Best Thriller Web Series on Netflix (2026)
Updated daily · India
Crime, mystery and slow-burn suspense — the highest-rated thriller series currently on Netflix in India.
Ranked by audience rating among series with at least 300 ratings that are streaming on Netflix in India today. The list refreshes daily, so titles that leave the service drop off automatically.
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Breaking Bad 2008
★ 9.0(19,103 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Better Call Saul 2015
★ 8.7(7,091 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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The Apothecary Diaries 2023
★ 8.7(708 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!
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Death Note 2006
★ 8.6(5,262 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
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Alchemy of Souls 2022
★ 8.6(829 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
She was named Naksu because wherever she went, a trail of heads followed. She performs the alchemy of souls, magic that can change people's bodies and souls, which is forbidden in Daeho, and ends up being chased. Naksu hurriedly abandons her body and attempts the alchemy of souls on a woman passing by. Jang Wook, the son of the King of Daeho, realizes that Mudeok's soul has been changed and helps her. Jang Wook wants to learn Naksu's martial arts and become a sorcerer, and Naksu, in the body of Mudeok, stays by his side so she can recover her strength.
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Stranger Things 2016
★ 8.5(22,129 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
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The Rookie 2018
★ 8.5(3,616 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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Bloodhounds 2023
★ 8.5(832 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Faced with ruthless foes with a violent thirst, two young boxers band together — risking life and limb to bring justice and protect their loved ones.
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Peaky Blinders 2013
★ 8.5(11,534 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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Monster 2004
★ 8.5(875 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2022
★ 8.5(2,149 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.
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Girl from Nowhere 2018
★ 8.5(973 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
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Vincenzo 2021
★ 8.5(1,121 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian Mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.
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The Glory 2022
★ 8.5(976 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.
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Dark 2017
★ 8.4(7,997 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
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Lucifer 2016
★ 8.4(15,786 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
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Chicago P.D. 2014
★ 8.4(2,652 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.
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The Mentalist 2008
★ 8.4(4,993 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Classroom of the Elite 2017
★ 8.4(879 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month and allows unusual freedom in classes, masking a more complex system.
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BEASTARS 2019
★ 8.4(1,363 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.
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Riverdale 2017
★ 8.4(13,826 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
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Tale of the Nine Tailed 2020
★ 8.4(504 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A TV producer discovers a secret supernatural world as she becomes entangled with a former deity who's spent centuries searching for his lost lover.
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The Uncanny Counter 2020
★ 8.3(476 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.
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Wednesday 2022
★ 8.3(10,967 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.
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Healer 2014
★ 8.3(332 ratings)· Streaming on Netflix
A star reporter, a second-rate journalist and a man by the code name "Healer" are brought together by a long-buried incident that hides dark truths.
FAQs
▸What is the best thriller web serie on Netflix?
Breaking Bad (2008) tops the list with a 9.0/10 audience rating, followed by Better Call Saul and The Apothecary Diaries.
▸How is this list ranked?
By average audience rating, counting only series with at least 300 ratings so a handful of votes can't top it, and only titles currently available on Netflix in India.