Crime TV Shows
The 57 most popular crime TV shows right now, most watched first. Popularity is measured on TMDB and the page is rebuilt every day, so the order moves with what people are actually watching.
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1.Reacher(2022)
8.1Action & AdventureCrime
Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.
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2.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999)
8.0CrimeDramaMystery
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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3.The Mentalist(2008)
8.4CrimeDramaMystery
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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4.Law & Order(1990)
7.3CrimeDrama
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working…
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5.NCIS(2003)
7.6CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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6.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation(2000)
7.6CrimeDramaMystery
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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7.MobLand(2025)
8.5CrimeDrama
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
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8.Criminal Minds(2005)
8.3CrimeDramaMystery
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.
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9.The Rookie(2018)
8.5CrimeDramaComedy
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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10.Bones(2005)
8.2CrimeDrama
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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11.Slow Horses(2022)
8.0CrimeDramaMystery
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
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12.The Blacklist(2013)
7.6DramaCrimeMystery
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the…
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13.Breaking Bad(2008)
9.0DramaCrime
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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14.Midsomer Murders(1997)
7.5CrimeDramaMystery
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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15.Perry Mason(1957)
7.7MysteryDramaCrime
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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16.Castle(2009)
8.0DramaCrime
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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17.Hawaii Five-0(2010)
7.7CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
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18.Chicago P.D.(2014)
8.4CrimeDrama
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the…
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19.CSI: Miami(2002)
7.7DramaMysteryCrime
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI…
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20.NCIS: Los Angeles(2009)
7.5Action & AdventureDramaCrime
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
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21.24(2001)
7.8Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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22.FBI(2018)
7.9CrimeAction & AdventureDrama
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
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23.S.W.A.T.(2017)
8.0CrimeAction & AdventureDrama
A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.
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24.Blue Bloods(2010)
7.8CrimeDrama
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his…
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25.JAG(1995)
7.3DramaAction & AdventureCrime
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to…
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26.Dexter(2006)
8.2CrimeDramaMystery
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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27.Prison Break(2005)
8.1Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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28.The X-Files(1993)
8.4MysterySci-Fi & FantasyCrime
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…
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29.The Sopranos(1999)
8.7CrimeDrama
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…
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30.9-1-1(2018)
8.2DramaCrimeAction & Adventure
Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
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31.Lucifer(2016)
8.4CrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
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32.Riverdale(2017)
8.4CrimeDramaMystery
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
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33.Peaky Blinders(2013)
8.5DramaCrime
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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34.The 100(2014)
7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
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35.Better Call Saul(2015)
8.7CrimeDrama
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…
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36.Sherlock(2010)
8.5CrimeDramaMystery
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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37.Arrow(2012)
6.8CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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38.Mr. Robot(2015)
8.3CrimeDrama
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld…
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39.Marvel's Daredevil(2015)
8.2CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
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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40.The Act(2019)
7.6DramaCrime
Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.
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41.Chucky(2021)
7.8CrimeComedyMystery
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as…
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42.Scorpion(2014)
8.2Action & AdventureDramaCrime
Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy;…
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43.Brooklyn Nine-Nine(2013)
8.2ComedyCrime
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
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44.You(2018)
8.0MysteryCrimeDrama
A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.
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45.Gotham(2014)
7.6DramaCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that…
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46.The End of the F***ing World(2017)
8.0ComedyDramaCrime
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.
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47.Narcos(2015)
8.1CrimeDrama
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
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48.Fargo(2014)
8.3CrimeDrama
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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49.The Purge(2018)
6.9MysteryCrimeDrama
Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in…
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50.Sons of Anarchy(2008)
8.4CrimeDrama
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates…
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51.Marvel's The Punisher(2017)
8.2Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
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52.MINDHUNTER(2017)
8.1DramaCrime
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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53.Hannibal(2013)
8.3DramaCrime
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the…
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54.iZombie(2015)
7.8DramaCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.
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55.DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story(2022)
8.0CrimeDrama
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.
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56.Ozark(2017)
8.2CrimeDrama
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
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57.Orange Is the New Black(2013)
7.6DramaComedyCrime
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
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