Crime Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 06, 2025
The Limits of Control
2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAn enigmatic stranger (Isaach de Bankolé), with no friends to speak of and no one to trust, journeys to Madrid on a shadowy criminal mission. His moves are always marked with the knowledge that the law is never far behind.
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Open House
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAttempting to sell her home after her marriage ends, Alice holds an open house -- but the event spirals into a nightmare when a serial-killing couple doesn't leave and Alice becomes a prisoner in her own basement crawl space.
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Black Heaven
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhile searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world.
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Twixt
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsIn this gothic horror film from Francis Ford Coppola, a has-been writer becomes embroiled in a murder mystery during a stop on his book tour. The ghost of a girl appears in his dream and reveals some surprising and dark secrets.
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The Snowtown Murders
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThis grisly thriller is based on the true story of Australia's worst serial killer, John Bunting, and the people he convinced to help him. One of them is teenager Jamie, whose entire family eventually falls under Bunting's dark spell.
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Grimm Love
2006 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this shocking thriller based on a true tale, graduate student Katie Armstrong's research into killer and cannibal Oliver Hartwin and his willing victim, Simon Grombeck, leads to a dark journey into the men's twisted deed and tortured psyches.
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Clear Lake, WI
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsFifteen years after the government permanently evacuated their town to stop a strange disease from spreading, old friends return home, dredge up suppressed memories, struggle to exorcize personal demons and fall under attack by an unknown assailant. This intense thriller co-stars Michael Madsen as a fiery preacher determined to punish all sinners and Shi Ne Nielson as a documentary filmmaker searching for the truth.
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Macbeth
2006 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSomething wicked this way comes as discontented mobster Macbeth (Sam Worthington) plots a coup d'état of his Melbourne crime family in this sleek and riveting retelling of Shakespeare's classic story of murder and revenge. When witches prophesize Macbeth's rise to power, he kills mob boss Duncan (Gary Sweet) and assumes control. But Macbeth's rule is soon opposed, and the bloodletting rages out of control. Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme also star.
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Suburban Mayhem
2006 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsNineteen-year-old single mother Katrina (Emily Barclay) is, by all accounts, a bad seed. Now, her brother (Laurence Breuls) needs money to appeal his murder conviction, and Katrina thinks she has the answer: killing her father (Robert Morgan) so she can inherit his house and sell it. A collage of flashbacks -- from the police and Katrina's fiancé, ex-boyfriends, family and friends -- describe Katrina's scheme and how such a nice suburban girl went so bad.
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Cold Weather
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsAfter things go south for former forensic science major Doug (Cris Lankenau), he leaves Chicago and returns home to Oregon to live with his sister, Gail (Trieste Kelly Dunn) -- and soon finds himself entangled in an unexpected situation that calls on his investigative mind. Together with Gail and his friend Carlos, Doug uses his forensic skills and the techniques he's learned as a detective fiction enthusiast to unravel the mystery he encounters.
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We Are What We Are
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his father unexpectedly drops dead, teenage Alfredo (Francisco Barreiro) reluctantly steps up to provide for his mother and siblings in the way that Dad always did: by luring unsuspecting victims home to be ritually killed and eaten. But as a detective (Jorge Zárate) closes in on the cannibal clan, Alfredo finds that he may not have the stomach to fill his father's shoes in this genre-melding tale directed by Jorge Michel Grau.
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Magic Man
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSpurred on by her mother's onstage death while working as a magician's assistant, Tatiana sets out to meet Las Vegas illusionist Krell Darius and determine whether her loss was truly an accident. But Tatiana soon gets drawn into Darius's web.
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Entrance
2012 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsAfter mysteriously losing her dog one evening, a Los Angeles barista questions her commitment to living in the city and decides to get out. But when her going-away party takes an odd turn, she finds that the city just might not let her go so easily.
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Happy Here and Now
2002 | NR | 2.2 out of 5 StarsWhen her emotionally distant sibling disappears without a trace, a worried sister combs New Orleans to track her down and bring her home. Unfortunately, the only clues to her whereabouts are an abandoned computer with a hard drive that's been erased and a mysterious resident of cyberspace. Can a computer-savvy detective help uncover the data needed to recover the missing woman? David Arquette, Ally Sheedy and Gloria Reuben ("ER") co-star.
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