Best movies — drame on Netflix : our Top 20

1994 · Frank Darabont

Convicted in the 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, former banker Andy Dufresne is sent to Shawshank State Prison, where he must rebuild his life behind bars. Using his expertise with numbers, he becomes indispensable to a corrupt warden, and over the course of many years earns the respect of his fellow inmates—especially an older lifer called Red—who admire his moral strength and persistent optimism.

With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows and Mark Rolston

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

1994 · Robert Zemeckis

A man of limited intelligence finds himself swept into landmark moments of history, repeatedly achieving far more than anyone expects and leaving a trail of remarkable accomplishments. Despite the fame and the extraordinary life he builds, the woman he truly loves remains just out of reach.

With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Conner Humphreys and Hanna Hall

1972 · Francis Ford Coppola

Set from 1945 to 1955, the story follows the fictional Italian‑American Corleone crime family. When the family’s head, Vito Corleone, narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, his youngest son Michael takes matters into his own hands—tracking down those responsible and launching a ruthless campaign of retaliation that irrevocably changes him and the family’s destiny.

With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden and John Marley

2014 · Ivan Reitman

Set between 1945 and 1955, this tale follows the fictional Italian-American Corleone family as power struggles and loyalties deepen. After the family’s patriarch, Vito Corleone, barely survives an assassination attempt, his youngest son Michael takes matters into his own hands, methodically pursuing the attackers and unleashing a violent campaign of vengeance.

With Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Sam Elliott, Sean Combs and Terry Crews

1974 · Francis Ford Coppola

Across two eras, the film charts Vito Corleone’s path from a Sicilian childhood to an immigrant coming-of-age in 1910s New York. Decades on, his son Michael maneuvers to reshape and expand the family’s power, setting his sights on Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba during the 1950s.

With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire and Lee Strasberg

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

1985 · Peter Bogdanovich

A brilliant teenage boy with pronounced physical deformities and his mother, who belongs to a motorcycle gang, struggle to preserve a semblance of normal life amid social stigma, danger, and the constraints of their circumstances.

With Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern and Micole Mercurio

2008 · Vicente Amorim

John Halder is thrust into the spotlight when senior Nazi officials appropriate his newest novel to bolster their cause, elevating his career and social standing overnight. But as he uncovers the regime’s monstrous designs and watches how their plans will devastate the people he cares about, he faces a brutal moral crossroads: remain complicit to protect his success, or risk everything by opposing them.

With Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Jones and Anastasia Hille

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

1991 · Jonathan Demme

A promising trainee at the FBI Academy, Clarice Starling is chosen by her superior, Jack Crawford, to question the incarcerated Dr. Hannibal Lecter — a brilliant psychiatrist infamous for his violent psychopathy and serving life for multiple murders and acts of cannibalism. Crawford believes Lecter may possess crucial leads on an active investigation, and he suspects that Clarice’s youth and composure might be exactly what it takes to penetrate the doctor’s guarded mind. Tasked with drawing out the reluctant genius, she must navigate a dangerous psychological game to extract the information needed.

With Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith and Diane Baker

1999 · Atom Egoyan

Pregnant at seventeen, Felicia crosses the Channel to find her boyfriend but instead falls into the care of Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a genial catering manager whose outward kindness masks a chilling secret.

With Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley, Brid Brennan and Sheila Reid

1998 · Steven Spielberg

As Allied forces sweep onto the beaches of Normandy, three brothers are killed in combat and a fourth is left stranded behind enemy lines. Captain John Miller, a U.S. Army Ranger, leads a seven-man squad on a dangerous incursion into German-held territory to find the young soldier and bring him home.

With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Vin Diesel

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

2015 · Robert Fontaine

In Braxton, New York, a violent hate crime leaves five migrant laborers beaten, shot, and abandoned, shattering the fragile balance of a town built on fragile multicultural coexistence. Fear, grief, and suspicion ripple through neighborhoods and institutions, exposing buried prejudices and forcing residents to confront the consequences of silence, complicity, and fractured alliances.

With Robert Fontaine, Michael Brainard, Grant Boyd, Michael Derek, Lily Autumn Page, Angel Valle Jr. and Ariane Rinehart

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

2012 · Quentin Tarantino

A newly freed man teams up with a German bounty hunter to confront a cruel Mississippi plantation owner and rescue the wife he’s been forced to leave behind.

With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins and Dennis Christopher

2006 · Pedro Almodóvar

Across three generations, women confront buried family secrets while fighting to survive a relentless east wind, destructive fires, creeping madness, entrenched superstitions, pervasive lies and the looming presence of death.

With Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave and Antonio de la Torre

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