Best Dutch crime series
A curated collection of popular crime series from Netherlands.

Safe Harbor (2025)
Safe Harbor (2025)
Tobias, a gifted hacker and his ambitious best friend Marco, intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plunged headfirst into the chaos of organized crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob.

Hell or hotel (2025)
Hell or hotel (2025)
Six Dutch celebrities - Dennis Weening, Joost Eerdmans, Mark Baanders, Hugo Kennis, Ayoub Louihrani and Jay Francis - are locked up in a prison together with a group of rehabilitated ex-convicts. All the celebrities have strong opinions about prison. Do they adjust their opinion?

Zeeman Confronteert: Stalkers (2020)
Zeeman Confronteert: Stalkers (2020)
In 'Zeeman Confronteert: Stalkers', Thijs Zeeman helps the stalked to put an end to the rather unpleasant situation. Thijs investigates to find the stalker. Thijs then confronts the stalker with his or her behavior and hopes to stop the stalking. He is assisted by private detective and ex-military police Nico van den Dries.

Ontvoerd (2012)
Ontvoerd (2012)
Onrecht! (2019)
Onrecht! (2019)
Betrapt! (2019)
Betrapt! (2019)
Thijs Zeeman en Jens Olde Kalter helpen mensen die slachtoffer zijn van een wandaad. Van wanhopige winkeliers tot gedupeerden van mishandeling, alle getroffenen zijn op zoek naar gerechtigheid.

Dossier van den Heuvel (2019)
Dossier van den Heuvel (2019)
Report series in which crime reporter John van den Heuvel travels around the world to assist victims of crime. Together with his team, he tackles various forms of crime and gives an unpolished insight into his mission for justice.

Sphinx (2024)
Sphinx (2024)
Early one morning, 14-year-old Minke Moorman is kidnapped. Three years later she reappears out of nowhere, completely feral and with a mysterious wing tattoo on her back. After her return, the entire family comes under pressure. Minke has been changed by her traumatic experience and, without anyone knowing, she is still being played by her captor from the shadows.

Penoza (2010)
Penoza (2010)
When her husband, a notorious drug lord, is wound up in the eyes of their youngest son, Carmen makes a drastic decision. Penoza sketches a penetrating picture of the Dutch underworld in which choices regarding family loyalty and money are on the cutting edge to be made. Penoza is told as a family saga with Carmen, a working mother with an exceptional profession at the head.

The Golden Hour (2022)
The Golden Hour (2022)
Mardik, a Dutch detective of Afghan descent, receives word that his childhood friend Faysal has come to the Netherlands. When a terrorist attack occurs the next day, Mardik suspects Faysal and investigates, with drastic consequences.

Van der Valk (2020)
Van der Valk (2020)
Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.

Nemesis (2024)

KLEM (2017)

Dutch Hope (2014)
Dutch Hope (2014)
Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land.

The Neighbors (2014)
The Neighbors (2014)
Peter and Eva, a nice young couple expecting their first child, buy a house in a suburban village. Before they get to move into their new home, they lose their baby girl. Eva has a hard time coping with her loss. Peter has mixed feelings. The baby wasn’t his to begin with.He’s infertile and hopes the chapter of having children has now come to an end. Then they meet their new neighbors Rebecca and Steve, a carefree outgoing couple, that helps them forget their pain. But are they really who they say they are?

Judas (2019)
Judas (2019)
Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.

Doodstil (2020)
Doodstil (2020)
Luther, the support and anchor of Carmen in Penoza, gets his own series: Doodstil. We know Luther to be tough and loyal to the bone, but how did he actually become that ruthless killer? This four-part mini-series answers this question.We meet Luther in the present, where in the underworld he not only tries to take revenge on his brother's murderer, but where he also grapples with the demons of his past. At the same time, we get to know the young talkative Luther from the 90s, who bravely ends up in the booming hash trade. He has to fight harder and harder to survive in a drug world that is increasingly hardening.
