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

2019 · Craig Mazin · 1 season

A dramatized account of one of the gravest human-made disasters—the Chernobyl nuclear accident—and the aftermath that reshaped lives and nations. The series follows firefighters, plant workers, scientists and ordinary citizens whose courage, expertise and selflessness battled the invisible threat, exposed the truth and helped prevent a continent-wide catastrophe.

With Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis and Sam Troughton

2015 · Sam Esmail · 4 seasons

Elliot is a young programmer crippled by a severe anti‑social condition who thinks the only way to reach people is by intruding into their digital lives. He turns his hacking talent into a weapon to defend the few he cares about, only to be pulled into a dangerous middle ground between the legitimate cybersecurity firm that employs him and shadowy factions trying to recruit him to take down corporate America.

With Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin, Martin Wallström, Grace Gummer, Portia Doubleday and Michael Cristofer

2024 · Frederick Forsyth · 1 season

An unmatched, enigmatic killer known as the Jackal makes his living on the world’s most lucrative contracts, striking with cold precision and vanishing into the shadows. After a recent hit, he collides with a dogged British intelligence officer whose determination sparks a relentless, coast-to-coast pursuit across Europe — a high-stakes game of pursuit that rips through cities and leaves devastation in its wake.

With Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji and Lia Williams

2022 · David DiGilio · 1 season

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With Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Jared Shaw

2024 · Ronan Bennett · 1 season

Javier brings his pregnant wife, Delia, to his isolated family ranch in a remote village. Though she is lavished with care, Delia senses a quiet dread that she cannot shake. On a hunting trip Javier shoots what he believes to be a deer—only to discover it is a man. The ranch hands dispose of the body over a canyon and urge Javier to put the matter behind him, but the victim’s spirit returns to implore his mother, the village witch, to avenge his death. Under a sudden, violent storm the witch appears at the estate and pronounces a curse: Delia will give birth to twin daughters, and one of them will hide a monstrous being within her. The next day Delia bears a beautiful baby girl and the household breathes easier—until she goes into labor again a few hours later and is brutally killed by the second infant. Both newborns are identical, radiant and seemingly healthy, leaving everyone haunted by the impossible question of which child caused their mother’s death. Years later the twins have grown into opposites: Gilda has escaped to the city and forged an independent life as a doctor, while Liliana remains a fragile invalid confined to the ranch. Beneath their mirrored faces, one of them conceals the terrible presence of the Chacala, a demon that will soon reveal itself and unleash destruction on those around her.

With Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó, Chukwudi Iwuji, Khalid Abdalla, Lia Williams and Eleanor Matsuura

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

2020 · 3 seasons

A long-running German TV drama that follows a two-officer highway patrol unit, charting their cases and evolving partnership as they operate first in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

With Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer, David Haig, Marsha Thomason, Lucy Cohu and Grace Hogg-Robinson

2022 · 1 season

After his entire platoon is wiped out, Navy SEAL Commander James Reece abandons official procedures and sets out on a one-man campaign for retribution. Operating outside the chain of command, he draws on nearly twenty years of combat-honed skills, instincts, and tactics to unmask and pursue the shadowy architects behind the massacre.

With Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Jared Shaw

2013 · Allan Cubitt · 3 seasons

When Jay Leno retired for a second time, Jimmy Fallon was appointed the new host and the show returned to New York after a forty-two-year run in Los Angeles.

With Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Niamh McGrady, John Lynch, Valene Kane, Bronagh Waugh and Aisling Franciosi

2015 · Frank Spotnitz · 4 seasons

In a reimagined America where the Axis won World War II, the former United States is partitioned and governed by occupying German and Japanese authorities, reshaping daily life under surveillance, propaganda, and cultural suppression. The series traces the intersecting fates of collaborators, bystanders, and insurgents as they navigate moral compromises, hidden truths, and the fragile sparks of resistance. Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel.

With Alexa Davalos, Rufus Sewell, Joel de la Fuente, Chelah Horsdal, Brennan Brown, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and DJ Qualls

2023 · Taylor Sheridan · 2 seasons

When gritty, fiercely determined Marine Cruz Manuelos is recruited into a covert CIA unit called the Lioness Engagement Team, he goes undercover to infiltrate and dismantle a terrorist network from within. Station chief Joe runs the program, shaping and directing a tight-knit group of female deep-cover operatives while juggling their training, safety, and the moral costs of the mission.

With Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan and Austin Hébert

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 · Taylor Sheridan, Hugh Dillon · 4 seasons

In a small Michigan town where the prison economy is the only thing thriving, the McClusky family pulls the strings across law enforcement, inmates, guards, criminals and local politicians, holding sway over a community whose livelihood and identity are built around its jails and the people inside them.

With Jeremy Renner, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Derek Webster and Hamish Allan-Headley

1997 · Tom Fontana · 6 seasons

In Emerald City, an experimental wing of Oswald Maximum Security, inmates fracture into tight, identity-based factions—Muslim, Latino, Italian and Aryan groups among them—whose fierce loyalties drive a daily cycle of alliances, rivalries and intimidation that shapes every aspect of life behind bars.

With Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney and Rita Moreno

2010 · Frank Darabont · 1 season

Plunged into a strange realm forged by a relentless fight against the undead—and soon, by battles between the living—Rick and Michonne must learn the rules of a world that has no memory of who they used to be. As they search for one another amid shifting alliances and moral collapse, every connection is tested: ally or adversary, lover or rival, survivor or casualty. With their identities at stake, they must decide what it means to stay human—or whether, without each other, they have already become like the walking dead.

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

2012 · Shonda Rhimes · 7 seasons

she protects the powerful by containing scandals, managing messages and erasing the mistakes others want to hide. With a small, elite team of strategists and negotiators, she deftly steers clients through media storms and political minefields. But while they can salvage careers and rewrite public narratives, the people who fix everyone else’s lives are often the least able to repair their own.

With Kerry Washington, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Díaz, Jeff Perry, Tony Goldwyn and Joshua Malina

2024 · Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Scott M. Gimple · 1 season

Torn into an unfamiliar world forged by a relentless fight against reanimated corpses — a conflict that soon fractures into brutal wars between the living — Rick and Michonne must navigate a reality that erases the rules they once knew. Can they reunite and reclaim the people they were amid circumstances that test every moral and emotional limit? Will they end up as enemies or allies, lovers or casualties, survivors or conquerors? And if they’re separated, do they remain truly alive, or will they discover they’ve become indistinguishable from the very things they’ve been fighting?

With Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh, Terry O'Quinn, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Robert O'Hara and Craig Tate

2025 · David DiGilio, Jack Carr · 1 season

Navy SEAL Ben Edwards is pulled into the CIA’s covert, off-the-record operations. As he sinks further into that moral twilight, rules and loyalties blur and the pull toward his darker impulses intensifies. Caught between duty and rage, Ben must decide who he will become.

With Taylor Kitsch, Chris Pratt, Tom Hopper, Dar Salim, Rona-Lee Shim'on, Raha Rahbari and LaMonica Garrett

2010 · Frank Darabont · 3 seasons

Washed ashore on the French coast, Daryl (Norman Reedus) must navigate a fractured, undead-ridden landscape as he searches for a way back home. In this fifth spin-off, he becomes the reluctant guardian of a boy named Laurent, who is hailed by some as a messianic figure, while confronting dangerous, evolved walker variants and a ruthless paramilitary faction known as the "Power of the Living."

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

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