Best sci-fi, horror, war, & crime shows streaming, ranked.
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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+ - #3890#3890
MAXPrime VideoThe 39 Steps
1935 · Movie · 1h 26mCrime · Mystery · Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
MAXPrime Video - #4689#4689
Apple TV+Paramount+Interstellar
2014 · Movie · 2h 49mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Drama
1 OscarWhen Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Apple TV+Paramount+ - #6786#6786
MAXPeacockPrime VideoA Haunting
2005–2022 · Series · 11 seasonsHorror · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
"A Haunting" was a USA paranormal anthology previewing stories told by the victims. Victims tell their terrifying encounters with the paranormal. This show contains narration, frightening re-enactments, and religious content.
MAXPeacockPrime Video - #7286#7286
Paramount+The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie · 1h 43mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama · Thriller
Five years after a traffic accident that left him in a coma, a man awakens to discover that he has the ability to foresee future events and even prevent tragedies from happening. Will these new abilities prove to be a blessing or ...
Paramount+ - #7586#7586
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 - #8385#8385
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+ - #9284#9284
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 - #9684#9684
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+ - #10184#10184
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+ - #10584#10584
MAXThe Swimming Pool
1969 · Movie · French · 2h 2mCrime · Drama · Romance
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
MAX - #12083#12083
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+ - #13582#13582
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+ - #14281#14281
MAXKingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 · Movie · 2h 25mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Drama
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
MAX - #14380#14380
NetflixParamount+Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · Movie · 2h 14mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Comedy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
NetflixParamount+ - #14480#14480
MAXPeacockFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Movie · 2h 12mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Family
1 OscarIn 1926, magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York during his worldwide tour to research and rescue magical creatures as something mysterious leaves trails of destruction in the city, threatening to expose the wizarding world.
MAXPeacock - #14580#14580
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+ - #14980#14980
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 - #15280#15280
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 - #15579#15579
MAXPrime VideoThe Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Movie · 1h 15mCrime · Drama · Mystery
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
MAXPrime Video - #16079#16079
MAXThe Outsider
2020– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Horror
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
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Paramount+The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Movie · 1h 36mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Drama
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Paramount+ - #17378#17378
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+ - #18576#18576
Paramount+Jacob's Ladder
1990 · Movie · 1h 53mHorror · Drama · Mystery
Reminiscing about his dead son, a Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of ...
Paramount+ - #19176#19176
MAXJoker
2019 · Movie · 2h 2mCrime · Drama · Thriller
2 OscarsArthur Fleck, a party clown and a failed stand-up comedian, leads an impoverished life with his ailing mother. However, when society shuns him and brands him as a freak, he decides to embrace the life of chaos in Gotham City.
MAX - #20574#20574
Paramount+We Were Soldiers
2002 · Movie · 2h 18mWar · Action · Drama
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Paramount+ - #20774#20774
MAXEpitaphs
2004– · Series · SpanishCrime · Drama · Horror
Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.
MAX - #20874#20874
Paramount+Waco: The Aftermath
2023– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · History
Five-part drama series portraying the searing aftermath of the disastrous Waco standoff at the Branch Davidian compound - an event that galvanized American militia movements and helped radicalize Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Paramount+ - #21774#21774
MAXAlien Encounters
2012–2014 · Series · 3 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy
Explore a hypothetical scenario of human's first-contact with alien intelligence. Scientists hypothesize how an encounter might unfold, what technologies might enable our communication and the possible nature of their intentions.
MAX - #22074#22074
Paramount+City of Men
2007 · Movie · Portuguese · 1h 46mCrime · Drama
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Paramount+ - #22972#22972
MAXAnnabelle: Creation
2017 · Movie · 1h 49mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, A...
MAX - #24471#24471
Paramount+NCIS: Tony & Ziva
2025– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama
After Ziva's apparent death, Tony raises their daughter Tali. Years later, Ziva returns and reunites with Tony. Tony's company is attacked, and the family travels to Europe to learn who's after them and how to trust each other again.
Paramount+ - #24670#24670
MAXMost Terrifying With Jason Hawes
2020– · Series · 1 seasonHorror · Reality
World-renowned paranormal investigator Jason Hawes uncovers the world's most horrifying haunts. He reveals the gravest of locations through spine-chilling firsthand accounts, eerie re-enactments and eye-opening interviews with loc...
MAX - #25869#25869
MAXThe Mayor of Hell
1933 · Movie · 1h 30mCrime · Drama · Romance
A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
MAX - #27867#27867
Paramount+Piranha 3D
2010 · Movie · 1h 28mHorror · Comedy
After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.
Paramount+ - #28167#28167
MAXMamon
2015– · Series · Czech · 1 seasonCrime · Thriller
The main hero of the story is a journalist Petr Vlcek (Matej Hádek) who deals with the scandal around major state-controlled enterprise. During his investigation, the journalist finds a controversial information about his own brot...
MAX - #28666#28666
MAXNetflixWho Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?
2025– · Series · Japanese · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Mystery
After her father is murdered, Komugi Yamashita finds a letter naming a suspect as innocent. The suspect is the son of a criminal executed 22 years ago. Seeking help from lawyer, she uncovers shocking truths about her father's past.
MAXNetflix - #28766#28766
MAXPandora's Box: Unleashing Evil
2016– · SeriesCrime
Most stories end with the crime, but sometimes the crime scene represents just the tip of the iceberg. From a murder scene that tipped police off to a polygamist secret society to a random house fire that revealed family secrets that had been buried for decades, Pandora's Box: Unleashing Evil uncovers gripping investigations that get more sordid as every piece of evidence is examined.
MAX - #29366#29366
Paramount+Ride
2024 · Movie · 1h 54mCrime · Drama
Three generations of bull riders fight to raise money to transfer the family's young daughter to a better cancer hospital. Set in Stephenville TX, Ride explores rodeo, addiction in the Heartland, and the cowboy's place in modern A...
Paramount+ - #31065#31065
MAXHomicide Hunter: The Man with No Face
2023 · MovieCrime
1988: In Colorado Springs, Mary Lynn Vialpando, age 24, was raped and murdered. 30 years later, detectives link the crime scene DNA to James Papol. In May 2021, now age 48, Papol pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 years in pri...
MAX - #31165#31165
MAXObsession: The Murder of a Beauty Queen
2025– · Series · PolishCrime · Documentary
In 1996, 24-year-old Polish model Agnieszka Kotlarska was stabbed to death by a fan. This docuseries not only reveals details of Agnieszka's life, but also explores a platonic love that turned into a deadly obsession.
MAX - #31265#31265
MAXReal Time Crime
2022– · Series · 2 seasonsCrime · Reality
Police have a new weapon in the fight against crime. CCCTV. HI America, Real Time Crime Centers use surveillance cameras, tracking systems and gunshot detectors to solve crimes and bring criminals to justice. These are their stories.
MAX - #31865#31865
Paramount+Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy
2023 · MovieCrime
Follows Lance, a prominent Atlanta businessman known for both revamping the city's 911 system and his proclivity for women. There are many theories and claims about who would have wished him dead when he is discovered dead in his ...
Paramount+ - #32565#32565
MAXStill a Mystery
2019–2023 · Series · 5 seasonsCrime
Just because a case is closed doesn't mean the truth has been revealed. Suicide or murder? Runaway or kidnapping? Accidental or premeditated? Each episode of STILL A MYSTERY re-examines a single crime case where unanswered questio...
MAX - #32765#32765
MAXThe Haunted Museum: 3 Ring Inferno
2022 · Movie · 1h 21mHorror
Features the terrifying story of a boy and his father who steal an old suitcase from an antique market and soon discover a weathered tent inside that opens a portal to a cursed circus world from the past. In this mysterious and ha...
MAX - #33464#33464
MAXWhen No One Sees Us
2025– · Series · Spanish · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Thriller
Set in Morón de la Frontera, follows Lucía Gutierrez, a sergeant in the Spanish Civil Guard who investigates weird incidents at the first Holy Week float processions as well as the inexplicable suicide of a neighbor there.
MAX - #33564#33564
Paramount+Persona
2024 · Movie · 2h 21mHorror · Thriller
A woman wakes up locked in a house, injured with no memory. She's terrified and a little relieved to find a woman bound in another room. These two strangers must work together to figure out what's really going on before the door is unlocked.
Paramount+ - #33864#33864
MAXPrime VideoBefore They Kill Again
2024– · Series · 1 seasonCrime
Cops engage in psychological battles with dangerous criminals, predicting their moves before they strike. In these life-or-death games of wits, only one will emerge victorious, with deadly consequences for a wrong move.
MAXPrime Video - #34564#34564
MAXThe Killer Closer
2018– · SeriesCrime
In the shadow of the Hollywood sign on the outskirts of Los Angeles are the city's roughest neighborhoods. In the late 1990s, LAPD's Foothill Homicide Unit investigated hundreds of murders, but only Detective Lindy Gligorijevic was dubbed "the killer closer". Driven by the need to give her victims a voice, Detective Gligorijevic revisits her most shocking cases with the Foothill Homicide Unit. Detailing how she solved each crime, and revealing how she convinced the most cold-blooded killers to confess, Detective Gligorijevic knows she can't bring closure to someone who's lost a loved one to murder, but she'll stop at nothing to get them justice.
MAX - #34864#34864
Paramount+Pink Collar Crimes
2018– · Series · 1 seasonCrime
'Pink Collar Crimes' is an outrageous true-crime series inspired by a growing crime wave in the country: felonious females. These are the impossible-to-believe, often absurd, true stories about the most unexpected women--PTA moms,...
Paramount+ - #35364#35364
MAXTemptation
1941 · Movie · Hungarian · 1h 33mCrime · Drama
Cecil Horváth's brother is convicted of bank robbery, and Cecil vows revenge against the judge, Dr. Péter Kétzy. During a family holiday, she seduces the unsuspecting man, but in the process gets herself burned. Mary, the judge's ...
MAX - #35664#35664
Paramount+Горячая точка
2020–2024 · Series · Russian · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Mystery
2001. Zhenya returns to his provincial hometown after seven years in the military to discover that his ex-girlfriend has become a drug addict, like almost all the young people in the town. At the same time, Zhenya's mother and her...
Paramount+ - #35964#35964
MAXThe Mind of a Murderer
2015– · Series · 2 seasonsCrime
Investigation Discovery presents the modern-day Clarice Starling as Dr. Michelle Ward goes behind bars to interview violent murderers and offer insight into what drives people to kill with the new series THE MIND OF A MURDERER pre...
MAX - #36663#36663
Paramount+Prime VideoThe Silent Planet
2024 · Movie · 1h 35mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
Follows two inmates in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
Paramount+Prime Video - #37163#37163
MAXLa jauría
2020– · Series · SpanishCrime · Drama · Mystery
A gender crimes police squad faces unknown forces and the elite to take down a misogynist network in the Deep Web, with the goal of identifying and harming women. But their demons stand in the way, putting them and whom they love ...
MAX - #37662#37662
Disney+MAXHuluBigfoot Took Her
2025– · SeriesCrime · Mystery · Reality
Investigator of the unexplained Jessica Chobot, along with law enforcement official Robert Collier, take a fresh look at one of the most bizarre unsolved missing persons cases in modern history, the disappearance of teenager Theresa Bier.
Disney+MAXHulu - #37962#37962
Paramount+My True Crime Story
2021–2024 · Series · 3 seasonsCrime
Narrated by Remy Ma, MY TRUE CRIME STORY is a one-hour true-crime docuseries that features first-person stories of real people mixed up in headline-grabbing crimes. Told by the people who lived through these life-changing misadven...
Paramount+ - #39361#39361
Paramount+A Perfect Murder
1998 · Movie · 1h 47mCrime · Drama · Thriller
Wealthy Wall Street speculator Steven Taylor finds that his wife Emily Bradford has a lover, struggling artist David Shaw. Steven investigates Shaw and manipulates him into murdering Emily. It seems like a perfect crime.
Paramount+ - #39861#39861
Paramount+Prime VideoSeaside
2018 · Movie · 1h 30mCrime · Drama · Mystery
A dramatic thriller about Daphne, a young woman who moves to the Oregon Coast with her boyfriend Roger when he inherits his childhood beach house, only to discover that Roger hasn't been completely honest about his past.
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