Best TV shows — mystere on Prime Video : our Top 20

2008 · J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci · 5 seasons

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham teams up with Walter Bishop, a brilliant scientist who spent years institutionalized, and his calculating but reluctant son Peter to probe a string of inexplicable incidents. As they peel back layers of the case, they uncover a deadly conspiracy that forces them to confront a disturbing overlap between speculative science and emerging technology.

With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown and Leonard Nimoy

2010 · Neil Cross · 5 seasons

Idris Elba portrays Luther, a brilliant but deeply tormented detective whose inner darkness threatens to make him as unpredictable and dangerous as the depraved killers he pursues.

With Idris Elba, Michael Smiley, Dermot Crowley, Warren Brown, Ruth Wilson, Paul McGann and Nikki Amuka-Bird

2008 · Alan Ball · 7 seasons

A breakthrough by a Japanese scientist — the creation of synthetic blood — propels vampires from myth into everyday life, allowing them to live openly as citizens. Humans are no longer on the menu, yet suspicion and anxiety persist as religious leaders, politicians and vampire hardliners pick sides. In the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, however, the community remains deeply divided.

With Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Nelsan Ellis and Chris Bauer

2006 · James Manos, Jr. · 1 season

Miami, 1991. Plagued by violent urges he cannot ignore, young Dexter Morgan is taught by his adoptive father, Harry, to channel that darkness into a methodical form of justice. He embraces a strict Code that helps him identify and eliminate those he deems beyond redemption while staying off the police radar — a perilous discipline made even more complicated when he takes a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.

With Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar, Luna Lauren Velez, C.S. Lee and Desmond Harrington

2024 · Clyde Phillips · 1 season

Miami, 1991. Plagued by violent impulses he cannot ignore, young Dexter Morgan is schooled by his adoptive father, Harry, in a strict set of rules that channel his urges toward punishing those who have escaped justice. Working as a forensics intern at the Miami Metro Police Department, Dexter must keep up the appearance of a conscientious investigator while secretly hunting predators who slip through the system — a precarious double life that demands ruthless discipline and threatens to collapse at any sign of exposure.

With Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown, Christina Milian, James Martinez, Alex Shimizu and Reno Wilson

2004 · Marc Cherry · 8 seasons

Mary Alice Young's habit of looking down on those around her didn't just shape her relationships—it preceded her death. In the calm perfection of her suburban home she chose to end her life. From beyond, she now surveys the tangled secrets of her family, friends and neighbors, narrating and judging their lives from an elevated, otherworldly perspective.

With Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Ricardo Chavira, James Denton and Brenda Strong

2021 · Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson · 4 seasons

A gifted high-school girls’ soccer squad survives a plane crash in the remote northern wilderness and must confront hunger, exposure, and the breakdown of order. Stripped of coaches, civilization, and certainty, the once-tight but emotionally complicated team fractures into rival factions, forcing the girls to reinvent rules, loyalties, and themselves as survival becomes increasingly brutal. The series intercuts that ordeal with a timeline almost twenty-five years later, following the women as they try to rebuild ordinary lives while carrying the physical and psychological scars of what they became in the wild. Equal parts survival thriller, psychological horror, and coming-of-age drama, the show probes how trauma remakes identity, how power reshapes relationships, and what it costs to live with the choices made to survive.

With Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty and Steven Krueger

2021 · Chris Sheridan · 4 seasons

A stranded extraterrestrial adopts the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor to carry out a covert mission. What starts as a quiet, ordinary life is upended when he becomes entangled in a local murder investigation and must more fully assimilate into the community. Torn between his assignment and the bonds he forms with his new neighbors, he faces an ethical crisis about his purpose—questioning whether humanity is worth saving—and finds himself puzzled by curious everyday habits, like why people fold their pizza before eating it.

With Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Elizabeth Bowen and Meredith Garretson

2022 · Scott B. Smith · 1 season

In a dwindling Appalachian town, a young woman finds her only escape in elite video gaming. Her exceptional skills draw the attention of a tech firm that ships her a prototype console to evaluate. Plugging in, she discovers an immersive system that gives her a taste of purpose, romance, and glamour—everything she’s been missing—while blurring the boundary between virtual fantasy and everyday life. The more the game reshapes her world, the more it endangers her family, forcing her to decide how far she’ll go for a life that might not be real.

With Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, JJ Feild, T'Nia Miller, Louis Herthum and Katie Leung

2022 · Tom Moran · 2 seasons

33 a.m. Her life has been drifting into a bewildering haze for years, and she comes to suspect that the key to everything is hidden at the end of a bloody chain of murders — a trail she must follow to uncover what’s been taken from her.

With Jessica Raine, Peter Capaldi, Nikesh Patel, Phil Dunster, Benjamin Chivers, Talia Walker Bassols and Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty

2014 · Jeff Rake · 6 seasons

Zhou Mingrui wakes in the body of Klein Moretti in a gaslit Victorian age of steam-powered dreadnoughts and creeping occult menace. Caught between rival ecclesiastical orders that vie for control and conscience, he must navigate a treacherous line between redemption and corruption. As clockwork marvels and forbidden rituals collide, his mysterious abilities could remake the world—or unleash a darkness no one imagined.

With Debra Messing, Josh Lucas, Laz Alonso, Janina Gavankar, Max Jenkins, Marc Webster and Charlie Reina

1990 · Dick Wolf · 25 seasons

Based on headline-making crimes, detectives pursue serious and often fatal offenses, methodically examining evidence, interviewing witnesses and suspects, and following every lead until an arrest is made. Prosecutors then assemble the case, marshaling facts and testimony to meet the burden of proof required for conviction. Together—investigators, forensic specialists and the district attorney’s team—navigate the complexities of New York’s criminal justice system to hold offenders accountable and protect the city.

With Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix and Fred Dalton Thompson

1990 · Dick Wolf · 25 seasons

When headline-making crimes strike, New York detectives launch intensive investigations—collecting forensic evidence, following leads and interviewing suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney’s office then prepares a thorough prosecution, meeting the required burden of proof to secure a conviction. Together, these seasoned investigators and prosecutors navigate the complexities of the criminal justice system to hold offenders accountable and protect the city.

With Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix and Fred Thompson

1997 · Anthony Horowitz, Caroline Graham · 25 seasons

Tranquility in the Midsomer community is shattered by a string of brutal crimes, turning neighbors into suspects; a seasoned DCI and his young sergeant must methodically clear the innocent while relentlessly hunting down those responsible.

With Barry Jackson, John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Neil Dudgeon, Fiona Dolman and Jason Hughes

2023 · Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti · 1 season

In Rajasthan, women keep disappearing and the town barely blinks. Inspector Anjali Bhaati detects an unsettling pattern: each victim received long, late-night phone calls and mentioned a boyfriend no neighbour has ever seen. As she follows these clues, she uncovers a web of secrecy and complacency that may hide the real threat.

With Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Varma, Gulshan Devaiah, Sohum Shah, Zoa Morani, Jayati Bhatia and Manyuu Doshi

2011 · James M. Cain · 1 season

During the Great Depression, a fiercely devoted mother, newly separated from her husband, opens a small restaurant to forge financial independence and rebuild her life. As she pours herself into her business and a tentative new relationship, she battles to earn the love and respect of her vain, demanding daughter, whose selfishness threatens to unravel everything she’s worked for.

With Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Brían F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo, James Le Gros and Mare Winningham

2026 · Lee Young · 1 season

Veteran insurance investigator Cha Woo-seok delves into a sophisticated fraud operation tied to a series of unexplained deaths and is soon drawn into a perilous entanglement with Han Seol-ah, an impeccably poised art auctioneer around whom every romantic partner inexplicably perishes. As attraction and mistrust collide, he must decide whether she is a calculating predator or a scapegoated survivor — before uncovering the truth destroys him.

With Park Min-young, Wi Ha-jun, Kim Jung-hyun, Han Jun-woo, Kong Seong-ha, Hong Gi-jun and Kim Keum-soon

2022 · Brian Watkins · 2 seasons

A Wyoming rancher, desperate to protect his homestead and his family, uncovers a baffling phenomenon at the edge of the wilderness that pulls him into an encounter with forces beyond understanding—at once deeply personal and terrifyingly vast—played out against the raw, untamed sweep of the American West.

With Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Tom Pelphrey, Tamara Podemski, Will Patton, Imogen Poots and Lewis Pullman

2005 · Nicolas Falacci, Cheryl Heuton · 6 seasons

Drawing on real cases and hands-on experience, the series follows an FBI agent who enlists his mathematically gifted brother to help unravel complex crimes across Los Angeles. Using statistics, models and unconventional mathematical insight, they bring a fresh, numbers-driven approach to investigations that traditional policing struggles to solve.

With Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard, Peter MacNicol, Navi Rawat and Dylan Bruno

2014 · Daisy Coulam · 10 seasons

In the quiet 1953 village of Grantchester, Reverend Sidney Chambers—an affable, magnetic clergyman with a keen mind—finds himself drawn into investigating a member of his congregation whose death is shrouded in mystery.

With Robson Green, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones, Kacey Ainsworth, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Tom Brittney and Nick Brimble