Best TV shows — thriller on Netflix : our Top 20

2008 · Vince Gilligan · 5 seasons

A New Mexico high-school chemistry teacher, told he has Stage III cancer and only about two years to live, sheds his caution and becomes fiercely determined to guarantee his family's financial security. Embracing a newfound ruthlessness, he plunges into the hazardous realm of illegal drugs and criminal activity, prepared to do whatever it takes to protect those he loves.

With Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and Bob Odenkirk

2022 · Kim Jin-woo, Lee Jae-gon · 1 season

A struggling college professor, who unknowingly takes money tied to a ruthless cartel, is pulled into running drugs as the only means he believes can save his fractured family.

With Jung Woo, Park Hee-soon, Yoon Jin-seo, Park Ji-yeon, Choi Moo-sung, Kim Sung-oh and Oh Gwang-rok

2014 · Noah Hawley · 5 seasons

Set in and around Minnesota, this intimate anthology peels back the calm surface of close communities to reveal simmering malice, sudden outbreaks of violence and the lasting fallout of murder. Each episode is a self-contained portrait of ordinary lives upended by suspicion, revenge and the haunting consequences of criminal acts.

With Allison Tolman, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston and Salvatore Esposito

2017 · Mark Williams, Bill Dubuque · 4 seasons

A financial advisor uproots his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks and faces a five‑year deadline to launder $500 million to placate a drug boss.

With Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Julia Garner, Charlie Tahan and Lisa Emery

2024 · Durul Taylan, Yağmur Taylan · 2 seasons

The proprietor of a small auto workshop struggles through relentless setbacks and increasingly uncanny events that drag him into a tense moral conflict, forcing him to choose between integrity and the lure of darker choices. As pressures mount, alliances shift and every decision risks pulling him closer to redemption—or ruin.

With Çağatay Ulusoy, Aslıhan Malbora, Ahsen Eroğlu, Nazan Kesal, Cihan Talay, Aytek Şayan and Girayhan Çilingiroglu

2025 · Scott Frank · 2 seasons

A cocky yet brilliant detective is appointed to head a newly formed police unit, assembling a ragtag team of outsiders to reopen and solve Edinburgh’s long‑unsolved cases.

With Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne and Kelly Macdonald

2010 · Frank Darabont · 11 seasons

When sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma, he finds a shattered world overrun by ravenous undead. Determined to reunite with his family, he sets out across the ruins, encountering other survivors and facing constant, deadly threats.

With Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln, Christian Serratos and Josh McDermitt

2010 · Frank Darabont · 1 season

In 1960s Mexico, the Baladro sisters—infamously dubbed "Las Poquianchis"—prey on the vulnerable to assemble a vast prostitution empire. What starts as a relentless pursuit of power and profit soon spirals into calculated violence and a string of cold-blooded murders.

With Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln, Christian Serratos and Josh McDermitt

2025 · Mark L. Smith · 1 season

A mother fleeing her past and her young son form an improvised family with other drifters as they navigate the ruthless, intoxicating expanse of the American West, where freedom and violence are entwined.

With Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Derek Hinkey, Joe Tippett and Jai Courtney

2018 · Jed Mercurio · 1 season

Haunted by his wartime experiences, a troubled veteran is assigned to protect a polarizing politician who may be the target of an imminent terror plot.

With Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Sophie Rundle, Gina McKee, Pippa Haywood, Stuart Bowman and Paul Ready

2023 · Debora Cahn · 3 seasons

As a global crisis escalates, an American ambassador stationed in London struggles to reconcile the relentless pressures of diplomacy with the unraveling of her marriage to a high-profile political figure, all under the unforgiving gaze of public scrutiny.

With Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, David Gyasi, Ali Ahn, Rory Kinnear, Ato Essandoh and Jess Chanliau

2015 · Daniel Zelman, Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler · 3 seasons

Beneath the picture-perfect surface of a respected Florida Keys family that runs a cherished hotel, the return of their long-estranged son for his parents’ forty-fifth anniversary threatens to expose decades of hidden transgressions. As long-buried scandals begin to surface, the siblings are forced into a tense confrontation between preserving the family’s reputation and facing the truth, pushing loyalty, trust and love to breaking point.

With Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, Jamie McShane, Sissy Spacek and Jacinda Barrett

2023 · Shawn Ryan · 3 seasons

A midnight call drags an FBI agent and a cybersecurity specialist into a spiraling investigation as they race to peel back layer after layer of a widening network of political intrigue.

With Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, Hong Chau, Fola Evans-Akingbola, D.B. Woodside, Sarah Desjardins and Eve Harlow

2019 · Mike Kelley · 1 season

Inspired by its comic-book origin, this animated anthology reworks iconic MCU moments—each self-contained episode probes, reimagines and upends familiar scenes with unexpected twists.

With Jane Levy, Blake Jenner, Keith Powers, Samantha Marie Ware, Juan Castano, Renée Zellweger and Dave Annable

2020 · Michael Petroni · 1 season

A skeptical CIA operative is assigned to follow a magnetic figure whose growing spiritual movement is unsettling the political order — as she probes his past and motives, she must determine whether he is a genuine visionary, a manipulative provocateur, or a dangerously concealed threat.

With Mehdi Dehbi, Michelle Monaghan, John Ortiz, Tomer Sisley, Stefania LaVie Owen, Sayyid El Alami and Wil Traval

2017 · Brian Yorkey · 4 seasons

After a teenage girl's unexplained suicide, a classmate stumbles upon a set of recorded tapes that gradually piece together the relationships, secrets and pressures that led to her final decision.

With Dylan Minnette, Christian Navarro, Alisha Boe, Brandon Flynn, Justin Prentice, Miles Heizer and Ross Butler

2025 · Gabe Rotter · 1 season

A celebrated novelist’s quiet existence is shattered when an charismatic, influential newcomer moves in next door; a seemingly friendly rapport soon morphs into a tense psychological duel as she uncovers unsettling secrets that hint he may be a killer, forcing her to choose between exposing the truth or protecting herself.

With Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Brittany Snow and Natalie Morales

2018 · Carlos Montero, Darío Madrona · 8 seasons

Three teenagers from working‑class families gain places at Spain’s most prestigious school, triggering a bitter confrontation with wealthy classmates that escalates into violence and ultimately ends in tragedy.

With Itzan Escamilla, Omar Ayuso, Miguel Bernardeau, Arón Piper, Georgina Amorós, Claudia Salas and Mina El Hammani

2026 · Lisa McGee · 1 season

When a childhood friend dies under mysterious circumstances, three old companions launch a frantic, frequently bungled search for the truth — all while desperately concealing a dangerous secret that could ruin them.

With Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne and Saoirse-Monica Jackson

2019 · Tae-heui Kim · 1 season

A catastrophic blast at the National Assembly obliterates the cabinet and unexpectedly elevates Park Mu-jin, the quiet Minister of Environment, to the office of acting president. A scientist who drifted into politics with no appetite for power, he must hold the country together for sixty days while pursuing the truth behind the attack and unraveling the conspiracy that put him in command. Based on the American series Designated Survivor.

With Ji Jin-hee, Heo Joon-ho, Lee Jun-hyuk, Kang Han-na, Bae Jong-ok, Kim Gyu-ri and Choi Jae-sung