Best Crime Shows of the 2010s (Ranked)

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Better Call Saul

★9.0Ended(2015– )

#1Score 9.00870.1k IMDb votes

The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill before his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

Sherlock

★9.0Ended(2010– )

#2Score 9.001.1M IMDb votes

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st-century London.

True Detective

★8.8Ongoing

#3Score 8.80774.6k IMDb votes

Seasonal anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Fargo

★8.8Ongoing(2014– )

#4Score 8.79476.7k IMDb votes

Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. Yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.

When They See Us

★8.8Ended

#5Score 8.78162.2k IMDb votes

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.

O.J. Made in America

★8.9

#6Score 8.7724.2k IMDb votes

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

Peaky Blinders

★8.7Ended

#7Score 8.70795.8k IMDb votes

A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

Dark

★8.7Ended

#8Score 8.69564.7k IMDb votes

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

Narcos

★8.7Ended

#9Score 8.69537.8k IMDb votes

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Line of Duty

★8.7Ended(2012– )

#10Score 8.6782.7k IMDb votes

Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

Mr Inbetween

★8.7Ended(2018– )

#11Score 8.6555.4k IMDb votes

Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend, brother and best friend, tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Especially when you're also a criminal for hire.

House of Cards

★8.6Ended

#12Score 8.60564.3k IMDb votes

A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.

Mindhunter

★8.6Ended(2017– )

#13Score 8.59407.7k IMDb votes

Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.

Marvels Daredevil

★8.6Ended

#14Score 8.59543.8k IMDb votes

A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil.

Justified

★8.6Ended(2010–2015)

#15Score 8.58133k IMDb votes

U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns of eastern Kentucky.

The Family Man

★8.6Ongoing

#16Score 8.58114.5k IMDb votes

A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.

The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

★8.6Ended

#17Score 8.5659.7k IMDb votes

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate icon Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.

Young Justice

★8.6Ended

#18Score 8.5552k IMDb votes

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

Endeavour

★8.6Ended

#19Score 8.5338.7k IMDb votes

Set from 1965 to 1971, the show follows Endeavour Morse in his early years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner DI Fred Thursday, Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford.

Wentworth

★8.6Ended(2013– )

#20Score 8.5127.3k IMDb votes

The confronting look into the lives of the inmates and prison staff of Wentworth Correctional Centre as they navigate the ups and downs of their lives in the prison system.

The Boys

★8.5Ended

#21Score 8.501M IMDb votes

A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.

Person of Interest

★8.5Ended(2011–2016)

#22Score 8.49217.2k IMDb votes

An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mys...

Mr. Robot

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#23Score 8.49476.1k IMDb votes

Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he work...

Boardwalk Empire

★8.5Ended(2010–2014)

#24Score 8.49220.6k IMDb votes

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

Hannibal

★8.5Ended

#25Score 8.49315.1k IMDb votes

Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Making a Murderer

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#26Score 8.48109.3k IMDb votes

Filmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.

Sacred Games

★8.5Ended(2018– )

#27Score 8.4799.2k IMDb votes

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Happy Valley

★8.5Ended

#28Score 8.4775.2k IMDb votes

Yorkshire based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.

Bosch

★8.5Ended(2014– )

#29Score 8.4799.5k IMDb votes

An L.A.P.D. homicide detective works to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer.

Snowfall

★8.5Ended

#30Score 8.4552k IMDb votes

A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.

Inside No 9

★8.5Ended

#31Score 8.4024.2k IMDb votes

Anthology series which mixes dark humor with genres like crime, horror, or drama. The show invites viewers into some very different No. 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the extraordinary and macabre.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

★8.4Ended(2013– )

#32Score 8.39425.2k IMDb votes

Comedy series following the exploits of Det. Jake Peralta and his diverse, lovable colleagues as they police the NYPD's 99th Precinct.

The Night Of

★8.4Ended

#33Score 8.39201.2k IMDb votes

After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Marvels The Punisher

★8.4Ended

#34Score 8.39315.9k IMDb votes

After the murder of his family, Marine veteran Frank Castle becomes the vigilante known as "The Punisher," with only one goal in mind: to avenge them.

Big Little Lies

★8.4Ended(2017– )

#35Score 8.39248.9k IMDb votes

The apparently perfect lives of upper-class mothers, at a prestigious elementary school, unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint Californian beach town.

Ozark

★8.4Ended(2017– )

#36Score 8.39400.8k IMDb votes

A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.

Luther

★8.4Ended(2010– )

#37Score 8.39165.5k IMDb votes

DCI John Luther is a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can't always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.

American Crime

★8.4Ended

#38Score 8.38103.3k IMDb votes

An anthology series centered around America's most notorious crimes and criminals.

Banshee

★8.4Ended(2013–2016)

#39Score 8.38152.4k IMDb votes

An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.

Mirzapur

★8.4Ongoing

#40Score 8.3895.5k IMDb votes

A shocking incident at a wedding procession ignites a series of events entangling the lives of two families in the lawless city of Mirzapur.

The Americans 2013

★8.4Ended

#41Score 8.38127.1k IMDb votes

At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.

The Defiant Ones

★8.5Ended

#42Score 8.3616.2k IMDb votes

"The Defiant Ones" examines the partnership between Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre - one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - and their leading roles in a chain of transformative events in contemporary...

Warrior 2019

★8.4Ended

#43Score 8.3654.6k IMDb votes

During the Tong Wars in the late 1800s, Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy from China, immigrates to San Francisco and becomes a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown.

Top Boy

★8.4Ended

#44Score 8.3550.2k IMDb votes

Two London drug dealers ply their lucrative trade at a public housing estate in East London.

Babylon Berlin

★8.4Ongoing

#45Score 8.3434.4k IMDb votes

Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Unforgotten 2015

★8.4Ongoing

#46Score 8.3438.4k IMDb votes

London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years.

Broadchurch

★8.3Ended(2013–2017)

#47Score 8.29144.8k IMDb votes

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Barry

★8.3Ended

#48Score 8.29146.4k IMDb votes

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Homeland

★8.3Ended

#49Score 8.29389.2k IMDb votes

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

Narcos Mexico

★8.3Ended(2018– )

#50Score 8.28103.2k IMDb votes

The rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in Mexico.

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