Best Netflix Drama Movies

Marriage Story, The Irishman, Roma, The Trial of Chicago or Mudbound. These are the most popular Netflix original comedy movies. Here are the Top 50 Netflix original drama movies. This list is constantly updated as Netflix produces more movies. Only Netflix originals are considered, so will you can find these movies in all Netflix regions.

#	Name	Year	Genre	Country	IMDb
1	Paava Kadhaigal	2020	Drama	India	80%
	At times dark, at times disturbing, four short films explore stories of those who dare to dream and desire — and those determined to stand in their way.	Trailer	Watch
2	Marriage Story	2019	Drama	USA	79%
	A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.	Trailer	Watch
3	The Irishman	2019	Drama	USA	78%
	Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.	Trailer	Watch
4	Roma	2018	Drama	USA	77%
	In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.	Trailer	Watch
5	The Trial of the Chicago 7	2020	Drama	USA	77%
	What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.	Trailer	Watch
6	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	2019	Drama	United Kingdom	76%
	Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.	Trailer	Watch
7	The Two Popes	2019	Drama	United Kingdom	76%
	Explores the relationship and opposing visions between two of the most powerful leaders in the Catholic Church, both of whom must address their own pasts and the demands of the modern world in order to move the church forward.	Trailer	Watch
8	A Twelve-Year Night	2018	Drama	Uruguay	75%
	Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.	Trailer	Watch
9	Yeh Ballet	2020	Drama	India	75%
	Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.	Trailer	Watch
10	tick, tick... BOOM!	2021	Music	USA	75%
	On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.	Trailer	Watch
11	Forgotten Love	2023	Drama	Poland	75%
	A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.	Trailer	Watch
12	Mudbound	2017	Drama	USA	74%
	In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.	Trailer	Watch
13	Mirage	2018	Drama	Spain	74%
	Two storms separated by 25 years. A woman murdered. A daughter missed. Only 72 hours to discover the truth.	Trailer	Watch
14	Vikruthi	2019	Drama	India	74%
	Sameer (Soubin Sahir) is in Kerala on vacation. A social media addict, he's obsessed with posting it all online. Things take a intriguing turn when he sees Eldho (Suraj Venjarammudu), a school peon and family man on the metro.	Trailer	Watch
15	Kho Gaye Hum Kahan	2023	Drama	India	74%
	Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media.	Trailer	Watch
16	On My Skin	2018	Drama	Italy	73%
	The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.	Trailer	Watch
17	I'm No Longer Here	2020	Drama	Mexico	73%
	In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.	Trailer	Watch
18	The Hand of God	2021	Drama	Italy	73%
	The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of Fabietto Schisa, a boy in 1980s Naples whose teenage years are marked by unexpected joys like the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and an equally unexpected tragedy. Fate plays its part, joy and tragedy intertwine, and Fabietto’s future is set in motion in a tale of family, sports and cinema, love and loss.	Trailer	Watch
19	Prayers for the Stolen	2021	Drama	Mexico	73%
	In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.	Trailer	Watch
20	Hustle	2022	Drama	USA	73%
	After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.	Trailer	Watch
21	20th Century Girl	2022	Drama	South Korea	73%
	Yeon-du asks her best friend Bora to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyun-jin while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek's best friend, Pung Woon-ho first. However, Bora's clumsy plan unfolds in an unexpected direction. In 1999, a year before the new century, Bora, who turns seventeen, falls into the fever of first love.	Trailer	Watch
22	First They Killed My Father	2017	Drama	Cambodia	72%
	Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.	Trailer	Watch
23	Private Life	2018	Drama	USA	72%
	Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.	Trailer	Watch
24	Paddleton	2019	Drama	USA	72%
	An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.	Trailer	Watch
25	A Fortunate Man	2018	Drama	Denmark	72%
	On his quest for happiness, Per decides to leave Jutland and an upbringing in a strict religious home. He runs from his family and his patriarch father, and sets sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer. Parallel to his studies, he works on a visionary energy project based on wind and wave energy, a project so much ahead of its time, that professors consider him insane and far too self-confident. However, Per’s project becomes a success and he marries the beautiful Jakobe who is a part of a wealthy Jewish family. One would imagine that Per’s happiness now is made. But Per’s childhood keeps haunting him and his dogmatic family cannot accept his new life. Despite his luck and success, Per is unable to fully cut the strings to his strict religious background, and he now fears that he will repeat his father’s patriarchist behavior.	Trailer	Watch
26	Little Big Women	2020	Drama	China	72%
	A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.	Trailer	Watch
27	Nuovo Olimpo	2023	Drama	Italy	72%
	Late 1970s. Two 25-year-old men meet by chance and fall madly in love. An unexpected event, however, separates them. For thirty years they still pursue the hope of finding each other again, because they still love each other.	Trailer	Watch
28	Absolutni debiutanci	2023	Drama	Poland	72%
	Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.	Trailer	Watch
29	Bhakshak	2024	Drama	India	72%
	A struggling local journalist begins a dogged investigation into harrowing cases of abuse being covered up at a shelter for young girls.	Trailer	Watch
30	Soni	2018	Drama	India	71%
	Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women. However, their alliance suffers a major setback when Soni is transferred out for alleged misconduct on duty.	Trailer	Watch
31	The Devil All the Time	2020	Drama	USA	71%
	In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.	Trailer	Watch
32	The Dig	2021	Drama	United Kingdom	71%
	As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future?.	Trailer	Watch
33	The Disciple	2020	Drama	India	71%
	Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remians elusive.	Trailer	Watch
34	The Unforgivable	2021	Drama	USA	71%
	Released from prison into a society that won't forgive her past, a woman seeks redemption by searching for the sister she left behind.	Trailer	Watch
35	Rescued by Ruby	2022	Drama	Canada	71%
	Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby. Based on a true story.	Trailer	Watch
36	Cici	2022	Drama	Turkey	71%
	A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.	Trailer	Watch
37	Pieces of a Woman	2021	Drama	USA	70%
	A heartbreaking home birth leaves a woman grappling with the profound emotional fallout, isolated from her partner and family by a chasm of grief.	Trailer	Watch
38	Love Me Instead	2021	Drama	Turkey	70%
	Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey.	Trailer	Watch
39	The Falls	2021	Drama	Taiwan	70%
	After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.	Trailer	Watch
40	Once Upon a Star	2023	Drama	Thailand	70%
	Join the crew of a traveling pharma-cinema troupe as they go on the road to spread the joy of live-dubbed movies, all while overcoming difficulties, deceits, and reaching for their dreams.	Trailer	Watch
41	Pagglait	2021	Drama	India	69%
	Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.	Trailer	Watch
42	Call Me Chihiro	2023	Drama	Japan	69%
	An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.	Trailer	Watch
43	Sand Storm	2016	Drama	Israel	68%
	A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.	Trailer	Watch
44	To the Bone	2017	Drama	USA	68%
	A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.	Trailer	Watch
45	Kodachrome	2018	Drama	USA	68%
	Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.	Trailer	Watch
46	22 July	2018	Drama	USA	68%
	In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.	Trailer	Watch
47	Mank	2020	Drama	USA	68%
	1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.	Trailer	Watch
48	The Boys in the Band	2020	Drama	USA	68%
	At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.	Trailer	Watch
49	For the Broken Hearted	2018	Drama	Philippines	68%
	It has three different stories about heartbreak and happy endings.	Trailer	Watch
50	The Life Ahead	2020	Drama	Italy	68%
	In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.	Trailer	Watch