Top rated sobering movies on Netflix

Check out today’s highest ranked sobering movies on Netflix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best sobering movies on Netflix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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2022-10-07 | Drama / War

Cast

Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visceral
  2. Ranked #2 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic

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All Quiet on the Western Front trailer
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2 The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.

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2019-06-07 | Drama

Cast

Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors

Rating

rating icon 7.05
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    soulful acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    above average acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    former glory

Trailer

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3 Pieces of a Woman (2020)

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

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2020-12-30 | Drama

Cast

Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf

Rating

rating icon 7.032
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    powerful
  2. Ranked #3 for
    strong
  3. Ranked #3 for
    deserving nods from Oscars

Trailer

Pieces of a Woman trailer
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4 Marriage Story (2019)

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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2019-09-28 | Drama

Cast

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson

Rating

rating icon 7.747
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #1 for
    workaholic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    splitting up

Trailer

Marriage Story trailer
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5 Living (2022)

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

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2022-11-04 | Drama

Cast

Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    telling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    able supporting actor
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gentlemanly

Trailer

Living trailer
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6 The Farewell (2019)

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

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2019-07-12 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen

Rating

rating icon 7.435
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    veteran actress
  2. Ranked #2 for
    universal theme
  3. Ranked #2 for
    acute

Trailer

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7 Waves (2019)

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

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2019-11-15 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell

Rating

rating icon 7.392
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    imaginative directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    propulsive
  3. Ranked #1 for
    picking up pace

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Waves trailer
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8 The Hand of God (2021)

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo

Rating

rating icon 7.581
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slice of life
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stylish camera work
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stylistic flourish

Trailer

The Hand of God trailer
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9 Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

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2020-06-12 | War / Drama

Cast

Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors

Rating

rating icon 6.52
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scattershot
  2. Ranked #2 for
    clunky
  3. Ranked #4 for
    erratic

Trailer

Da 5 Bloods trailer
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10 Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.

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2021-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Mayra Batalla, Norma Pablo

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    childhood innocence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    extending beyond
  3. Ranked #1 for
    catching attention

Trailer

Prayers for the Stolen trailer
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