Crime Dramas on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
Cop Land
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFollowing a controversial shooting involving a police officer, a small-town sheriff teams up with a New York City internal affairs investigator and uncovers a possible connection to the mob.
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This Is England
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter his father is killed fighting in the Falklands War, a 12-year-old boy named Shaun falls in with a gang of young skinheads. Still angry and in pain, Shaun becomes susceptible to carrying out the group's hateful agenda.
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We Own the Night
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn 1980s Brooklyn, Bobby Green appears to have it all: a lovely girlfriend, powerful friends and a lavish lifestyle. In reality, Russian gangsters own the club he manages, and his brother, straight-arrow cop Joseph, is looking to bring them down.
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Red Riding Trilogy: Part 3: 1983
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the current case of a missing 10-year-old becomes linked to the abduction and murder of Clare Kemplay in 1974, investigators torture the man who found Clare's body in an effort to learn more in this final installment of the Red Riding trilogy.
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Lafangey Parindey
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe intense and often ruthless streets of Mumbai are the setting for this romance about One Shot Nandu, a boxer who fights blindfolded, and Pinky Palkar, a roller dancer whose career is threatened when she's blinded in an accident with Nandu.
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Ishaqzaade
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRising from the ashes of hooliganism and small-town clan wars comes the love story of a passion ignited by hatred. Two people who were born to hate learn they instead have been destined to fall in love.
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Makkhi
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a ruthless billionaire kills a man in a bid to steal the woman he loves, he's reborn as a common housefly with a taste for revenge. But before he can get even, he must convince his crush that he's buzzing around her.
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The Newton Boys
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFour Texas brothers ignite a crime spree in the 1920s, robbing more than 200 banks across the country -- without ever killing anyone. In a career highlight, the unexpectedly compassionate team pulls off the largest train robbery in U.S. history.
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Six Degrees of Separation
1993 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsEngaging young con artist Paul appears one day on the doorstep of the Kittredge family. Professing to be a friend of the affluent couple's son, Paul spins a tale of celebrity and despair that deeply affects the pair and their socialite friends.
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Original Sin
2001 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWealthy Cuban landowner Luis Vargas sends away for a plain-Jane bride. But when she arrives and turns out to be stunningly beautiful, Vargas is putty in her hands, which is a bad thing, since his new wife turns out to be a cunning con artist.
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Heavenly Creatures
1994 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSet in 1950s New Zealand, this chilling true-life drama follows two inseparable teenage girls who retreat to a bizarre imaginary world, until their obsessive friendship invites parental opposition that ultimately begets blood.
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Skinwalkers
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this PBS American Mystery! feature, Navajo Tribal Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) and Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) are hot on the trail of a series of puzzling murders that immerse them in the spine-tingling, mystical world of Navajo witchcraft. Up against the clock, Chee and Leaphorn search desperately for the connection between the murders -- which occurred 120 miles apart. The film is adapted from Tony Hillerman's best-selling novel.
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Spun
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSpun's unique glimpse into the world of methamphetamines has wowed audiences since its debut at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, with outstanding performances from Jason Schwartzman, Mena Suvari, John Leguizamo, Brittany Murphy and more. The fast-paced, hard-hitting drama expertly combines the gritty reality of drug addiction with occasional biting humor for an unforgettable look at frantic lives spinning out of control.
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Alpha Dog
2006 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsNick Cassavetes helms this gritty, ensemble drama with a cast that includes Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis, based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood -- one of the youngest men ever to appear on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Emile Hirsch stars as drug-peddling Johnny Truelove (a fictionalized Hollywood), who, in the process of following in his criminal father's footsteps, finds himself facing a lifetime behind bars.
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$5 a Day
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen con man Nat (Christopher Walken) convinces his straitlaced son, Flynn (Alessandro Nivola), to join him on a road trip, the two learn a few things about each other as they drive to New Mexico, attempting to live on no more than $5 a day.
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Brooklyn's Finest
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThree cops -- a burned-out veteran, a narcotics officer with questionable ethics and an undercover detective -- find themselves hurtling toward the same crime scene on one fatal night in this tense, edge-of your-seat thriller.
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The Countess
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBlaming her advancing age for a failed romance with a younger man, 16th-century Hungarian countess Erzebet Báthory begins murdering virgin girls and bathing in their blood, believing that the grim ritual will restore her youthful beauty.
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Red Riding Trilogy: Part 2: 1980
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter six years of vicious unsolved murders, Manchester policeman Peter Hunter arrives in West Yorkshire to supervise the Yorkshire Ripper investigation and a copycat killer case in this second installment of the Red Riding trilogy.
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Badmaash Company
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMoney can buy lots of things, but it can't always buy respect -- and that's a tough pill to swallow for impatient Karan and his friends, who move from Bombay to New York City to get rich quick in this Hindi thriller.
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Rebellion
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFrench freedom fighters kill four and take 30 hostages on an island, instigating a political crisis. Special forces captain Philippe dives into negotiations as the French presidential election -- and lives -- are on the line.
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Omar Killed Me
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen an elderly woman is found murdered in her basement, a message she allegedly scribbled on the wall identifies the killer as Omar, her longtime gardener. But a journalist covering the case sets out to prove that Omar was framed.
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The Heineken Kidnapping
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn 1983, wealthy brewer Alfred Heineken is kidnapped by a gang of young hoodlums in Amsterdam and held for ransom. When the ransom is paid and Heineken is released, he sets out to exact revenge on his captors in this thriller based on a true story.
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The Guillotines
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOnce used by the emperor to quash all opposition, a secret squad of assassins known as the Guillotines falls out of favor when a new monarch takes the throne. Deemed expendable, the Guillotines soon end up with a price on their heads.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsTrash-TV maven Chuck Barris has it all -- the hit series "The Gong Show" and the love of a good woman. But he also has a big, dark secret: He's a CIA assassin who kills while purportedly escorting his game show winners on their vacation prizes.
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsTommy Lee Jones stars in and directs this dark drama set on the Texas-Mexico border. After accidentally killing a man, heartless border patrol officer Mike (Barry Pepper) quickly buries the body in an unmarked grave. But ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Jones) learns of his friend's death, kidnaps Mike and drags him on a harrowing journey to Mexico to bury the man in his hometown. Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam co-star.
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