TV-Shows.TVThe best shows for me! Discover the best Drama TV Shows on Netflix, ranked by real community votes. Netflix Originals have heavily shaped the drama genre and include some of the highest-rated series available.
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(10/10 stars)In the 1880s, the menacing Frank Griffin is terrorizing towns across the West as he hunts Roy Goode, once like a son to him, now his mortal enemy. While Roy hides out at Alice Fletcher's ranch, Frank's chase leads him to the particularly quiet town of La Belle, mysteriously made up entirel... more
(10/10 stars)In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity. more
(10/10 stars)A city steeped in secrets. A dynasty built on lies. Now one act of betrayal could bring it all crashing down. more
(10/10 stars)Reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature - half-wi... more
(10/10 stars)A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. more
(10/10 stars)A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by. more
(10/10 stars)Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated. more
(10/10 stars)A motley crew of young aliens in the Delta Quadrant find an abandoned Starfleet ship, the U.S.S. Protostar; taking control of the ship, they must learn to work together as they make their way towards the Alpha Quadrant. more
(10/10 stars)After landing her dream job in Paris, Chicago marketing exec Emily Cooper embraces her adventurous new life while juggling work, friends and romance. more
(6/10 stars)Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody aged 22 and older. The series also explores the power vacuum that results when the government quarantines the town within a 10 square mile diameter and leaves the inhabitants to fend for themselves. more
(8/10 stars)A crash-landed alien named Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth. more
(8/10 stars)There exist familiars who have the power to grant one wish to a chosen girl. However, that girl must then become a Puella Magi, a girl with magical powers, and fight against witches, evil creatures born from curses that are responsible for murders and suicides. A schoolgirl named Madoka Kaname and h... more
(8/10 stars)In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters. more
(8/10 stars)When it is discovered that an enormous asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth, MIT grad student Liam Cole and tech billionaire Darius Tanz team up to save humanity from this impending apocalypse - without ever alerting the public. As part of the project, Darius recruits an aspiri... more
(8/10 stars)A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot. more
(9/10 stars)Former detective Marcella Backland is devastated when her husband leaves her and their two children. He is a legal adviser to DTG construction, property developers, effectively controlled by the Gibson family. When she is visited by a senior detective on the murder squad for information regarding an... more
(6/10 stars)In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind's survival lies in the Evangelion, a humanoid fighting machine developed by NERV, a special United Nations agency. Capable of withstanding anything the A... more
(9/10 stars)At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination. more
(9/10 stars)Out of school, ready to live together with friends and learn to know new friends in the big city of Berlin, where everything isn't always going according to the plan. more
Drama TV shows have redefined television over the past two decades. The shift from episodic formats to complex serialised storytelling – with characters who change fundamentally across seasons, plotlines that build slowly, and moral questions without easy answers – made drama the centre of what is often called the Golden Age of Television. Many of the highest-rated series of all time are drama series.
What separates strong drama from average drama is rarely budget. It is the characters: how they respond to pressure, what choices they make when forced to decide between what is right and what is easy – and whether the series gives them enough time to be convincing. This ranking shows the drama series the community has rated most consistently over time. Use the runtime filter to find drama series with shorter episodes if you prefer a more compact format.
Strong drama TV shows often overlap with crime and thriller in terms of character depth and emotional tension.
The top Drama TV Shows are ranked by real community votes. The more ratings a show has, the more stable its position.
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Rankings are based on real user ratings. The more votes a series receives, the more stable its chart position.
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