25 Drama Movies on Netflix For When You Just Want to Feel All of the Things

In 1860s New York, Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young Irish immigrant just released from prison and on a mission to find his father's murderer.

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In this crime thriller, flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is caught smuggling money for her gun dealer boss (Samuel L. Jackson). When she's forced to help with the police investigation, she comes up with a creative plan to make off with the money herself.

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In this film, Cate Blanchett plays a New York City socialite forced to get a job and trade in the high life after her marriage falls apart.

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Based on the nonfiction book of the same title, Into the Wild follows recent college graduate Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), who gives up his trust fund and all of his possessions before setting off on a journey to explore the Alaskan wilderness.

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When his parents refuse to foot the bill of his planned European holiday, recent college graduate James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) takes a job at a local amusement park, where he ends up falling for his coworker Em (Kristen Stewart).

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In this film, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio play a 1950s married couple whose relationship grows troubled when a plan to escape the emptiness in their lives falls apart.

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In this 1989 drama, Robin Williams plays a quirky prep school teacher who inspires his students to look at poetry with deeper feelings and a different perspective.

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In this British historical drama, Colin Firth plays England's Prince Albert, who has a speech impediment. As he prepares to ascend the throne as King George VI, his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) hires a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) with whom Prince Albert forms a deep friendship as he learns to speak with confidence.

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In 1980s Texas, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) learns that he has AIDS and is told he has just 30 days to live. Even so, he sets out to find alternative treatments and begins selling smuggled unapproved drugs with a fellow AIDS patient (Jared Leto) to others who are also running out of time.

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Based on the novel of the same name, Chocolat tells the story of a single mother and her daughter who move to a French village and open a chocolate shop at the start of the Lenten season in 1959.

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Set in the 1950s, Carol tells the story of a wealthy married woman (Cate Blanchett) who begins a complicated affair with a female department store clerk (Rooney Mara).

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In this film, which inspired the popular TV series of the same name, high school football coach Gary Gaines works to get his small-town team to the state championships.

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Set during World War II, this film follows a gay mathematician working to lead a team of cryptanalysts to crack Nazi Germany's infamous Enigma code.

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In this 1972 classic, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, the youngest son (Al Pacino) of a family living a life of organised crime joins the mafia to face his father's attempted killers.

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In this coming-of-age drama set in 1965, two 12-year-olds fall in love and plot to escape their small New England town.

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In this English drama, based on Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, young Briony spreads a lie about her sister's lover, which ultimately leads to his imprisonment.

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In this sci-fi drama, teenager Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house and meets a giant rabbit named Frank who tells him the world will end in 28 days. The rabbit then forces him to commit various crimes, and Donnie questions if he's living in a parallel universe.

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This Oscar-winning historical fantasy drama showcases the relationships and events that inspired Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) to write the iconic story.

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In this film, a Jewish-Italian waiter's family is torn apart when he and his son are separated from his wife and taken to a concentration camp, which he tries to convince his son is part of a game.

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This film tells the true story of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), who was murdered by a city employee in 1978.

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In this 1999 teen drama, Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) places a bet with her stepbrother (Ryan Phillippe) to see if he can sleep with Annette (Reese Witherspoon), who has vowed to stay a virgin until marriage.

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Based on the novel of the same name, this film follows human resources consultant Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who flies around the country to fire employees on behalf of their companies while facing the fact that he may lose his own job if his company decides to start conducting the layoffs via videoconferencing.

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Based on a true story, Lion is about Saroo Brierley, an Indian man who becomes separated from his family on a train at age 5 and is eventually adopted by an Australian family. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to track down his lost family using Google Earth.

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When Alice (Nicole Kidman) tells her husband, Bill (Tom Cruise), that she is having sexual fantasies about a man she met, he grows obsessed with having his own affair. He then falls into an underground sexual network and quickly finds that he is in over his head.

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This 2015 drama is based on the 2003 Boston Globe investigative stories by the newspaper's "Spotlight" team about the Boston-area child molestation scandal involving several Catholic priests.

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