TV Shows & Series: Best Crime TV Shows/Series

Arrow(2012-2020)

TV-14

| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure

3.1/5 (with 1,753 votes)

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

With Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Colin Donnell, Willa Holland, ...

Elite(2018-)

TV-MA

| 50min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama

4.3/5 (with 1,544 votes)

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

With Danna Paola, María Pedraza, Miguel Herrán, Itzan Escamilla, Jaime, Miguel Bernardeau, ...

Sherlock(2010-2017)

TV-14

| 1h 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery

4.2/5 (with 1,121 votes)

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

Directed by Euros Lyn, Paul McGuigan, Rachel Talalay - With Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Vinette Robinson, Zoe Telford, Andrew Scott, ...

Lucifer(2016-)

TV-14

| 45min per episode | Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

4.1/5 (with 1,116 votes)

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

Directed by Len Wiseman - With Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, Rachael Harris, D. B. Woodside, ...

Mr. Robot(2015-2019)

TV-MA

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 1,021 votes)

A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

Directed by Sam Esmail - With Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, Martin Wallström, Michel Gill, ...

Prison Break(2005-2017)

TV-14

| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

3.9/5 (with 898 votes)

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Directed by Paul Scheuring - With Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Amaury Nolasco, Sarah Wayne Callies, Robert Knepper, Paul Adelstein, ...

Marvel's Daredevil(2015-2018)

TV-MA

| 52min per episode | Action, Crime

4.0/5 (with 897 votes)

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

With Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Bob Gunton, Ayelet Zurer, ...

Dexter(2006-2013)

TV-MA

| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery

4.0/5 (with 814 votes)

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

Directed by Michael Cuesta, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Lieberman, Steve Shill, Adam Davidson, Keith Gordon, ... - With Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar, Lauren Vélez, C. S. Lee, ...

Better Call Saul(2015-)

TV-MA

| 45min per episode | Comedy, Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 782 votes)

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

With Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael McKean, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, ...

Gotham(2014-2019)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Fantasy, Crime

3.6/5 (with 745 votes)

Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

With Ben McKenzie, Morena Baccarin, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Donal Logue, ...

The Blacklist(2013-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery

3.6/5 (with 707 votes)

Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

With James Spader, Megan Boone, Harry Lennix, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold

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Fargo(2014-)

TV-MA

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.2/5 (with 609 votes)

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

With Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Bob Odenkirk, Adam Goldberg, ...

Homeland(2011-2020)

TV-MA

| 55min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime, War & Politics

3.7/5 (with 594 votes)

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

With Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin, Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Sarah Sokolovic, ...

Narcos(2015-2017)

TV-MA

| 57min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 571 votes)

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Directed by José Padilha - With Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Manolo Cardona, Boyd Holbrook, Ana de la Reguera, Stephanie Sigman, ...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 571 votes)

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

With Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Ice-T, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish, ...

Dark(2017-)

TV-MA

| 53min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Crime

4.2/5 (with 542 votes)

A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

Directed by Baran bo Odar - With Louis Hofmann, Oliver Masucci, Maja Schöne, Sebastian Rudolph, Andreas Pietschmann, Ella Lee, ...

Criminal Minds(2005-2020)

TV-14

| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.9/5 (with 537 votes)

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

With Mandy Patinkin, Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Matthew Gray Gubler, A. J. Cook, ...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine(2013-)

TV-14

| 21min per episode | Comedy, Crime

4.0/5 (with 528 votes)

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

With Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, ...

NCIS(2003-)

TV-14

| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 511 votes)

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

With Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sasha Alexander, Sean Murray, ...

The Wire(2002-2008)

TV-MA

| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime

4.2/5 (with 507 votes)

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

With Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Andre Royo, Domenick Lombardozzi, Seth Gilliam, ...

Marvel's Iron Fist(2017-2018)

TV-MA

| 55min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

3.2/5 (with 507 votes)

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

With Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, David Wenham, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, Ramón Rodríguez, ...

Peaky Blinders(2013-)

TV-MA

| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime

4.3/5 (with 497 votes)

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

With Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Iddo Goldberg, Annabelle Wallis, ...

Bones(2005-2017)

TV-14

| 40min per episode | Crime, Drama

3.9/5 (with 452 votes)

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

With David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Eric Millegan, T. J. Thyne, Jonathan Adams, Tamara Taylor, ...

Blindspot(2015-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Action, Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 425 votes)

A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.

With Sullivan Stapleton, Jaimie Alexander, Ashley Johnson, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Rob Brown, Audrey Esparza, ...

Mindhunter(2017-)

TV-MA

| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime

3.9/5 (with 412 votes)

An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.

Directed by David Fincher - With Jonathan Groff, Anna Torv, Holt McCallany, Hannah Gross, Cotter Smith, Stacey Roca, ...

Elementary(2012-2019)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime

3.6/5 (with 402 votes)

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

With Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill, John Noble, Erik Jensen, ...

Power(2014-2020)

TV-MA

| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama

3.8/5 (with 388 votes)

A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.

With Omari Hardwick, Naturi Naughton, Joseph Sikora, Adam Huss, Kathrine Narducci, Greg Serano, ...

Marvel's The Punisher(2017-2019)

TV-MA

| 53min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 388 votes)

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

Directed by Tom Shankland, Andy Goddard, Kari Skogland, Dearbhla Walsh, Jeremy Webb, Antonio Campos, ... - With Jon Bernthal, Ben Barnes, Deborah Ann Woll, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amber Rose Revah, Daniel Webber, ...

The End of the F***ing World(2017-2019)

TV-MA

| 18min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Crime

4.1/5 (with 373 votes)

James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

Directed by Jonathan Entwistle - With Alex Lawther, Jessica Barden