The 20 Most Popular Crime Shows on Netflix (2024)

American legal drama “The Lincoln Lawyer” started production on its third season in January. Starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell and Becki Newton, the series is based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling hard-boiled mystery novels that follow Los Angeles defense attorney Mickey Haller (Rulfo), who often runs his practice out of the backseats of a 1963 Lincoln Continental Convertible and two Lincoln Navigators.

Fun fact: In the novels, the Mickey Haller character is the half-brother of Harry Bosch, subject of Amazon’s popular detective series.

This Spanish drama follows teens at a fictional private high school in Spain called Las Encinas. Three students enroll in the exclusive school through a scholarship program, and clash with the privileged, uber-wealthy kids at the institution. Lying, secrets and murder are an everyday occurrence for these spoiled teens.

“Money Heist” actors Jaime Lorente, María Pedraza and Miguel Herrán have appeared in the drama, as well as Arón Piper, Ester Expósito and Itzan Escamilla. Danna Paola, Manu Rios and Omar Ayuso also have starred in the show. The first season was released in 2018, and the eighth and final season will be released in 2024. The final season boasts only a few familiar faces, with most of the original cast having left the series in seasons 3 and 4.

Set on a estate in east London, “Top Boy” follows two drug dealers, Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson) and explores drug dealing and gang violence in the city.

Rapper Drake and LeBron James’ business manager and business partner Maverick Carter serve as executive producers on the series. James and Carter co-founded SpringHill Company, which co-produced season 3. The British crime drama ran for two seasons on Channel 4 in the U.K. from 2011-2013 until Drake helped revive the show in 2019.

Set along the stunning French Riviera, “Blood Coast” follows a rogue police captain and a new recruit who try to find the leader of one of the most infamous drug rings in Marseille. The show is co-written by Kamel Guemra and former police officer Olivier Marchal and directed by Marchal.

The cast includes “Barbarians” actor Jeanne Goursand, Tewfik Jallab, Samir Boitard, Lani Sagoyou, Samir Boitard and more.

South Korean action-drama series “Bloodhounds” follows two boxers who, alongside a moneylender, attempt to take down a loan shark to pay off their debt. The series, created by Jason Kim, stars Woo Do-hwan, Lee Sang-yi and Huh Joon-ho.

Sang-yi won the actor excellence award at the Korea Drama Awards last year for his role as Hong Woo-jin, Kim Geon-woo’s (Do-hwan) friend and fellow boxer. The series is based on the eponymous web comic from Jeong Chan. A second season of “Bloodhounds” has been confirmed, though there is no release date set yet.

Following the immense success of “Money Heist,” Pedro Alonso (code-named Berlin) sees his own spinoff with “Money Heist: Berlin,” a prequel to the events of the original series. Berlin and his crew work together to pull off another ambitious heist, similar to “Money Heist,” but this time in Paris.

“Money Heist: Berlin” was created by “Money Heist” creator Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato. The original series debut on Spanish TV channel Antena 3 before Netflix acquired the worldwide streaming rights in 2017. The show became one of the most-watched non-English language shows in the streamer’s history.

While “Money Heist: Berlin” is not yet available in the U.S., it is coming soon. Filming for its second season is set to start in 2025.

“Sintonia” follows Nando, Doni and Rita – three childhood friends who live in the same São Paulo favela, an impoverished and crowded area of the Brazilian city. The trio attempts to pursue their dreams amidst the connection between music, drug trafficking and religion.

The series stars Bruna Mascarenhas as Rita, Christian Malheiros as Nando and MC Jottapê as Doni. Filming for the fifth and final season of “Sintonia” began this April.

He is the one who knocks. “Breaking Bad” follows Walter White (Brian Cranston), a New Mexico high school chemistry teacher who turns to drug dealing and crime when he’s diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer after his 50th birthday. He bands with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to cook and distribute methamphetamine to save money for his family before he dies.

Paul and Cranston led the AMC series, created and produced by Vince Gilligan, for five seasons from 2008 until 2013. “Better Call Saul,” a prequel series following White’s corrupt lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) debuted in 2015 and ran until 2022. A sequel film starring Paul, “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” premiered in 2019.

The British period series follows the story of Peaky Blinders, a crime gang in Birmingham, U.K. that operated after World War I. Based on a real youth gang that operated in the city, the star-studded cast includes Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson with Sam Neill, Tom Hardy, Paddy Considine, Adrien Brody, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sam Claflin. The six seasons cover the notorious gang as it expands into Britain and abroad and moving into the time of Prohibition and the rise of Nazism.