Crime · 2010s

128 shows134 sequences

Peaky Blinders

2013–2022BBC Two / BBC OneCrime

Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand' over Birmingham furnaces and a man walking away from a fire — a period drama scored entirely out of period.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Rookie

2018–ABCCrime

Los Angeles patrol work, opened with the network-procedural confidence the format has run on since Hill Street Blues.

Season 1

1 sequence

Better Call Saul

2015–2022AMCCrime

A title card that gets worse every year on purpose: tracking errors, colour bleed and tape damage accumulating season by season, so the picture degrades at roughly the rate its subject does.

Seasons 1–6

1 sequence

Fargo

2014–FXCrime

Snow, and the claim that this is a true story, which it is not — an anthology that opens every season by lying to you in a title card.

Season 1

4 sequences

True Detective

2014–HBOCrime

Double-exposure portraits where the landscape is projected onto the people. Every season is reshot from scratch, so the titles change as completely as the cast does.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
and 1 more

1 sequence

The Blacklist

2013–2023NBCCrime

Nine seconds and a card. A ten-season network procedural that never once made you wait to get into an episode.

Season 1

1 sequence

Animal Kingdom

2016–2022TNTCrime

The Australian film remade in Southern California, following the same criminal family.

Season 1

2 sequences

Ozark

2017–2022NetflixCrime

Five glyphs inside the letter O — a boat, a gun, a cross, a bird, a body of water — chosen for the episode they introduce. The title card is a table of contents.

Season 1
Season 2

1 sequence

Mindhunter

2017–2019NetflixCrime

Reel-to-reel tape, evidence photographs and audio equipment intercut so tightly that the interview and the crime become one process. Clinical, and much nastier for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mr Inbetween

2018–2021FXCrime

An Australian hitman's domestic life, opened in twelve seconds because the series has no interest in ceremony.

Season 1

1 sequence

Death in Paradise

2011–BBC OneCrime

Caribbean colour and a calypso theme, for a murder series that has never once let its setting look threatening.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shetland

2013–BBC OneCrime

North Atlantic weather over islands where everyone already knows everyone, which is the constraint the series runs on.

Season 1

1 sequence

Banshee

2013–2016CinemaxCrime

Amish country and violence intercut at the same speed, from the network's short-lived attempt at prestige action.

Season 1

1 sequence

Money Heist

2017–2021NetflixCrime

Red jumpsuits, Dalí masks and the Royal Mint rendered as a heist diagram, with 'Bella Ciao' turned from a partisan song into a brand.

Seasons 3–5

1 sequence

Sherlock

2010–2017BBC OneCrime

London shot as data — maps, magnification and chemical traces, cut to a violin figure that never quite settles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Broadchurch

2013–2017ITVCrime

Dorset cliffs and a beach, filmed as beautifully as a tourist board would want and used for the opposite purpose.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bosch

2014–2021Prime VideoCrime

Los Angeles at night from a helicopter, over Caught A Ghost's 'Can't Let Go' — a city filmed the way the detective sees it, from above and at a distance.

Season 1

1 sequence

Daredevil

2015–2018NetflixCrime

Blood-red liquid pouring upward into the shapes of New York — the courthouse, the church, the skyline — then the scales of justice and a man who cannot see any of it.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

The Punisher

2017–2019NetflixCrime

A skull assembling out of gun smoke and muzzle flash, with the ordnance doing the drawing. Blunter than its siblings, deliberately.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Chicago P.D.

2014–NBCCrime

The second of Dick Wolf's Chicago series, and the one the crossovers usually run through.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blue Bloods

2010–2024CBSCrime

Three generations of one New York police family, fourteen seasons long.

Seasons 10–12

1 sequence

Killing Eve

2018–2022BBC America / BBC OneCrime

Hand-drawn ink over a chase across Europe, in the register of a fashion illustration rather than a thriller.

Season 1

1 sequence

Delhi Crime

2019–NetflixCrime

Delhi at night from a moving vehicle, with none of the stylisation the subject would normally attract.

Season 1

1 sequence

S.W.A.T. (2017)

2017–2025CBSCrime

The reboot, which ran eight seasons to the original's two and rebuilt the theme rather than dropping it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Justified

2010–2015FXCrime

Kentucky hills and hip-hop — Gangstagrass over holler country, which should not work and entirely does.

Season 6

1 sequence

The Sinner

2017–2021USA NetworkCrime

An anthology that begins with the crime and spends the season on why.

Season 2

1 sequence

Power

2014–2020StarzCrime

A New York club owner running a drug network behind it, and the franchise Starz built out of him.

Season 1

1 sequence

Narcos

2015–2017NetflixCrime

Archive photographs, surveillance stills and evidence shots of the real Medellín cartel, cut to Rodrigo Amarante's 'Tuyo' — a bolero written to sound like something Escobar's father would have played.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

2010–2020CBSCrime

The reboot, which keeps the 1968 theme almost note for note and rebuilds the wave and the zoom around it in high definition.

Season 1

1 sequence

Line of Duty

2012–2021BBC Two / BBC OneCrime

Redaction as a design language — evidence bags, case files and blocks of black covering the parts you are not cleared for.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rizzoli & Isles

2010–2016TNTCrime

A Boston detective and a medical examiner, from the Tess Gerritsen novels.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blindspot

2015–2020NBCCrime

A woman found in Times Square covered in tattoos that are each a case.

Season 1

1 sequence

Elementary

2012–2019CBSCrime

Holmes and a female Watson in New York, opened by a Rube Goldberg machine assembling itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gotham

2014–2019FoxCrime

The city before the character — architecture, rain and corruption, with the costume kept firmly off screen.

Season 1

1 sequence

How to Get Away with Murder

2014–2020ABCCrime

Law-school iconography cut against evidence photographs, so the lecture and the crime scene share a visual language.

Season 1

1 sequence

Narcos: Mexico

2018–2021NetflixCrime

The parent show's archive-and-evidence method moved north — Guadalajara and Sinaloa in period photography, with the same documentary flatness.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Mirzapur

2018–Prime VideoCrime

A carpet-trading family running the guns and opium of an eastern Uttar Pradesh town.

Season 1

1 sequence

Happy Valley

2014–2023BBC OneCrime

Sally Wainwright's Calder Valley series, which opens with almost nothing and is all the bleaker for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Night Of

2016HBOCrime

New York at night from inside a cab, the city sliding past in sodium light, cut so that nothing quite resolves — which is the state of the evidence for the entire series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Jessica Jones

2015–2019NetflixCrime

Purple watercolour bleeding across Hell's Kitchen while a noir trumpet plays — the colour of the villain seeping into every frame before he is named.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

The Fall

2013–2016BBC TwoCrime

Belfast, and a series that shows you the killer in the first episode and spends three series on the pursuit anyway.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Killing (US)

2011–2014AMC / NetflixCrime

The American remake of Forbrydelsen, moving the rain from Copenhagen to Seattle and keeping everything else.

Season 1

1 sequence

Endeavour

2012–2023ITVCrime

The Morse prequel, which quotes Pheloung's Morse-code motif in its own theme without repeating it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ray Donovan

2013–2020ShowtimeCrime

Los Angeles at street level — a fixer's city, shot from the driver's seat rather than the hills.

Season 4

1 sequence

Sneaky Pete

2015–2019Prime VideoCrime

A con man hiding inside his cellmate's identity, from Bryan Cranston and David Shore.

Season 1

1 sequence

Luther

2010–2019BBC OneCrime

Massive Attack's 'Paradise Circus' over a city at night, with a detective who is already losing before the episode starts.

Season 1

1 sequence

Top Boy

2011–2023Channel 4 / NetflixCrime

A Hackney estate shot from within rather than above, over Brian Eno's score — which is not the collaboration anyone predicted.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vera

2011–ITVCrime

Northumberland coast and moorland in twenty seconds, with no detective visible in any of it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Babylon Berlin

2017–Sky 1 / Das ErsteCrime

Weimar Berlin as a cabaret poster — Bauhaus type, jazz and a city that already knows how this ends.

Season 1

1 sequence

I Am the Night

2019TNTCrime

Patty Jenkins directing a story that runs alongside the Black Dahlia case without being it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Missing

2014–2016BBC OneCrime

A child vanishing in France and the two timelines that follow it, eight years apart.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mayans M.C.

2018–2023FXCrime

The Sons of Anarchy spin-off, on the other side of the California border.

Season 1

1 sequence

Major Crimes

2012–2018TNTCrime

The Closer continued around Mary McDonnell's captain rather than Kyra Sedgwick's chief.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: New Orleans

2014–2021CBSCrime

The franchise moved to a city with a soundtrack, which the titles spend all twenty-one seconds on.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mystery Road

2018–ABCCrime

The Australian outback shot as landscape rather than backdrop, for a detective series about who the land belongs to.

Season 2

1 sequence

Gomorrah

2014–2021Sky Atlantic ItaliaCrime

Naples and the Camorra, shot in concrete and sodium light with no romance permitted anywhere in it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Criminal Justice

2019–Disney+ HotstarCrime

The BBC series remade in India, running longer than the original did.

Season 1

1 sequence

Luke Cage

2016–2018NetflixCrime

Harlem projected onto a man's skin — brownstones, crowds and streets mapped across a body that cannot be marked. The one Marvel Netflix opening that is about a place rather than a mood.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Mayday

2013BBC OneCrime

A May Queen vanishing on the morning of the procession, and a village that suspects itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Signal

2016tvNCrime

A walkie-talkie connecting a present-day profiler to a detective in 1989.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Alienist

2018–2020TNTCrime

An 1896 New York murder investigation using methods the police do not yet have a word for.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lilyhammer

2012–2014NRK1 / NetflixCrime

Netflix's first original commission, and an opening that plays a New Jersey mobster in rural Norway entirely straight.

Season 1

1 sequence

Top of the Lake

2013–2017BBC Two / SundanceTVCrime

Jane Campion's missing-girl series, opened across the South Island lake it is named for.

Season 1

1 sequence

McMafia

2018BBC One / AMCCrime

A banker pulled back into his family's Russian organised-crime money.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Bridge

2011–2018SVT / DR1Crime

The Øresund Bridge at night, and Choir of Young Believers — a border filmed as a character, which is what the show is about.

Season 3

2 sequences

Stranger

2017–2020tvNCrime

A prosecutor without emotional affect and the detective who trusts him anyway. Known at home as 비밀의 숲, Secret Forest.

Season 1
Season 2

1 sequence

Nancy Drew

2019–2023The CWCrime

The teenage detective relocated to a haunted Maine town.

Season 1

1 sequence

And Then There Were None

2015BBC OneCrime

Christie's island novel adapted straight, with a title sequence that counts the cast down as the story does.

Season 1

1 sequence

City on a Hill

2019–2022ShowtimeCrime

Boston in the early nineties, a corrupt FBI agent and the prosecutor trying to use him.

Season 1

1 sequence

La Reina del Sur

2011–2023TelemundoCrime

Arturo Pérez-Reverte's Sinaloan trafficker, remade in English by USA Network as Queen of the South.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chicago Justice

2017NBCCrime

The fourth Chicago series, cancelled after thirteen episodes — the only one Dick Wolf could not make stick.

Season 1

1 sequence

Truth Be Told

2019–2023Apple TV+Crime

Recording equipment and case material, for a series about a true-crime podcast reopening its own mistake.

Season 1

1 sequence

Good Behavior

2016–2017TNTCrime

A thief on parole and the hitman she decides not to turn in.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fortitude

2015–2018Sky AtlanticCrime

An Arctic settlement where nothing decays and a killing therefore cannot be buried.

Season 1

1 sequence

El Señor de los Cielos

2013–TelemundoCrime

A narco drama loosely built on Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and Telemundo's longest-running original.

Season 2

1 sequence

CSI: Cyber

2015–2016CBSCrime

The last CSI, moving the forensics from bodies to hard drives, and the one the franchise ended on.

Season 2

1 sequence

No Offence

2015–2018Channel 4Crime

Paul Abbott's Manchester police series, opened in eighteen seconds by Peter Anderson Studio.

Season 1

1 sequence

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

2016–2017CBSCrime

The spin-off that moved the profiling unit to crimes against Americans abroad.

Season 1

1 sequence

Trapped

2015–2022RÚVCrime

Icelandic weather as an antagonist — ice, sea and a town nobody can leave, which is both the plot and the title.

Season 1

1 sequence

Claws

2017–2022TNTCrime

A Florida nail salon laundering money for a pill mill, staged in saturated colour throughout.

Season 1

1 sequence

Graceland

2013–2015USA NetworkCrime

Undercover agents from three agencies sharing a confiscated beach house.

Season 2

1 sequence

Tin Star

2017–2020Sky AtlanticCrime

A British policeman running a small Alberta force, and the refinery that follows him there.

Season 1

1 sequence

Deadwind

2018–2023Yle (Finland)Crime

A Helsinki homicide detective returning to work after her husband's death. Known at home as Karppi.

Season 2

1 sequence

Republic of Doyle

2010–2014CBCCrime

A father-and-son detective agency in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mob City

2013TNTCrime

Frank Darabont's post-Walking Dead series, on 1940s Los Angeles, cancelled after six episodes.

Season 1

1 sequence

Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017–2021CBCCrime

Toronto's only female private detective in the 1920s, from the Murdoch Mysteries producers.

Season 1

1 sequence

High Seas

2019–2020NetflixCrime

Two sisters on a 1940s liner to Rio, and a passenger who was never on the manifest.

Season 1

1 sequence

Breathe

2018–Prime VideoCrime

A father working his way up a transplant list by removing the people above his son.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tunnel

2017OCNCrime

A 1986 detective stepping through a tunnel into 2017, still chasing the same killer.

Season 1

1 sequence

Terriers

2010FXCrime

An unlicensed private investigator in Ocean Beach, cancelled after thirteen episodes and mourned ever since.

Season 1

1 sequence

Briarpatch

2019–2020USA NetworkCrime

A Texas border town where the zoo animals have got out, which the series treats as background.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Oath

2018–2019CrackleCrime

A gang made up of serving police officers, opened by Imaginary Forces.

Season 1

1 sequence

Low Winter Sun

2013AMCCrime

The British two-parter remade in Detroit and stretched to ten episodes, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Silver Spoon

2014–2021NTVCrime

A Russian oligarch's son forced to work as a policeman, and the most exported Russian drama of its decade. Original title Мажор.

Season 3

1 sequence

Good Cop

2012BBC OneCrime

A Liverpool response officer who stops waiting for the system to work.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last Panthers

2015Sky AtlanticCrime

A jewel heist across Europe, opening on the title track of Blackstar — the last title music David Bowie wrote.

Season 1

1 sequence

De Twaalf

2019–2022VRTCrime

A Belgian trial told from the jury box rather than the bench. Remade in Australia as The Twelve.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rellik

2017BBC OneCrime

A murder investigation told backwards — the title is killer reversed, and so is the series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dicte

2013–2016TV 2Crime

A crime reporter back in Aarhus after a divorce, from the Elsebeth Egholm novels.

Season 1

1 sequence

Umbre

2014–2019HBO RomaniaCrime

A Bucharest debt collector holding two lives apart, in HBO Europe's Romanian production. The title means Shadows.

Season 1

1 sequence

Beau Séjour

2017–2021VRTCrime

A murdered girl who can be seen by five people, investigating her own death in a Flemish hotel.

Season 1

1 sequence

Pustina

2016HBO CzechCrime

A girl disappears from a north Bohemian village that a mining company is trying to buy. The title means Wasteland.

Season 1

1 sequence

Wataha

2014–2019HBO EuropeCrime

Border guards in the Bieszczady mountains, and the first Polish drama HBO made for itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Belfer

2016–2018Canal+ PolandCrime

A teacher arriving in a small Polish town where a pupil has been murdered, and finding the town would rather he did not ask.

Season 1

1 sequence

Aranyélet

2015–2018HBO HungaryCrime

A Budapest family whose comfortable life runs on crime, and the first Hungarian series HBO Europe made itself. Known abroad as Golden Life.

Season 1

1 sequence

Battle Creek

2015CBSCrime

Vince Gilligan's script from a decade earlier, finally made, and cancelled after thirteen episodes.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Bletchley Circle

2012–2014ITVCrime

Four women who broke codes during the war, using the same habits on a murder afterwards.

Season 1

1 sequence

Boardwalk Empire

2010–2014HBOCrime

One man on a beach while the tide brings him bottles. No montage, no cast — just Nucky Thompson standing still as Prohibition washes up around his shoes, to The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Seasons 1–5

1 sequence

Dublin Murders

2019BBC One / StarzCrime

Tana French's first two novels braided into one eight-part case.

Season 1

1 sequence

Father Brown

2013–BBC OneCrime

Chesterton's priest detective moved to the 1950s Cotswolds, and the most durable daytime drama the BBC has.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Glades

2010–2013A&ECrime

A Chicago detective exiled to Florida, working murders he keeps being told are not his.

Season 1

1 sequence

Godfather of Harlem

2019–2021EpixCrime

Bumpy Johnson out of prison in 1963 and finding Harlem taken, with Malcolm X across the street.

Season 4

1 sequence

Hinterland

2013–2016S4C / BBC OneCrime

Aberystwyth and the country behind it, shot twice over - once in Welsh as Y Gwyll, once in English.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hudson & Rex

2019–CitytvCrime

A St John's detective and his German shepherd, remade from an Austrian series that ran for twenty years.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kruk

2018–2021Canal+ PolandCrime

A Białystok detective returning to the town he grew up in, with a subtitle that translates as whispers are heard after dark.

Season 1

2 sequences

Mr. Mercedes

2017–2019AudienceCrime

King's retired detective and the man who drove a car into a queue of people looking for work.

Season 1
Season 3

1 sequence

Nielegalni

2018Canal+ PolandCrime

A Polish intelligence unit whose members do not officially exist.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ripper Street

2012–2016BBC One / Prime VideoCrime

Whitechapel in the years after the murders, policed by men the murders made famous.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rookie Blue

2010–2015Global / ABCCrime

Five recruits out of the academy in Toronto, made as a summer series for two countries at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rosewood

2015–2017FoxCrime

A private pathologist in Miami working the cases the police have already closed.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sacred Games

2018–2019NetflixCrime

Mumbai rendered as a mandala of crime and religion, with the city's iconography arranged into something closer to a devotional image.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sharp Objects

2018HBOCrime

Wind Gap seen at speed from a car window, with words hidden in the frame — the same trick the show plays for eight episodes, put in the titles from the first minute.