Dramas baseados em livros 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

Because they come from different castes, the son of a tax collector and his true love are not allowed to marry, sending them down divergent paths.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8.8
Runtime: 02:16:32
Netflix ID: 70113305 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This gripping gangster opus follows real-world mobster Henry Hill, who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:25:23
Netflix ID: 70002022 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his friend is raped, freelance tough guy and gambling junkie Nick tracks down the creep but unwittingly stirs the wrath of a pitiless mob boss.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:31:59
Netflix ID: 70259803 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a prison guard discovers that a death row inmate possesses mysterious powers, he tries desperately to prevent the condemned man's execution.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 03:08:41
Netflix ID: 60000417 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While Nazis patrol the mountain passes, a young French boy forms an unshakeable bond with a wild dog as they face adventures and danger in the Alps.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:38:58
Netflix ID: 80059009 · 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

In this fact-based drama, politically motivated cops in Andhra Pradesh set out to frame four Tamil laborers for a crime, torturing them to no avail.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:55:55
Netflix ID: 80149139 · 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

Marine recruits endure the grueling ordeal of basic training and later face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive in this grim drama.

Year: 1987
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:56:30
Netflix ID: 528677 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your-seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:28:18
Netflix ID: 319867 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, two astronauts battle their ship's intelligent computer system.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:28:47
Netflix ID: 207856 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

What is true? What is false? Several witnesses see an event differently in Akira Kurosawa's Oscar-winning masterpiece.

Year: 1950
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:28:13
Netflix ID: 60010815 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The theatrical cut of Wolfgang Petersen's epic drama delves into the lives of a German U-boat crew patrolling treacherous waters during World War II.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:29:06
Netflix ID: 70189475 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Martin Scorcese's high-rolling Wall Street drama is based on the memoirs of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose giddy career ended in federal prison.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:59:52
Netflix ID: 70266676 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:38:25
Netflix ID: 70075473 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This portrayal of Adolf Hitler's final days is based on the memoirs of Traudl Junge, the young secretary who was with him until his death.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:35:44
Netflix ID: 70023508 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This tense and sordid tale chronicles the rise and fall of a casino owner, his friend and Mafia underboss, and an ex-prostitute with expensive taste.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:51:11
Netflix ID: 70019012 · 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

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.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:21:06
Netflix ID: 60024942 · 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

When four boys seek adventure in the woods while looking for a missing teenager's dead body, they learn some truths about themselves along the way.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:28:35
Netflix ID: 994992 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:12:27
Netflix ID: 70018292 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70284282 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A man eschews his duties as a samurai in order to care for his family -- until his clan demands he take on a dangerous assignment he can't refuse.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:09:18
Netflix ID: 60034815 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1957
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:42:11
Netflix ID: 60002970 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Starting a decade before World War II, a young teacher works to give her 12 students hope, even as the growing shadow of global conflagration looms.

Year: 1954
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:35:53
Netflix ID: 70105681 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff out a quartet of escaped androids.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:57:08
Netflix ID: 70053131 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Amid a multitude of cover-ups, a caring teacher attempts to publicly expose faculty members who are molesting some hearing-impaired students.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:04:16
Netflix ID: 70241118 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kidnapped, confined to a tiny room and raped, a young woman gives birth to a son. When he reaches his fifth birthday, she begins plotting an escape.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:57:21
Netflix ID: 80073823 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A con man's plan to steal an heiress's heart -- and her fortune -- gets complicated when she falls for the handmaid he hired to help with his scheme.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:24:53
Netflix ID: 80113804 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff a quartet of escaped 'replicants.'

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:57:28
Netflix ID: 70082907 · 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

After coming within one question of winning a fortune on a game show, an uneducated young 'slumdog' is accused of cheating and arrested.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:55:13
Netflix ID: 70095140 · 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

Dustin Hoffman turns in a landmark performance as a naïve college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged neighbor in this Oscar-winning classic.

Year: 1967
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:45:57
Netflix ID: 555221 · 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

While on a walk with his young son, a widower encounters a woman with no memory who looks exactly like his late wife, and they begin a life together.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:58:53
Netflix ID: 80061840 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young boy growing up in a poor neighborhood of postwar Osaka makes a new friend and slowly becomes aware of the ways the adults around him survive.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80103562 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young physician and his beautiful mistress get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic.

Year: 1965
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 03:19:56
Netflix ID: 449931 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:58:23
Netflix ID: 80108447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being homeschooled all his life, a boy with facial differences attends a traditional school, where he must find friends among his bullies.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 01:53:09
Netflix ID: 80147986 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As tens of thousands of Allied troops push further inland, the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima during World War II prepare to meet their fate.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:20:30
Netflix ID: 70058006 · 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

In 1950s China, a summons from the communist government cuts short the courtship of a young country girl and her village's new schoolteacher.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:29:22
Netflix ID: 60004447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wild teenage boy and his late foster mother's cantankerous husband get lost in the wilderness after social services threatens to take the boy away.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:41:17
Netflix ID: 80096995 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A linguist charged with finding a way to communicate with aliens that have landed on Earth uncovers a connection with meaning for mankind and herself.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:56:22
Netflix ID: 80117799 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio forms a life-changing bond with his father's charismatic research assistant Oliver in the Italian countryside.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 80169498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a neurologist tests an experimental drug on a catatonic patient, he must come to grips with life as an adult as he awakens from a 30-year coma.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:00:41
Netflix ID: 268371 · 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

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: 2005
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:06:36
Netflix ID: 70032594 · 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

This acclaimed biopic follows country singer Johnny Cash from his hardscrabble days on an Arkansas farm to his time inside Memphis's Sun Studios.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:15:48
Netflix ID: 70023968 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button, a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:46:13
Netflix ID: 70100380 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A 23-year-old Che Guevara motorcycles across South America with friend Alberto, a trek that crystallizes the future revolutionary's political beliefs.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:00:40
Netflix ID: 60034802 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this exciting adventure based on true events, Tom Hanks portrays a captain who is taken hostage by Somali pirates after they hijack his cargo ship.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70243460 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ted is a career-driven yuppie whose wife leaves him and their 6-year-old son. As he adjusts to life as a full-time dad, she comes to reclaim the boy.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:44:54
Netflix ID: 60010559 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Legendary Japanese director Shohei Imamura (The Eel) helms this chilling tale of horror and revenge based on actual events about a seemingly harmless young man who blossomed into a cold-blooded, remorseless murderer.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:20:22
Netflix ID: 70067850 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Det. Kosuke Kimdaichi tries to solve the eerie and bizarre murders of the members of a wealthy, prominent family with a closet full of skeletons.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:25:10
Netflix ID: 80081320 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When two North Korean soldiers are found dead in the Joint Security Area, the incident threatens to point South and North Korea toward all-out war.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:50:09
Netflix ID: 60023559 · 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

A group of wily opportunists make a fortune off of the U.S. economic crash by sniffing out the situation in advance and betting against the banks.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:10:16
Netflix ID: 80075560 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young schoolteacher seeks revenge against the adolescent students she believes to be responsible for her daughter's death.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:46:35
Netflix ID: 70153638 · 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

Three brilliant African-American women overcome bigotry and sexism to become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80123775 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on author Raymond Briggs' memoir, this animated film honors his parents’ steadfast marriage amidst 20th-century Britain's most critical events.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:34:49
Netflix ID: 80226801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When U.S. forces attempt to capture two underlings of a Somali warlord, their helicopters are shot down and the Americans suffer heavy casualties.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:24:36
Netflix ID: 60022056 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:06:45
Netflix ID: 1151721 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a blood-spattered altar boy is found running from a murder scene, his conviction seems certain -- but his attorney is determined to win the case.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:10:25
Netflix ID: 873159 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a stint in a mental hospital, Pat moves in with his parents and tries to win back his wife, until he meets a woman who's as unstable as he is.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:02:05
Netflix ID: 70244164 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming become involved in an increasingly passionate affair, but hiding the relationship from their wives proves agonizing.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 02:14:39
Netflix ID: 70023965 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Director David Fincher's biographical drama chronicles the meteoric rise of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard sophomore to Internet superstar.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:00:41
Netflix ID: 70132721 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Singer Jenny Lamour is on the brink of achieving notoriety -- but it's not in the music field. Instead, she's embroiled in a tale of intrigue that involves her jealous husband and accompanist, Maurice, murdering a man. In comes Insp. Antoine.

Year: 1947
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:46:55
Netflix ID: 60028296 · 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

Bryce and Juli first meet as children, with Juli having a crush on Bryce, and as they mature, it appears their bond may blossom into something more.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:29:41
Netflix ID: 70130442 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1995
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:37:22
Netflix ID: 705734 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on real events, this chilling drama recounts the actions of a killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues in the newspaper.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:37:45
Netflix ID: 70044686 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Gestapo discovers her ties to a resistance group, Eliska seeks refuge with Joza, a mountain dweller to whom she had donated blood.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:27:39
Netflix ID: 60034817 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:17:22
Netflix ID: 80044545 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1972
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:49:02
Netflix ID: 433193 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1966
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:00:27
Netflix ID: 732905 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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: 1992
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:51:54
Netflix ID: 686619 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A misanthrope rules his condo's resident association with a grouchy iron fist, until new arrivals to the neighborhood slowly melt his frosty exterior.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:55:53
Netflix ID: 80102116 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A courageous 11-year-old Afghan girl disguises herself as a boy and takes on odd jobs to provide for her family when her father is arrested.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 01:33:24
Netflix ID: 80217121 · 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

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

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

Lifer Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from Alcatraz in this thriller based on the penitentiary's only successful jailbreak.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:51:52
Netflix ID: 480144 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb