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1. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Netflix.

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

2. Unbelievable

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on Netflix.

   The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.

3. D.P.

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

4. Acceptable Risk

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   When her husband, Lee, is murdered, Sarah Manning comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. Sarah begins to question who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need to carry a gun?

5. Dept. Q

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Netflix.

   DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in Edinburgh police. After a shooting that leaves a young PC dead, and his partner paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Department Q; a newly formed cold case unit. The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best - rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer. 

6. Ozark

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Netflix.

   In this dark, dangerous series, a family struggles after moving to an Ozarks resort community when they're thrust into a world of dirty money.

7. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero, decorated policeman's son and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? 

8. Bodyguard

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police Service.When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

9. Mr. Mercedes

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.

10. Top Boy

    2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Netflix.

    Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty streets of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler.