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TV Shows & Series: Best "thriller" TV Shows/Series

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, and is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, and fight and chase scenes are common methods. Life is typically threatened in a thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize that they are entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. The protagonist is usually set against a problem, such as an escape, a mission, or a mystery. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies thriller films 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, crime, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, war, and western. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other super-genres; hybrids commonly including action t... ()

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Breaking Bad(2008-2013)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.5/5 (with 7,373 votes)

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Criminal Minds(2005-)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 1,878 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.

Neelamim(2016-)

23min per episode | Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Mystery
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ne'elamim (The Missing) is a compelling young adult skewed thriller which follows Emma and Alon, a brother and sister who move to a small town and quickly find out that nothing is quite as it seems in their new neighborhood, which is awash with murky happenings. The ground water supply has been geologically poisoned, and three teenagers from their high school died under mysterious circumstances a few months earlier - but when an unexplainable photograph of them surfaces, the siblings begin to doubt that they know the full story, as per the official log-line.

Directed by Rani Sa'ar - With Gaya Gur Arie, Adi Alon, Dolev Mesika, Carmel Lotan, Noam Lugasy, Aviv Pinkas, ...

Voice(2017-2021)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

It's 3 minutes for hearers, but a life for the callers. A crime thriller chasing even the slightest sounds to rescue people's lives calling for urgent help.

With Jang Hyuk, Lee Ha-na, Kim Jae-wook, Yesung, Baek Sung-hyun, Son Eun-seo, ...

Fauda(2015-)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 100 votes)

A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.

Directed by Assaf Bernstein - With Netta Garti, Lior Raz, Hisham Sulliman, Shadi Mar'i, Laëtitia Eïdo, Itzik Cohen, ...

When the Camellia Blooms(2019)

35min per episode | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 27 votes)

Dong-baek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.

Naked City(1958-1963)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-(2016-)

3.9/5 (with 236 votes)

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

The Files of the Young Kindaichi(1995-)

1h per episode | Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

Ajin(2016)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 156 votes)

17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.

Game of Hunting(2017)

NR
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Mystery, Drama
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Headhunter Zheng Qiu Dong doesn’t know the meaning of defeat. There is no limit to how much he is willing to do to succeed in the hunting ground that is the world of business. He is also incredibly close to his girlfriend, Luo Yi Ren, and truly cares for his best friend from college, Bai Li Qin. Along with the guidance of his mentor Lin Bai, Zheng Qiu Dong tries to rise to the top and goes to war with other headhunters and businessmen. These include the shady and relentless Yuan Kun and the very capable and very dangerous Chen Xiu Feng. It’s a battle of quick wits, and Zheng Qiu Dong slips up. He loses it all. Now out of both time and luck, Zheng Qiu Dong is in prison and at the end of his rope. But if there’s one thing Zheng Qiu Dong doesn’t know, it’s how to give up. With the help of his prison comrade Liu Liang Ti, the once successful Zheng Qiu Dong has to get it all back. But as the former headhunter soon learns, this hunt quickly becomes a game of death.

Homeland(2011-2020)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Drama, War & Politics, Crime
3.8/5 (with 1,107 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.

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Age of Legends(2018)

45min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
4.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Liu Zi Guang has no memories of the past eight years of his life. When he returns to his hometown, Jiangbei, all he knows is that he wants to live life as an upstanding citizen. But those mysterious eight years are bound to catch up to him as he finds his father injured in the hospital upon his return. Hu Rong is a detective whose looks are as fiery as her personality. She's young, but her tough demeanor and unquestionable skills make her a seasoned officer. She cares intensely about her work, doing whatever it takes to protect the citizens of China. Nie Wanfeng is the leader of a criminal organization. He is a hugely tricky opponent for the police, with both his smarts and viciousness keeping him a free man. When Liu Zi Guang and Hu Rong meet, they initially struggle to get along. But their relationship grows as they both come up against Nie Wanfeng together. Things only complicate, however, as Hu Rong learns more about Liu Zi Guang's past, just as she finds herself falling for him.

Severance(2020-)

Data analyst Mark Scout heads up a team of pencil-pushers, each of whom has had their memories surgically split between work and home life. After a colleague goes missing, Mark begins to see the company’s dangerous secret agenda, and must try to contact his “outside” self to help take them down forever.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan(2018-2023)

3.8/5 (with 762 votes)

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

The Longest Day in Chang'an(2019)

45min per episode | Mystery, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Chang'an. The city of Eternal Peace. China's ancient imperial capital and the world's most magnificent metropolis. Its treasures and wealth are now under siege from a mysterious army. In 24 hours the enemies will launch a devastating attack. While the nobles panic and flee, the city's most notorious criminal will be its savior!

Directed by Cao Dun - With Lei Jiayin, Jackson Yee, Zhou Yiwei, Peng Guanying, Han Tongsheng, Lu Fangsheng, ...

Cold Case(2003-2010)

TV-PG
| 44min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 193 votes)

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Person of Interest(2011-2016)

4.1/5 (with 874 votes)

John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.

Revenge(2011-2015)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Soap / Telenovela
3.8/5 (with 378 votes)

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

Lookout(2017)

35min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

People lose loved ones in crimes and the criminals are not punished. The daily lives of these people are completely broken. They form a group to realize justice.

Oh, the Mysterious(2017-2018)

35min per episode | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Il Seung was wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned, and has spent ten years on death row. He manages to break out of prison and somehow becomes a fake cop, then sets out to find a hidden stash of 100 billion won (nearly 100 million dollars) on behalf of criminals who will supply him with a new identity upon receipt. He has three days to find the cash and begin his new life.

Directed by Shin kyeong-soo

Save Me(2017-2019)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Crime, Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 25 votes)

Save Me is a web-toon based thriller drama with a story of four young men who try to save one woman. One day, they face a woman in a dark alley who asks for their help. The woman turns out to be involved in a cult group. A sequence of horrifying tension-filled events follow the four young men.

Stranger(2017-2020)

TV-MA
| 1h 9min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 84 votes)

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Directed by An Gil-ho - With Cho Seung-woo, Bae Doona, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Joon-hyuk, Shin Hae-sun

Nazar(2018-2020)

22min per episode | Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Rathods may look like a normal family, but they have been reeling under the evil sight, 'nazar' of a supernatural entity, a Daayan. And once fallen, it never leaves…

El día menos pensado(1999-2022)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.

Monster(2004-2005)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Crime, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 304 votes)

Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.

Shiki(2010)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 98 votes)

Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.

Directed by Tetsurō Amino

Beautiful You(2015-2016)

35min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

This is the story of various characters who learn about love, courage, healing and savior in the name of ‘family’ who stand by your side in times of hardships. This drama is a beautiful love story which will comfort your exhausted soul.

Goosebumps(1995-1998)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Kids & Family, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 291 votes)

Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.

Gankutsuou(2004-2005)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

In an elegant future Paris, a Count returns to wreak havoc on those that betrayed him.

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