Best Crime Thrillers on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Crime Thrillers on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 10499. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Oththa Seruppu Size 7 (2019)
Rated 9.4/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 43m. Taken into custody, a murder suspect's theatrical explanations of his peculiar modus operandi unearth truths far beyond the crime he’s accused of.
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 34m. Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.
3. Seven (1995)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1995, 2h 06m. A seasoned homicide detective and his new partner are on a desperate hunt for a killer whose gruesome crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
4. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1991, 1h 58m. FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned cannibal.
5. The Departed (2006)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2006, 2h 31m. To take down Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own men to infiltrate it, not realizing the syndicate has done the same thing.
6. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1995, 1h 46m. When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together.
7. Joker (2019)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2019, 2h 01m. In 1981 Gotham City, a struggling, mentally ill comic battles to be seen.
8. Oldboy (2003)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2003, 1h 59m. With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
9. Memento (2000)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2000, 1h 48m. Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife.
10. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1992, 1h 39m. In Quentin Tarantino's raw directorial debut, a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.