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American Crime Story(2016-)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 453 votes)

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

With Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, John Travolta, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance, Nathan Lane, ...

Formula 1: Drive to Survive(2019-)

TV-MA
| 38min per episode | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Drivers, managers and team owners live life in the fast lane - both on and off the track - during one cutthroat season of Formula 1 racing.

Subscription Netflix

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story(2022)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,173 votes)

This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

With Evan Peters Araya, Niecy Nash, Molly Ringwald, Michael Learned, Richard Jenkins, Michael Beach, ...
Subscription Netflix

Chernobyl(2019)

NR
| Drama
4.3/5 (with 2,848 votes)

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

Directed by Johan Renck - With Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Paul Ritter, ...

The Watcher(2022-)

TV-MA
| 48min per episode | Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 258 votes)

A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.

With Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, Terry Kinney, Richard Kind
Subscription Netflix

The New Look(2024-)

TV-MA
| Drama
4.1/5 (with 17 votes)

The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.

With Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Claes Bang, Zabou Breitman, ...

Super Pumped(2022)

TV-MA
| 56min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.

Medical Detectives(1996-2011)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Drama, Crime, Documentary
4.0/5 (with 31 votes)

Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.

Gentleman Jack(2019-2022)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 84 votes)

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

With Suranne Jones, Joe Armstrong, Amelia Bullmore, Rosie Cavaliero, Peter Davison, Gemma Jones, ...

Reign(2013-2017)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 385 votes)

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

With Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo, Caitlin Stasey, Anna Popplewell, ...

WeCrashed(2022)

TV-MA
| Drama
3.7/5 (with 61 votes)

Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?

With Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway, America Ferrera, O. T. Fagbenle

The Dropout(2022)

TV-MA
| Drama
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people's health in grave danger.

With Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Laurie Metcalf, Dylan Minnette, Anne Archer, William H. Macy, ...
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The Staircase(2022)

TV-MA
| 1h 5min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 74 votes)

An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

Directed by Antonio Campos, Leigh Janiak - With Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Rosemarie DeWitt, Juliette Binoche, Parker Posey, Sophie Turner, ...

Interrogation(2020)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Each episode is structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files, with the goal of turning the viewer into a detective.

With Peter Sarsgaardd, Kyle Gallner, David Strathairn, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Project Blue Book(2019-2020)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
4.1/5 (with 479 votes)

A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.

With Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, Laura Mennell, Michael Harney, Ksenia Solo, Neal McDonough, ...

The Act(2019)

TV-MA
| 53min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 2,506 votes)

A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.

Narcos: Mexico(2018-2021)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 608 votes)

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

With Michael Peña, Diego Luna, Matt Letscher, Ténoch Huerta, Joaquín Cosío Osuna, Teresa Ruiz, ...
Subscription Netflix

Dopesick(2021)

TV-MA
| 1h 2min per episode | Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 158 votes)

The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.

With Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaardd, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, Kaitlyn Dever, Rosario Dawson, ...

The Serpent(2021)

TV-MA
| 58min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 116 votes)

The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

With Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Mathilde Warnier, Tim McInnerny, ...
Subscription Netflix

Love & Death(2023)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 129 votes)

Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter - With Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit, Lily Rabe, Keir Gilchrist, Elizabeth Marvel, ...

La Jauría(2020-)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 299 votes)

Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.

Directed by Lucía Puenzo, Marialy Rivas - With Daniela Vega, Antonia Zegers, María Gracia Omegna, Claudia di Girolamo, Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, ...

Secretos en el jardín(2013-2014)

50min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.

With Francisco Pérez-Bannen

Black Bird(2022)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.1/5 (with 249 votes)

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

Directed by Michaël R. Roskam - With Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear, Ray Liotta

Mea culpa(1993-2021)

Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.

Under the Banner of Heaven(2022)

TV-MA
| 1h 7min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 127 votes)

A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

With Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, ...

The Gold(2023)

58min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.

Welcome to Chippendales(2022-2023)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

The outrageous story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire—and let nothing stand in his way in the process.

With Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, Annaleigh Ashford, Juliette Lewis

Mike(2022)

30min per episode | Drama
3.9/5 (with 75 votes)

Explore the wild, tragic and controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson - one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture.

With Trevante Rhodes, Russell Hornsby, Harvey Keitel, Laura Harrier, Grace Zabriskie, Oluniké Adeliyi, ...

The Thing About Pam(2022)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction, though he insisted he did not kill her. His conviction later was overturned, but the brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.

With Renée Zellweger, Josh Duhamel, Judy Greer, Gideon Adlon

When They See Us(2019)

NR
| 1h 15min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 365 votes)

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

Directed by Ava DuVernay
Subscription Netflix
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