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Crime TV Shows

The most popular Crime tv shows, updated as the catalogue changes. Every title links to a full page with ratings, cast and streaming availability.

Crime tv shows

The most popular Crime tv shows, updated as the catalogue changes. Every title links to a full page with ratings, cast and streaming availability.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Rating: 8.0/10

Released 1999

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.

Law & Order

Law & Order

Rating: 7.3/10

Released 1990

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 together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Reacher

Reacher

Rating: 8.1/10

Released 2022

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.

NCIS

NCIS

Rating: 7.6/10

Released 2003

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.

The Mentalist

The Mentalist

Rating: 8.4/10

Released 2008

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.

C.I.D.

C.I.D.

Rating: 5.8/10

Released 1998

A team of dedicated men and women in the Crime Investigation Department will risk everything to solve Mumbai's toughest, most complicated crimes.

Tomorrow Is Ours

Tomorrow Is Ours

Rating: 6.3/10

Released 2017

The story revolves around the people of Sète, France. Their lives are punctuated by family rivalries, romance and scenes from daily life, but also by plots involving police investigations, secrets and betrayals.

MobLand

MobLand

Rating: 8.5/10

Released 2025

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

Rating: 8.3/10

Released 2005

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.

The Rookie

The Rookie

Rating: 8.5/10

Released 2018

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.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Rating: 7.6/10

Released 2000

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.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Rating: 9.0/10

Released 2008

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.

Slow Horses

Slow Horses

Rating: 8.1/10

Released 2022

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.

Bones

Bones

Rating: 8.2/10

Released 2005

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.

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Rating: 7.5/10

Released 1997

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.

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Rating: 6.2/10

Released 1970

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

The Blacklist

The Blacklist

Rating: 7.6/10

Released 2013

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 most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami

Rating: 7.7/10

Released 2002

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 franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

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