Crime Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 06, 2025
Acolytes
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter stumbling upon a freshly buried body and learning the murderer's identity, three high school students -- believing the killer can take out a bully who ruined their lives -- elect to blackmail the perpetrator in this taut thriller.
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Loft
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFive married men split the cost of renting an impressive loft, which they use for secret rendezvous with mistresses and one-night stands. But after discovering a woman's corpse in their apartment, the friends begin to turn against each other. This stylish and engrossing Belgian thriller from director Erik Van Looy stars Bruno Vanden Broucke, Matthias Schoenaerts, Filip Peeters, Koen De Graeve and Koen De Bouw.
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Tell Tale
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA single father is kept alive by another man's heart, which suits him fine until he discovers that the organ's original owner was murdered. Worried that he might come to a similar end, he embarks on a desperate search for the donor's killer.
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Wild Things: Foursome
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this direct-to-video continuation of the Wild Things franchise, rebellious Carson Wheetly blames his wealthy father for his mother's death ... which only makes Carson look suspicious when Dad turns up dead in a boating accident.
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Kill List
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this white-knuckle crime flick, out-of-work hit man Jay teams with his partner, Gal, for a three-contract job that rapidly turns from routine to obscene as the call of duty takes a twisted toll on Jay's sanity and sense of control.
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X
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis steamy thriller follows veteran call girl Holly Rowe and teen runaway turned hooker Shay Ryan, strangers who find themselves thrown together and running for their lives through the sinister world of Sydney, Australia's underground sex trade.
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Revenge
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsReady for a comeback, Russian boxer Artem arrives in America for a heated rematch. But after sparring with one overly eager opponent, the ring soon becomes the last of his worries, and he must fight for his life against the Mexican mafia.
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Devil's Racecourse
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDuring an annual hiking trip with friends, college student Wendy is abducted by an ex-FBI agent turned fugitive, and when his relentless pursuers appear, the man entrusts Wendy with vital data that could expose a shocking governmental conspiracy.
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Dangerous Ishhq
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFabulously wealthy Rohan is kidnapped, and police tell his supermodel girlfriend Sanjana that even the ransom won't assure his return. Compounding her helplessness, Sanjana starts having strange visions of them together in different historical eras.
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The Taste of Money
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
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True Nature
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThe Pascal family has it all-- wealth, power, privilege-- but their lives change forever when their daughter disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened but haunted by strange visions.
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The Monk
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAbandoned as an infant and raised by Capucin monks, Ambrosio becomes a friar himself and also a beloved preacher whose sermons thrill the masses. But Satan decides to test Ambrosio's legendary piety, sending a masked female minion to tempt the monk.
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Anamorph
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsNYPD detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is obsessed with catching a serial killer whose slayings resemble a case Aubray solved years earlier. But the bizarre crime scenes require Aubray to study everything -- including his own dark past -- in a new light. The intricately plotted psychological thriller also stars Scott Speedman as a young maverick detective and Clea DuVall as a woman with a mysterious history.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsBrad McCullum begins to have visions that make him believe he's living in a Sophocles play in this psychological thriller inspired by true events. The events he thinks he experiences lead him to commit a brutal, bloody crime with a sword.
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44 Inch Chest
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter his wife, Liz (Joanne Whalley), cheats on him, gangster Colin Diamond (Ray Winstone) gets his revenge by enlisting his underworld pals to kidnap her hunky French lover (Melvil Poupaud) in the feature debut of director Malcolm Venville. Top British actors, including Ian McShane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson, round out the cast of the crime thriller, penned by the screenwriters of another memorable Winstone vehicle, Sexy Beast.
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Surviving Crooked Lake
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsYoung teen Steph and her three pals find themselves hopelessly lost deep in the wilderness when their guide perishes while leading them on a backcountry canoe trip. Now the four girls must survive the perils of the wild and find their way back.
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Stone
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsEdward Norton plays a convicted arsonist who hopes to get out of prison early by putting to work the seductive talents of his beautiful wife, Lucetta. Robert De Niro plays the parole officer who's the target of the couple's cat-and-mouse scheming.
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Inspector Bellamy
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsFrom renowned French director Claude Chabrol comes this intriguingly low-key police thriller in which vacationing detective Paul Bellamy (Gérard Depardieu) can't keep himself from getting involved when a mystery rears its head on holiday. Of course, his wife (Marie Bunel) is less than thrilled to share her vacation with criminals, and when Bellamy's brother pays an unexpected visit, the family tensions ratchet up as high as the professional ones.
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The American
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsOn the heels of a rough assignment, assassin Jack declares that his next job will be his last. Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, Jack embarks on a dangerous double life while falling for a lovely villager.
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Raavan
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWhen he's posted to a provincial town, policeman Dev goes after the local thugs, with dire consequences. Enraged by Dev's attacks, the head of the bandits kidnaps Dev's wife and takes her into the jungle, where their feelings for each other explode.
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Shiva
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsMumbai police recruit Shiva befriends a rebel journalist who is determined to expose the nexus between the police and the underworld. Both incur the wrath of their superiors as well as a former underworld don who is now an influential politician.
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Bad Girl Island
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter a gorgeous temptress mysteriously appears on an exotic island in the Bermuda triangle, a film producer dreams of her seducing him -- then wakes to a nightmare with his best friend murdered and himself the prime suspect in this sexy thriller.
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Stoker
2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAn impressionable teenager grieving for her late father lives with her unstable mother and is bewitched by her enigmatic uncle, who has mysterious motives for his sudden appearance in her life.
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Cash
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen the prize is a priceless diamond, a good thief will do just about anything to come out on top. But what if a little murder is added into the equation? Two teams of sticky-fingered swindlers find themselves fighting each other for their lives.
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El Rey de la Montaña
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsTraveling through a remote, mountainous region of Spain, motorists Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Bea (María Valverde) come under deadly fire from an unseen sniper hiding in the hills. Now on foot, wounded and with precious few places to hide, the pair frantically tries to outwit the shooter and discover the reason they've been targeted. Gonzalo López-Gallego directs this nail-biting thriller co-starring Thomas Riordan.
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