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Banshee

A recently paroled crook assumes the identity of a small town's new sheriff in this Cinemax action series from Alan Ball ('True Blood').

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2013)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

This hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC's "Law & Order" brand chronicles the life and crimes of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, an elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (1999)

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2005)

Mayor of Kingstown

A crime drama about an important contemporary issue, America's prison system, "Mayor of Kingstown" follows the McLusky family in Kingstown, Mich., where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry; the family of power brokers between police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians tackle themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality; the crime thriller series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.

TVMA • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2021)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a comedy-action series that chronicles the adventures of Buffy Summers, a teenage girl who is gifted with the strength and skill to hunt vampires.

TVPG • Fantasy, Teen • TV Series (1997)

The X-Files

The truth is out there. FBI agents Scully and Mulder seek it in this sci-fi phenomenon about their quest to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien encounters and abductions, and just about everything else among the paranormal.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (1993)

True Blood

HBO hit drama series about a perky telepathic waitress (Anna Paquin) in a near-future in which vampires live among us.

TVMA • Fantasy, Drama • TV Series (2008)

Once Upon a Time

From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis comes a bold new imagining of the world, where fairy tales and the modern day are about to collide.

TVPG • Fantasy, Family • TV Series (2011)

Lioness

Joe attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror; the Lioness Program enlists Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism.

Drama, Action • TV Series (2023)

Lost

ABC's LOST explores the destiny of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 who crashed on an island. The survivors not only have to rely on each other, but also cope with the secrets the mysterious island holds. Some become friends, others enemies and some stories remain to be told. There's much more than meets the eye, as it becomes apparent that everyone is somehow connected and that everyone has a purpose.

TV14 • Adventure, Thriller • TV Series (2004)

Revenge

Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp) is new to the Hamptons. She's met some of her wealthy neighbors, has made a few new friends and seemingly blends into the town. But something is a little odd about a young girl living in a wealthy town all on her own, and the truth is that Emily isn't exactly new to the neighborhood. In fact, this was once her old neighborhood, until something bad happened that ruined her family and their reputation. Now Emily is back, and she's returned to right some of those wrongs in the best way she knows how – with a vengeance.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2011)

Fringe

From J.J. Abrams ("Lost"), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III" and "Alias," comes a drama that will thrill, terrify and explore the blurring line between science fiction and reality. When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. After her partner, Special Agent John Scott, is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help.

TV14 • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2008)

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, puts his skills to work as he travels the world solving difficult crimes, relying on his trusty sidekicks and a limited amount of clues to get the job done.

TVPG • Mystery, Drama • TV Series (2008)

CSI: Miami

Inspired by the top-rated series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami" is a drama that follows a South Florida team of forensic investigators who use both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes. Horatio Caine, a former homicide detective, heads a group of investigators who work crimes amid the steamy tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. His team includes Calleigh Duquesne, a bilingual Southern beauty with a specialty in ballistics; Eric Delko, an underwater recovery expert who knows all the twists and turns of the Florida waterways, and Ryan Wolfe, a former patrol officer who specializes in blood and trace evidence. Rounding out the team is Natalia Boa Vista, the enigmatic DNA specialist and helping Horatio with cases is Det. Frank Tripp, a tough yet thorough police officer. The newest addition to the team is crime scene photographer Walter Simmons who uses his analytical skills to help Horatio in solving criminal puzzles. Together, these investigators collect and analyze the evidence to solve the crimes and to avenge those who cannot speak for themselves - the victims.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2002)

Your Honor

A respected judge's son is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2020)

The Old Man

Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2022)

Coldwater

An unhappy middle-aged man who has moved to an isolated Scottish village strikes up a friendship with his oddball next door neighbor despite his wife's protestations and suspicions.

TVMA • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2025)

Alien: Earth

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat. FX’s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Noah Hawley.

TVMA • Thriller, Science Fiction • TV Series (2025)

CSI: New York

CSI: New York, the third incarnation of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise and the spin-off of CSI: Miami, is a crime drama about forensic investigators who use high-tech science to follow the evidence and solve crimes in the Big Apple. These skilled investigators, who see New York City in a whole different light, follow the evidence as they piece together clues and eliminate doubt to ultimately crack their cases.

TV14 • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2012)

Cruel Summer

Set in an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest, the next chapter of “Cruel Summer” follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward.

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2021)

How to Get Away With Murder

The brilliant, charismatic and seductive Professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) gets entangled with four law students from her class, “How to Get Away with Murder.” Little do they know that they will have to apply what they learned to real life, in this masterful, sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller from Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers, executive producers of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal.”

TV14 • Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2014)

Dexter: Original Sin

Miami, 1991; when his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, young Dexter Morgan must learn to channel his inner darkness as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer with the guidance of his father, Harry.

TVMA • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2024)

The Stolen Girl

A seemingly ordinary decision turns the world of Elisa, mom to two young kids, upside down. When her daughter Lucia asks to go to a sleepover at her new best friend Josie's house, Elisa agrees. After meeting Josie's mother, Rebecca, she's put at ease by her charming nature and their impressive house. But when she says goodnight to her daughter, she has no idea that she is about to be thrust into every parent's worst nightmare.

TV14 • Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2025)

The Veil

Starring Elisabeth Moss, FX’s The Veil is a spy thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, the CIA and French DGSE must work together to avert potential disaster.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2024)

Watching You

After her affair is exposed, Lina hunts the voyeur threatening to ruin her life.

Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2025)

Top of the Lake

This powerful and haunting story from Oscar winning writer/director Jane Campion follows the story of a detective (Elisabeth Moss) who investigates the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant daughter of a local drug lord.

TVMA • International, British • TV Series (2013)

Homeland

HOMELAND is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. CIA officer Carrie Mathison is volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her mentor Saul Berenson, she fearlessly risks everything, including her sanity, at every turn.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2011)

Helix

The series follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a research facility in the Arctic to investigate a potential outbreak of disease. While there, they find themselves stuck in a life-or-death situation that could decide the fate of the future of mankind.

TVMA • Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2013)

Sweetpea

Rhiannon Lewis doesn't make much of an impression - people walk past her in the street without a second glance; that is until she is pushed over the edge and loses control; Rhiannon's life transforms.

TVMA • Drama, Comedy • TV Series (2024)

Angel

Joss Whedon, the creator and executive producer of the international hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, combines supernatural adventure and dark humor in this next chapter of the Buffy mythology. Just as Whedon and executive producer David Greenwalt brought the monsters of adolescence to life with Buffy, this one-hour series explores the twists and turns of early adulthood with the same irony and wit. A centuries-old vampire cursed with a conscience, Angel left the small California town of Sunnydale and the only woman he ever loved to take up residence in Los Angeles, the City of Angels. Between pervasive evil and countless temptations lurking beneath the city's glittery facade, L.A. has proven to be the ideal address for a fallen vampire looking to save a few lost souls and, in turn, perhaps redeem his own.

TV14 • Fantasy, Adventure • TV Series (1999)

The Strain

The Strain is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers wage war for the fate of humanity itself. Co-Creators, Executive Producers and Writers Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan co-wrote the pilot script for The Strain, which was directed by del Toro. Emmy® Award winning Writer and Producer Carlton Cuse serves as Executive Producer/Showrunner and Writer. Gary Ungar also serves as Executive Producer. An FX Networks Original Series.

TVMA • Fantasy, Thriller • TV Series (2014)

The Shield

Breaking the conventional formula of the cop genre, THE SHIELD plays out in a tough, morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day. It focuses on the tension between a group of corrupt but effective cops led by Detective Vic Mackey, a captain with the burden of bringing them down as well as reducing crime in her district, and a City Councilman out for his own political gain.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2002)

SurrealEstate

Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in clearing and closing haunted houses.

TV14 • Fantasy, Drama • TV Series (2021)

Death Note

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life?

TV14 • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2006)

Salem

As the wife of a wealthy but ailing town elder, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery) holds the distinction of being the most powerful sorceress in 1692 Salem. Ruthless yet vulnerable, Mary leans on her ageless accomplice Tituba (Ashley Madekwe) to help advance her supernatural agenda – but Mary's world is turned upside down when John Alden (Shane West), her long lost love, finally returns home from years at war and starts asking questions that threaten to expose Mary's darkest secrets.

TVMA • Fantasy, Drama • TV Series (2014)

Malpractice

Malpractice is an ITV medical thriller anthology series exploring investigations into doctors following fatal, high-stakes incidents.

Drama, Medical • TV Series (2025)

Gold Land

After stumbling upon a mass of gold, Heeju faces greed, betrayal and a fight for her life.

TVMA • Drama, International • TV Series

Red Eye (UK)

Six-part thriller set on the red eye flight from London to Beijing. Whilst escorting a doctor being renditioned, an incident on-board leads DC Hana Li to uncover a wider conspiracy.

TV14 • International, Thriller • TV Series (2024)

The Patient

The Patient is a psychological thriller from the minds of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (The Americans) about a therapist, “Alan Strauss” (Steve Carell), who's held prisoner by a patient, “Sam Fortner” (Domhnall Gleeson), who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an unusual therapeutic demand for Alan: curb his homicidal urges.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2022)

The Agency: Central Intelligence

A covert CIA agent is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station; when the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites.

TVMA • Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2024)

Scream Queens

SCREAM QUEENS is a new genre-bending comedy-horror anthology series. The series, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, is from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto, the executive producers of GLEE and “American Horror Story.” The first installment in the new anthology series revolves around a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders.

TV14 • Thriller, Mystery • TV Series (2015)

Chance

Based on Kem Nunn’s novel, Chance is described as a provocative psychological thriller that focuses on Eldon Chance (Laurie), a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness. After an ill-advised decision regarding an alluring patient who may or may not be struggling with a multiple personality disorder, Chance finds himself in the crosshairs of her abusive spouse, who also happens to be a ruthless police detective. In over his head, Chance’s descent into the city’s shadowy underbelly, all while navigating the waters of a contentious divorce and the tribulations of his teenage daughter, soon spirals into an ever deepening exploration of one of mankind’s final frontiers — the shadowy, undiscovered country of the human mind.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2016)

Death and Other Details

Set amidst the glamor of the global elite, “Death and Other Details” centers on the brilliant and restless Imogene Scott (Violett Beane), who finds herself in the wrong place/wrong time (okay, it was kinda her fault) and becomes the prime suspect in a locked room murder mystery. The setting? A lavishly restored Mediterranean ocean liner. Suspects? Every pampered guest and every exhausted crew member. The problem? To prove her innocence, she must partner with a man she despises—Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin), the world’s greatest detective.

Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2024)

Stephen King's Rose Red

A college professor and a team of psychics investigate an old abandoned house at the request of the man who has inherited it. Hoping to explain some of the mysterious deaths and disappearances on the property, the psychics stay in the mansion, but unleash a terrifying force that threatens to destroy them all.

TV14 • Thriller, Horror • TV Series (2002)

Tyler Perry's The Oval

Tyler Perry's The Oval: A new first family attends their inauguration and moves into the White House when a series of events threatens the security and livelihood of the President's family and the staff.

TV14 • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2019)

The Clearing

When a local girl goes missing, a woman is forced to face the demons from her traumatic childhood.

Thriller, Crime • TV Series (2023)

The Jetty

While investigating a case of arson in her sleepy lakeside town, Detective Ember Manning gets drawn to the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl and a world of secrets and illicit affairs. Soon, the trail to the cold case murderer seems to lead straight to her doorstep. Was her late husband the killer? The truth will turn out to be so much worse.

Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2024)

The Killing Kind

THE KILLING KIND centers on a barrister, named Ingrid Lewis, who defends John Webster against stalking charges, only for Webster to turn on her. When a colleague is run down on a busy London road, Lewis is sure she was the intended victim, and Webster claims he is the only one who can protect her from the killer.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2023)

Atomic

Two civilians get caught up in a cartel's uranium smuggling across North Africa; facing a nuclear threat, they must decide whether to save themselves or stop the bomb delivery while evading agencies and traffickers.

Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2025)

Killing Eve

Villanelle is a psychopathic assassin, and Eve is the woman charged with hunting her down; the two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

TVMA • British, Thriller • TV Series (2018)

Gold Land (Eng Dub)

After stumbling upon a mass of gold, Heeju faces greed, betrayal and a fight for her life.

TVMA • Drama, International • TV Series

Apple Tree Yard

What could have brought a pathologically law-abiding eminent geneticist into the dock at the Old Bailey on charges of complicity in a violent crime? More importantly, could this case lead to a highly compromising lie being exposed? Apple Tree Yard is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder.

TVMA • International, Thriller • TV Series (2017)

High School of the Dead

From Director Tetsuro Araki (Deathnote, Black Lagoon), and adapted from the highly successful manga of the same name by Daisuke Sato, comes one of the hottest new shows of the Summer, High School of the Dead. A deadly new disease is ravaging the world, turning the populace into mindless zombies, and the number of infected is skyrocketing by the second.

TVMA • Horror, Action • TV Series (2010)

Penny Dreadful

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

TVMA • International, British • TV Series (2014)

Paris Has Fallen

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack; they suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

TVMA • Drama, Action • TV Series (2024)

Class of '09

Featuring Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara, FX’s Class of ’09 follows a class of FBI agents set in three distinct points in time who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence. Spanning multiple decades, the series examines the nature of justice, humanity and the choices we make that ultimately define our lives and legacy.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2023)

Common Side Effects

Former classmates Marshall and Frances uncover a sinister conspiracy to destroy a mushroom that can cure all the world's diseases.

TVMA • Comedy, Thriller • TV Series (2025)

Fellow Travelers

Based on the 2007 fictional novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon, "Fellow Travelers" follows the paths of political staffers Hawkins Fuller and Tim Laughlin, whose paths converge at the height of the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Despite the constant threat of getting caught, their searing love for each other only intensifies in the tumultuous decades that follow. Their volatile romance spans the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, as they face obstacles in the world and in themselves.

TVMA • Drama, History • TV Series (2023)

Luther

Golden Globe winner Idris Elba delivers an iconic performance as the intellectually brilliant but emotionally impulsive John Luther, a detective tormented by the darker side of humanity who shines a light where others fear to tread.

TVMA • Drama, Crime • TV Series (2010)

A Murder at the End of the World

A young woman accepts a mysterious invitation from a billionaire and his wife.

TVMA • Mystery, Drama • TV Series (2023)

The Guest

A cleaner becomes captivated by her wealthy employer's charismatic influence; as their intense friendship grows and secrets emerge, their relationship spirals into a dangerous psychological game.

TVMA • Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2025)

Insomnia

Successful career woman Emma Averill fears that she is losing her mind as her hard-won lifelong dream begins to turn into a nightmare, forcing her to do everything she can to prevent it from collapsing around her.

TV14 • Thriller, Mystery • TV Series (2024)

Safe Home

28-year-old Phoebe has no idea how much her life is about to change when she starts working for a free legal service that helps people escaping family violence. Tasked with securing the center’s vulnerable funding, she fast becomes tangled in the complicated dramas of the lawyers and their clients. But when she witnesses a violent murder, she is thrown right into the dark heart of the problem.

Thriller, Drama • TV Series (2023)

Devs

In Devs, an FX limited series, a young software engineer, Lily Chan, investigates the secret development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend. Devs stars Sonoya Mizuno as “Lily Chan;” Nick Offerman as “Forest,” the CEO of Amaya; Jin Ha as “Jamie,” Lily’s former boyfriend; Karl Glusman as “Sergei,” Lily’s boyfriend; Zach Grenier as “Kenton,” Amaya’s Head of Security; Stephen McKinley Henderson as “Stewart,” one of the top minds working in Amaya’s secret development division; Cailee Spaeny as the young, brilliant “Lyndon;” and Alison Pill as “Katie,” the gifted quantum physicist and second in command at Amaya. Alex Garland writes, directs and serves as executive producer of Devs along with Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA TV, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Garrett Basch. The series is produced by FX Productions.

TVMA • Drama, Thriller • TV Series (2020)

The Other Black Girl

Nella, an editorial assistant, is tired of being the only Black girl at her company, so she's excited when Hazel is hired; but as Hazel's star begins to rise, Nella spirals out and discovers something sinister is going on at the company.

TVMA • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2023)

Innate (Eng Dub)

Innate is a psychological thriller about Sara Garay, whose world was shattered as a child when her father, Felix, was exposed as the infamous “Diesel Killer.” Ostracized and haunted by his crimes, she reinvented herself, built a new identity, and created a life where her husband and son know nothing of her true past. Twenty-five years later, Felix is released from prison, and when a series of murders mirrors his old crimes, he is immediately accused. Sara fears her father may be killing again and that he could come after her family, but soon she begins to suspect the real danger lies elsewhere, in a copycat whose connection may be closer than she dares imagine.

International, Thriller • TV Series (2026)

Witness Number 3

Single mum Jodie thinks she’s doing the right thing when she comes forward as a significant witness in a murder inquiry. What begins as a woman doing her civic duty soon turns into a living nightmare when her identity is leaked. It’s not long before Jodie finds herself paying for her good deed when she becomes the focus of a terrifying intimidation campaign.

Black Stories, Thriller • TV Series (2022)

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