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The 15 best drama movies and shows on Netflix right now

Scored, not vibes. Refreshed September 2026.

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This list is rebuilt from the live catalogue, so nothing on it has already left. Each title is scored on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, TMDB and how it is trending right now.

1

Breaking Bad

BN 88.42008

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

S-tier (Essential) · Streaming on Netflix

2

Better Call Saul

BN 84.72015

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

3

Peaky Blinders

BN 83.92013

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

4

Anne with an E

BN 83.447m2017

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

5

The Umbrella Academy

BN 83.12019

Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

6

Riverdale

BN 82.945m2017

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

7

Dark

BN 82.42017

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

8

Grave of the Fireflies

BN 82.41h 29m1988

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

9

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

BN 823h 10m1995

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

10

Grey's Anatomy

BN 81.92005

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Hulu, Netflix

11

The Queen's Gambit

BN 81.82020

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

12

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

BN 81.72009

Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Hulu, Netflix

13

Teen Wolf

BN 81.62011

Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video

14

Money Heist

BN 81.62017

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

15

Green Book

BN 81.32h 10m2018

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

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