Movies to Watch With Crime Thrillers

It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi

You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…

Criminal Record

With the various police procedurals available online, it can feel like an oversaturated genre, at best. At worst, with the…

Killer Soup

Dir. Abhishek Chaubey

How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…

La Máquina

After more than a decade apart on-screen, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna finally reunite in La Máquina. While they…

The Gentlemen

After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…

Flex x Cop

Dir. Kim Jae-hong

With plenty of familiar elements, Flex X Cop should feel unoriginal. After all, a rich heir that plays at being…

Copycat Killer

Dir. Chang Jung-Chi & Henri Chang

Copycat Killer is a gripping and unsettling crime thriller that takes its time to develop its characters and delve into…

Dear Child

Dear Child may be tackling difficult themes, including sexual violence and domestic abuse, but it’s not hard to watch at…

Feedback

Dir. Leszek Dawid

After years of trying to regain sobriety, it’s totally chilling to wake up the next day, with no memory of…

A Murder at the End of the World

From the title alone, A Murder at the End of the World is, of course, a murder mystery, a whodunit…

Kohrra

Dir. Randeep Jha

Netflix India has been dominating the police procedural and mystery market, and Kohrra, its latest addition, is one of its…

Turn of the Tide

Also known as Rabo de Peixe, after the real town where the series is based, Turn of the Tide follows…

The Killing Vote

Dir. Park Shin-woo

The Killing Vote takes the “vote to kill” storyline and pairs an anonymous vigilante with an ambitious yet apathetic officer,…

The Secret Agent

Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…

Sleeping Dog

Mike Atlas is a former police detective now living on the streets as he reopens a supposedly solved murder case…

The Snow Girl

Child kidnapping is any parent’s nightmare, and it’s the nightmare that drives the events of Spanish crime thriller The Snow…

A Nearly Normal Family

Any parent would defend their kid in court, though, sometimes it depends on the case. A Nearly Normal Family brings…

Culprits

Before, then, and now — these are the three points in time that twisty TV heist thriller Culprits zips between.…

Detective Forst

Dir. Daniel Jaroszek

Detective Forst isn’t a mindbending, totally original crime thriller that would revolutionize the detective genre, but sometimes we just want…

Holy Spider

Dir. Ali Abbasi

As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…

Bloodhounds

Dir. Kim Joo-hwan

Aspiring boxer Kim Gun-woo (Woo Do-hwan) befriends fellow rookie Hong Woo-jin (Lee Sang-yi) during the heights of Covid-19. After a…

The Sparring Partner

Dir. Ho Cheuk-Tin

The real life case that inspired this movie is quite chilling. It’s probably the reason why, instead of depicting the…

My Home Hero

Dir. Daisuke Yamamoto & Takahiro Aoyama

The love parents have for their child is powerful, but most parents normally don’t resort to murder for them. Of…

Pamfir

Dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk

With a former smuggler struggling to break away from crime, Pamfir has a familiar crime thriller premise that you’ve probably…

God's Crooked Lines

Dir. Oriol Paulo

Psychological thriller fans might find God’s Crooked Lines to be a tad derivative. Fans of the novel might find its…

Monster

Dir. Tomás Ó Súilleabháin

Irish period drama Monster is downright depressing. Of course, for some viewers, that’s just part and parcel of any period…

Trese

Seamlessly blending supernatural folklore and crime noir, the Filipino anime-influenced adaptation of Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo’s award-winning graphic novels…

The Beasts

Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen

In The Beasts, the idyllic semi-retirement that a French couple seeks in the Galician countryside — growing organic vegetables, fixing…

The Outfit

Dir. Graham Moore

The Outfit doesn’t need to do a lot to be as sleek and surprising as it is. In fact, much…

Law of Tehran

Dir. Saeed Roustaee

Also known as Just 6.5 or Six and a Half per Meters, this police procedural follows the hunt for a…

Dr. Brain

Dir. Kim Jee-woon

With the success of Korean dramas in international streaming services, it made sense for Apple TV+ to jump into the…

Only the Animals

Dir. Dominik Moll

The four chapters of Only the Animals could make separate films on their own, but the combination that forms this…

The Call

Dir. Lee Chung-hyun

A woman loses her phone on her way back to her countryside childhood home. Once there, she connects an old…

Castle Rock

Fans of Stephen King would likely know how long the fictional town of Castle Rock stood in his novels. Hulu’s…