Crime TV Dramas on Netflix

A terminally ill chemistry teacher teams with a former student to manufacture crystal meth to secure his family's future.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 9.5
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70143836 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this updated take on Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved mystery tales, the eccentric sleuth prowls the streets of modern-day London in search of clues.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 9.1
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70202589 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A prosecutor without empathetic abilities, along with a bold female police detective, takes on a murder case involving rampant political corruption.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 9
Netflix ID: 80187302 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 9
Netflix ID: 81267691 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Inspired by the classic Coen Brothers film of the same title, this new limited series embroils several quirky Minnesotans in a different 'true' crime.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70285785 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The true story of Colombia’s infamously violent and powerful drug cartels fuels this gritty new gangster drama series.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Netflix ID: 80025172 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A notorious gang in 1919 Birmingham, England, is led by the fierce Tommy Shelby, a crime boss set on moving up in the world no matter the cost.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80002479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Los Simuladores are a commando group specializing in simulation operatives to solve problems for their clients.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.6/5
Netflix ID: 70256270 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Communicating via a walkie-talkie that transcends time, a profiler from 2015 and a detective from 1989 join forces to tackle crimes and injustice.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix ID: 80987077 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This prequel to 'Breaking Bad' follows small-time attorney Jimmy McGill as he transforms into Walter White's morally challenged lawyer, Saul Goodman.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 4.6/5
Netflix ID: 80021955 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix ID: 80100172 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

DS Steve Arnott is transferred to a police anticorruption unit after he refuses to be part of a cover-up involving an accidental shooting.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70263817 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After seizing control of its town, gun-running motorcycle club the Sons of Anarchy soon butts heads with rival biker gangs, racist groups and the law.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70143844 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While Cleaver Greene is a brilliant and driven attorney, he's also an ex-druggie, a current gambling addict and loathed by many of his colleagues.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70301553 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the alleged attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80013249 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A former Colombian guerrilla fighter faces challenges as she reintegrates into society and tries to overcome her traumatic memories.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80120640 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 80114855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A detective finds himself 30 years in the future and must solve a string of grisly crimes before he can return to the past.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 81142594 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dedicated urban detective tries to keep a grip on his personal life while dealing with the psychological factors underlying the crimes he solves.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70175633 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

From his days as a petty thief to becoming head of a drug-trafficking empire, this riveting miniseries charts the life of the infamous Pablo Escobar.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 80035684 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Dale Cooper returns to the strange and dangerous town of Twin Peaks some 25 years after the shocking murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80095712 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80120485 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a Luxembourg village where everyone is keeping secrets, gruff police inspector Luc Capitani investigates the suspicious death of a 15-year-old girl.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 81277858 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a young boy is murdered in the small seaside town of Broadchurch, local detectives Ellie Miller and Alec Hardy are assigned the mysterious case.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70302484 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

O.J. Simpson's double-murder trial, dubbed 'the Trial of the Century,' is dramatized from the perspective of both the prosecution and the defense.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80083977 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Soviet freight train's hijacking leads a haunted cop and a poor typist to uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice and glamour of 1929 Berlin.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80136321 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This miniseries created for Swedish television adapts the complete Millennium trilogy from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 70289508 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After surrendering to Bogotá police, an ex-guerrilla avoids prison by working undercover to investigate a ruthless enforcer of government corruption.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 80230435 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Strangers Diego and Isabel flee their home in Mexico and pretend to be a married couple to escape his drug-dealing enemies and her abusive husband.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81034775 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Defining moments in Andrew Cunanan's life, starting in childhood, lead up to a 1997 murder spree that kills five, including fashion icon Gianni Versace.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81091015 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Burdened with visions of the future in their dreams, a young woman and two men try to prevent horrible events before they actually happen.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81225148 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Each season of this action thriller follows 24 hours in the life of Jack Bauer, a special agent who works to thwart terrorist attacks.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 70136102 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70140425 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Los Angeles's rich and famous always call Ray Donovan to get them out of hot water -- but he can't seem to solve the problems his family creates.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70245234 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Get ready to immerse yourself in the opulent, exciting and sometimes dangerous world of Australia's leading lady, Det. Phryne Fisher.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70259338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This contemporary crime thriller focuses on a Wyoming sheriff who's rebuilding his life and career following the death of his wife.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70269479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young Macarena must learn to navigate a harsh new world when she's sent to prison for embezzlement and tax evasion.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80059465 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating a kidnapping, an ex-cop sent to infiltrate a prison finds himself surrounded by dangerous felons who can't know his real identity.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80115297 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 80117552 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The police officers at South Korea's busiest patrol division toil day and night as keepers of law and peace -- but the reality is far from orderly.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 80214523 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A modern-day Korean emperor passes through a mysterious portal and into a parallel world, where he encounters a feisty police detective.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 81260283 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One man makes a fateful decision to get involved with a Colombian drug cartel in this series based on a novel by Andrés López López.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80025923 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Belfast police are stalled in their investigation of a spate of murders, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson is drafted to investigate.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70272726 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his mother dies, Joshua 'J' Cody moves to his estranged grandmother's seaside house, where he becomes entangled in the family's life of crime.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 80104434 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After helping thwart a terrorist attack, a war veteran is assigned to protect a politician who was a main proponent of the very conflict he fought in.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80235864 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A public defender tries to open the blind eyes of justice with help from a psychic high school boy, whose father's murder she witnessed long ago.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80039909 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A news anchor at the apex of her hard-earned career contends with a younger rival after her job and a murder case that tests the limits of her marriage.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81029905 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Charged with killing his wife and daughter, Prosecutor Park Jeong-u seeks to recoup his memory and build a case unlike any other to prove he’s innocent.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80999070 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This three-part drama recounts a grim true story of girls systematically groomed for sexual abuse, then further victimized by a hostile legal system.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80989522 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This intense police procedural follows a group of extraordinary FBI profilers who spend their days getting into the minds of psychopathic criminals.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70153390 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Victorian-era Toronto, Inspector William Murdoch uses unconventional scientific methods to crack complex, high-profile murder cases.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70143861 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The body of a murder victim turns up in a small Icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80118158 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team face storms, corruption, cold cases and more as they investigate murders on the remote Shetland Islands.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80133848 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 80097140 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Twelve jurors — ordinary people with struggles of their own — must decide the case of a woman accused of killing her best friend and her own daughter.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81218903 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After turning himself in, a brilliant fugitive offers to help the FBI bag other baddies, but only if rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen is his partner.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70281312 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After testifying against the Mafia, ex-gangster Frank Tagliano enters witness protection and asks to be sent to Norway.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70221438 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Haunted by a traumatic past, Jessica Jones uses her gifts as a private eye to find her tormentor before he can harm anyone else in Hell's Kitchen.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.6/5
Netflix ID: 80002311 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young mother inexplicably stabs a stranger to death, a sympathetic detective struggles to unlock the mystery buried in her missing memories.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 80175802 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1980s Galicia, Spain, a young fisherman becomes a prosperous cocaine smuggler by providing Latin American suppliers with a European entry point.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 80215500 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Life turns on a dime for a thriving prosecutor after meeting his new perky intern, who becomes a prime murder suspect soon after joining his office.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 80998940 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A police officer and an actress with tragic pasts try to overcome their painful wounds and find renewed hope through one another.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81085123 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An attempt to launder stolen money finances a cryptocurrency that puts entrepreneurs in business with a corrupt FBI agent and a Miami gang.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 80154285 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a picturesque and once-peaceful province of Sweden, disillusioned police inspector Kurt Wallander probes a shocking spate of baffling murders.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70148125 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Long before he was commissioner, rookie cop James Gordon takes on Gotham City crime and corruption to avenge the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 80020542 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The law-abiding owner of a crime scene cleaning service is forced into business with a powerful mob boss thanks to his irresponsible older brother.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80080727 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forced to work for a cartel that recently killed her boyfriend, Teresa relies on her street smarts, a loyal pal and a mysterious notebook to survive.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80107369 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on real events, the fictional story of Mexican drug lord El Chato's number one hitman, El Cholo.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80227798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ride along for a dramatized version of the real-life investigations into the murders of rap icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80177416 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three suburban moms orchestrate a local grocery store heist to escape financial ruin and establish independence -- together.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80177342 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80225312 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this remake of the Korean thriller, an esteemed detective and a talented cop join forces to nail the killer who took the lives of their loved ones.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 81142595 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80190519 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After getting arrested, a charismatic man gets pressured to work for a pair of murky police officers as an informant in order to protect his family.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 81388421 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Follow the quirky agents of the NCIS -- the Naval Criminal Investigative Service – as they track down terrorists and other high-profile criminals.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70142386 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80117470 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity. Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning novel.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 80119411 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Siblings separated as children who no longer recognize each other are pitted against each other in a war involving drugs, crime and betrayal.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81000207 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A deft detective whose wife is killed by a serial murderer teams up with a rookie cop, a gifted voice profiler dealing with her own father’s murder.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 80987095 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Obsessed with an aspiring writer, a charming bookstore manager goes to extreme measures to insert himself into her life.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 80211991 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After surviving a near-fatal injury on the job, a cop sets out to investigate a conspiracy involving the top brass of the police department.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81098013 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Each season of this award-winning BBC series follows a single homicide defendant through Britain's criminal justice system.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 70236771 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a girl vanishes from a suburb near Mexico City, the personal goals of some involved in the case muddy the search. Based on a true story.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81058498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A powerful team of Washington, D.C. lawyers makes scandals disappear while handling government crises and coping with problems of their own.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70197057 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A police detective mourning a painful loss moves back to his peaceful hometown, only to be drawn into a murder case that dredges up dark secrets.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80142550 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Polar-opposite strangers Lola and Chelsea become partners on the run when they witness a murder involving dirty cops and are framed for the crime.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80195522 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During the Great Depression, a stranger with a violent past poses as a preacher and rallies farmers to mount a strike in a rural Iowa community.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80176771 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While trying to protect a loved one, a white-collar worker is drawn into an intricate murder plot that tests the limits of his will to survive.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80220817 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1896 New York City, psychologist Laszlo Kreizler is enlisted by Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to catch a killer preying on homeless boys.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80149395 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seventeen years after being wrongly imprisoned, a talented songwriter seeks justice against the men who caused her downfall and killed her family.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81022683 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Swedish crime drama, dyspeptic middle-aged detective Martin Beck investigates murders amid the social tensions of modern Stockholm.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 70155633 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Twin sisters Sterling and Blair balance teen life at an elite Southern high school with an unlikely new career as butt-kicking bounty hunters.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80244296 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80994082 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the 1970s, merciless killer Charles Sobhraj preys on travelers exploring the "hippie trail" of South Asia. Based on shocking true events.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80206099 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forsaking London for the rustic landscapes of Wales, a police detective with a troubled soul finds himself in a place with secrets as dark as his own.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70305043 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brooding detective Kurt Wallander brings an intense obsession and fierce intellect to the murder cases he solves in this dark crime series.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70157122 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This drama series follows a new batch of rookie detectives and their temperamental chief, who fight crime in the upper-crust Gangnam area of Seoul.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80031644 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In late 1980s Texas, two best friends get involved in darkly comic misadventures by hiring themselves out to shady clients for illicit ends.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80032178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When doubts rise about a five-year-old murder conviction, a veteran detective partners with a young hotshot to hunt down the case's hidden truths.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81323914 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When pregnant, 12-year-old Tui tries to kill herself in a freezing New Zealand lake, Detective Robin Griffin has plenty of questions for the girl.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70267274 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb