Best HBO Crime Shows

The Wire, True Detective, Mare of Easttown. These are the best HBO TV shows of all time. Here are others Top HBO and HBO Max original TV shows. This list is constantly updated as HBO or Max produces more TV Shows. You will find most of the shows on (HBO) Max, but some of the shows may have been re-distributed to other platforms.

#	Name	Year	Genre	Country	IMDb
1	The Wire	2002	Crime	USA	93%
	Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.	Trailer	Watch
2	True Detective	2014	Crime	USA	89%
	An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.	Trailer	Watch
3	The Night Of	2016	Crime	USA	84%
	After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.	Trailer	Watch
4	Snowfall	2017	Crime	USA	84%
	Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.	Trailer	Watch
5	Mare of Easttown	2021	Drama	USA	84%
	A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.	Trailer	Watch
6	Sharp Objects	2018	Crime	USA	80%
	Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.	Trailer	Watch
7	Epitafios	2004	Crime	Argentina	79%
	Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.	Trailer
8	Wasteland	2016	Crime	Czech Republic	79%
	When Hana Sikorova, mayor of a northern Bohemian village, stands up to a large coal mining concern that offers villagers large compensation in exchange for abandoning their houses built on land containing brown coal deposits, her fourteen year old daughter Misha disappears. The search for her daughter makes Hana suspicious of the whole community, after years of peaceful coexistence. Under the pressure of unfolding events, the community starts to fall apart and show its true face. Solving the mystery divides the story into several interweaving narratives that ultimately connect in unexpected ways.	Trailer	Watch
9	The Bronze Garden	2017	Crime	Argentina	77%
	Architect Fabián Danubio desperately tries to find his daughter, who has inexplicably disappeared leaving no trace.	Trailer	Watch
10	Perry Mason	2020	Crime	USA	76%
	Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.	Trailer	Watch
11	We Own This City	2022	Crime	USA	76%
	The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.	Trailer	Watch
12	Hackerville	2018	Crime	Germany	71%
	Following a cyber attack on a German bank, an investigator teams with local authorities and an elite hacker to track the suspects.	Trailer
13	Miss Sherlock	2018	Crime	Japan	71%
	Sherlock has a peculiar character flaw. She does not open her heart to strangers. She is Japanese, but was born in Britain. She now works as an investigation consultant for the police department. Wato Tachibana is an excellent surgeon and is guided by the principal of justice. Sherlock and Wato Tachibana get to know each other through a case and begin to rely on each other.	Trailer
14	Irma Vep	2022	Crime	USA	68%
	Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.	Trailer	Watch
15	Two Weeks to Live	2020	Crime	United Kingdom	67%
	When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.	Trailer	Watch
16	Get Millie Black	2024	Crime	USA	67%
	Ex Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black returns to Kingston to work missing persons; soon finding herself on a quest to save a sister who won’t be saved, to find a boy who can’t be found, to solve a case that will blow her world apart and prove almost as tough to crack as Millie Black.	Trailer
17	Five Days	2007	Crime	United Kingdom	66%
	Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.	Trailer	Watch
18	Trackers	2020	Crime	South Africa	66%
	Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.	Trailer	Watch
19	María Marta: The Country Club Crime	2022	Crime	Argentina	65%
	Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in Argentina, the series intimately follows all those involved in the case, and those who are still seeking an answer to the question: Who killed María Marta?	Trailer	Watch
20	Mosaic	2018	Crime	USA	64%
	Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.	Trailer	Watch
21	Full Circle	2023	Crime	USA	64%
	An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.	Trailer
22	Paradise	2021	Crime	Spain	57%
	At the end of the summer of 1992, three 15-year-old girls, Sandra, Eva and Malena disappear without a trace from a nightclub in a coastal town. When the police investigation appears to be taking the wrong direction, Javi, Sandra’s younger brother, takes the matter into his own hands. Along with the help of his friends, they discover something not of this world.	Trailer	Watch
23	Possessions	2020	Crime	Israel	56%
	A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?	Trailer