Dramas on Netflix
Last updated August 05, 2025
Soul Kitchen
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsYoung restaurant owner Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) decides to revamp Soul Kitchen, his dumpy diner, but the customer response isn't what he was hoping for. To make matters worse, his girlfriend (Anna Bederke) flies off to Shanghai, and the tax collector comes knocking. But with the help of an inspired new chef (Birol Ünel), Zinos still has a chance at redemption. German director Fatih Akin delivers a riotous modern romantic comedy.
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Red Riding Trilogy: Part 3: 1983
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the current case of a missing 10-year-old becomes linked to the abduction and murder of Clare Kemplay in 1974, investigators torture the man who found Clare's body in an effort to learn more in this final installment of the Red Riding trilogy.
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Season of the Witch
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn 14th-century Europe, a courageous knight leads a group of weary warriors across impossibly treacherous terrain in order to transport a suspected witch believed to be responsible for spreading the devastating Black Plague.
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Abel
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen 9-year-old Abel assumes his absent father's role as man of the house, he garners his family's respect, and life resumes a comfortable rhythm -- until a man arrives at the house, claiming he's the long-lost patriarch.
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Rann
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this socially conscious drama, Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma sheds light on the interplay between news media and politics -- and one man's fight to preserve some semblance of journalistic integrity -- in modern-day India.
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Beneath the Blue
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBahamian teenager Alyssa has a kinship with dolphins, a gift she harnesses as a scientist at her father's research station. But her heart is torn when she discovers that her first real love, Craig, takes an opposing interest in the creatures.
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Lafangey Parindey
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe intense and often ruthless streets of Mumbai are the setting for this romance about One Shot Nandu, a boxer who fights blindfolded, and Pinky Palkar, a roller dancer whose career is threatened when she's blinded in an accident with Nandu.
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Freestyle
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsScruffy hoopster Leon and posh, Oxford-bound Ondene face off on a South London basketball court, but star-crossed rivals attract -- and catch the eye of a passing talent scout -- when the brainy flygirl proves she can play.
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Berlin 36
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsKaroline Herfurth stars in this foreign-language drama -- inspired by actual events at the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin -- as Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish high jumper who was barred from competition by the Nazi party in spite of international protest. When Gretel is kicked off the team under false pretenses, she's promptly replaced by her roommate, Marie Ketteler (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an odd-looking girl with a surprising secret.
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Tomboy
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsUncomfortable living as a girl, 10-year-old Laure decides to spend her childhood as Michael. When Michael's family moves to rural France, the child wins friends and comes to understand the complexities of gender.
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The Buccaneers
1995 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFour sisters shunned as "new money" by elitist New York society travel to London to look for husbands, where they're courted by numerous suitors. But as old and new worlds clash, something has to give.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBelieving that his father left him a message before dying in the September 11 attacks, young Oskar Schell embarks on an emotional odyssey through New York City to find the lock that matches a key he found among his father's belongings.
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The Assassins
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn 198 B.C., Cao Cao, prime minister of the Han Dynasty, ventures to the east and defeats China's greatest warrior, Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, Cao crowns himself King of Wei.
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Rust and Bone
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAn extraordinary story of survival and salvation from the acclaimed, award-winning director of A Prophet. Starring Academy Award Winner Marion Cotillard as Stéphanie, who navigates a gritty relationship with Ali, a street fighter, in a world where love and courage appear in many forms.
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Holy Motors
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis surreal drama from France follows DL, who becomes many different individuals living very different lives over a 24-hour period -- switching effortlessly from man to woman, impoverished to affluent, young to old, and even assassin to family man.
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Amour
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this 2012 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Georges and Anne, retired music teachers in their eighties, have a time-tested love. But as Anne's health fails, Georges becomes her caregiver, and the couple's bond is tested like never before.
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The Chicago 8
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe political turmoil of 1968 leads to several days of rioting in Chicago, after which eight notorious political activists, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, are arrested for conspiracy and tried in a case that rivets the nation.
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Ishaqzaade
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRising from the ashes of hooliganism and small-town clan wars comes the love story of a passion ignited by hatred. Two people who were born to hate learn they instead have been destined to fall in love.
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Makkhi
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a ruthless billionaire kills a man in a bid to steal the woman he loves, he's reborn as a common housefly with a taste for revenge. But before he can get even, he must convince his crush that he's buzzing around her.
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Hitchcock
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock struggles with his marriage, the censors and the financiers of his 1960 film Psycho in this biopic. Driven to prove he still has an edge, Hitchcock crafts what would become one of the greatest thrillers of all time.
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Emperor
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs World War II ends, Gen. MacArthur oversees Japan's surrender, an act that dispels the nation's centuries-old beliefs about its emperor. With the eyes of the world -- and history -- upon them, MacArthur and his protégé will change Japan forever.
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Antardwand
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRaghu's plans to marry his pregnant girlfriend take an unexpected turn when the scheming father of a prospective bride has him kidnapped and held for ransom in exchange for his daughter's hand.
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Angels of Sex
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen enigmatic Rai saves young dancer Bruno from a mugging, an intimate and adventurous friendship soon develops between the two men. Throw Bruno's girlfriend, Carla, into the mix, however, and emotions suddenly become more complicated.
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Upstream Color
2013 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA woman is abducted and hypnotized with material harvested from a flower. When she falls for a man, the two realize they have been subjected to the same process. Together, they search for safety as they struggle to reassemble their wrecked lives.
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Samuel Bleak
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSamuel Bleak's disappearance has been unsolved since he ran away from his home at 8 years old. When he resurfaces nearly 20 years later -- mute and living in the woods with only a typewriter -- Bleak's return leads to an even bigger mystery.
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