TV-Shows.TVThe best shows for me! Discover the best Thriller TV Shows on Netflix, ranked by real community votes. Netflix has established itself as a strong home for gripping thrillers – from psychological dramas to political suspense.
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(10/10 stars)Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own. more about Secret City
(9/10 stars)Revenge, passion and dark secrets push a successful fashion designer and single mother to her limits when she meets a handsome young immigrant. more about Edha
(9/10 stars)With humankind's future at stake, a group of scientists and a powerful telepath venture into the void aboard a spaceship full of secrets. more about Nightflyers
(9/10 stars)Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, had it all: incredible skill at his work, a rich and beautiful fiancee, and a promising career at his hospital. However, after becoming disenchanted by hospital politics, he chose to save the life of a young boy who got shot in the head over the lif... more about Monster
(8/10 stars)The first lady of Mexico is a woman of conviction and ideals. But when she loses faith in her husband, she'll need all her strength to uncover the truth. more about Ingobernable
(8/10 stars)Therapist Jean Holloway develops dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. more about Gypsy
(8/10 stars)Los Angeles S.W.A.T. Sergeant Daniel ‘Hondo’ Harrelson is assigned to lead a highly-skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles these two worlds. Hondo e... more about S.W.A.T.
(7/10 stars)An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama. more about Das Boot
(7/10 stars)The hit series known around the world comes to US television. At an exclusive boarding school in England a girl named Joy goes missing. And taking her place is American named Nina. Patricia, who now has to share a room with Nina thinks Nina has something to do with it. But, there are more secrets to... more about House of Anubis
(6/10 stars)A thrilling and raw drama about young lives lived on the edge in east London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture more about Top Boy
(6/10 stars)The murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective". more about Paranoid
(10/10 stars)A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy. more about Love, Death & Robots
(0/10 stars)A rookie lawyer at the CIA stumbles headlong into the dangerous world of international espionage when a former asset threatens to expose agency secrets. more about The Recruit
(0/10 stars)Follows an unlikely group of people who band together to take down a common enemy -- a corrupt politician who has wronged them -- using 'jugaad' as their only weapon. more about Choona
(0/10 stars)A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases. more about Dept. Q
(0/10 stars)Following the police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in Delhi, this series has seasons inspired by both real and fictional events. more about Delhi Crime
(0/10 stars)After their father's death, three siblings move into a house filled with reality-bending keys that may in fact be connected to their father's murder. more about Locke & Key
(0/10 stars)A psychic vet and a detective join forces to crack small-town cases — but their skills are tested when they unravel a chilling serial killer mystery. more about Behind Your Touch
(0/10 stars)An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night — until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life. more about Mask Girl
(0/10 stars)Set at the Liberdade district, in São Paulo. Spectros will tell the story of a group of five teenagers who are accidentally attracted to a supernatural reality that they can not comprehend and that connects to the same location of the city in 1908. When confronted by increasingly bizarre and gloomy ... more about Spectros
Thriller TV shows live on a very specific quality: the feeling that something can go wrong – at any moment. The best examples in the genre maintain that tension not through constant action sequences but through information imbalance: the viewer sometimes knows more than the characters, sometimes less – and that relationship generates the real pressure. Once a thriller series loses that mechanism, it loses its effect.
The spectrum is broader than often assumed: political thrillers where institutions and individuals work against each other; psychological thrillers where it stays unclear what is real and what is not; paranoia series where the main character cannot tell who to trust; legal thrillers where the system itself becomes the threat. What scores well in this ranking are series that earn their resolutions through consistent internal logic – not through cheap twists in the finale. Use the status filter to find completed thriller series specifically.
Fans of thriller TV shows frequently also watch crime and mystery series, as all three genres rely on suspense, secrets and high-pressure situations.
The top Thriller TV Shows are ranked by real community votes. The more ratings a show has, the more stable its position.
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Rankings are based on real user ratings. The more votes a series receives, the more stable its chart position.
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