The 18 best murder mysteries on Netflix right now (October 2025)

7 Women and a Murder (2022)

Ciao! Welcome to this remote Italian mansion in the 1940s, where phone lines are cut and storms keep the police away, even when a patriarch is stabbed (a lot). But don’t worry, we have everything you need — seven dolce donne suspects with a motive to want that man dead, including a fainting aunt, a late-arriving mistress, and a matriarch who’s trying to appear like she’s mourning (she’s not). And, at just 90 minutes, the film wastes no time getting you to the truth, making this a satisfying Italian mystery meal. —Tanya Melendez

Where to watch 7 Women and a Murder: Netflix

Director: Alessandro Genovesi

Cast: Margherita Buy, Diana Del Bufalo, Sabrina Impacciatore, Benedetta Porcaroli, Micaela Ramazzotti

Bodies (2023)

This series has multiple murder mysteries in one — or does it? Set in 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053, four different detectives (Kyle Soller, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Amaka Okafor, Shira Haas) investigate a body that appears in the same London street throughout history. 

The show uses its time-bending conceit to great effect, putting a different flavor on each investigation and letting the era’s prejudices impact the detectives. The twists and turns are winding, and the all-too-human detectives mean four times the flawed hero. A very good time, time, time, and time, indeed. —T.M.

Where to watch Bodies: Netflix

Cast: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Kyle Soller, Amaka Okafor, Stephen Graham

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

It’s a familiar trope: A murder mystery party goes awry when one of the guests is actually murdered. Writer-director Rian Johnson is well-versed in this subgenre, and he gives this standalone sequel to Knives Out a fresh spin. Like the first film, Glass Onion features an all-star cast including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, and Dave Bautista, who play age-old friends convening at their wealthy friend Miles’ (Edward Norton) mansion for a game of murder mystery. Also there is famed detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who comes in handy when one of their own is poisoned.

“Glass Onion doesn’t feel like a movie that’s meant, really, to be peeled,” quips EW’s critic. “It’s here strictly to dazzle you with money and murder and famous-people pandemonium.” —Kevin Jacobsen

Where to watch Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: Netflix

EW grade: B+

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2024–present)

British youth Pippa (Wednesday‘s Emma Myers) decides to do a school project on the five-year-old murder of local girl Andie, despite no one wanting to revisit the painful event. But Pip is convinced the police got the wrong guy, and she can’t forget seeing Andie the day she was murdered. Myers nails the realistic teen who is a far cry from the unflappable Nancy Drew, screwing up plenty and often terrified of what she’s gotten herself into. It just makes her path to the truth an even more satisfying win. —T.M.

Where to watch A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: Netflix

Cast: Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal, India Lillie Davies

The Hunting Wives (2025–present)

The Hunting Wives has just about everything you’d want from a soapy murder mystery series: morally ambiguous characters, fabulous actresses sinking their teeth into juicy material, and a core whodunit that keeps you guessing. Brittany Snow stars as Sophie, a new arrival in a wealthy Texas town where an elite group of women known as the Hunting Wives draw her into their orbit. After a teenage girl is murdered in the woods and Sophie’s gun is found at the crime scene…let’s just say things get messy. —K.J.

Where to watch The Hunting Wives: Netflix

Cast: Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Evan Jonigkeit, Katie Lowes, George Ferrier, Dermot Mulroney, Jaime Ray Newman, Chrissy Metz

In for a Murder (2021)

This mystery-comedy treat arrives from Poland and features a crime-novel obsessive housewife (Anna Smolowik) who discovers a body while walking the dog. Magda attaches herself to the detective assigned to the case (Pawel Domagala), all the better to take her mind off her crappy philandering husband, lack of career, and best friend who went missing 15 years earlier. The neighborhood is full of suspects and one very attractive veterinarian, while Smolowik’s turn as a woman yearning for a purpose will have you rooting for this overwhelmed amateur. —T.M.

Where to watch In for a Murder: Netflix

Director: Piotr Mularuk

Cast: Anna Smolowik, Pawel Domagala, Szymon Bobrowski, Piotr Adamczyk

The Lincoln Lawyer (2022–present)

This legal thriller series, based on the Mickey Haller novel series by Michael Connelly, is classic TV drama with a fresh Netflix sheen. Created by television maestro David E. Kelley, The Lincoln Lawyer follows attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who inherits a fellow lawyer’s practice after his murder. The first season finds Mickey trying to find answers about the murder while also defending a video game developer accused of double homicide. With propulsive pacing and excellent courtroom drama, The Lincoln Lawyer is an easy binge with just the right amount of grit to not feel old-fashioned. —K.J.

Where to watch The Lincoln Lawyer: Netflix

Cast: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, Yaya DaCosta

Lost Girls (2020)

For good reason, this crime drama based on true events doesn’t have the pulpy fun of most other titles in this list. Nonetheless, it’s a compelling mystery with a dynamic performance by Amy Ryan, who stars as activist Mari Gilbert as she desperately seeks answers following her daughter’s disappearance. In her pursuit, a grisly truth is revealed related to the elusive Long Island serial killer. EW’s critic praises Lost Girls, writing of how the film “aims not so much to crack the case as simply to bring some kind of light, at least in death, to girls who deserved much more while they lived.” —K.J.

Where to watch Lost Girls: Netflix

EW grade: B

Director: Liz Garbus

Cast: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Oona Laurence, Dean Winters, Miriam Shor, Reed Birney, Kevin Corrigan, Gabriel Byrne

Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)

If you missed the BBC series Luther, start there (don’t worry, it’s British, so there are only 20 episodes). You’ll want to watch every minute of the marvelously charismatic Idris Elba playing DCI John Luther, hunched in a gray tweed overcoat as he obsessively (and violently) solves major crimes. Then come back to this stellar 2023 movie, which, due to his many previous illegal transgressions, begins with a disgraced Luther in prison. His incarceration doesn’t last long, though, because a taunting serial killer spurs a prison break. From there, it’s game on for our now-vigilante antihero. —T.M.

Where to watch Luther: The Fallen Sun: Netflix

Director: Jamie Payne

Cast: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis

Midnight at the Pera Palace (2022)

It’s believed Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express at the famous Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, making it a perfect setting for this Turkish delight of a mystery series. Journalist Esra (Hazal Kaya) is assigned to write a clickbait listicle for the hotel’s 130th anniversary but accidentally time-travels to 1919 and discovers she’s the doppelgänger for Peride, a key figure in Turkey’s independence. When Peride turns up dead, Esra has to solve the murder, save the empire, and get back to her time before the article is due — making her “deadline” dangerously accurate. —T.M.

Where to watch Midnight at the Pera Palace: Netflix

Cast: Hazal Kaya, Tansu Biçer, Selahattin Paşalı, James Chalmers

Murder Mystery (2019)

Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler star in this zippy, goofy mystery-comedy about a couple celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary in Italy getting caught up in the murder of a billionaire (Terence Stamp). She loves mystery novels and he’s a cop, which makes them uniquely suited to solve the case, especially since the Italian police think they did it. The caper is as bubbly as an Aperol spritz on a hot Lake Como day, with Sandler and Aniston’s charm and comedic chemistry keeping the whodunit going. —T.M.

Where to watch Murder Mystery: Netflix

Director: Kyle Newacheck

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Luke Evans, Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton

Murderville (2022)

This cleverly devised murder mystery comedy series allows celebrities to show off their improvisational skills. Will Arnett stars as a police detective investigating a new murder every episode, paired with a guest star who has no script. The guest must use their critical thinking to determine the culprit, with the truth revealed at the end of each case. The famous faces include Conan O’Brien, Marshawn Lynch, Kumail Nanjiani, Annie Murphy, Sharon Stone, and Ken Jeong, and — spoiler alert — not all of them correctly guess the killer. —K.J.

Where to watch Murderville: Netflix

Cast: Will Arnett, Haneefah Wood, Lilan Bowden, Phillip Smithey

The Perfect Couple (2024–present)

Murder mystery on an island? Check. A host of wealthy suspects who all have secret reasons to want the victim dead? Check. Nicole Kidman playing a rich, icy blonde holding her family together through NDAs, a killer wardrobe, and a strategically raised eyebrow? Check, check, and check. All that, plus Liev Schreiber as a pill-popping philanderer named Tag, Dakota Fanning in pregnancy prosthetics, and Donna Lynne Champlin as the beleaguered detective trying to solve the murder. Binge this series as intended — like you’re downing 12 dozen Pocomo oysters on ice that can’t be returned to the caterer. —T.M.

Where to watch The Perfect Couple: Netflix

EW grade: B

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Donna Lynne Champlin, Eve Hewson, Meghann Fahy

The Residence (2025)

In the grand tradition of iconic TV murder mystery series like Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, this Shondaland murder mystery is cleverly devised with a quirky, compelling performance at its center. Uzo Aduba, in an Emmy-nominated performance, stars as a detective investigating the mysterious death of the White House chief usher (Giancarlo Esposito), which is initially deemed a suicide, but evidence suggests otherwise. The Residence combines the twisty appeal of a murder mystery with juicy upstairs-downstairs intrigue, opting not to subvert its genre conventions but to lovingly embrace them. —K.J.

Where to watch The Residence: Netflix

Cast: Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Edwina Findley, Randall Park, Molly Griggs, Al Mitchell, Dan Perrault, Spencer Garrett, Bronson Pinchot, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mary Wiseman

The Thursday Murder Club (2025)

The concept of a “cozy” murder mystery may seem inappropriate at first glance. Yet, there is a certain appeal to these kinds of whodunits, which focus more on the thrill of investigation without resorting to grisly sensationalism. Adapted from Richard Osman’s best-selling novel of the same name, this lighthearted crime caper centers on four amateur sleuths living in a retirement community who look into a suspicious murder. Bolstered by game performances by stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie, The Thursday Murder Club is a crowd-pleasing yarn of a film. —K.J.

Where to watch The Thursday Murder Club: Netflix

Director: Chris Columbus

Cast: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie

Who Killed Sara? (¿Quién mató a Sara?) (2021–2022)

Spoiler alert: The answer to the title question is definitely not the guy who served 18 years in prison for it. The streamer has recently embraced the “Netflixnovela”: pulpy mysteries full of murder, beautiful people, and, of course, escándalo! This three-season Mexican series follows Alex Guzmán (Manolo Cardona), fresh out of the slammer and out for venganza (that’s Spanish for “revenge,” amigos) against the powerful family that framed him. If you love a soapy plot, settle in for this murder mystery spin. —T.M.

Where to watch Who Killed Sara?: Netflix

Cast: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Claudia Ramírez, Eugenio Siller

The Woman in the Window (2021)

Witnessing a murder through a window is a classic trope for a reason. The setting for this drama is a Hitchcock homage, with Amy Adams taking the agoraphobic reins as Anna Fox, described by potential murderer Alistair (Gary Oldman) as a “drunken, shut-in, pill-popping cat lady,” It’s accurate, which means the police are not buying her recollection of Alistair stabbing his wife Jane (Julianne Moore), especially when it turns out Jane is another woman altogether (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Movie gods, hear our prayer: May cinematic murderers never remember to shut their blinds, amen. —T.M.

Where to watch The Woman in the Window: Netflix

Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell

Young Wallander (2020–2022)

The original Swedish Kurt Wallander detective novels always had a healthy dose of social commentary, so, when updating the character, creator Ben Harris set his TV series in the present day to bring modern issues to the table. Wallander (Adam Pålsson) is a rookie cop whose first case gets messy quickly — and not just because he knows both the victim and the suspect personally. Soon, immigration, racism, and police brutality add layers to the moody Scandinavian Noir mystery, leading Wallander to parts of Malmö his predecessors never ventured. —T.M.

Where to watch Young Wallander: Netflix

Cast: Adam Pålsson, Richard Dillane, Ellise Chappell