Best crime web series in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
1088 web series in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 7.1. Most are in English (488), Hindi (146), Korean (92). Newest addition: S.W.A.T., added to SonyLIV on 22 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. Breaking Bad (2008)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 9.5 (26.9L votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatVisually stunning
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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2. The Wire (2002)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.3 (4.4L votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureCold & detached
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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3. The Sopranos (1999)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.2 (6.0L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer
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4. Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)
Web series · Hindi · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.2 (1.8L votes)
Fast-pacedDark & grittyEdge-of-seatVisually stunning
Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The
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6. Better Call Saul (2015)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.0 (8.7L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks
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7. Dexter: Resurrection (2025)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.0 (1.6L votes)
MatureEdge-of-seatDark & grittyFast-paced
Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for New York City, determined to find Harrison and make things right. But when Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.
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8. Fargo (2014)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.8 (4.8L votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningDark & gritty
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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9. Peaky Blinders (2013)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.7 (8.0L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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12. Dexter (2006)
Web series · English · 8 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (9.6L votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
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13. Marvel's Daredevil (2015)
Web series · English · 3 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (5.4L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatTwisty
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
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14. MINDHUNTER (2017)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.6 (4.1L votes)
MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedTwisty
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
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15. Monster (2004)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · A · Animation, Drama · IMDb 8.8 (76.7K votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyMature
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
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16. The X-Files (1993)
Web series · English · 11 seasons · U · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.6 (2.8L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seat
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's
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17. Oz (1997)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.7 (1.2L votes)
MatureCold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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18. The Penguin (2024)
Web series · English · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.6 (2.5L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."
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19. Mr. Robot (2015)
Web series · English · 4 seasons · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (4.8L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld o
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20. Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (2.2L votes)
Visually stunningMatureTwistyCold & detached
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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21. Person of Interest (2011)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Action & Adventure, Crime · IMDb 8.5 (2.2L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyFast-paced
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a pe
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22. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
Web series · English · 8 seasons · U · Comedy, Crime · IMDb 8.4 (4.3L votes)
FunnyFast-pacedLight-hearted
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
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24. Marvel's The Punisher (2017)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · A · Action & Adventure, Crime · IMDb 8.4 (3.2L votes)
MatureEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
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25. Making a Murderer (2015)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 8.5 (1.1L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.
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26. Mare of Easttown (2021)
Web series · English · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.4 (2.3L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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27. Prison Break (2005)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Action & Adventure, Crime · IMDb 8.3 (6.8L votes)
Edge-of-seatTwistyFast-pacedDark & gritty
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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28. Bosch (2015)
Web series · English · 7 seasons · Mystery, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (99.7K votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past. As daring recruit Julia Brasher catches his eye and departmental politics heat up, Bosch will pursue justice at all costs.
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29. Sacred Games (2018)
Web series · Hindi · 2 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.5 (99.3K votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seat
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
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30. The Night Of (2016)
Web series · English · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (2.0L votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedDark & gritty
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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