TV Shows & Series: Best Crime TV Shows/Series

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies Crime Film as one of eleven super-genres in his screenwriters’ taxonomy, claiming that all feature length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are Action, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Slice of Life, Sports, Thriller, War and Western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. Chinatown would be an example of a film that is a drama (film type) crime film (super-genre) that is also a noir (pathway) mystery (macro-genre). ()

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Money Heist(2017-)

TV-MA

| 1h 10min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.2/5 (with 3,806 votes)

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

With Álvaro Morte, Pedro Alonso, Úrsula Corberó, Miguel Herrán, Itziar Ituño, Esther Acebo, ...

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Arrow(2012-2020)

TV-14

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

3.1/5 (with 1,791 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, ...

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Elite(2018-)

TV-MA

| 50min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama

4.2/5 (with 1,738 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.

Directed by Ramón Salazar - With Danna Paola, María Pedraza, Miguel Herrán, Itzan Escamilla, Jaime Lorente, Miguel Bernardeau, ...

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Lucifer(2016-)

TV-14

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

4.2/5 (with 1,503 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, ...

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Dark(2017-2020)

TV-MA

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

4.3/5 (with 1,397 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, ...

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Sherlock(2010-2017)

TV-14

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

4.2/5 (with 1,136 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, ...

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Mr. Robot(2015-2019)

TV-MA

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 1,112 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

4.0/5 (with 1,055 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 946 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, ...

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Dexter(2006-2013)

TV-MA

| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery

4.0/5 (with 876 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, ...

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Better Call Saul(2015-)

TV-MA

| 45min per episode | Comedy, Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 804 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, ...

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Gotham(2014-2019)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Fantasy, Crime

3.6/5 (with 781 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, ...

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The Blacklist(2013-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery

3.6/5 (with 764 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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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 708 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, ...

Criminal Minds(2005-2020)

TV-14

| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery

4.0/5 (with 663 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, ...

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Fargo(2014-)

TV-MA

| 43min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.2/5 (with 633 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, ...

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Narcos(2015-2017)

TV-MA

| 57min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 610 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, ...

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Homeland(2011-2020)

TV-MA

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

3.7/5 (with 609 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, ...

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Peaky Blinders(2013-)

TV-MA

| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime

4.3/5 (with 589 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, ...

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine(2013-)

TV-14

| 21min per episode | Comedy, Crime

4.0/5 (with 582 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, ...

Blindspot(2015-)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Action, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 563 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, ...

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Marvel's Iron Fist(2017-2018)

TV-MA

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

3.2/5 (with 541 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, ...

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Bones(2005-2017)

TV-14

| 40min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 537 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, ...

The Wire(2002-2008)

TV-MA

| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime

4.2/5 (with 531 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, ...

NCIS(2003-)

TV-14

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

3.5/5 (with 524 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, ...

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Sons of Anarchy(2008-2014)

TV-MA

| 45min per episode | Crime, Drama

4.1/5 (with 500 votes)

An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC’s familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegal arms business driven by the seduction of money, power, and blood.

With Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Drea de Matteo, Maggie Siff, Ryan Hurst, Ron Perlman, ...

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

TV-MA

| 21min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Crime

4.1/5 (with 484 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

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Elementary(2012-2019)

TV-14

| 43min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime

3.6/5 (with 442 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, ...