Looking for a new TV series to get stuck into? The sort of gripping TV that makes your heart pound, palms sweat and sends chills down your spine? The sort of TV series that keeps you up all night long because you want to, have to, need to watch just one more episode. Well, it’s a good thing that Netflix has so many thrillers to get stuck into, including new releases to enjoy and timeless classics to watch all over again.

So, look no further. We’ve rounded up some of the absolute best thriller dramas on Netflix to dive into and get your heart racing. Just don’t blame us for all the sleepless nights ahead…

Starring Colman Domingo, The Madness follows media pundit Muncie Daniels, who must fight to prove his innocence after stumbling upon a murder in the Poconos, Pennsylvania, while trying to reconnect with his estranged family and his lost ideals.

Zero Day stars Robert De Niro as respected former US president George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyberattack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of Wall Street power brokers and government collide, Mullen’s search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets.

Black Doves follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted and dedicated wife, mother and professional spy. For the last decade, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the secret organisation she works for, the Black Doves. But when her secret lover, Jason, is assassinated, her boss, the cool and shadowy Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend to keep her safe.

Eleven years ago, Detective Kat Donovan’s fiance, Josh, the love of her life, disappeared and she’s never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.

Struggling comedian by day, bartender by night, Donny Dunn has no idea the direction his life will take when he performs a good deed for a vulnerable customer named Martha. It’s a casual encounter, and one which, in normal circumstances, would be forgotten quickly.

Hundreds of hours of voice messages and north of 40,000 emails later, however, it soon becomes apparent that Martha has developed an unhealthy obsession with Donny. And, over time, it threatens to ruin both of their lives… while also forcing Donny to confront a deeply buried trauma.

In this thriller, Nicole Kidman stars as rich and successful novelist Greer Garrison Winbury, about to celebrate (sort of) her son’s wedding. But when a dead body washes up on the beach, their beautifully manicured lives all begin to fracture. If you love a rich-people-behaving-badly thriller, this series is definitely for you.

A Harlan Coben adaptation, the show revolves around Maya Stern, who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother’s murder, which took place several months earlier. Are the two cases connected?

Set in 1960s China, the story follows a young woman who makes a fateful decision that reverberates across space and time into the present day. Split across several timelines and with many characters to keep on top of, it’s astrophysicist Ye Wenjie who soon proves herself to be a key player in the plot.

The series – which is set in 1970s America – follows FBI Agent Ford (Jonathan Groff) and his colleague (Holt McCallany), both of whom specialise in understanding the minds of murderers.

As a pioneer in this disturbing field, Ford interviews psychopaths in a bid to get inside their heads and predict their next moves. His approach appears to be full of humility: a unique method at a time when the term ‘serial killer’ is just being coined.

Amid an international crisis, a career diplomat juggles her new high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her turbulent marriage to a political star. And the best news? The second season landed on our screens last year.

In the series, Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.

The streaming giant’s first African Original series, Queen Sono tells the story of a hard-partying spy who uses her lethal skills to keep the continent safe from terror. Go in expecting twisty thrills, soapy drama and a lot of high-octane action sequences, and you won’t be disappointed.

One of the platform’s darkest and grittiest crime dramas, Ozark sees a financial advisor drag his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss. 

Behind Her Eyes is the sort of psychological thriller that segues into horror as it spins its mindboggling yarn about a woman who begins an affair with her boss, all while befriending his mysterious wife behind his back. But who’s manipulating who, really?

As a teenager, Assane Diop’s life was turned upside down when his father died after being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Now, some 25 years later, Assane plans to use “Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar” as his inspiration to seek vengeance.

Another Harlan Coben adaptation, Adam Price is a happily married father-of-two, until a stranger dumps a huge secret on him about his wife. Cue him doing his best to entangle a web of lies in a desperate quest to discover the truth about the people closest to him.

After witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her, Sarah assumes her identity. But she soon discovers a compelling conspiracy that changes her life forever. 

All about a criminal mastermind’s plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history – and his eventual showdown with the police, there’s a reason this Emmy award-winning series boasts a 93% ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

When two children go missing in a small German town, its sinful past is exposed along with the double lives and fractured relationships that exist among four families as they search for the kids.  

Based on Caroline Kepnes’s bestselling tale of mania, obsession, stalking and fear, You sees Joe help Guinevere Beck, an aspiring writer, buy a book from his shop. Later, he saves her when she stumbles on the subway. And then… well, then it turns out he’s willing to do absolutely anything to make her his. Anything.

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