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TV Shows & Series: Best "neo noir" TV Shows/Series

Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during and after World War II in the United States—roughly from 1940 to 1960. The French term film noir translates literally to English as "dark film" or "black film”, because they were quite dark both in lighting and in sinister stories often presented in a shadowy cinematographic style. Neo-noir has a similar style but with updated themes, content, style, and visual elements. ()
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Bosch(2015-2021)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”

With Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Lance Reddick, Annie Wersching, Sarah Clarke, ...

Fargo(2014-)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,221 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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Dexter(2006-2013)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 1,920 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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Grimm(2011-2017)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 1,490 votes)

After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

Directed by Norberto Barba, David Greenwalt, David Solomon - With David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Elizabeth Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Claire Coffee, Bree Turner, ...

Marvel's Jessica Jones(2015-2019)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,067 votes)

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

With Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Rachael Taylor, Wil Traval, Erin Moriarty, Eka Darville, ...
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True Detective(2014-)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 1,498 votes)

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga - With Matthew McConaughey, Adria Arjona

Veronica Mars(2004-2019)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 281 votes)

In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.

With Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, Teddy Dunn, Jason Dohring, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Francis Capra, ...

Angel(1999-2004)

TV-PG
| 41min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 427 votes)

The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Directed by Joss Whedon - With David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Glenn Quinn, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards, Vincent Kartheiser, ...

Perry Mason(2020-2023)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.7/5 (with 146 votes)

Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

Directed by Tim Van Patten, Deniz Gamze Ergüven - With Matthew Rhys, Eric Lange, Charles Baker, Tatiana Maslany, Taylor Nichols, Juliet Rylance, ...

Fastlane(2002-2003)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003.

With Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani Thiessen, Jay Mohr, Mark Famiglietti, Big Boy, ...

Bored to Death(2009-2011)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.7/5 (with 106 votes)

Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

With Jason Schwartzman

Altered Carbon(2018-2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 871 votes)

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.

Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, Nick Hurran, Alex Graves, Uta Briesewitz, Andy Goddard - With Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Martha Higareda, Dichen Lachman, Chris Conner, Ato Essandoh, ...
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Fallen Angels(1993-1995)

30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

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Cowboy Bebop(1998-1999)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Western
4.3/5 (with 729 votes)

In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

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Carnival Row(2019-2023)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 557 votes)

In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.

Directed by Thor Freudenthal, Jon Amiel, Anna Foerster, Andy Goddard - With Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, David Gyasi, Tamzin Merchant, Andrew Gower, Karla Crome, ...

Too Old to Die Young(2019)

TV-MA
| Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 63 votes)

Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn - With Jena Malone, Nell Tiger Free, John Hawkes, Miles Teller, Augusto Aguilera, Cristina Rodlo, ...

Wonderfalls(2004)

TV-PG
| 42min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 51 votes)

Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.

With Caroline Dhavernas

Trapped(2015-2021)

TV-14
| 50min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.7/5 (with 107 votes)

Icelandic crime drama featuring Chief of Police Andri.

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur - With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Baltasar Breki Samper, Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir, ...
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Babylon Berlin(2017-)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 140 votes)

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten - With Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Benno Fürmann, Hannah Herzsprung, Matthias Brandt, Lars Eidinger, ...
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Crimini(2006-2010)

1h 38min per episode | Crime, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

Ringer(2011-2012)

TV-14
| 40min per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Six months after deciding to pull herself together and get sober, Bridget witnesses a murder. Realizing her life is in danger and not trusting the FBI to protect her, she runs to her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, in New York. Things start out well—with the two patching up a fractured relationship—when Siobhan suddenly goes missing. Bridget assumes her sister's identity, but soon learns that Siobhan's life is not as perfect as it looks and she is no safer than she was before

With Sarah Michelle Gellar

WHAT / IF(2019)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 68 votes)

A pair of cash-strapped newlyweds accept a lucrative but morally dubious offer from a mysterious female benefactor.

With Jane Levy, Blake Jenner, Keith Powers, Samantha Marie Ware, Renée Zellweger
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Monsieur Spade(2024)

TV-MA
| Drama, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.

Directed by Scott Frank - With Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin, Chiara Mastroianni, Stanley Weber, ...

Ergo Proxy(2006)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 142 votes)

In a futuristic world almost barren of life, mankind is confined to mechanized domed cities where A.I.’s control all aspects of life. In this world, humans are no longer born, they are manufactured in a production line; and alongside them live androids known as autoreivs. Within one of these domed sanctuaries named Romdeau lives Re-l Mayer, one of a few citizens who aren’t entirely prevented from thinking. Her grandfather's prominent position and the affection of the scientist Daedalus have left her more free will than is normally allowed, but Re-l has started to question the sanctity of the city and the citizens' perfect way of life. With mysterious beings known as proxies causing havoc and a man named Vincent causing great influence on her life, Re-l must travel outside of the city to find the answers she seeks and discover the mystery behind "the awakening".

Directed by Shukō Murase

The Night Manager(2016)

TV-MA
| 59min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.9/5 (with 452 votes)

Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.

Directed by Susanne Bier - With Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Alistair Petrie, ...

Terriers(2010)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Crime, Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 43 votes)

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department.

With Donal Logue

Texhnolyze(2003)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the prosthetics business; the Union, a fanatical populist group interfering with Organo's affairs; and Racan, a marauding group of Texhnolyzed youths.

High Seas(2019-2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 68 votes)

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

With Alejandra Onieva, Ivana Baquero, Jon Kortajarena, José Sacristán, Eloy Azorín, Félix Gómez, ...
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Perpetual Grace LTD(2019)

TV-MA
| 54min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

James, a disgraced firefighter turned grifter, seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life’s worsening course as he attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he appears.

The Killing(2011-2014)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 339 votes)

The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.

With Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Liam James, Annie Corley, Billy Campbell, Michelle Forbes, ...
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