Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Independent Dramas
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:34:29
Netflix ID: 880640
Merku Thodarchi Malai
In southern India, a laborer's dreams of owning a piece of land to farm is complicated by political corruption.
Released: 2019-01-01
Runtime: 01:54:30
Netflix ID: 81045060
Whiplash
Driven by his demanding music teacher, drummer Andrew is determined to succeed as a jazz musician -- even if it destroys his personality.
Released: 2015-06-09
Runtime: 01:46:55
Netflix ID: 70299275
Good Will Hunting
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:35
Netflix ID: 17405997
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
After learning that his ex-girlfriend had an experimental medical procedure to purge all memories of him, a man decides to do the same with her.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:43:22
Netflix ID: 60034545
There Will Be Blood
An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:38:25
Netflix ID: 70075473
Trainspotting
Renton and his mates cope with the gritty realities of heroin addiction. But when Renton gets clean, he can't get away from his friends' nasty habits.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 60037022
Before Sunrise
An American backpacker strikes up a conversation with a woman on the train to Vienna and persuades her to spend his last day in Europe with him.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:40:51
Netflix ID: 293391
Udaan
Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.
Released: 2018-09-30
Runtime: 02:17:24
Netflix ID: 70139542
Slumdog Millionaire
After coming within one question of winning a fortune on a game show, an uneducated young 'slumdog' is accused of cheating and arrested.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:13
Netflix ID: 70095140
Dancer in the Dark
A Czech immigrant who dwells in a mental world of song and dance performs a haunting act of deliverance when a neighbor steals cash she'd been saving.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:20:15
Netflix ID: 60002276
Dallas Buyers Club
Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:54
Netflix ID: 70275751
Ankhon Dekhi
After a dramatic incident, Raje Bauji, a man in his late fifties, decides that he will only believe what he sees with his eyes.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:48:13
Netflix ID: 70307997
Nightcrawler
A young hustler gets sucked into the sordid but lucrative business of trolling the streets of Los Angeles to film fires, car crashes -- and murder.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:35
Netflix ID: 70295182
The Wrestler
A retired professional wrestler returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for one last shot at defeating his longtime rival.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:24
Netflix ID: 70095145
Boyhood
After divorcing, a mother and father continue to share the task of guiding their young son through youth and adolescence, and finally to adulthood.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:23
Netflix ID: 70301281
Before Midnight
Years after being reunited, multinational lovers Jesse and Celine struggle with their faded romance in this second sequel to the drama Before Sunrise.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:04
Netflix ID: 70267236
Boogie Nights
A well-endowed busboy is taken in by a tight-knit group of 1970s porn actors and transforms himself into skin flick celebrity Dirk Diggler.
Released: 2015-10-01
Runtime: 02:35:29
Netflix ID: 1180077
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In the last days of communism in Romania, a college student wants to end her unplanned pregnancy, but abortion is illegal under the Ceausescu regime.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 70071602
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
A wild teenage boy and his late foster mother's cantankerous husband get lost in the wilderness after social services threatens to take the boy away.
Released: 2016-12-25
Runtime: 01:41:17
Netflix ID: 80096995
Do the Right Thing
Director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Released: 2017-02-01
Runtime: 01:59:47
Netflix ID: 448860
For Here or to Go?
A software engineer must decide if he'd rather navigate America's frustrating visa renewal process or simply return to his home country of India.
Released: 2018-08-15
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80176707
Call Me by Your Name
In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio forms a life-changing bond with his father's charismatic research assistant Oliver in the Italian countryside.
Released: 2018-10-01
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 80169498
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
In a backwater Iowa town, young Gilbert is torn between taking care of his troubled family and a girl who shows him new possibilities for his life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:40
Netflix ID: 60011552
Once
A street musician in Dublin strikes up a friendship with a migrant street hawker, and the duo ends up composing and recording a series of songs.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:26:17
Netflix ID: 70059661
Moonrise Kingdom
This quirky drama follows the frantic search that ensues in a small New England town when two 12-year-olds fall in love and run away together.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:38
Netflix ID: 70228041
The Motorcycle Diaries
A 23-year-old Che Guevara motorcycles across South America with friend Alberto, a trek that crystallizes the future revolutionary's political beliefs.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:40
Netflix ID: 60034802
Mr. Nobody
The last mortal in a world of immortals, Nemo Nobody begins reviewing his life at the age of 120, trying to determine if he made the right decisions.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:36:06
Netflix ID: 70117580
Silver Linings Playbook
After a stint in a mental hospital, Pat moves in with his parents and tries to win back his wife, until he meets a woman who's as unstable as he is.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:05
Netflix ID: 70244164
Lost in Translation
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star -- find solace in each other's company.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:41:39
Netflix ID: 60031214
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Determined to fall in love, 15-year-old Adele is focused on boys. But it's a blue-haired girl she meets on the street who really piques her interest.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:59:59
Netflix ID: 70275600
Beasts of No Nation
When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier.
Released: 2015-10-16
Runtime: 02:17:22
Netflix ID: 80044545
Being John Malkovich
When puppeteer Craig Schwartz discovers a portal into John Malkovich's brain, he decides to sell 15-minute excursions into the esteemed actor's mind.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 01:52:47
Netflix ID: 28363298
Billy Elliot
When a boy trades boxing school for ballet lessons, he may take his newfound talent all the way to the top - and win over his disapproving father.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 60003378
Wind River
A tracker with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assists a rookie FBI agent who's investigating a teen girl's murder on a remote Wyoming reservation.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 01:46:43
Netflix ID: 80173524
Vaya
Three youths from rural South Africa set out for Johannesburg, where they're thrust into the seedy underbelly of the city and must fight to survive.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:46:09
Netflix ID: 80155792
ROMA
Director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic life and social hierarchy set against Mexico's political turmoil of the 1970s.
Released: 2018-12-14
Runtime: 02:15:16
Netflix ID: 80240715
Sin Nombre
Fleeing a violent Central American street gang, a young hood takes refuge atop a moving train and hopes for a fresh start in a new country.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:43
Netflix ID: 70112457
50/50
An otherwise healthy twentysomething has a comically early midlife crisis when he gets slapped with a cancer diagnosis and a 50-50 chance of survival.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:54
Netflix ID: 70202141
A Single Man
This stream-of-consciousness drama centers on a day in the life of a gay college professor who's reeling from his longtime lover's recent death.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:28
Netflix ID: 70117297
To verdener
Sara and her family have always lived by Jehovah's commandments. But when she falls in love with Teis, she is faced with a very difficult decision.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:07
Netflix ID: 70295564
Philomena
An aging Irishwoman teams with a floundering journalist to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years ago.
Released: 2015-09-22
Runtime: 01:38:03
Netflix ID: 70293789
The Piano
Holly Hunter stars as a mute but strong-willed 19th-century Scottish expatriate who arrives in New Zealand with her daughter and her beloved piano.
Released: 2015-10-01
Runtime: 02:00:30
Netflix ID: 856048
Victoria
A Spanish girl in Berlin falls in with four young men. When her new friends run afoul of a gangster, she gets caught up in their problems.
Released: 2016-03-08
Runtime: 02:18:24
Netflix ID: 80043050
Hell or High Water
In a desperate bid to save their family ranch, two brothers stage a series of clever bank robberies with a pair of Texas Rangers in hot pursuit.
Released: 2016-11-18
Runtime: 01:42:10
Netflix ID: 80108616
The Florida Project
A mischievous 6-year-old finds the magic in her own circumstances while living with her troubled mom in a budget motel near Disney World.
Released: 2018-04-07
Runtime: 01:51:42
Netflix ID: 80194388
The Blue Umbrella
A charming allegory based on a novella by Ruskin Bond, this visually stunning film from India explores themes of greed, loneliness, longing and loss.
Released: 2018-08-02
Runtime: 01:30:10
Netflix ID: 70075775
Kuch Bheege Alfaaz
After accidentally connecting over the Internet, two strangers form a tight friendship -- not knowing they already share a bond.
Released: 2018-09-01
Runtime: 01:50:26
Netflix ID: 81018240
Happy as Lazzaro
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise's son will change his world.
Released: 2018-11-30
Runtime: 02:07:29
Netflix ID: 81004245
Instructions Not Included
Unable to locate the elusive mother of a baby girl left on his doorstep, an Acapulco playboy unexpectedly begins to develop feelings for the tot.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:56
Netflix ID: 70284281
Green Street
After a bogus drug scandal, a Harvard newspaper editor is kicked out of school and flies to London to live with his sister and her family.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:48:36
Netflix ID: 70038792
Beyond the Hills
When Alina tries to rekindle the intense relationship with her childhood friend Viochita, who's now a nun, things spiral out of control.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:32:04
Netflix ID: 70242559
The Piano Teacher
An emotionally repressed piano teacher begins a tempestuous affair with an attractive student, turning her dark sexual fantasies into obsession.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:28
Netflix ID: 60022939
Rust and Bone
An unemployed kick boxer who's struggling as a single father strikes up a relationship with a whale trainer who survives a terrible accident.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:17
Netflix ID: 70242543
Fruitvale Station
This dramatic rendering of a real-life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, shot by San Francisco transit police on New Year's Day, 2009.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:25:00
Netflix ID: 70267488
My Life Without Me
When a young mother of two stuck in a dead-end job learns she's dying, she makes a list of important things she wants to accomplish in her short life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:00
Netflix ID: 60031223
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
In an effort to reconnect with his dying filmmaker son, an aging Japanese fisherman travels thousands of miles to film an important folk opera.
Released: 2016-10-15
Runtime: 01:48:57
Netflix ID: 70053127
Taramani
A traditional man and an independent woman share a connection, but they must learn to navigate their vastly different experiences and expectations.
Released: 2019-01-01
Runtime: 02:27:48
Netflix ID: 81052277
Komola Rocket
As the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.
Released: 2019-01-07
Runtime: 01:35:24
Netflix ID: 81048548
Juno
Facing an unplanned pregnancy while in high school, quirky teen Juno devises a plan to locate her unborn baby's perfect adoptive parents.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:36:00
Netflix ID: 70077553
Babel
When an American couple vacationing in Morocco falls victim to a random act of violence, a series of events unfolds across four countries.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:23:29
Netflix ID: 70045866
Blue Valentine
As Cindy and Dean muddle through their languishing marriage, they hearken back to the golden days when life was filled with possibility and romance.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:52:04
Netflix ID: 70122316
Cafe de Flore
Set decades apart in Paris and in Montreal, two dramatic narratives share subtle yet profound links, weaving together in a meditation on human love.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:34
Netflix ID: 70209141
I Wish
Young lad Koichi and his kid brother hatch a wildly imaginative plan to use a new bullet train to reconnect their estranged parents.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:08:29
Netflix ID: 70209136
Child's Pose
When her son Barbu kills a child with his car, wealthy Romanian Cornelia hopes that spreading money around will make Barbu's problem go away.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:51:59
Netflix ID: 70270821
Reprise
Close friends Erik and Phillip each await news on their first novels. But when Phillip's book is published before Erik's, he's unprepared for fame.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:42:07
Netflix ID: 70066353
Imagine
A spatial-orientation instructor sees results with unorthodox methods that require his blind patients to put themselves at considerable risk.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:57
Netflix ID: 70261027
Begin Again
When a down-on-his-luck music producer discovers a promising singer-songwriter in a bar, he resolves to launch her career -- and save his own.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:11
Netflix ID: 70307852
Howards End
When a husband, acting in his family's 'best interest,' does not accept his wife's deathbed wish, providence dictates that he pay for his duplicity.
Released: 2017-03-18
Runtime: 02:22:31
Netflix ID: 60029366
Moonlight
In a crime-infested Miami neighborhood, a gay African-American boy with a drug-addicted mother grows up with the help of a mentoring drug dealer.
Released: 2017-05-21
Runtime: 01:51:10
Netflix ID: 80121348
Mudbound
Two Mississippi families -- one black, one white -- confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming and friendship in a divided World War II era.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 02:15:02
Netflix ID: 80175694
Bad Education
A film director reunites with his childhood friend, who shares a short story he's written about being molested by their Catholic school teacher.
Released: 2017-12-15
Runtime: 01:45:09
Netflix ID: 70011205
Lady Bird
An intrepid high schooler in Sacramento undergoes the trials of love, family and self-discovery as she dreams of escaping to college in the East Coast.
Released: 2018-06-04
Runtime: 01:33:54
Netflix ID: 80205227
Paterson
A week in the life of Paterson -- a simple, routine-oriented New Jersey bus driver and poet -- and his whimsical, loving wife.
Released: 2018-08-23
Runtime: 01:57:58
Netflix ID: 80112361
What Will People Say
When a teenager is caught with her boyfriend, her parents send her away from their home in Norway to live with strict relatives in their native Pakistan.
Released: 2018-10-15
Runtime: 01:42:49
Netflix ID: 80209793
Manto
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Released: 2018-11-30
Runtime: 01:53:54
Netflix ID: 81039383
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Visciously abused by her parents, Harlem teen Precious has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:47
Netflix ID: 70112456
Fish Tank
The life of a hot-tempered teen outcast takes an unexpected turn when her mother brings home a handsome and mysterious boyfriend.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:52
Netflix ID: 70118769
Blue Jasmine
The high life leads to high anxiety for a fashionable New York City homemaker in crisis who finds herself forced to live a more modest lifestyle.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:38:35
Netflix ID: 70270362
The Place Beyond the Pines
A violent confrontation between a motorcycle-riding bank robber and a rookie cop spirals into a tense generational feud.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:20:20
Netflix ID: 70241757
Monster
When emotionally scarred highway hooker Aileen Wuornos shoots a sadistic client, she begins a journey to become America's first female serial killer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:20
Netflix ID: 60032559
The Fundamentals of Caring
In this inspirational buddy comedy, a young shut-in and his caregiver take a road trip in search of landmarks, but end up finding hope and friendship.
Released: 2016-06-24
Runtime: 01:37:14
Netflix ID: 80097349
Blue Jay
Two former high school sweethearts unexpectedly reunite in their old hometown, where they rediscover their magical bond and face a shared regret.
Released: 2016-12-05
Runtime: 01:20:35
Netflix ID: 80117746
The Squid and the Whale
This insightful drama looks at the crumbling marriage between a self-centered novelist -- whose career is waning -- and his up-and-coming writer wife.
Released: 2017-03-31
Runtime: 01:21:13
Netflix ID: 70020750
Graduation
A morally conflicted father wrestles with what’s best for his college-bound daughter when she’s brutally attacked right before an important exam.
Released: 2017-09-04
Runtime: 02:07:21
Netflix ID: 80107018
Good Time
After spearheading an ill-fated bank robbery, a man must get his mentally challenged younger brother out of jail while eluding his own capture.
Released: 2018-01-11
Runtime: 01:41:08
Netflix ID: 80191344
Love and Shukla
A sexually inexperienced rickshaw driver struggles to build intimacy with his shy new wife in their tiny, overcrowded quarters.
Released: 2018-09-01
Runtime: 01:50:06
Netflix ID: 81013710
Croupier
A would-be writer lands a job as a croupier to make ends meet. But when he becomes involved with a gambler, he is lured into taking part in a heist.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:25
Netflix ID: 60000960
Shame
Sex-addicted Brandon struggles to control his ever-desperate behavior when his younger, unstable sister invades his life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:42
Netflix ID: 70211042
Winter's Bone
In this unflinching noir drama, a resilient teen goes on the trail of her missing, drug-dealing father when his absence threatens the family's safety.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:56
Netflix ID: 70129374
Tracks
Mia Wasikowska is affecting as adventurer Robyn Davidson, who crossed the Australian desert alone -- and on foot -- in 1977.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:14
Netflix ID: 70292997
The Story of Luke
Though the world expects little from him, an autistic 25-year-old is determined to find a job and take care of himself after his grandmother dies.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:29
Netflix ID: 70272288
Tsotsi
After shooting a woman and driving off in her car, a ruthless thug is surprised to discover a crying infant in the back seat.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:24
Netflix ID: 70041142
sex, lies, and videotape
When an intriguing visitor arrives with videotapes of women confessing their sexual secrets, he turns the lives of three people inside out.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:57
Netflix ID: 952082
American Hustle
In this fictionalization of a true story, a con man and his lover assist an eccentric FBI agent in exposing corruption in Congress in the early 1980s.
Released: 2015-10-20
Runtime: 02:18:10
Netflix ID: 70281530
Shor In the City
When three small-time Mumbai crooks steal a bag on a train, they find that it's filled with weapons and realize that their lives may be in danger.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:46:24
Netflix ID: 70185023
Broken Embraces
In this indie drama, an aging filmmaker recounts his life before the accident that left him blind, when he became entangled with an aspiring actress.
Released: 2016-01-07
Runtime: 02:07:30
Netflix ID: 70117230
Margarita, with a Straw
An Indian woman with cerebral palsy decides to study in New York, where she becomes involved in a life-changing affair with a blind female activist.
Released: 2016-07-16
Runtime: 01:40:37
Netflix ID: 80018695
Columbus
When his architect father falls into a coma, Jin travels from Korea to Columbus, Indiana, where he and a young woman share an unexpected connection.
Released: 2018-03-02
Runtime: 01:44:19
Netflix ID: 80173707
Private Life
Struggling to conceive, a couple in their 40s are almost out of options -- until a sliver of hope arrives in the form of their visiting step-niece.
Released: 2018-10-05
Runtime: 02:04:07
Netflix ID: 80168222