Best drama & crime shows on Max, ranked.

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.

The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.

A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

The daily lives of healthcare professionals in a Pittsburgh hospital as they juggle personal crises, workplace politics, and the emotional toll of treating critically ill patients, revealing the resilience required in their noble ...

Follows US president Josiah Bartlet and his administration as they tackle various political issues in order to maintain peace and harmony in the nation.

A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

When death is your business, what is your life? Laced with irony and dark situational humor, the show approaches the subject of death through the eyes of the Fisher family, who owns and operates a funeral home in Los Angeles.

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their fami...

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.

A single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life.

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.

A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor.

Chen Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a gang while Lau Kin Ming, a triad member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things change when both of them must seek each other out.

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

Following the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisi...

A visionary architect flees post-war Europe in 1947 for a brighter future in the United States and finds his life forever changed by a wealthy client.

Stage version of the season 3 episode "Hartsfield's Landing"

Umbre follows Relu, an enforcer for a small-time mob boss, as he struggles to keep his family in the dark about his job. The secrets Relu keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface.

Set in New York in 1900, The Knick centers around the groundbreaking Knickerbocker Hospital.

During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.

In Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families.

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.

Three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global human population, a group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.

The beginning of the pontificate of Lenny Belardo, alias Pius XIII, the first American Pope in history.

A middle-school math teacher Olive and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years.

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.

A group of teenagers experience the ups and downs of love and friendship in a world of social networks, sex, drugs, and violence.

Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA.

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

As Britain slowly turns into a dictatorship throughout the years, the lives of a typical busy family from Manchester converge on one crucial night in 2019.

A psychotherapist questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years.

An isolated Puritan family in 1630s New England comes unraveled by the forces of witchcraft and possession.

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

Follows the aftermath of a mass shooting where the fates of all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims' families, the media and the defense teams are intertwined.

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

The conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and their old money neighbors, the van Rhijn family, in 1880s New York City high society.

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother. Moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

High schooler Vada navigates the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy. Relationships with her family, friends and view of the world are forever altered.

In 1985, Prior is diagnosed with AIDS and his lover Louis deserts him. Powerful lawyer Roy Cohn tempts Mormon and closeted gay Joe Pitt to the dark side. Joe and Louis get it on while Joe's wife Harper hallucinates an imaginary fr...

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

Following the parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in a story of betrayal, sacrifice, and forgiveness.

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself.

An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer.

The story of two families affected by ETA's terrorism in the Basque Country.

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Television drama miniseries which re-examines the original's iconic depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple, played by Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.

A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.

The question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.

A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s, when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.

Two Popes. Only one Vatican. A holy war to come.

An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.

Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.

The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

While trying to manage her own life and career, a woman on the verge of a breakdown must cope with her daughter's illness, an absent husband, a missing person, and an unusual relationship with her therapist.

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Ruben turns up at his estranged brother (Niall)'s wedding, acting as a catalyst for a revival of the last 40 years of their relationship.

Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade between kinship and rivalry both on the basketball court and in the hearts of their friends in the small, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.

Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.

An agoraphobic Seattle tech worker uncovers evidence of a crime.

Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

In the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent heads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspected family man.

The story of Deniz and Baris' relationship for 10 years. The two young men who met in their mid 20's, until the day they divorced; a love story sometimes sunny, cloudy, stormy, possible and impossible.

Private investigator and war veteran Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott use their unique skills to investigate complex cases that the London police are unable to solve.

The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers.

The movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras: 1952, 1974 and 1996.

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

A Utah polygamist who owns home improvement stores in the Salt Lake City area juggles relationships with three wives while trying to keep his complex family life from becoming a public scandal.

A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Based on the true events which led to the outbreak of war in Gaza 2014.

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

The lives of the kids at Degrassi Community School deal with the serious and sometimes taboo issues that plague teenagers.

A writer takes a backwards look at the life of his unlikely friend, Stuart, a homeless alcoholic who experienced a traumatic childhood event.

Narrated by a mysterious vicious blogger, this show follows a set of wealthy teenagers through their day-to-day scandalous lives as Manhattans Elite, and how they betray each other for each other's gain.

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.

Young bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.