Best Thriller Television Series

The Bureau is a French espionage thriller centered on agents of France’s DGSE external security service. Originally broadcast in France starting April 2015, it subsequently launched internationally vi...

Stranger is a South Korean crime thriller series spanning two seasons, initially airing on tvN in 2017 and 2020. The show was created by Choi Jin-hee and written solely by Lee Soo-yeon, with multiple...

The Americans is a Cold War spy drama centering on two KGB operatives, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who assume the identities of an American married couple in Falls Church, Virginia. Their dual role...

The Worst of Evil is a 2023 South Korean television series featuring Ji Chang-wook, Wi Ha-joon, and Im Se-mi. Released on Disney+ in September 2023, the show is a crime action thriller noir. It premie...

Flower of Evil is a South Korean drama series featuring Lee Joon-gi and Moon Chae-won. It premiered on tvN from July 29th to September 23rd, 2020, and was distributed internationally via streaming pla...

Weak Hero Class 1 is a South Korean television series adapted from the Naver webtoon Weak Hero. The initial episodes premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in 2022, and the first season de...

Utopia is a British television series created by Dennis Kelly and broadcast on Channel 4. It features a cast including Fiona O’Shaughnessy and Adeel Akhtar, exploring themes of conspiracy and thriller...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents was an anthology television series running from 1955 to 1965, produced by Alfred Hitchcock and broadcast on CBS and NBC. The show presented dramas, thrillers, and mysteries i...

Ezel is a Turkish crime thriller television series adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ *The Count of Monte Cristo*. Initially airing on Show TV (2009) and later ATV, the show features Istanbul as its settin...

Hannibal is a television series exploring the complex dynamic between FBI investigator Will Graham and forensic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. The show adapts elements from Thomas Harris’ novels, depic...

Squid Game is a South Korean drama centered on 456 individuals facing extreme financial distress who participate in deadly games for a substantial monetary reward. The competition involves traditional...

Sons of Anarchy depicts the activities of an outlaw motorcycle club based in Charming, California. The series chronicles the group’s operations and the personal struggles of its members from 2008 to 2...

Broadchurch is a British crime drama series spanning from 2013 to 2017, centered around the investigation of crimes in the fictional coastal town of Broadchurch, Dorset. The show features Detective In...

Fringe was an American science fiction television series that ran for five seasons on Fox. The show centered around an FBI division investigating anomalous events linked to a parallel universe, featur...

Mirzapur is an Indian television series set in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. The narrative centers on Akhandanand “Kaleen” Tripathi, a prominent crime boss and local authority figure within the district. P...

Babylon Berlin is a German television series developed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten. The show draws inspiration from the novels of Volker Kutscher and presents a neo-noir...

The series “Lost” centers around the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 who crash land on an uncharted, seemingly deserted island in the South Pacific. These individuals grapple with the challenges of su...

Mouse is a South Korean television series centering on the investigation of a serial killer. Detective Go Mu-Chi collaborates with rookie officer Jeong Ba-reum in pursuing the perpetrator. The drama w...

Sacred Games is a Hindi-language crime thriller television series derived from Vikram Chandra’s 2006 novel. Produced by Phantom Films with Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, it was Netflix’s fir...

Evil is a television series created by Robert and Michelle King that began airing in 2019. The show centers on a group of investigators, including actors Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, and Aasif Mandvi,...

Supernatural is an American television series created in 2005 and initially broadcast on The WB. The show centers on two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who pursue various supernatural entities inc...

Orphan Black explores the lives of multiple genetically identical individuals, primarily centered around Sarah Manning. The show investigates the consequences of human cloning and examines questions s...

Fauda follows the operations of an Israeli military unit, the Mista’arvim, led by commander Doron. The show centers on their pursuit of Hamas operatives, specifically “The Panther,” based on the exper...

Southland is a crime drama television series developed by Ann Biderman and produced by John Wells Productions. The show initially broadcasted on NBC before continuing its run with four additional seas...

Prison Break follows Lincoln Burrows, wrongly convicted of murder, and his brother Michael’s intricate plan to orchestrate his escape from a maximum-security prison. The series involved multiple produ...

Vigilante is a South Korean television series adapted from a webtoon. The show stars Nam Joo-hyuk and Yoo Ji-tae and premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in October 2023. A first season...

When the Camellia Blooms is a 2019 South Korean drama featuring Gong Hyo-jin and Kang Ha-neul. The series aired weekly on KBS2 from September 18 to November 21, 2019. Episodes were subsequently availa...

Carnivàle is an HBO series depicting a traveling carnival operating during the American Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. The narrative explores conflicts between opposing forces – good versus evil, free wi...

Legion is an FX television series adapting the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Created by Noah Hawley, the show ran for three seasons from 2017 to 2019 and exists within a universe similar t...