Best Argentinian crime series
A curated collection of popular crime series from Argentina.
Caught (2025)
El pulpo negro (1985)
El pulpo negro (1985)
22, el loco (2001)
22, el loco (2001)
Ricos y Famosos (1997)
Ricos y Famosos (1997)
Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela.
El elegido (2011)
El elegido (2011)
Resistire (2003)
Resistire (2003)
The Hypnotist (2015)
The Hypnotist (2015)
Natalio Arenas is a hypnotist who can put people into a trance and make them reveal their innermost secrets. But Natalio suffers from insomnia, which hides a secret of his own.
Epitaphs (2004)
Epitaphs (2004)
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.
Signs (2015)
Signs (2015)
Antonio Cruz is a good country doctor who hides a secret that has filled him with resentment and anger. One day he snaps and decides to kill a neighbor for each sign of the zodiac. His sister Laura, a police officer, and her ex-husband Paul, the neighboring town prosecutor, investigate the mysterious crimes.
Tiempo final (2000)
Tiempo final (2000)
El Marginal (2016)
El Marginal (2016)
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
Okupas (2000)
Okupas (2000)
During the year 2000, Ricardo, Pollo, Walter and Chiqui occupied a house in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Congreso. The four young people forge a strong friendship that leads them to go through different stories of crime, drugs and social marginalization.
Historia de un clan (2015)
The Absent Voice (2024)
The Absent Voice (2024)
When his older brother is found dead, apparently by suicide, the renowned psychoanalyst Pablo Rouviot is the only one convinced that it is a murder. With the assistance of Officer Cecilia Bermúdez as his sole ally, Pablo takes on the investigation, uncovering a much larger scheme with a serial killer at its core.
El puntero (2011)
El puntero (2011)
El Puntero was a 2011 Argentine miniseries, produced by Pol-Ka and starred by Julio Chávez and Gabriela Toscano. "Puntero" is a word from Argentine slang for a man who works as an intermediate between poor people and political parties, in a clientelist relation. The miniseries received the Golden Martín Fierro Award.
María Marta: The Country Club Crime (2022)
María Marta: The Country Club Crime (2022)
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?
Estocolmo (2016)
Estocolmo (2016)
"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of a young woman by a network of trafficking. An attorney general, an undercover agent and a journalist will be immersed in a police plot that mixes suspense, drama and action where law and justice are two different sides of the same coin.
The Cleaning Lady (2017)
The Cleaning Lady (2017)
Rosa is a single mother forced to become the “cleaning lady” for the mob. Her skills to spotlessly clean any crime scene keeps the mob safe until the detectives decide to investigate the chemicals.
Amongst Men (2021)
Amongst Men (2021)
It is the golden age of gangs, and one of the darkest times for the police, who are controlled by a group of millionaire commissioners sharing in the illicit businesses of Buenos Aires.
El hincha (2022)
El hincha (2022)
A middle-class young man joins the "brava bar" of a soccer club in the Buenos Aires suburbs, Argentina, and manages to ascend within the criminal structure until he reaches a place of leadership that he could never find in his own environment.
Tumberos (2002)
Tumberos (2002)
Follows a lawyer sentenced to prison and his life inside an Argentinian jail.
Tu parte del trato (2019)
Tu parte del trato (2019)
Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020)
Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020)
Documentary series on the circumstances surrounding the death of María Marta García Belsunce, one of the most controversial criminal cases in Argentina.
Pure Evil (2015)
Pure Evil (2015)
On his release from jail, psychopathic leader of The Sons of Saturn sect Hugo Lopez begins tormenting the ex-policeman whose daughter he killed in this macabre and intellectual Argentinian thriller.