winning treatise on absolute power and its human toll sees fledgling queen Elizabeth I sacrificing happiness for her own safety.
Released: 2016-04-02
Runtime: 02:03:25
Netflix ID: 17236680
Holding the Man
In 1970s Australia, two teen boys fall in love with each other and defeat obstacles to their 15-year relationship, until a new crisis comes their way.
Released: 2016-07-31
Runtime: 02:07:45
Netflix ID: 80104552
The Disaster Artist
Aspiring actor Greg moves to Los Angeles with his strange friend Tommy, then agrees to star in his movie. Things start weird and get a lot weirder.
Released: 2018-06-01
Runtime: 01:43:39
Netflix ID: 80180766
Soorma
This biopic on former Indian field hockey player Sandeep Singh follows the athlete’s hard-fought comeback after an accidental gunshot left him paralyzed.
Released: 2018-10-13
Runtime: 02:10:47
Netflix ID: 81019031
Manto
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Released: 2018-11-30
Runtime: 01:53:54
Netflix ID: 81039383
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
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts earned an Oscar in this emotional drama for her portrayal of a twice-divorced mother who sees an injustice and takes on the bad guys.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:11:10
Netflix ID: 60000165
The Young Victoria
Eighteen-year-old British royal Victoria ascends to the throne and is romanced by future husband Prince Albert in this lush period film.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:36
Netflix ID: 70095147
Coach Carter
Controversial basketball coach Ken Carter puts school before sports and benches his undefeated high school team for poor academic performance.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:16:18
Netflix ID: 70019004
Max Manus: Man of War
During World War II, Max Manus -- who would become one of Norway's greatest war heroes -- joins the Resistance.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:02
Netflix ID: 70123013
Monster
When emotionally scarred highway hooker Aileen Wuornos shoots a sadistic client, she begins a journey to become America's first female serial killer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:20
Netflix ID: 60032559
Woman in Gold
Six decades after the Holocaust, Maria Altmann embarks on a quest to reclaim her family's Nazi-stolen artwork, including a famed Gustav Klimt piece.
Released: 2015-10-20
Runtime: 01:49:00
Netflix ID: 80028265
American Sniper
U.S. Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle racks up an unprecedented number of kills in Iraq, even as his home life starts to slip away from him.
Released: 2015-12-29
Runtime: 02:12:35
Netflix ID: 80013871
The Express
Dubbed the 'Elmira Express' for his tireless drive, trailblazer Ernie Davis also lived up to the title off the field fighting for racial equality.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 02:09:30
Netflix ID: 70104637
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Notorious pornographer Larry Flynt carries his free-speech campaign from lowly strip clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court in this Oscar-nominated biopic.
Released: 2017-01-28
Runtime: 02:09:29
Netflix ID: 849852
The Walk
This is the true story of Philippe Petit, who made a death-defying, unsanctioned high-wire walk atop and between the Twin Towers in 1974.
Released: 2017-04-13
Runtime: 02:03:09
Netflix ID: 80048473
A Street Cat Named Bob
When he adopts a stray ginger cat and includes it in his street performance act, a recovering drug addict finds his life and career transformed.
Released: 2017-04-17
Runtime: 01:42:37
Netflix ID: 80131190
Italian Race
A talented young car racer and her gifted but unreliable brother take to the track to win, and work on healing the wounds of the past.
Released: 2017-12-30
Runtime: 01:58:01
Netflix ID: 80196047
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
On My Skin
Arrested in Rome for a drug-related offense, Stefano Cucchi endures a harrowing week in custody that changes his family forever. Based on true events.
Released: 2018-09-12
Runtime: 01:40:18
Netflix ID: 81001000
Men of Honor
Against formidable odds, Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:08:51
Netflix ID: 60020857
Out of Africa
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:40:54
Netflix ID: 60000019
Tracks
Mia Wasikowska is affecting as adventurer Robyn Davidson, who crossed the Australian desert alone -- and on foot -- in 1977.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:14
Netflix ID: 70292997
The Doors
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:20:36
Netflix ID: 454552
Lee Daniels' The Butler
The life of a White House butler who served under eight presidents unfolds against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.
Released: 2015-06-17
Runtime: 02:12:06
Netflix ID: 70266686
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Prior to World War I, Cambridge don G.H. Hardy helps Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice.
Released: 2016-10-22
Runtime: 01:48:34
Netflix ID: 80084348
Steve Jobs
By keying in on three crucial points in his career, this biopic shows the human foibles and visionary fearlessness of the man who made the Mac.
Released: 2017-07-09
Runtime: 02:02:14
Netflix ID: 80049358
First They Killed My Father
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Released: 2017-09-15
Runtime: 02:16:48
Netflix ID: 80067522
Tatsumi
This animated feature pays tribute to comic book artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who transformed Japanese comic art with his dramatic storytelling style.
Released: 2017-12-30
Runtime: 01:36:24
Netflix ID: 70189498
Pulang
Thom tells her grandson about his grandfather, a sailor who left 61 years ago to seek his fortune, and asks him to find out what happened to her spouse.
Released: 2018-10-08
Runtime: 01:58:49
Netflix ID: 81020161
Greater
Faith and determination transform a talentless football player at the University of Arkansas into an All-American in this inspiring true story.
Released: 2018-11-27
Runtime: 02:10:57
Netflix ID: 80095953
Seven Years in Tibet
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 1179053
8 Mile
Aspiring hip-hop artist Jimmy views his home, Detroit's 8 Mile district, as a psychological line that separates him from where and who he wants to be.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:50:26
Netflix ID: 60024922
The Lady
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's leading pro-democracy reformer, is held under house arrest for 15 years while her English husband works for her release.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:17
Netflix ID: 70208870
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
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
This in-depth biopic portrays groundbreaking South African leader Nelson Mandela's fight against political oppression and virulent racism.
Released: 2015-08-31
Runtime: 02:27:04
Netflix ID: 70278999
Race
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.
Released: 2016-10-26
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 80022604
Stronger Than The World
After a tough upbringing, natural-born fighter José Aldo confronts his personal demons in his quest to become an MMA champion in this sports biopic.
Released: 2017-02-10
Runtime: 02:04:45
Netflix ID: 80147513
Notes on Blindness
Based on the audio diaries of academic and theologian John Hull, this film offers an impressionistic re-creation of his slow descent into blindness.
Released: 2017-03-15
Runtime: 01:26:31
Netflix ID: 80098842
Megan Leavey
Injured by an explosive device in Iraq, a Marine corporal fights to be reunited with the bomb-sniffing German shepherd that saved her life in combat.
Released: 2017-11-11
Runtime: 01:56:10
Netflix ID: 80170259
Breathe
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.
Released: 2018-02-11
Runtime: 01:57:51
Netflix ID: 80144276
The Art of Loving
During Communist rule, a Polish gynecologist and sexologist defies taboo and fights to publish her groundbreaking book on love and sex.
Released: 2018-03-15
Runtime: 01:55:26
Netflix ID: 80237300
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
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
The Gabby Douglas Story
This biopic tells the story of Gabby Douglas, who became the first black gymnast to win the Individual All-Around Championship at the Olympics.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:26:13
Netflix ID: 70300801
Public Enemies
In the shadow of the Great Depression, criminal minds are thriving, and it's up to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to bring them down.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:19:42
Netflix ID: 70111115
Bright Star
This drama details the passionate three-year romance between Romantic poet John Keats -- who died tragically at age 25 -- and his great love and muse.
Released: 2015-10-20
Runtime: 01:54:09
Netflix ID: 70117245
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
Big Eyes
This biopic tells the story of Margaret Keane, the American painter who was known for her pop art paintings of children with large doe eyes.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:45:42
Netflix ID: 70095129
Admiral
In the 1600s, when the Netherlands is under attack by the British navy and on the verge of civil war, a Dutch admiral is his country's only hope.
Released: 2016-05-01
Runtime: 02:08:38
Netflix ID: 80061338
The African Doctor
Happily escaping a dictatorship, a Congolese doctor transplants his family to a small French village, where culture shock sets in for everyone.
Released: 2016-10-27
Runtime: 01:33:34
Netflix ID: 80123740
The Infiltrator
A canny federal agent navigates a deadly world in which one mistake could get him killed: the criminal underworld of Colombia, ruled by Pablo Escobar.
Released: 2016-12-01
Runtime: 02:06:51
Netflix ID: 80100648
The Zookeeper's Wife
When the Nazis invade Poland, Warsaw Zoo caretakers work with the underground resistance to save Jews from the horrors of the Third Reich.
Released: 2018-02-24
Runtime: 02:06:42
Netflix ID: 80146804
Loving
A young couple's interracial marriage in 1958 sparks a case that leads to the Supreme Court. Based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving.
Released: 2018-08-25
Runtime: 02:03:23
Netflix ID: 80099974
Clandestine Childhood
After returning to Argentina following their exile, a 12-year-old and his family adopt false identities as the parents continue their political work.
Released: 2018-09-30
Runtime: 01:50:29
Netflix ID: 80245649