But this movie also just absolutely slaps/rules/slays so hard. There are movies from big, well-known filmmakers on this list, and there are also films from up-and-comers that are absolutely worth checking out. From what are now TV classics (like Breaking Bad) to Peak TV gems (Hap and Leonard, Mindhunter), Netflix is … – Adam Chitwood, Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt. But beware; some of these may require a tissue or seven. It’s easily one of the best performances of 2018. Learn more about our use of cookies and information. Based on a true story, Pitt plays Bill Beane, a former baseball player and current general manager of the Oakland Athletics who takes a gamble on using statistics instead of scouts to build his team. Anchored by excellent performances from the entire cast, Marriage Story may put you through the ringer, but you’ll feel grateful for the experience and the time spent with these characters. Instead, it’s a mature, bittersweet, and powerful look at the end of marriage from both sides. Komödie von Michael Showalter mit Kumail Nanjiani und Issa Rae. Jonah Hill earned an Oscar nomination for his dramatic turn as sabermetrics guru Peter Brand, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is unsurprisingly a scene-stealer as the team’s manager who opposes this abnormal method. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, and Kyle Chandler, If you’re in the mood for romance but also maybe want to start getting into the Christmas spirit, I highly recommend Todd Haynes’ 2015 romantic drama Carol. – Matt Goldberg, Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, and Rashida Jones, The Social Network is a masterpiece. The beauty of Netflix is that the streaming service has a wealth of genre options at your disposal. It’s absolutely thrilling and Delroy Lindo gives a genuinely Oscar-worthy lead performance. – Adam Chitwood, Writers: Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Pratt, and Robin Wright, Brad Pitt gives one of the best performances of his career in the 2011 sports drama Moneyball, which went through a fraught development period (Steven Soderbergh was fired from directing three days before shooting was supposed to begin) but came out pretty spectacular on the other end. It’s a gorgeous, somewhat haunting film and one of the most striking love stories in recent memory. Set in the near future, Joaquin Phoenix plays a quiet, somewhat awkward man who unexpectedly falls in love with his new operating system, which has been built with the ability to personalize and evolve to better anticipate its user’s needs. Based on the book of the same name by Richard Ford, Wildlife takes place in 1960 and follows a couple (Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal) and their teenage son as they move to Montana. – Adam Chitwood, Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Desmin Borges, and Denis O’Hare. But through the eyes of Bobby (Willem Dafoe), the motel’s manager, we see the abject poverty surrounding its tenants, and the loops they continue getting stuck in without any promise of upward mobility. This is a deeply emotional and mature family drama that proves Dano is the real-deal behind the camera, and it’s also lowkey one of the best films of the last few years. – Matt Goldberg, Cast: Andre Holland, Zazie Beets, Melvin Gregg, Sonja Sohn, Zachary Quinto, Kyle MacLachlan, and Bill Duke, What do you get when you combine Oscar-winning Moonlight co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney with genius filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and an A-list cast? Rarely has a director and screenwriter pairing been so better matched, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin elevating each other’s best instincts and dampening each other’s worst. – Matt Goldberg, Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. Connor, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best filmmakers in history and Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the best actors in history, and the duo’s first ever collaboration resulted in one of the best films ever made. A must-see movie. Barry Jenkins’ direction is masterful and the performances astound, as you feel the three different actors who play Chiron all inhabit the same character—no easy feat. He's been working for Collider for over a decade, and in addition to managing content also runs point on crafts interviews, awards coverage, and co-hosts The Collider Podcast with Matt Goldberg (which has been running since 2012). Far from “just another mob movie” from Scorsese, The Irishman is a powerful look at your twilight years and reflecting on the choices you’ve made in life. – Adam Chitwood, Cast: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Joan Cusack, and Paul Rudd, The Perks of Being a Wallflower—both the movie and the book—should be required consumption for every teen. As a bonus, the screenplay gets a crackerjack boost from Aaron Sorkin, whose scenes stick out in the best way. To help whittle down your choices, we’ve gone ahead and curated a list of the very best dramas on Netflix right now, which run the gamut from period pieces to relationship dramas to little-seen gems. Netflix and third parties use cookies and similar technologies on this website to collect information about your browsing activities which we use to analyse your use of the website, to personalize our services and to customise our online advertisements. We see how the events of his life shaped him into the man he became, from his drug-addicted mother to his benevolent but criminal father figure to his first experiences coming to terms with his sexuality. And maybe you’ll even find it cathartic too. He lives in Tulsa, OK and likes pasta, 90s thrillers, and spending like 95% of his time with his dog Luna. A triptych in structure, the film is told in three sections each focusing on a different stage of the life of a young black man named Chiron. – Adam Chitwood, Cast: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, and Caleb Landry Jones, The Florida Project is brilliant and human and it will absolutely break your heart. Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, who won an Oscar for Gravity and has pushed the boundaries of cinema with films like Children of Men and even Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, digs deep into his soul for this new drama, which recreates his childhood as told through the eyes of a domestic worker named Cleo. 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It’s also got a gorgeous soundtrack by Arcade Fire and warm, tactile cinematography by Christopher Nolan’s DP Hoyte van Hoytema. So peruse through our list of the best drama movies on Netflix below, and get to watchin’. It doesn’t talk down to its characters, nor does it offer some adult’s version of what a “teen” is like. When she agrees, it ends up creating new, unforeseen complications, but never anything so outlandish that it breaks the movie’s powerful credibility. Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti play Rachel and Richard Biegler, a couple in their late 40s who are desperately trying to get pregnant, but despite putting themselves through the fertility grinder, are no closer to having a child. By clicking accept, you accept the use of all cookies and your information for the purposes mentioned above. Martin Scorsese’s epic about the life of Teamster and hitman Frank Sheeran flies by as it morphs from entertaining mob story to a powerful mediation on life, age, and regret. Adam Chitwood is the Managing Editor for Collider. This cool, incisive drama is far more than a “Facebook” movie, as it uses the dramatic “origin story” of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg to tell a much larger story about what happens when the people running the world’s largest companies are barely out of college. And while one may be charmed by the twee premise, make no mistake: this is a movie that goes to some dark places, but it's all the better for it. and a neighborly preacher played by Paul Dano. This is an underrated gem in every sense of the word. – Adam Chitwood, Cast: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta, You should prepare yourself for some emotional heavy lifting, but Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is far from a grind.