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by Checkerforth | created - 25 Feb 2022 | updated - 25 Feb 2022 | PublicRecommendations
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1. Black Spot (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.
Stars: Suliane Brahim, Hubert Delattre, Laurent Capelluto, Samuel Jouy
Votes: 13,780
2. Sthlm Requiem (2018– )
45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on Kristina Ohlsson's novels, the series follows unconventional but cunning criminologist Fredrika Bergman who joins a special investigations unit in Stockholm.
Stars: Liv Mjönes, Jonas Karlsson, Alexej Manvelov, Magnus Roosmann
Votes: 1,852
3. Grenseland (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
To protect his family, police detective Nikolai covers up a murder case. But when his co-investigator Anniken suspects foul play, he is trapped in a dangerous game on duty, blurring the line between right and wrong.
Stars: Tobias Santelmann, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Benjamin Helstad, Eivind Sander
Votes: 4,567
4. Deadwind (2018–2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Sofia Karppi discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life--again.
Stars: Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Mimosa Willamo, Noa Tola
Votes: 13,062
5. The Valhalla Murders (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police profiler Arnar is sent back home from Oslo to his native Iceland to investigate the country's first serial killer case. He teams up with the local senior cop Kata.
Stars: Aldís Amah Hamilton, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir
Votes: 16,954
6. Requiem (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When her mother commits suicide, a cellist's life is turned upside down by mysterious questions raised about her past.
Stars: Lydia Wilson, James Frecheville, Sian Reese-Williams, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 7,411
7. Archive 81 (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An archivist hired to restore a collection of tapes finds himself reconstructing the work of a filmmaker and her investigation into a dangerous cult.
Stars: Mamoudou Athie, Dina Shihabi, Evan Jonigkeit, Julia Chan
Votes: 59,474
8. The Chalet (2017–2018)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A reunion of childhood friends at a remote chalet in the French Alps soon turns into a desperate struggle for survival as they get cut off from rest of the world and a shocking dark secret from the past surfaces.
Stars: Chloé Lambert, Philippe Dusseau, Blanche Veisberg, Eric Savin
Votes: 7,680
9. Midnight Mass (2021)
TV-MA | 64 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An isolated island community experiences miraculous events - and frightening omens - after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest.
Stars: Kate Siegel, Zach Gilford, Kristin Lehman, Samantha Sloyan
Votes: 144,660
10. The Sinner (2017–2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Ambrose employs some unusual tactics and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases. His boundless dedication is driven by his dark past, leading him into powerful and often dangerously intimate bonds with his suspects.
Stars: Bill Pullman, Jessica Hecht, Dohn Norwood, Adam LeFevre
Votes: 139,063
11. Midnight Sun (2016)
440 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.
Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Gustaf Hammarsten, Albin Grenholm, Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson
Votes: 5,385
12. Dead to Me (2019–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A series about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.
Stars: Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, Sam McCarthy, Luke Roessler
Votes: 100,032
13. The Alienist (2018–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Newspaper illustrator John Moore meets with criminal psychologist (alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 60,191
14. O sabor das margaridas (2018–2020)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, Thriller
While investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
Stars: María Mera, Carlos Villarino, Manuel Cortés, Sara Sanz
Votes: 4,017
15. The Serpent (2021)
TV-MA | 458 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The twisting, real-life story of Charles Sobhraj, a murderer, thief and seductive master of disguise, who was a hidden darkness in the mid-70's on Asia's hippie trail.
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Billy Howle, Jenna Coleman, Ellie Bamber
Votes: 49,632
16. Ratched (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness.
Stars: Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Jon Briones
Votes: 70,584
17. Behind Her Eyes (2021)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
It follows Louise, a single mum with a son and a part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. She begins an affair with her boss and strikes up an unlikely friendship with his wife.
Stars: Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman, Robert Aramayo
Votes: 75,149
18. You (2018–2024)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.
Stars: Penn Badgley, Victoria Pedretti, Tati Gabrielle, Ambyr Childers
Votes: 299,940
19. Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jacob Lohmann
Votes: 22,435
20. Journal 64 (2018)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A series of mysterious disappearances in 2006 are eerily connected to the same institution.
Director: Christoffer Boe | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark
Votes: 19,482
21. Department Q: The Absent One (2014)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk, David Dencik
Votes: 26,203
22. Russian Doll (2019–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening. She tries to find a way out of this strange time loop.
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee, Elizabeth Ashley
Votes: 107,149
23. Top Boy (2011–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two London drug dealers ply their lucrative trade at a public housing estate in East London.
Stars: Ashley Walters, Kano, Jasmine Jobson, Little Simz
Votes: 39,838
24. The Fall (I) (2013–2016)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Aisling Franciosi
Votes: 119,701
25. Alex (2017–2019)
43 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Ruthless and corrupt police officer Alex has come to terms with his dubious past and wants to go straight. But the gangsters he used to work for refuse to let him off the hook, putting both Alex and his family in danger.
Stars: Dragomir Mrsic, Rakel Wärmländer, Maximilian Alonso Mrsic, Anja Lundqvist
Votes: 1,047
26. Moscow Noir (2018)
45 min | Drama, Thriller
In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.
Stars: Adam Pålsson, Karolina Gruszka, Linda Zilliacus, Georg Nikolloff
Votes: 1,130
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