Best mind-bending web series on Netflix in India

By the KyaDekhu team · Updated 23 October 2026 · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb

684 web series on Netflix in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 7.2. Most are in English (222), Korean (124), Japanese (104). Newest addition: The Trap, added to Netflix on 13 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)

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   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. Better Call Saul (2015)

   Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.0 (8.7L votes)

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   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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   3. Rick and Morty (2013)

   Web series · English · 9 seasons · A · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 9.0 (7.2L votes)

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   Follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.

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   4. Arcane (2021)

   Web series · English · 2 seasons · A · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 9.0 (4.6L votes)

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   Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.

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   5. Hunter x Hunter (2011)

   Web series · Japanese · 3 seasons · U/A 16+ · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 9.0 (2.1L votes)

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   Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.

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   6. Death Note (2006)

   Web series · Japanese · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Animation, Mystery · IMDb 8.9 (5.0L votes)

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   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 Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.

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   7. Cowboy Bebop (1998)

   Web series · Japanese · 1 season · A · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.9 (1.7L votes)

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   In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunt

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   8. Vinland Saga (2019)

   Web series · Japanese · 2 seasons · Animation, War & Politics · IMDb 8.9 (1.5L votes)

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   For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his

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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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    10. Black Mirror (2011)

    Web series · English · 7 seasons · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.7 (7.5L votes)

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    Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

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    11. BoJack Horseman (2014)

    Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 8.8 (2.4L votes)

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    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

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    12. House (2004)

    Web series · English · 8 seasons · U · Drama · IMDb 8.7 (6.0L votes)

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    Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

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    13. Dark (2017)

    Web series · German · 3 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.7 (5.7L votes)

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    A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

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    14. Stranger Things (2016)

    Web series · English · 5 seasons · U/A 16+ · Action & Adventure, Mystery · IMDb 8.6 (17.5L votes)

    Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

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    15. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)

    Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.9 (86.4K votes)

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    After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity's mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends' dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace w

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    16. Dexter (2006)

    Web series · English · 8 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (9.6L votes)

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    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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    17. Naruto Shippūden (2007)

    Web series · Japanese · 20 seasons · U · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.7 (2.3L votes)

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    After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work. It will not be easy though as he has amassed a few more dangerous enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.

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    18. House of Cards (2013)

    Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Drama · IMDb 8.6 (5.6L votes)

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    Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

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    19. Berserk (1997)

    Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.8 (84.3K votes)

    MatureVisually stunningDark & grittyTwisty

    Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.

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    20. 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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    21. 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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    22. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

    Web series · English · 1 season · A · Mystery, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (3.4L votes)

    TwistyDark & grittyVisually stunningEdge-of-seat

    Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

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    23. JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)

    Web series · Japanese · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.5 (2.2L votes)

    Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

    Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most

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    24. 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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    25. Ozark (2017)

    Web series · English · 4 seasons · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (4.0L votes)

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    A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

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    26. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

    Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation · IMDb 8.5 (1.2L votes)

    TwistyVisually stunningDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

    At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight

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    27. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)

    Web series · Japanese · 6 seasons · A · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.6 (62.7K votes)

    TwistyVisually stunningEdge-of-seatFast-paced

    Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.

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    28. 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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    29. Love, Death & Robots (2019)

    Web series · English · 4 seasons · A · Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.4 (2.3L votes)

    MatureVisually stunningDark & grittyTwisty

    Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.

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    30. Sacred Games (2018)

    Web series · Hindi · 2 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.5 (99.3K votes)

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    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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