Best Thriller Programmes on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Thriller Programmes on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 89811. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Breaking Bad (2008)
Rated 9.5/10 on IMDb, from 2008. A terminally ill chemistry teacher teams with a former student to manufacture crystal meth to secure his family's future.
2. Phi (2017)
Rated 9.5/10 on IMDb, from 2017. A philanderer and renowned psychiatrist pursues his dangerous obsession with a dancer while keeping a lid on his dark past.
3. Death Note (2006)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, from 2006. When a Japanese high schooler comes into possession of a mystical notebook, he finds he has the power to kill anybody whose name he enters in it.
4. Stranger (2017)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, from 2017. A prosecutor without empathetic abilities, along with a bold female police detective, takes on a murder case involving rampant political corruption.
5. Innocent (2017)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, from 2017. In a peaceful, rustic town, a retired officer and his family are mired in a murder mystery riddled with shocking, buried secrets.
6. Fargo (2014)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, from 2014. Inspired by the classic Coen Brothers film of the same title, this new limited series embroils several quirky Minnesotans in a different 'true' crime.
7. House of Cards (2013)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2013. Ruthless Congressman Frank Underwood will stop at nothing to conquer Washington D.C.
8. Steins;Gate (2011)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2011. A mad scientist and his friends invent a microwave phone that sends text messages into the past and allows them to travel through time.
9. Stranger Things (2016)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2016. When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
10. Signal (2016)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2016. Communicating via a walkie-talkie that transcends time, a profiler from 2015 and a detective from 1989 join forces to tackle crimes and injustice.