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NetflixNayattu
2021 · Movie · Malayalam · 2h 4mCrime · Thriller
Three police officers who are on a run for life, escaping the outbreak against them due to the unlawful arrest and torture of a civilian. It brings in a few shades of arrogant yet very much human police officers and their helpless...
Netflix - #2291#2291
Paramount+Argo
2012 · Movie · 2hBiography · Drama · History
3 OscarsActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Paramount+ - #2490#2490
Paramount+Dexter: Resurrection
2025– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Thriller
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's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.
Paramount+ - #3388#3388
NetflixFROM
2022– · Series · 5 seasonsHorror · Drama · Mystery
A town with a hidden secret experiences strange occurrences that intensify at night. Mysterious forces disrupt everyday routines as residents try to preserve stability and community while attempting to comprehend their surroundings.
Netflix - #3488#3488
NetflixPeacockPrime VideoThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Movie · 1h 23mHorror
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
NetflixPeacockPrime Video - #4587#4587
NetflixBlack Mirror
2011– · Series · 7 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
6 EmmysFeaturing stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the moder...
Netflix - #4986#4986
NetflixDolemite Is My Name
2019 · Movie · 1h 58mBiography · Comedy · Drama
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
Netflix - #5486#5486
Paramount+Prime VideoLongmire
2012–2017 · Series · 6 seasonsCrime · Action · Drama
Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.
Paramount+Prime Video - #5986#5986
NetflixPrime VideoCreep 2
2017 · Movie · 1h 18mHorror · Thriller
A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.
NetflixPrime Video - #6485#6485
Paramount+A Simple Plan
1998 · Movie · 2h 1mCrime · Drama · Thriller
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.
Paramount+ - #6885#6885
NetflixEl Chapo
2017–2018 · Series · Spanish · 3 seasonsBiography · Crime · Drama
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power during the '90s as the head of the Sinaloa Cartel and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
Netflix - #7584#7584
HuluParamount+Prime VideoCriminal Minds
2005– · Series · 18 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico helps police solve violent serial crimes using profiling. Team members analyze evidence and psychology to catch unknown subjects, but their demanding work affects personal lives.
HuluParamount+Prime Video - #8184#8184
NetflixParamount+Mayor of Kingstown
2021– · Series · 4 seasonsCrime · Drama · Thriller
The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
NetflixParamount+ - #8584#8584
Paramount+King Creole
1958 · Movie · 1h 56mCrime · Drama · Musical
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life ...
Paramount+ - #9883#9883
Paramount+The Last Stop in Yuma County
2024 · Movie · 1h 30mCrime · Drama · Thriller
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.
Paramount+ - #9982#9982
Netflix28 Years Later
2025 · Movie · 1h 55mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other su...
Netflix - #10082#10082
NetflixThe Blacklist
2013–2023 · Series · 10 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
1 EmmyA new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.
Netflix - #10482#10482
NetflixMaestro in Blue
2022–2026 · Series · Greek · 2 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Orestes travels to a small island during the pandemic in order to set up a music festival from scratch. Confronted with the small society of the island, he will find himself involved in an extreme love story.
Netflix - #10882#10882
NetflixM3GAN
2022 · Movie · 1h 42mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
When robotics engineer Gemma becomes the guardian of her orphaned niece, Cady, she thinks her new invention, a robotic AI, will be a good companion. However, M3GAN begins to behave in unexpected and shocking ways.
Netflix - #11482#11482
Paramount+The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Movie · 2h 19mCrime · Drama · Thriller
In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
Paramount+ - #11681#11681
NetflixThe Law According to Lidia Poët
2023– · Series · Italian · 2 seasonsBiography · Crime · Drama
In late 19th-century Turin, Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. Nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in...
Netflix - #12281#12281
NetflixThe Sinner
2017–2021 · Series · 4 seasonsCrime · 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 suspe...
Netflix - #12581#12581
HuluNetflixPeacockLaw & Order
1990– · Series · 25 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
6 EmmysTwo Part drama which focuses on the New York criminal Justice System by showing a violent crime investigated by police detectives in the first half and then the trial of the accused in court by the prosecutors in the second half.
HuluNetflixPeacock - #12981#12981
NetflixThe Platform
2019 · Movie · Spanish · 1h 34mHorror · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In a prison where inmates are fed on a descending platform, those on the upper levels take more than their fair share while those below are left to starve on scraps and one man decides to change the system.
Netflix - #14380#14380
HuluParamount+CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000–2015 · Series · 16 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
6 EmmysA team of Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) work with the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD) to solve crimes by using advanced scientific methods and technology in Las Vegas, Nevada.
HuluParamount+ - #14480#14480
Paramount+Prime VideoBlue Bloods
2010–2024 · Series · 14 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Follows the professional and personal lives of the Reagans, a family of New York Cops, who all work in different positions of law enforcement and work together to solve crimes and protect the city from danger.
Paramount+Prime Video - #14680#14680
NetflixPeacockRizzoli & Isles
2010–2016 · Series · 7 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Boston's assertive detective Jane Rizzoli and steady medical examiner Maura Isles are hailing from very different economic backgrounds, but the strong, competent women effectively work together to solve the city's most puzzling cr...
NetflixPeacock - #14980#14980
NetflixParamount+Prime VideoSmile 2
2024 · Movie · 2h 7mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.
NetflixParamount+Prime Video - #15180#15180
HuluNetflixWill Trent
2023– · Series · 4 seasonsCrime · Drama
Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster-care system. Determined to make sure that nobody else feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
HuluNetflix - #15280#15280
NetflixJOY
2024 · Movie · 1h 55mBiography · Drama · History
3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media, and medical establishment in their pursuit of the world's first 'test tube baby,' Louise Joy Brown.
Netflix - #15580#15580
NetflixIf Wishes Could Kill
2026– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonHorror · Thriller
Follows five friends in high school who receive a death warning from a mysterious wish-granting app. As they struggle to escape their fates, they uncover chilling truths that connect the app to the sudden death of a classmate.
Netflix - #16479#16479
Paramount+Prime VideoRoofman
2025 · Movie · 2h 6mBiography · Crime · Drama
A charismatic criminal, while on the run from the police, hides in a hidden space of a toy store. There, he adopts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee, beginning a relationship as unlikely as it is risky.
Paramount+Prime Video - #17079#17079
NetflixDetective Hole
2026– · Series · Norwegian · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Mystery
A brilliant but troubled detective, Harry Hole, hunts a serial killer while battling a corrupt adversary, Tom Waaler, as they navigate ethical gray areas, with Harry determined to bring the criminal to justice.
Netflix - #18578#18578
NetflixAgent Kim Reactivated
2026– · Series · KoreanCrime · Action · Thriller
Manager Kim was an ordinary head of a household with a daughter and lived as a small citizen. In order to find his daughter, who is his everything, he reveals a secret that should never be revealed to the world.
Netflix - #18978#18978
MAXNetflixThe Staircase
2022– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
Tells the story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
MAXNetflix - #19278#19278
Paramount+28 Weeks Later
2007 · Movie · 1h 39mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Paramount+ - #19678#19678
NetflixApple Cider Vinegar
2025– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
The life of wellness guru Belle Gibson, who had a large social media following, where she pretended to be suffering from cancer but keeping the disease under control using self-care therapies. She confessed that none of it was true.
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