Best Crime tv shows of 2019
TOP 20: Killing Eve
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2018
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
TOP 19: Narcos
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2015
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
TOP 18: Pushing Daisies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
Release: 2007
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
TOP 17: Justified
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2010
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.
TOP 16: Dark
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Release: 2017
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
TOP 15: Columbo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1971
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
TOP 14: Broadchurch
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2013
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
TOP 13: Oz
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1997
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
TOP 12: The Bridge
Original Title: Bron/Broen
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Release: 2011
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
TOP 11: Wentworth
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2013
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
TOP 10: Bodyguard
Genre: Crime, Drama, War & Politics
Release: 2018
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
TOP 9: Better Call Saul
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2015
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
TOP 8: Gomorrah
Original Title: Gomorra - La serie
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2014
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
TOP 7: The Shield
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Release: 2002
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
TOP 6: Deadwood
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Release: 2004
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
TOP 5: Money Heist
Original Title: La casa de papel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2017
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.
TOP 4: Peaky Blinders
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2013
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
TOP 3: Fargo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2014
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
TOP 2: Sherlock
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2010
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
TOP 1: The Wire
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.