Best movies — drame on Netflix : our Top 20

2008 · Christopher Nolan

Batman pushes his campaign against Gotham’s underworld to the next level, joining forces with Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent to systematically break apart the last criminal networks. Their cooperation brings hope for a safer city, but a cunning new antagonist who calls himself the Joker sparks a spiral of violence and anarchy that threatens to overwhelm them all.

With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman

2006 · Paul Verhoeven

A fast-food-obsessed hitman, his contemplative accomplice, a narcotics-addled mobster’s companion and a once-promising prizefighter collide in a wide-ranging, darkly comic crime romp. Their intertwined misadventures play out across three interlocking episodes that slyly leap backward and forward through time.

With Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Matthias Schoenaerts and Theo Maassen

1999 · David Fincher

A volatile insomniac and a smooth-talking soap seller channel repressed masculine rage into a brutal, cathartic form of therapy. The movement snowballs into clandestine fighting rings in towns everywhere, until an eccentric disrupts the group and triggers an uncontrollable slide toward chaos and ruin.

With Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier and Holt McCallany

1990 · Martin Scorsese

Based on the real-life rise of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth of Irish and Sicilian parentage who is taken under the wing of local mobsters and, mentored by Jimmy Conway, climbs the hierarchy of a Mafia crew.

With Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero and Tony Darrow

1999 · Frank Darabont

On death row in a Southern penitentiary, a towering, soft-spoken inmate named John Coffey harbors a baffling ability to lift illness and suffering from others. When Paul Edgecomb, the cell block’s chief guard, witnesses Coffey’s restorative gift, he becomes obsessed with preventing the condemned man’s execution. Battling institutional forces and his own uncertainty, Edgecomb mounts a desperate attempt to save a man whose power challenges everything they thought they knew.

With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter and Graham Greene

2007 · Julie Taymor

A chance reunion with Gwen Stacy propels Brooklyn’s young Spider-Man into the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society — a coalition of spider-powered heroes tasked with defending reality itself. When the group fractures over how to confront a dangerous new threat, Miles finds himself opposed to his fellow Spiders and must strike out on his own to protect the people he loves.

With Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio and Spencer Liff

1998 · Tony Kaye

Released after a three-year prison term for the racially motivated murders of two Black men, Derek Vineyard returns determined to leave his violent past behind. Once a skinhead leader whose white supremacist gang spread terror across Los Angeles, his earlier actions profoundly shaped his younger brother Danny. Told through Danny’s narration, the film follows Derek’s struggle to break all ties with his former comrades and shield Danny from repeating the same destructive path as he seeks redemption and faces the consequences of his past.

With Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk and Avery Brooks

2019 · Bong Joon-ho

All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family becomes obsessed with the affluent, glamorous Park household as their best chance at survival — until an unexpected incident draws them into a perilous entanglement.

With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun and Jang Hye-jin

2009 · Quentin Tarantino

In occupied France during World War II, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers known as the Basterds is assembled to spread terror inside the Third Reich by relentlessly hunting and killing Nazi personnel. Led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, their brutal campaign soon intersects with the life of a young Jewish-French woman who runs a movie theater in Paris—a modest venue that becomes central to the dangerous plans unfolding around them.

With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger and Daniel Brühl

1983 · Brian De Palma

Granted U.S. residency after carrying out an assassination for Cuban officials, Tony Montana rises through Miami’s underworld, seizing control of the cocaine trade by brutally eliminating rivals. As he becomes the city’s dominant drug kingpin, intensifying law enforcement scrutiny, violent clashes with Colombian cartels and his own addiction-fueled paranoia set in motion the catastrophic unraveling of his empire.

With Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon and F. Murray Abraham

2019 · Todd Phillips

In 1980s Gotham City, a struggling stand-up comedian crushed by rejection and isolation spirals into madness, shedding his former life to become a calculating, unhinged criminal whose theatrical violence and anarchic schemes plunge the city into fear.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham and Bill Camp

1998 · Peter Weir

An insurance salesman begins to notice strange patterns and staged-seeming moments in his everyday life, coming to suspect that every relationship and coincidence has been orchestrated for a hidden reality-TV production starring him.

With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Ed Harris, Holland Taylor and Paul Giamatti

1988 · Isao Takahata

During the closing months of World War II, fourteen-year-old Seita and his younger sister Setsuko become orphans after their mother is killed in a bombing raid on Kobe. After a dispute with their aunt, the siblings take refuge in an abandoned air-raid shelter. With no remaining relatives and their emergency provisions exhausted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive amid the ruins.

With Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Kozo Hashida, Masayo Sakai and Masayo Sakai

2002 · Steven Spielberg

Before his nineteenth birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr. assumes a string of high-profile identities—posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer—to cash millions in fraudulent checks. A relentless FBI agent makes it his mission to catch him, but Frank stays several moves ahead, thriving on the thrill of the chase and his ability to slip away.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams and James Brolin

1986 · Rob Reiner

When word spreads that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural neighborhood, four friends set off to see the body for themselves. Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy face an intimidating junkman and wade through a leech‑ridden marsh; along the way they reveal secrets about one another and confront the stark differences in their family lives. What begins as a reckless outing gradually becomes a pivotal coming‑of‑age experience that will mark them forever.

With Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O'Connell, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko and Gary Riley

1973 · George Roy Hill

A rookie grifter teams up with a famed con artist to avenge the murder of a shared friend by staging an audacious, high-stakes scam designed to bleed a powerful mob boss of his fortune.

With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan and Harold Gould

1997 · Lee Tamahori

Shortly after his 85th birthday, celebrated crime author Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his mansion, and the enigmatic, dapper Detective Benoit Blanc is unexpectedly called in to investigate. Moving between a fractious family with plenty to hide and a loyal household staff, Blanc peels back layers of misdirection and self-serving falsehoods to uncover the true circumstances of Harlan's demise.

With Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau, L.Q. Jones, Kathleen Wilhoite and Mark Kiely

2023 · J. A. Bayona

On October 13, 1972, a chartered Uruguayan Air Force aircraft transporting a rugby team to Chile went down on a glacier deep in the remote Andes.

With Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka and Francisco Romero

2008 · David Fincher

Arriving into the world under strange circumstances—as an elderly infant in a New Orleans nursing home—Benjamin Button begins life aging backward. When he is twelve, he meets Daisy, a youngster who drifts in and out of his life as she grows into a professional dancer. Though his years are filled with many extraordinary episodes, it is his bond with Daisy and the hope that their timelines will one day align that sustains him.

With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mahershala Ali and Jared Harris

2000 · Ang Lee

Pursuing a stolen blade and a notorious fugitive, two warriors’ search brings them to a headstrong, athletically gifted teenage daughter of a nobleman—an impulsive young woman standing at a crossroads between duty and the life she yearns for.

With Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-pei and Li Fazeng