Crime TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated August 04, 2025
Murder, She Wrote: Season 12
1995 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWriter Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) continues spending her spare time solving crimes in the final season of this wildly popular television series. Her adventures include getting involved in solving a series of voodoo-related killings while researching her latest novel in New Orleans and becoming trapped in an ancient Irish castle brimming with spooky secrets past and present. John O'Hurley, Gerald McRaney and Vivian Wu guest star.
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My Own Worst Enemy: The Complete Series
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSpy Edward Albright and suburban dad Henry Spivey have absolutely nothing in common -- save the fact that they share the same body. And when the invisible wall separating the two men starts crumbling, each man will fall far outside his comfort zone. Christian Slater plays a dual role as Edward and Henry in this NBC drama, also starring Mike O'Malley as our hero's similarly split-personality best friend and Saffron Burrows as the sexy Dr. Skinner.
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Murder, She Wrote
1984 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhether at home in cozy Cabot Cove or on the road promoting her popular mystery novels, charming author Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) always encounters cold-blooded murders that she cleverly solves using her intellect and astounding deduction skills. Lansbury, who was nominated for an Emmy in each of her 12 seasons, stars in this successful whodonit alongside series regulars like Tom Bosley, William Windom and Michael Horton.
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My Own Worst Enemy: The Complete Series
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSpy Edward Albright and suburban dad Henry Spivey have absolutely nothing in common -- save the fact that they share the same body. And when the invisible wall separating the two men starts crumbling, each man will fall far outside his comfort zone.
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Trailer: Pain
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAs ruthless as he is calculating, Congressman Francis Underwood will step on anyone to climb the political ladder. His only goal is the remorseless pursuit of power, and the only place worse than being under his thumb is under his boot.
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The Job: The Complete Series
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDenis Leary stars in this unconventional comedy series as hard-drinking, adulterous New York detective Mike McNeil, whose toughest assignment is himself. His approach to fighting crime makes him a great cop, but it takes a toll on his personal life.
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Sleeper Cell: Season 1
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsShowtime's timely -- and provocative -- series brings the war on terrorism home, charting the lives and activities of four Islamic extremists intent on causing destruction and panic in post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles. Ordinary and innocuous on the surface, the deadly quartet includes charismatic Arab leader Farik, all-American boy Tommy, former skinhead Christian and Darwyn, an undercover FBI agent charged with infiltrating the terrorist cell.
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Brotherhood: Season 1
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis edgy serial drama follows sanctimonious politico Tommy Caffee and his mobbed-up brother, Michael. When Michael returns home looking to take over the local syndicate, Tommy's task of protecting the community becomes tricky, to say the least.
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Sleeper Cell: Season 2
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMichael Ealy stars as undercover FBI agent Darwyn Al-Sayeed, a practicing Muslim assigned to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell run by Islamic extremist Faris al-Farik (Oded Fehr). The second season of this riveting Showtime drama kicks off in the wake of al-Farik's daylong terror attack (known as Youmud Din, or "judgment day") against Los Angeles. Omid Abtahi, Thekla Reuten and Kevin Alejandro play the new crop of mission-driven jihadists.
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Brotherhood: Season 2
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTommy is a politician and family man. His brother Mike is Tommy's shadowy reflection: a sadistic gangster who rules the neighborhood's underworld. The fate of their Irish-American community depends on this family's struggle between good and evil.
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Brotherhood: Season 3
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe Caffee brothers -- Providence, R.I.'s answer to Cain and Abel -- are back for another season of this gritty Peabody Award-winning series that follows the complicated relationship between siblings on opposite sides of the law.
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Brotherhood
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis award-winning series tells the story of two working-class, Irish-American brothers -- self-important politician Tommy Caffee and mobster Michael -- whose divergent personalities make it hard to remember that they are family.
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Sleeper Cell
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis timely and provocative Showtime drama examines the motives of those who inflict terror and of those who attempt to stop them by whatever means necessary, even the possible betrayal of their own religious and political beliefs. Darwyn al-Sayeed (Michael Ealy), an FBI agent and fervent Muslim, goes undercover in a radical Islamic sleeper cell run by Faris al-Farik (Oded Fehr), a brilliant leader who threatens to destroy Darwyn ... and Los Angeles.
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The Job
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsMike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. His unconventional approach to fighting crime makes him a great cop, but it takes a toll on his personal life.
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Line of Duty: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is transferred to an anti-corruption unit following an accidental shooting during a counterterrorist operation, he and Detective Constable Kate Fleming lead an investigation into an officer's alleged corruption.
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Line of Duty
2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDS Steve Arnott is transferred to a police anticorruption unit after he refuses to be part of a cover-up involving an accidental shooting. There, he partners with DC Kate Fleming to investigate a fellow officer.
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McMillan & Wife: Season 1
1971 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsRock Hudson stars as San Francisco's top cop, Stewart McMillan, a commissioner who -- aided by his discerning wife, Sally, and man Friday, Sgt. Charles Enright -- intervenes in criminal investigations when the need arises.
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McMillan & Wife: Season 2
1972 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPolice commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his crime-buff wife, Sally, continue their quest to solve some of San Francisco's toughest cases in the second season of this Golden Globe-nominated crime series from the 1970s.
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McMillan & Wife: Season 3
1973 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsLife is anything but dull for the crime-fighting couple in Season 3. While vacationing in Scotland, the McMillans discover that Mac's uncle has been murdered. Later, they rescue their, Mildred, who's been targeted by a satanic cult.
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McMillan & Wife: Season 4
1974 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSan Francisco police commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife, Sally, keep their marriage unpredictable in Season 4. The McMillans' maid, Mildred, serves on a sequestered jury, and Mac himself becomes a murder suspect.
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McMillan & Wife: Season 5
1975 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBig changes are afoot in the fifth season of this 1970s crime series about police commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his precocious wife, Sally -- the biggest of which is that pivotal characters leave the series.
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McMillan & Wife
1971 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsStewart "Mac" McMillan, the San Francisco police department's new top brass, is a hands-on commissioner when need be, and thanks to his wife Sally's keen eye for clues, Mac often bags the culprit in this Emmy-nominated crime drama.
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Amber
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Bailey sets off a two-year search during which time her family experience unimaginable guilt, fear and devastating grief as they live out every parent's worst nightmare.
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Amber
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsRecently separated, Ben and Sarah Bailey are doing their best to get on with their lives while remaining good parents to their children. But their world is turned upside down when their daughter Amber fails to return home one evening.
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Charlie's Angels: Season 1
1976 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsBecoming a cultural phenomenon when it debuted in 1976, this blockbuster series follows three sexy female private detectives who put their ingenuity, spunk, charms and sleuthing skills to work for their never-seen boss, Charlie Townsend.
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