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Knives Out1424

The worldwide ranking generated by 1.9k votes

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Knives Out1424

Brocéliande1406

The Wire1377

Seven1349

Basic Instinct1345

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo1330

Shutter Island1330

The Usual Suspects1321

The Silence of the Lambs1315

#10

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows1313

#11

Goliath1309

#12

Rien ne t'efface1306

#13

The Blacklist1304

#14

Sherlock1293

#15

Murder on the Orient Express1293

#16

Dexter1291

#17

Killers of the Flower Moon1291

#18

Taxi Driver1284

#19

The Girl Who Played with Fire1283

#20

Juror #21275

Insomnia1274

Point Break1270

Hot Fuzz1269

Reservoir Dogs1264

#25

NCIS1263

#26

The Sixth Sense1263

#27

Hercule Poirot1262

#28

Death on the Nile1262

#29

Memento1260

#30

Scream1259

#31

The Fugitive1258

#32

The Taking of Pelham 1231257

#33

Sleepy Hollow1256

#34

Source Code1254

#35

Glass Onion1251

#36

The Sopranos1246

#37

A History of Violence1246

#38

Jackie Brown1245

#39

Thelma & Louise1244

#40

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo1243

#41

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest1239

#42

The Mentalist1233

#43

Mystic River1233

#44

Gone Girl1232

#45

A Perfect Murder1232

#46

Presumed Innocent1228

#47

Enola Holmes1228

#48

Contre Enquête1221

#49

The Invisible Man1218

#50

Prisoners1218

#51

Unknown1217

#52

The Batman1215

#53

Angels & Demons1214

#54

La nuit du 121213

#55

The Black Dahlia1212

#56

Zodiac1210

#57

Dahmer1208

#58

Dolmen1207

#59

L.A. Confidential1207

#60

Most Wanted Criminals1206

#61

Taken1204

#62

The Misanthrope1203

#63

Mindhunter1199

#64

Defending Jacob1198

#65

A Cure for Wellness1198

#66

The Godfather1197

#67

Hypnotic1196

#68

The Hateful Eight1192

#69

Goodfellas1192

#70

Black Box1187

#71

Heat1187

#72

Castle1187

#73

The Penguin1185

#74

The Girl in the Spider's Web1184

#75

The Collector1182

#76

The Da Vinci Code1179

#77

The Name of the Rose1175

#78

Premonition1175

#79

The Ninth Gate1175

#80

Luther1174

#81

Minority Report1174

#82

Lupin1173

#83

A Haunting in Venice1171

#84

Cold Case1171

#85

Gone Baby Gone1169

#86

True Detective1168

#87

Zodiac1166

#88

Déjà Vu1166

#89

Inferno1165

#90

Tokyo Vice1165

#91

Memories of Murder1162

#92

Sherlock Holmes1161

#93

HPI1161

#94

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story1158

#95

CSI: Miami1154

#96

Taken 21151

#97

RIS Police Scientifique1150

#98

Columbo1145

#99

Fracture1144

#100

Law & Order: Criminal Intent1143

#101

Léon: The Professional1143

#102

The Pelican Brief1139

#103

BlacKkKlansman1139

#104

The Game1137

#105

CSI: NY1134

#106

The Firm1130

#107

Criminal Minds1127

#108

Drive1127

#109

November1114

#110

Jennifer 81113

#111

The Bone Collector1111

#112

Heretic1105

#113

Profilage1104

#114

Spider1095

#115

Balthazar1094

#116

Taken 31093

#117

Maigret1091

#118

Polisse1077

#119

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1073

#120

Alice Nevers1072

#121

Night Hunter1062

#122

The Crimson Rivers1059

#123

36 Quai des Orfèvres1046

#124

Section de Recherches1042

#125

Le Cordier juge et flic1027

#126

Falco1024

#127

Law & Order: SVU1010

#128

Julie Lescaut977

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.