Crime TV Shows — BBC Top 100

A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.

A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.

Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.

In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.

A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson solve intricate crimes in modern London, where brilliant deductions collide with dangerous obsessions.

An anti-corruption police unit investigates fellow officers, uncovering misconduct, cover-ups, and connections to organized crime.

Troubled detectives pursue disturbing cases in an anthology crime drama about obsession, violence, and the cost of uncovering the truth.

After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.

A body on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden forces two very different detectives to investigate a crime that crosses national borders.

Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary crimes in an anthology of murder, dark humor, and Midwestern small-town life.

A criminal mastermind recruits a team of thieves for an audacious heist, where hostages, police negotiations, and personal loyalties complicate the plan.

Shaun, Lol, Woody, and their friends navigate adulthood, trauma, and changing relationships in three stories set in 1986, 1988, and 1990.

A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.

A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.

A woman serving a prison sentence for a past crime enters a community shaped by friendships, rivalries, and the failures of the prison system.

A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.

A police detective investigates crime and political conspiracies in 1920s Berlin, a city alive with nightlife and growing instability.

An anthology revisits notorious American criminal cases, examining the people involved and the social forces surrounding them.

Copenhagen detective Sarah Lund investigates complex murders that draw her into political intrigue and the private lives of grieving families.

FBI agents interview imprisoned serial killers to develop criminal profiling, testing a new approach to understanding and investigating murder.

A documentary traces O.J. Simpson’s rise, murder trial, and legacy through the intersecting histories of race, celebrity, and American justice.

The rise of Colombian drug cartels and the pursuit of Pablo Escobar unfold through a crime drama about power, violence, and the drug trade.

A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.

A young mayor faces fierce resistance to a court-ordered housing plan, exposing racial and political divisions in Yonkers, New York.

A brilliant but troubled London detective investigates violent crimes while struggling with his own anger and dangerous personal connections.

An empathetic criminal profiler forms a disturbing bond with psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter while investigating a series of brutal murders.