--- title: "Crime series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/genre/crime" region: "US" total: 166 shown: 60 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Crime series A crime series is rarely about the crime. The good ones use the murder or the robbery as an excuse to sit for years with people who have to work together: a police department, a family, a marriage with a false name on the mortgage. What we are judging is whether the programme is as interested in the paperwork and the grudges as in the gunfire, and whether it lets its criminals make excuses without believing them. The shelf leans American, and towards the long haul. Start with [The Sopranos](/tv/the-sopranos), 94, for James Gandolfini, funny and frightening in the same scene; [The Wire](/tv/the-wire), 90, for a Baltimore drug war in which committee meetings matter as much as shootings; and [Prime Suspect](/tv/prime-suspect), 88, for Helen Mirren's tired, resented, correct detective. After those, try [The Americans](/tv/the-americans) or [The Bureau](/tv/the-bureau), if you have the patience for spies who mostly wait. For US. 166 titles; 60 listed here. Add `?region=XX` for another country. - [*American Hostage*](https://film.one/tv/american-hostage.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 56 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama A true 1977 hostage siege, two fine performances and a good question about what a reporter owes the gunman on the line, stretched across eight episodes that go slack around the fourth. Hamm and Ribisi make the early ones worth it. - [*The Blame*](https://film.one/tv/the-blame.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 71 · 50m · Crime/Drama A brisk ITV murder mystery with a sharper programme underneath it, about what police officers say to each other when they think nobody is reading. Keegan is good, Ian Hart is better, and the whodunnit keeps getting in the way. - [*Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story*](https://film.one/tv/monster-the-lizzie-borden-story.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 47 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps are worth the first two hours, and Ian Brennan’s eight-part retelling of the Borden murders has one idea about its heroine, which it states in the first episode and then repeats for seven more. - [*Neagley*](https://film.one/tv/neagley.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 64 · TV-MA · Drama/Mystery Maria Sten carries this *Reacher* spin-off with a stillness the parent series never asked of anyone, and the fights and chases are as clean as ever. Between them, though, the show explains her at a length she does not need. - [*Last Seen*](https://film.one/tv/last-seen.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 76 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Apple TV Patrick Brammall gives *Last Seen* a convincing grieving father, and the family drama earns our attention. The mystery is less reliable, with coincidences and predictable turns that the performances cannot quite disguise. - [*Furious*](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 75 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Disney+, Hulu A revenge thriller for the Epstein years, in which the serial killer is a woman and the victims had it coming. It opens as luridly as that sounds, then settles into something careful, well acted and two episodes too long. - [*Lucky*](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 57 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Apple TV Anya Taylor-Joy gives this seven-part con-artist chase a lead worth following, and the first episode moves with real snap. After that the series repeats itself, explains itself, and never finds out what it is about beyond the running. - [*I Will Find You*](https://film.one/tv/i-will-find-you.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 56 · TV-MA · Drama/Mystery · on Netflix The latest Harlan Coben adaptation puts Sam Worthington over a prison wall in pursuit of a photograph, then piles twist on twist until the ground gives way. Brisk and watchable, with two good FBI agents, and it does not survive being thought about. - [*Cape Fear*](https://film.one/tv/cape-fear.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 63 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Apple TV Javier Bardem gives his Cady a courtesy that curdles, and Amy Adams matches him scene for scene. Around them, ten episodes, nine directors and Bernard Herrmann’s old strings have been asked to stretch a short, mean novel a good deal further than it will go. - [*Spider-Noir*](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 67 · TV-14 · Drama/Mystery · on Amazon Prime Video Around Cage as a down-at-heel 1930s private eye is the whole case for this handsome, faithful, slightly hollow noir pastiche. He is a good case. The eight episodes around him are two too many. - [*Legends*](https://film.one/tv/legends.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Action & Adventure/Crime · on Netflix *Legends* earns its tension through a strong cast and the risks of undercover work. Neil Forsyth’s six-part thriller is worth the concentration, though crowded plotting and an excess of solemnity sometimes make it harder work than necessary. - [*Scarpetta*](https://film.one/tv/scarpetta.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 50 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Amazon Prime Video Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bicker their way through eight episodes and are the only reason to stay. Around them the two timelines, the gore and an unaccountable chatbot pull in different directions, and the series never settles on what it is for. - [*R.J. Decker*](https://film.one/tv/r-j-decker.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 67 · TV-14 · Drama/Comedy · on Hulu Early reviews suggest an amiable crime procedural whose supporting characters compensate for familiar plotting. We cannot yet offer an independent viewing verdict; the provisional score reflects those reviews. - [*HIS & HERS*](https://film.one/tv/his-and-hers.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 55 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal make this six-part mystery watchable in stretches, but its repeated misdirections become tiresome. A polished production cannot make the characters’ decisions convincing. - [*All Her Fault*](https://film.one/tv/all-her-fault.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 68 · TV-MA · Mystery/Crime · on Peacock Sarah Snook’s frightened, level-voiced mother carries this eight-part kidnap mystery a good deal further than its plot deserves. It is compulsive for four episodes, competent for two more, and by the end it is explaining its coincidences to us with a straight face. - [*Down Cemetery Road*](https://film.one/tv/down-cemetery-road.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 82 · TV-MA · Drama/Mystery · on Apple TV Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson make *Down Cemetery Road* worth the occasional wait. This conspiracy thriller is sharpest when its two leads are irritating each other, though the plotting sometimes dawdles. - [*Black Rabbit*](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 63 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Jason Bateman and Jude Law are convincing as brothers who keep making things worse. Their performances justify a look at this uneven crime drama, but repetitive plotting makes eight episodes feel generous. - [*Task*](https://film.one/tv/task.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 67 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on HBO Max *Task* gives Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey family troubles worth caring about, then makes us wait too long for the investigation to gather pace. A decent crime drama for patient viewers, with too little humour. - [*Dexter: Resurrection*](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 64 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Paramount+ Michael C. Hall’s serial killer is dug up for a fourth run, moved to New York and sat at a table of worse people. It is nimble, funny and better than it has any right to be, and it cannot stop looking over its shoulder at the original. - [*Smoke*](https://film.one/tv/smoke.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 68 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Apple TV The cast makes *Smoke* worth considering, especially Taron Egerton and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, but the arson investigation cannot sustain nine episodes. Its later repetitions turn a disturbing crime drama into a frustrating one. - [*Dept. Q*](https://film.one/tv/dept-q.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Matthew Goode and a well-matched ensemble make *Dept. Q* worth the time, though it asks for more than it needs. The mystery is involving, the humour welcome, and the middle episodes could use a firmer cut. - [*Your Friends & Neighbors*](https://film.one/tv/your-friends-and-neighbors.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 72 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Apple TV Jon Hamm makes this comedy of suburban wealth and burglary worth following. The ensemble keeps the relationship drama lively, though the commentary on privilege rarely tells us anything we have not heard before. - [*MobLand*](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 63 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+ *MobLand* has an entertaining fixer in Tom Hardy, but the slow start and familiar gangster plotting matter. It is decent company for the genre’s regulars, provided broad performances are part of the attraction. - [*This City Is Ours*](https://film.one/tv/this-city-is-ours.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 73 · Drama/Crime · on AMC+ James Nelson-Joyce makes this Liverpool crime drama worth the familiar gangland manoeuvring. Michael and Diana’s relationship gives it a reason to hold our attention when the business of betrayal starts to feel routine. - [*The Residence*](https://film.one/tv/the-residence.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 62 · TV-MA · Comedy/Crime · on Netflix Uzo Aduba gives this White House whodunnit a detective worth following. The comedy is less reliable, and eight episodes allow a crowded, lively mystery far too many opportunities to interrupt itself. - [*Adolescence*](https://film.one/tv/adolescence.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 84 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Philip Barantini’s four-part drama is frightening, compassionate and worth the discomfort. Its single-take filming serves the performances, though the writing can become too insistent about explaining the pressures on boys. - [*Dope Thief*](https://film.one/tv/dope-thief.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Apple TV Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura make this crime series worth the trouble it keeps inventing. The friendship is convincing and often funny; the plotting grows tangled enough to make eight episodes feel generous. - [*Daredevil: Born Again*](https://film.one/tv/daredevil-born-again.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Drama/Action & Adventure · on Disney+, Hulu Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio make *Daredevil: Born Again* worth returning to, with fights that still hurt to watch. Familiar plotting and uneven pacing keep this capable crime series from becoming anything more surprising. - [*Apple Cider Vinegar*](https://film.one/tv/apple-cider-vinegar.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 73 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Kaitlyn Dever makes this wellness-fraud drama worth watching, giving its central liar an unsettling plausibility. The attention paid to people harmed by misinformation matters, though the restless structure keeps interrupting the people we want to understand. - [*Paradise*](https://film.one/tv/paradise.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 73 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Hulu Sterling K. Brown makes *Paradise* worth following through some improbable turns. The mystery keeps us engaged, and the feelings usually land, though the second season asks for more patience with loose plotting and flashbacks. - [*Ludwig*](https://film.one/tv/ludwig.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 76 · TV-14 · Mystery/Crime · on Amazon Prime Video, BritBox David Mitchell has been waiting his whole career for a part this shape, and Mark Brotherhood’s puzzle-setter-turned-detective fits him exactly. The cases are neat and the station is well cast; the brother who vanished in episode one is forgotten for hours at a time. - [*The Penguin*](https://film.one/tv/the-penguin.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on HBO Max Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti make *The Penguin* worth the patience its familiar gangland plotting demands. It is a good crime series, though a slow opening and overlong flashbacks keep interrupting the pleasure of watching its leads. - [*High Potential*](https://film.one/tv/high-potential.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 72 · TV-14 · Drama/Crime · on Hulu Kaitlin Olson carries this Los Angeles procedural about a cleaner turned police consultant with more comic timing than the scripts strictly deserve. The cases are forgotten within the hour and the detectives are furniture. We kept watching anyway, and not out of duty. - [*Criminal Record*](https://film.one/tv/criminal-record.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 81 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Apple TV Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo make *Criminal Record* a tense, absorbing police drama with something worth saying about institutional racism. Some secondary stories weaken the pressure, but the central contest is worth staying for. - [*Love & Death*](https://film.one/tv/love-and-death.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 56 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on HBO Max, Netflix Elizabeth Olsen is the reason to watch and very nearly the only one. David E. Kelley spreads a Texas church affair and what followed it across seven episodes when four would do, and the woman who died gets the least of them. - [*Blue Lights*](https://film.one/tv/blue-lights.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 82 · Crime/Drama · on BritBox *Blue Lights* is a tense, humane police drama that makes its inexperienced Belfast officers worth worrying about. The rookie viewpoint can make the explanations conspicuous, but the performances give familiar situations enough weight to keep us involved. - [*The Gold*](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 80 · Crime/Drama Neil Forsyth’s crime drama finds plenty of entertainment in the business of shifting stolen gold. We recommend its first series for the plotting and ensemble, with patience required for the lectures about class. - [*Poker Face*](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 82 · TV-MA · Crime/Mystery · on Peacock Natasha Lyonne makes *Poker Face* excellent company: a funny, warm crime series that enjoys the work of catching a killer. A few cases dawdle, particularly when they keep their most interesting person off screen. - [*DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story*](https://film.one/tv/dahmer-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 51 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Netflix Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins and Niecy Nash give strong performances in a crime drama that too often repeats itself. The passages devoted to victims suggest a more worthwhile series than the prolonged study of Dahmer delivers. - [*Bad Sisters*](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Apple TV Sharon Horgan’s black comedy about five sisters, one dead husband and the insurers who cannot afford an accident is sharp, warm and, in Claes Bang’s JP, properly frightening. It is also ten episodes for a story that wanted eight. - [*Sherwood*](https://film.one/tv/sherwood.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 82 · TV-MA · Crime/Mystery · on BritBox James Graham’s six-part murder story is really about the miners’ strike and what it did to one street in Nottinghamshire. Slow to start and too neat to finish, it is still the best British crime drama in some while, and Lesley Manville is the reason. - [*The Staircase*](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 75 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on HBO Max, Netflix António Campos’s eight-part dramatisation of the Michael Peterson case is better than it needed to be, largely because Colin Firth and Toni Collette refuse to play a villain and a victim. It is also two episodes too long, and its cleverest idea arrives late. - [*We Own This City*](https://film.one/tv/we-own-this-city.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 75 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on HBO Max David Simon and George Pelecanos return to Baltimore with a true story of police theft that runs on Jon Bernthal’s crooked sergeant. It is angry, exact and hard to look away from; it is also tangled in its timelines and fond of a speech. - [*Slow Horses*](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 82 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Apple TV Mick Herron’s failed spies make a fine series, and Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb is the reason. The office is the show; the thriller plot each run of six episodes hangs on is ordinary, and the series gets away with it. - [*The Chelsea Detective*](https://film.one/tv/the-chelsea-detective.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 70 · Crime/Mystery A gentle, well-made whodunnit that does nothing you have not seen and does most of it properly. Adrian Scarborough is the reason to watch: a detective who listens rather than declaims, in a postcode where nobody is used to being listened to. - [*The Responder*](https://film.one/tv/the-responder.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 84 · TV-MA · 58m · Drama/Crime · on BritBox Tony Schumacher’s drama about a Liverpool night-shift officer coming apart is grim, exact and built around a Martin Freeman performance of unusual control. The stolen-drugs plot is the least interesting thing in it, and that hardly matters. - [*Trigger Point*](https://film.one/tv/trigger-point.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 60 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on BritBox, Peacock Daniel Brierley’s bomb squad series does one thing superbly: it puts Vicky McClure in front of a device and makes us hold our breath. The plot that joins those scenes together is daft in the first hour and dafter by the last. - [*Landscapers*](https://film.one/tv/landscapers.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · Comedy/Crime · on HBO Max Will Sharpe and Ed Sinclair turn a squalid true murder case into something stranger and kinder than the genre usually allows, and Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are the reason it holds. When it stops to explain what it is doing, it gets colder. - [*Dopesick*](https://film.one/tv/dopesick.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 68 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Hulu Danny Strong’s eight-part account of how OxyContin took a Virginia mining town has, in Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever, two performances that could carry it alone. It insists on carrying everything else too, and the weight of lawyers and timelines drags it down. - [*Only Murders in the Building*](https://film.one/tv/only-murders-in-the-building.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 76 · TV-MA · Comedy/Mystery · on Disney+, Hulu Steve Martin and Martin Short are a double act worth a series on their own, and Selena Gomez, deadpan and watchful, stops them running away with it. The murders matter less than the company, which is mostly a compliment. - [*Vigil*](https://film.one/tv/vigil.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 70 · TV-MA · 58m · Drama/Crime · on Peacock Tom Edge’s series sets a murder inquiry aboard a nuclear submarine and, for three episodes, the setting does the work. The plot it builds down there is sillier than the setting deserves, but Suranne Jones keeps it honest. - [*Mare of Easttown*](https://film.one/tv/mare-of-easttown.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on HBO Max Kate Winslet’s tired, unglamorous detective and the town around her are the reasons to watch Brad Ingelsby’s seven-part mystery. The murder plot is the reason it needs seven parts, and it is the least persuasive thing here. - [*The Undoing*](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 61 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Drama/Crime · on HBO Max Susanne Bier and David E. Kelley dress a slim whodunnit in cashmere and cold light and stretch it across six hours. Hugh Grant is the best reason to stay; the script gives everyone else one note and asks them to hold it. - [*Perry Mason*](https://film.one/tv/perry-mason.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 66 · TV-MA · Drama/Mystery · on HBO Max This origin story for Erle Stanley Gardner’s lawyer is a handsome, slow, 18-rated noir with a fine Matthew Rhys at its centre and about three episodes too many around him. Worth the evening if unshaven detectives are your taste. - [*Gangs of London*](https://film.one/tv/gangs-of-london.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Action & Adventure/Drama · on Amazon Prime Video, AMC+ *Gangs of London* earns its place through inventive fights and Sope Dirisu’s commanding presence. The gangland plotting is less persuasive, and the relentless brutality makes this a recommendation for action enthusiasts with strong stomachs. - [*The Outsider*](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 68 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Drama/Mystery · on HBO Max Richard Price’s adaptation of Stephen King opens as a grim, patient police procedural and is at its best there. The middle stretch slows badly, but Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo keep it worth finishing. - [*Watchmen*](https://film.one/tv/watchmen-2019.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 84 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on HBO Max Damon Lindelof’s nine-part sequel to the comic is nervy, strange and mostly gripping, with Regina King carrying it and Tim Blake Nelson stealing it. His habit of hoarding answers costs it something, but not enough to change our verdict. - [*Giri/Haji*](https://film.one/tv/giri-haji.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 84 · TV-MA · Crime/Drama · on Netflix Joe Barton’s crime drama has the wit and feeling to justify most of its restless stylistic changes. The gang intrigue can drag, but the performances make its crowded story worth the attention it asks for. - [*Unbelievable*](https://film.one/tv/unbelievable.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 85 · TV-MA · Drama/Crime · on Netflix Susannah Grant’s eight-part series about a real rape case that nobody believed is careful, plain and quietly furious. Kaitlyn Dever is remarkable as the girl the police stop listening to; the detectives’ half is a fine procedural and, now and then, only that. - [*Escape at Dannemora*](https://film.one/tv/escape-at-dannemora.md) — 2018 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · 51m · Drama/Crime Ben Stiller’s seven-part account of the 2015 escape from a New York state prison is superbly acted, above all by Patricia Arquette and Eric Lange, and a good two hours too long. Worth your evenings, if you can sit still through the middle ones. Next page: https://film.one/tv/genre/crime.md?page=2 --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/genre/crime