British Dramas on Netflix

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

In this biographical drama, Britain's King George VI struggles with an embarrassing stutter until he seeks help from speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 01:53:23
Netflix ID: 70135893 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, a brilliant mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans' notorious Enigma code.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 01:54:12
Netflix ID: 70295172 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a grim future in which humans can no longer reproduce, one woman mysteriously becomes pregnant, and a conflicted bureaucrat fights to protect her.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:44:39
Netflix ID: 70044903 · 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

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

When Tim learns that the men in his family can travel in time and change their own lives, he decides to go back and win the woman of his dreams.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:03:20
Netflix ID: 70261674 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A coder at a tech company wins a week-long retreat at the compound of his company's CEO, where he's tasked with testing a new artificial intelligence.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:48:10
Netflix ID: 80023689 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Following her mother's abrupt departure, a dynamic and determined teen goes to extraordinary lengths to protect and provide for her younger brother.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:33:11
Netflix ID: 81040791 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1995
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:16:22
Netflix ID: 948002 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a bogus drug scandal, a Harvard newspaper editor is kicked out of school and flies to London to live with his sister and her family.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:48:36
Netflix ID: 70038792 · 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

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

As the threat of Nazi invasion looms, newly appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies a nation to fight for its very survival.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:05:17
Netflix ID: 80189214 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on Zadie Smith's award-winning novel, this drama follows three diverse London families over several decades as their lives grow very intertwined.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 70241077 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Driven from her post at Thornfield House, young governess Jane Eyre reflects on her youth and the events that led her to misty moors.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:55:10
Netflix ID: 70142825 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The life of a hot-tempered teen outcast takes an unexpected turn when her mother brings home a handsome and mysterious boyfriend.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:57:52
Netflix ID: 70118769 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This dramatization of a landmark 1968 labor strike follows a group of women fighting wage discrimination in a London automobile manufacturing plant.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:52:36
Netflix ID: 70127238 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Stockholm, a supportive spouse looks back and reconsiders her choices in life as her self-absorbed husband accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:40:28
Netflix ID: 80244471 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1996, rival mountaineering teams attempt to scale Mount Everest, but when a blizzard hits the summit, the climbers must fight to stay alive.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:01:10
Netflix ID: 80046309 · 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

Waiting for news of her prisoner-of-war husband, a French woman in Nazi-occupied France reluctantly falls for a German officer quartering in her home.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:47:24
Netflix ID: 80042309 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Black Londoners embrace and explore the city's reggae scene while coping with systemic racism and personal problems.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:35:18
Netflix ID: 81335107 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Determined to find the woman he loves, a Scottish teenager braves the Western frontier of 19th-century America, with bounty hunters hot on his trail.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:23:42
Netflix ID: 80029901 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Queen Elizabeth steels herself against invasion, treason and betrayal as she pines for the love of swashbuckling adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:54:45
Netflix ID: 70045272 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Best friends since grade school, Milly and Jess struggle to keep their relationship as strong as ever when Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:52:13
Netflix ID: 80059334 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An English woman's marriage to Botswana's royal heir causes diplomatic uproar, but the couple fights against all odds to follow their hearts.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:50:51
Netflix ID: 80147985 · 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

Keira Knightley stars as the titular 19th-century Russian aristocrat who enters into a forbidden love affair with the well-heeled Count Vronsky.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:09:31
Netflix ID: 70243443 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With a German attack imminent, British soldiers cope with boredom and terror in the trenches of France during the first World War.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:47:43
Netflix ID: 80226711 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this retelling of “Hamlet” from Ophelia’s point of view, the lady-in-waiting’s shared love with Denmark’s prince is ruined by treachery and madness.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:46:15
Netflix ID: 81123068 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A willful young woman is hired to design a garden at Versailles for Louis XIV. Soon, she's ensnared in political and romantic complications.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:56:42
Netflix ID: 80017099 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After learning of their son's death on the battlefield, a grieving Berlin couple embark on a quietly dangerous act of resistance against Adolf Hitler.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:43:18
Netflix ID: 80159877 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an aging drag performer fields a request to guide a young newbie, they face issues of family, identity and mortality together as unlikely allies.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:21:07
Netflix ID: 81330783 · 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

When an unassuming elderly widow is arrested for treason, her tangled secret past as the KGB's longest-serving British spy is exposed.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:41:09
Netflix ID: 80202772 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Decades after his adopted brother went missing before a big performance, a man chases a clue and embarks on a vast journey to find the violin virtuoso.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:53:25
Netflix ID: 81172260 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wild-card entry into Wimbledon gives a losing tennis pro one last shot, but falling for a player at the tournament complicates his comeback.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:34:00
Netflix ID: 70001233 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a detective investigates the death of his ex-lover's grandfather, he uncovers secrets about the tycoon's manipulative family.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:54:48
Netflix ID: 80224414 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Organized crime came to London in the 1930s, ushering in three decades ruled by two legendary gangsters whose legacy outlived their reign.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:51:02
Netflix ID: 81127353 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Anna, nearly 30 and living in her mom's shed, bonds with a young neighbor and an awkward estate agent as she faces pressure to get her life on track.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:36:05
Netflix ID: 80108607 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When armed gunmen seize the Iranian Embassy in 1980, a tense six-day standoff ensues while elite British soldiers prepare for a dangerous raid.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:34:59
Netflix ID: 80178280 · 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

The youthful love between two English adolescents becomes an obsessive passion that wreaks havoc as the pair navigates adult life.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 70211044 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An American widow in London forms an unexpected relationship with a man living off the grid in a beautiful park ripe for development.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:43:01
Netflix ID: 80993397 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the two years before her death, Princess Diana embarks on a vital campaign to ban landmines and on a passionate love affair with Dr. Hasnat Khan.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:52:38
Netflix ID: 70291112 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While living under witness protection, Mike Jacobs is pulled back into the underworld when his enemies kidnap his girlfriend and hold her for ransom.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 4.9
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:33:17
Netflix ID: 70281648 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An Allied commando squad races against time and the Soviets to extract a Polish rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis. The clock is ticking.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 4.9
Runtime: 01:32:31
Netflix ID: 81259254 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During a trip to Jamaica, a London gang targets a disloyal member who has been meeting with rivals. Meanwhile, an undercover cop stands among them.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 3.5
Runtime: 01:43:27
Netflix ID: 81069254 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A conflicted actress wrestles with the gentrification of her hometown–and her potential complicity in it–and attempts to address the issue through art.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:14:07
Netflix ID: 81326606 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 00:04:38
Netflix ID: 81345780 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As he reconciles with his ex and their son, an enforcer for a crime family gets an order that tests his loyalty and endangers everyone he holds dear.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:40:51
Netflix ID: 80204721 · Watch on Netflix

Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 00:15:22
Netflix ID: 81365086 · Watch on Netflix