Best crime web series to stream (November 2026)
The highest-rated is Breaking Bad (2008), IMDb 9.5, streaming on Netflix.
Updated 3 November 2026 · 25 titles · How we choose
1. Breaking Bad
Streaming on Netflix
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure h…
2. The Wire
Streaming on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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 bureaucra…
3. The Sopranos
Streaming on JioHotstar
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those diffic…
4. Sherlock
Streaming on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
5. Better Call Saul
Streaming on Netflix
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 en…
6. Dexter: Resurrection
Streaming on Prime Video
Set 10 weeks after Dexter: New Blood, Dexter Morgan chases a missing Harrison to New York City, where Captain Angel Batista is hot on their trail from way down in Miami.
7. Fargo
Streaming on Prime Video, MGM Plus Amazon Channel
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
8. Monster
Streaming on Netflix
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
9. Peaky Blinders
Streaming on Netflix
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.
10. Dark
Streaming on Netflix
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
11. Narcos
Streaming on Netflix
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
12. Oz
Streaming on JioHotstar
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 terrorize their mutu…
13. The Shield
Streaming on VI movies and tv
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.
14. Dexter
Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
15. Marvel's Daredevil
Streaming on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
16. MINDHUNTER
Streaming on Netflix
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
17. The X-Files
Streaming on JioHotstar
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scu…
18. The Penguin
Streaming on JioHotstar
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first,…
19. Justified
Streaming on Prime Video, VI movies and tv, Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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…
20. Mr. Robot
Streaming on JioHotstar
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. El…
21. Boardwalk Empire
Streaming on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and…
22. Person of Interest
Streaming on Netflix
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training…
23. Bosch
Streaming on Prime Video
Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past. As daring recruit Julia Bras…
24. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Streaming on Netflix, JioHotstar
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
25. Ozark
Streaming on Netflix
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Questions
- What is the highest-rated title on this list?
- The highest-rated is Breaking Bad (2008), IMDb 9.5, streaming on Netflix.
- How does Kunbah choose these titles?
- Well-known titles streaming on a subscription or free app in India, ranked by IMDb rating. Each needs at least 30,000 IMDb votes, so a title rated by a handful of fans doesn't top the list.
- How often is this list updated?
- Every day. It was last updated on 3 November 2026.
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