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Black Bird
2022– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
2 EmmysJimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a deal with the FBI to befriend a suspected serial killer. Keene has to elicit a confession from Larry Hall to find the bodies of as many as eighteen wo...
Apple TV+ - #1090
This Is Going to Hurt
2022– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Comedy · Drama
Set on Labour Ward with all its hilarity and heart-lifting highs but also its gut-wrenching lows, the show delivers a brutally honest depiction of life as a junior doctor on the wards, and the toll the job can take back home.
Netflix - #1887
Black 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 - #3285

El 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 - #4384
Nayattu
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 - #6082

El marginal
2016–2022 · Series · Spanish · 5 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Pastor, an undercover cop sets on a mission to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a judge by infiltrating the prison where she's suspected to be at. Once inside he will have to learn to live by the prison's and the inmates' rules.
Netflix - #6182
The 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 - #6681
The 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 - #6881

Law & 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 - #8580
Defending Jacob
2020– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Mystery
The limited drama series is a gripping, character-driven thriller based on the 2012 New York Times best selling novel of the same name by William Landay. An assistant DA's world is shattered when his beloved son gets charged with ...
Apple TV+ - #8980
Rizzoli & 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...
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