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Best Crime TV Shows

Detectives, cartels, and long cons told across seasons.


These crime series are ranked by IMDb score — the ones that audiences worldwide have voted, re-watched, and recommended. Refine by era or cross-reference with another genre. The list begins with the best.
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  1. 01.
    Breaking Bad

    Breaking Bad

    2008·Created by Vince Gilligan·9.5

    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.

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  2. 02.
    The Wire

    The Wire

    2002·Created by David Simon·9.3

    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.

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  3. 03.
    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos

    1999·Created by David Chase·9.2

    The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

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  4. 04.
    Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

    Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

    2020·Created by Hansal Mehta·9.2

    Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The Scam".

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  5. 05.
    Better Call Saul

    Better Call Saul

    2015·Created by Vince Gilligan·9.0

    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".

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  6. 06.
    Sherlock

    Sherlock

    2010·Created by Mark Gatiss·9.0

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

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  7. 07.
    Dexter: Resurrection

    Dexter: Resurrection

    2025·Created by Clyde Phillips·9.0

    Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.

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  8. 08.
    Persona

    Persona

    2018·Created by Hakan Günday·8.9

    After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.

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  9. 09.
    Undercover

    Undercover

    2011·Created by Dimitar Mitovski·8.9

    Just an ordinary boy from the Sofia suburbs becomes the first bulgarian undercover cop. Forced by his father when he was young to lie and cheat, Martin becomes the perfect liar. That skill, and also the hatred of the 'underworld' makes him the perfect match for a dangerous mission - to infiltrate the crime organisation of a rich and powerful businessman. While infiltrating and living in fear of being uncovered, Martin falls in love with the most inappropriate woman - Djaro's girlfriend, Suni. Just when he gains the trust of the mobsters, it appears that the real enemy is in the police. Martin is alone against all, facing difficult decisions.

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  10. 10.
    Fargo

    Fargo

    2014·Created by Noah Hawley·8.8

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

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  11. 11.
    Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman

    Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman

    2010·8.8

    Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.

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    Shadows over the Balkans

    Shadows over the Balkans

    2017·Created by Dragan Bjelogrlić·8.8

    A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

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    Monster

    Monster

    2004·8.7

    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.

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  14. 14.
    Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

    2013·Created by Steven Knight·8.7

    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.

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  15. 15.
    Dark

    Dark

    2017·Created by Baran bo Odar·8.7

    A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

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    Shadows

    Shadows

    2014·8.7

    Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.

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    Mr Inbetween

    Mr Inbetween

    2018·Created by Scott Ryan·8.7

    Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.

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    The Bureau

    The Bureau

    2015·Created by Éric Rochant·8.7

    Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

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    The Shield

    The Shield

    2002·Created by Shawn Ryan·8.7

    The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

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    Line of Duty

    Line of Duty

    2012·Created by Jed Mercurio·8.7

    A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    1984·Created by John Hawkesworth·8.7

    Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

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    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    1993·Created by Paul Attanasio·8.7

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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    Narcos

    Narcos

    2015·Created by Chris Brancato·8.7

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

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  24. 24.
    Oz

    Oz

    1997·Created by Tom Fontana·8.7

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

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  25. 25.
    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    1993·Created by Chris Carter·8.6

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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    The Penguin

    The Penguin

    2024·Created by Lauren LeFranc·8.6

    With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

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  27. 27.
    Ezel

    Ezel

    2009·Created by Pınar Bulut·8.6

    Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.

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  28. 28.
    Mouse

    Mouse

    2021·8.6

    A psychopath's ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

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  29. 29.
    Marvel's Daredevil

    Marvel's Daredevil

    2015·Created by Drew Goddard·8.6

    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.

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    Dexter

    Dexter

    2006·Created by James Manos Jr.·8.6

    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.

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  31. 31.
    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    1989·8.6

    From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

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    Deadwood

    Deadwood

    2004·Created by David Milch·8.6

    The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

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    Endeavour

    Endeavour

    2013·Created by Russell Lewis·8.6

    The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

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    MINDHUNTER

    MINDHUNTER

    2017·Created by Joe Penhall·8.6

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

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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    2011·Created by Hans Rosenfeldt·8.6

    When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

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    Gomorrah

    Gomorrah

    2014·Created by Roberto Saviano·8.6

    Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.

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    Dopesick

    Dopesick

    2021·Created by Danny Strong·8.6

    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.

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    Justified

    Justified

    2010·Created by Graham Yost·8.6

    A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.

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  39. 39.
    Boardwalk Empire

    Boardwalk Empire

    2010·Created by Terence Winter·8.6

    Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

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    Wentworth

    Wentworth

    2013·Created by Lara Radulovich·8.6

    Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.

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