Best dark & gritty English movies on Netflix in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
537 movies on Netflix in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.3. Newest addition: The Last House on the Left, added to Netflix on 22 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. The Godfather (1972)
Movie · English · 2h 55m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 9.2 (22.7L votes)
Visually stunningMatureTwistyDark & gritty
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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2. The Godfather Part II (1974)
Movie · English · 3h 22m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 9.0 (15.2L votes)
TwistyVisually stunningMatureDark & gritty
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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3. Fight Club (1999)
Movie · English · 2h 19m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.8 (26.8L votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedVisually stunning
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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4. The Prestige (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 10m · U · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.5 (16.4L votes)
TwistyVisually stunningEdge-of-seatCold & detached
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
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5. Dune: Part Two (2024)
Movie · English · 2h 47m · Science Fiction, Adventure · IMDb 8.4 (8.0L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistyDark & gritty
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
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6. Joker (2019)
Movie · English · 2h 2m · A · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 8.3 (17.3L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyVisually stunning
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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7. Scarface (1983)
Movie · English · 2h 50m · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.3 (10.4L votes)
MatureVisually stunningFast-pacedCold & detached
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But inc
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8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Movie · English · 1h 51m · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.2 (13.3L votes)
MatureVisually stunningTwistyFast-paced
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
Movie · English · 2h 2m · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 8.2 (12.2L votes)
MatureEdge-of-seatCold & detachedVisually stunning
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
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10. Taxi Driver (1976)
Movie · English · 1h 54m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.2 (10.5L votes)
Slow-burnMatureCold & detachedDark & gritty
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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11. Dune (2021)
Movie · English · 2h 35m · UA · Science Fiction, Adventure · IMDb 8.0 (11.0L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistyDark & gritty
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in e
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12. The Revenant (2015)
Movie · English · 2h 37m · A · Western, Drama · IMDb 8.0 (9.7L votes)
Visually stunningMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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13. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Movie · English · 2h 16m · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.0 (8.8L votes)
MatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
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14. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Movie · English · 2h 42m · Drama, History · IMDb 8.1 (2.5L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and
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15. Inside Job (2010)
Movie · English · 1h 49m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 8.2 (83.0K votes)
Cold & detachedDialogue-drivenFamily-friendlyDark & gritty
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces th
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16. On the Waterfront (1954)
Movie · English · 1h 48m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.1 (1.8L votes)
Dark & grittyEdge-of-seat
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
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18. The Batman (2022)
Movie · English · 2h 57m · UA · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 7.8 (9.5L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatCold & detached
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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19. Dunkirk (2017)
Movie · English · 1h 47m · UA · War, Action · IMDb 7.8 (8.3L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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20. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)
Movie · English · 1h 38m · Documentary · IMDb 8.3 (21.6K votes)
Dark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seatCold & detached
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
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21. The Last Samurai (2003)
Movie · English · 2h 34m · Drama, Action · IMDb 7.8 (5.1L votes)
Visually stunningDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warr
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22. The Irishman (2019)
Movie · English · 3h 29m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.8 (4.8L votes)
TwistySlow-burnMatureDark & gritty
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will main
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23. Seaspiracy (2021)
Movie · English · 1h 29m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 8.1 (36.0K votes)
Cold & detachedVisually stunningFast-pacedDark & gritty
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global conspiracy.
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24. Zodiac (2007)
Movie · English · 2h 37m · UA · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 7.7 (6.9L votes)
TwistyCold & detachedSlow-burnMature
Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
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25. Icarus (2017)
Movie · English · 2h 1m · Documentary · IMDb 7.9 (58.8K votes)
TwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer
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26. 300 (2007)
Movie · English · 1h 57m · Action, Adventure · IMDb 7.6 (9.2L votes)
Visually stunningMatureFast-pacedEdge-of-seat
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
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27. American Psycho (2000)
Movie · English · 1h 42m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 7.6 (8.6L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyCold & detached
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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28. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Movie · English · 2h 10m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.7 (2.1L votes)
Dark & grittyCold & detached
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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29. Inside Man (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 9m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.6 (4.3L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatCold & detachedDark & gritty
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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30. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Movie · English · 2h 17m · U/A 16+ · Drama, War · IMDb 7.7 (92.5K votes)
Dark & grittyMatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seat
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he i
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