The Best Dark Movies to Watch on Netflix
If you’re ready to unleash your dark side, there are plenty of fantastic picks to enjoy, from pitch black comedy to crime thrillers and dystopian sci-fi. Here are the best and dark-themed movies and shows to stream right now.
Belief is exploited for business in this audacious get-rich-quick scheme.
Inheritance turns deadly in this countryside horror series haunted by the family’s history of shamanism.
Humans take their vengeance from the Norse Gods in this bloody and beautiful animated retelling.
The iconic robot Astro Boy series reimagined as a soulful anti-war murder mystery.
Murder, mayhem and the media converge in this slow-paced, unsettling Taiwanese drama.
A father searches for his son, as well as redemption, in this rock scored Polish crime thriller adaptation.
A gripping animated sci-fi mystery series for adults that brims over with imagination.
A fresh addition to the toxic masculinity cinema canon that spotlights Jesse Eisenberg like never before.
Set in ‘80s New York, Eric soars as a lived-in period piece and satisfies as a mystery, even though the intensity of the performances weighs it down at times .
A Hindi survival thriller series that turns a simple pandemic into a multilayered meditation on utilitarianism, nature, and India’s mainlander-islander dynamics.
A prodigal son returns to a Succession-like Haredi Jewish diamond family in this Belgian thriller.
There’s no escaping family, or franchise renewal, in this complex but compelling mafia spin-off series.
Pablo Larraín returns home with this darkly humorous vampire satire about the Chilean dictator.
Mike Flanagan takes Edgar Allan Poe’s short story into an anti-rich Succession-like miniseries.
A grim Spanish horror where what’s most terrifying is the unspoken terror committed against women of the cloth.
Though ultimately unsatisfying, there are still intriguing highbrow patches in this psychological thriller.
A chilling noir-ish Spanish crime thriller with well-constructed timelines and perspectives.
To desire and be desired always has a price in this thrilling Korean dark comedy.
A lavish Turkish mystery where paranoia is constant for a mother-daughter duo.
A knife-sharp account of five kids' journey to land restitution and self-determination.
A generic but still adequately thrilling true crime series about the chilling couple who took part in a double murder.
It’s not as taut as it could be, but this slow-burn thriller has a captivating lead in Benicio del Toro.
A sensational lead performance leads a conflicted but gripping story of toxic relationships.
An unsettling but thought-provoking series from horror master Mike Flanagan.
Greek mythology is reforged in Japanese-inspired animation in this spectacular and gruesome dark fantasy series.
A thrilling take on the classic vampire story that's at turns horrific, mysterious, and subversive.
