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Bloodline (TV series)
Bloodline is a Netflix drama thriller (2015-2017) by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman of Damages, about the Rayburn family of the Florida Keys, 3 seasons, 33 episodes, Emmy winner Ben Mendelsohn.
Boat Story
Boat Story is a 2023 six-part BBC One darkly comic crime thriller, also called a comedy drama, created by Harry and Jack Williams for Two Brothers Pictures with Amazon Freevee, starring Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, and Tchéky Karyo.
Bodkin
Bodkin is a 2024 Netflix darkly comedic thriller, seven episodes, created by Jez Scharf and produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara as podcasters probing disappearances in a fictional West Cork town.
Bookish (TV series)
Bookish is a six-part British period detective drama created by and starring Mark Gatiss as 1946 London bookseller-detective Gabriel Book, airing on U&alibi (2025) and PBS (2026), with a second series commissioned.
Borgen (TV series)
Borgen is a Danish political drama created by Adam Price for DR1 (2010–2013; 2022 revival Power & Glory), following fictional first female PM Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) at Christiansborg, the 'Castle'. Distinguished by realistic coalition politics, 1.5 million Danish viewers, and BAFTA, Emmy, and Peabody awards.
Breathe: Into the Shadows
Breathe: Into the Shadows, an Indian Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video psychological crime thriller (2020–2022), second chapter of the Breathe franchise, starring Abhishek Bachchan as psychiatrist Avinash Sabharwal, whose daughter's kidnapping forces him to kill; Amit Sadh reprises Kabir Sawant.
Budgie (TV series)
Budgie (ITV, 1971-72) is a London Weekend Television comedy drama starring Adam Faith as Soho petty crook Ronald "Budgie" Bird, written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, produced by Verity Lambert, with Iain Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell and a 1979 spin-off.
Caliphate (TV series)
Caliphate (Kalifat) is an eight-episode 2020 Swedish SVT thriller by Wilhelm Behrman and Goran Kapetanovic, distributed on Netflix, about an Säpo agent and an ISIS plot against Sweden; distinct from the NYT podcast.
Candy (miniseries)
Candy is a 2022 Hulu five-episode true-crime miniseries starring Jessica Biel as Candy Montgomery, who killed Betty Gore in 1980 Texas; created by Robin Veith and Nick Antosca, later followed by Love & Death.
Cape Fear (TV series)
Cape Fear (Apple TV, 2026) is a 10-episode limited series by Nick Antosca, the third adaptation of John D. MacDonald's The Executioners, starring Javier Bardem as Max Cady opposite Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson, with Scorsese and Spielberg as executive producers.
Careless (TV series)
Careless is an upcoming four-part Australian-British psychological thriller, a Stan Original with Channel 4, created by Helen Fitzgerald and Louise Fox, starring Solly McLeod, Richard Roxburgh and Robyn Malcolm, filmed in Sydney and Glasgow.
Chance (TV series)
Chance is a Hulu psychological thriller series (2016–2017) starring Hugh Laurie as San Francisco forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance, adapted from Kem Nunn's novel; two ten-episode seasons, canceled January 2018.
Clark (2022 TV series)
Clark (2022) is a Swedish Netflix limited series, six episodes directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Bill Skarsgård as bank robber Clark Olofsson, whose 1973 Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis inspired the term Stockholm syndrome; loosely based on his autobiography.
Codename: Annika
Codename: Annika (Koodinimi: Annika) is a 2023 Finnish-Swedish SkyShowtime Nordic noir series, not the UK show Annika. Detective Emma Haka goes undercover as Annika Stormare in Stockholm's art world against launderer Blanko; six episodes, directed by AJ Annila.
Coldwater (TV series)
Coldwater is a 2025 six-part British psychological thriller created by David Ireland, starring Andrew Lincoln as John, a London dad who moves to a fictional Scottish village and falls under the influence of Ewen Bremner's sinister neighbor Tommy; it aired on ITV1/ITVX and streamed on Paramount+ from January 2026.
Criminal Record (2024 TV series)
Criminal Record is a British Apple TV+ crime thriller created by Paul Rutman, starring Peter Capaldi as DCI Daniel Hegarty and Cush Jumbo as DS June Lenker; season 1 premiered January 10, 2024, and season 2 on April 22, 2026.
Criminal: France
Criminal: France is the 2019 French-language installment of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology, three episodes (Émilie, Caroline, Jérôme) directed by Frédéric Mermoud, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Margot Bancilhon with guests Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier, and Sara Giraudeau.
Criminal: Germany
Criminal: Germany (Criminal: Deutschland) is the 2019 German chapter of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology: three roughly 45-minute episodes (Jochen, Yilmaz, Claudia) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, and Florence Kasumba, released 20 September 2019.
Cry Wolf (American TV series)
Cry Wolf is an upcoming FX American limited series (8 episodes), created and showrun by Sarah Treem, remaking the Danish 2020 series Ulven kommer. Olivia Colman plays social worker Kath opposite Brie Larson's April; filmed in Toronto, February to May 2026.
Culprits
Culprits is a 2023 British heist thriller series created by J Blakeson for Disney+ and Hulu, starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Gemma Arterton. Eight episodes follow a heist crew hunted by a masked assassin across three timelines; one season, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Darby and Joan
Darby and Joan (Darby & Joan) is an Australian Acorn TV mystery drama (2022–) starring Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi as ex-cop Jack Darby and widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope, who solve outback mysteries across Queensland; two series, 14 episodes.
Dear Child
Dear Child (Liebes Kind) is a 2023 six-episode German Netflix psychological thriller miniseries based on Romy Hausmann's 2019 novel, directed by Isabel Kleefeld and Julian Pörksen, starring Kim Riedle, and winner of the 2024 International Emmy for TV Movie/Mini-Series.
Deliver Me
Deliver Me (I dina händer) is a 2024 Swedish Netflix limited series, five episodes, based on Malin Persson Giolito's novel, directed by Anna Zackrisson, about two 14-year-old friends recruited by a Stockholm gang.
Designated Survivor (TV series)
Designated Survivor is an American political thriller (2016–2019) starring Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman, a HUD secretary who becomes president after a State of the Union attack; two ABC seasons, one Netflix season.
Deutschland 86
Deutschland 86 (Deutschland86), 2018 second season of the German spy series Deutschland 83, a UFA Fiction production for Amazon Prime Video; 10x45-minute episodes starring Jonas Nay and Maria Schrader as GDR agents in 1986, set in South Africa, Angola, Libya, Paris, and Berlin.
Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy
Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is a 2025 Peacock Original eight-episode true-crime limited drama created by Patrick Macmanus, starring Michael Chernus as Gacy, dramatizing the 1972–1978 murders and the Des Plaines investigation, focused on victims and police failures.
Devious Maids
Devious Maids is an American comedy-drama and crime mystery series created by Marc Cherry that aired on Lifetime from 2013 to 2016, following Latina maids in Beverly Hills.
Dexter: New Blood
Dexter: New Blood, the 2021 Showtime limited series (also called the Dexter revival), continues Dexter Morgan's story ten years later in Iron Lake, New York, under the alias Jim Lindsay, ending with Harrison shooting his father.
Dirty Business (TV series)
Dirty Business is a 2026 three-part Channel 4 docudrama by Joseph Bullman, starring David Thewlis and Jason Watkins as real sewage campaigners Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond of WASP, covering the Heather Preen death and England's water company sewage scandal.
Disclaimer (2024 TV series)
Disclaimer is a 2024 seven-episode Apple TV+ psychological thriller limited series written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Renée Knight's 2015 novel, starring Cate Blanchett as journalist Catherine Ravenscroft and Kevin Kline, released October 11 to November 8, 2024.