Best Crime Shows (Ranked)

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Breaking Bad

★9.5Ended(2008–2013)

#1Score 9.502.7M IMDb votes

A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's future.

The Wire

★9.3Ended(2002–2008)

#2Score 9.29442.6k IMDb votes

The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.

The Sopranos

★9.2Ended(1999–2007)

#3Score 9.19602.9k IMDb votes

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story

★9.2Ended

#4Score 9.18175.7k IMDb votes

Set in 1980s and '90s Bombay, it follows the life of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker who took the stock market to dizzying heights and his catastrophic downfall.

Sherlock

★9.0Ended(2010– )

#5Score 9.001.1M IMDb votes

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

Better Call Saul

★9.0Ended(2015– )

#6Score 9.00872.3k IMDb votes

The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill before his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

Dexter Resurrection

★9.0Ongoing

#7Score 8.98160.5k IMDb votes

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for New York City, determined to find Harrison and make things right. But when Miami Metro&apos;s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.

Batman The Animated Series

★9.0Ended

#8Score 8.98140.8k IMDb votes

The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.

Death Note

★8.9Ended

#9Score 8.89503.8k IMDb votes

An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.

True Detective

★8.8Ongoing

#10Score 8.80776.1k IMDb votes

Seasonal anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Fargo

★8.8Ongoing(2014– )

#11Score 8.79477.2k IMDb votes

Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. Yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.

When They See Us

★8.8Ended

#12Score 8.78162.5k IMDb votes

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.

O.J. Made in America

★8.9

#13Score 8.7724.2k IMDb votes

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

Peaky Blinders

★8.7Ended

#14Score 8.70796.8k IMDb votes

A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

Twin Peaks

★8.7Ended

#15Score 8.69252k IMDb votes

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Narcos

★8.7Ended

#16Score 8.69538.4k IMDb votes

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Dark

★8.7Ended

#17Score 8.69565.9k IMDb votes

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

Oz

★8.7Ended(1997–2003)

#18Score 8.68118.3k IMDb votes

A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

Shield

★8.7Ended(2002–2008)

#19Score 8.6799k IMDb votes

Drama series following the lives and cases of dirty cop Vic Mackey and the LAPD unit under his command.

Line of Duty

★8.7Ended(2012– )

#20Score 8.6782.9k IMDb votes

Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

Mr Inbetween

★8.7Ended(2018– )

#21Score 8.6555.7k IMDb votes

Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend, brother and best friend, tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Especially when you're also a criminal for hire.

House of Cards

★8.6Ended

#22Score 8.60564.6k IMDb votes

A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.

Dexter

★8.6Ended(2006–2013)

#23Score 8.60960.4k IMDb votes

He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

★8.7Ended

#24Score 8.6027.9k IMDb votes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.

The Penguin

★8.6Ended

#25Score 8.59252.4k IMDb votes

Following the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

Marvels Daredevil

★8.6Ended

#26Score 8.59544.5k IMDb votes

A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil.

Mindhunter

★8.6Ended(2017– )

#27Score 8.59408.4k IMDb votes

Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.

The X-Files

★8.6Ended

#28Score 8.59278.3k IMDb votes

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Deadwood

★8.6Ended

#29Score 8.58130.7k IMDb votes

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

Justified

★8.6Ended(2010–2015)

#30Score 8.58133.2k IMDb votes

U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns of eastern Kentucky.

The Family Man

★8.6Ongoing

#31Score 8.58114.6k IMDb votes

A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.

Dopesick

★8.6Ended

#32Score 8.5795.3k IMDb votes

The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.

The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

★8.6Ended

#33Score 8.5659.7k IMDb votes

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate icon Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.

Agatha Christies Poirot

★8.6Ended

#34Score 8.5660.3k IMDb votes

The cases of eccentric, but sharp, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Homicide Life on the Street

★8.7Ended

#35Score 8.5517.5k IMDb votes

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

Young Justice

★8.6Ended

#36Score 8.5552.1k IMDb votes

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

Endeavour

★8.6Ended

#37Score 8.5338.8k IMDb votes

Set from 1965 to 1971, the show follows Endeavour Morse in his early years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner DI Fred Thursday, Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford.

Wentworth

🔥 HOT★8.6Ended(2013– )

#38Score 8.5127.3k IMDb votes

The confronting look into the lives of the inmates and prison staff of Wentworth Correctional Centre as they navigate the ups and downs of their lives in the prison system.

The Boys

★8.5Ended

#39Score 8.501M IMDb votes

A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.

Hannibal

★8.5Ended

#40Score 8.49315.5k IMDb votes

Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Sons of Anarchy

★8.5Ended(2008–2014)

#41Score 8.49361.6k IMDb votes

A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club.

Person of Interest

★8.5Ended(2011–2016)

#42Score 8.49217.9k IMDb votes

An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mys...

Mr. Robot

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#43Score 8.49476.6k IMDb votes

Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he work...

Boardwalk Empire

★8.5Ended(2010–2014)

#44Score 8.49220.9k IMDb votes

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

Making a Murderer

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#45Score 8.48109.3k IMDb votes

Filmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.

Sacred Games

★8.5Ended(2018– )

#46Score 8.4799.3k IMDb votes

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Bosch

★8.5Ended(2014– )

#47Score 8.4799.6k IMDb votes

An L.A.P.D. homicide detective works to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer.