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Knives Out1355

The worldwide ranking generated by 1.9k votes

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Knives Out1355

Brocéliande1347

The Wire1334

Seven1325

The Usual Suspects1306

The Silence of the Lambs1304

The Blacklist1296

Shutter Island1287

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows1286

#10

Goliath1281

#11

Sherlock1272

#12

Rien ne t'efface1267

#13

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo1266

#14

Basic Instinct1262

Taxi Driver1259

Hot Fuzz1257

Dexter1256

Insomnia1255

Point Break1253

Reservoir Dogs1251

#21

NCIS1251

#22

Murder on the Orient Express1250

#23

Jackie Brown1247

#24

The Mentalist1243

#25

The Sixth Sense1242

#26

Killers of the Flower Moon1241

#27

Death on the Nile1241

#28

The Girl Who Played with Fire1241

#29

Hercule Poirot1240

#30

Memento1240

#31

Sleepy Hollow1237

#32

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo1234

#33

Dahmer1233

#34

Gone Girl1232

#35

Juror #21228

#36

The Taking of Pelham 1231227

#37

Mystic River1225

#38

Glass Onion1220

#39

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest1218

#40

A History of Violence1217

#41

Thelma & Louise1217

#42

The Sopranos1217

#43

Unknown1216

#44

Scream1216

#45

A Cure for Wellness1214

#46

Mindhunter1214

#47

The Fugitive1212

#48

Source Code1211

#49

The Black Dahlia1210

#50

Presumed Innocent1210

#51

Taken1210

#52

Zodiac1210

#53

Most Wanted Criminals1209

#54

Hypnotic1209

#55

Zodiac1209

#56

Goodfellas1208

#57

La nuit du 121207

#58

L.A. Confidential1205

#59

Angels & Demons1204

#60

The Godfather1204

#61

Prisoners1204

#62

Defending Jacob1202

#63

The Invisible Man1201

#64

Heat1201

#65

Contre Enquête1200

#66

A Perfect Murder1198

#67

The Collector1196

#68

Dolmen1196

#69

Luther1196

#70

Enola Holmes1195

#71

Gone Baby Gone1194

#72

The Hateful Eight1194

#73

The Penguin1192

#74

True Detective1191

#75

The Batman1190

#76

CSI: NY1189

#77

Premonition1187

#78

Inferno1185

#79

Cold Case1184

#80

Black Box1184

#81

Castle1184

#82

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story1182

#83

Sherlock Holmes1182

#84

CSI: Miami1182

#85

The Girl in the Spider's Web1182

#86

Fracture1181

#87

The Name of the Rose1181

#88

The Misanthrope1181

#89

BlacKkKlansman1179

#90

Law & Order: Criminal Intent1179

#91

Memories of Murder1178

#92

The Bone Collector1177

#93

The Da Vinci Code1176

#94

Criminal Minds1175

#95

Lupin1174

#96

Columbo1172

#97

The Pelican Brief1169

#98

The Ninth Gate1165

#99

The Game1163

#100

Spider1161

#101

A Haunting in Venice1161

#102

Drive1160

#103

Minority Report1158

#104

Heretic1157

#105

Taken 21155

#106

The Firm1153

#107

Déjà Vu1147

#108

Léon: The Professional1147

#109

RIS Police Scientifique1143

#110

Tokyo Vice1141

#111

Night Hunter1140

#112

HPI1140

#113

Jennifer 81136

#114

November1131

#115

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1130

#116

Balthazar1130

#117

Profilage1129

#118

Maigret1120

#119

36 Quai des Orfèvres1118

#120

Taken 31116

#121

Alice Nevers1114

#122

Polisse1112

#123

Falco1105

#124

The Crimson Rivers1103

#125

Le Cordier juge et flic1099

#126

Section de Recherches1094

#127

Law & Order: SVU1075

#128

Julie Lescaut1046

What the community says

Rank the best crime & detective shows and films: TV series, detective movies, and criminal thrillers.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.