Lockdown watchlist: Top crime and thriller shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime

• During lockdown, a good way to kill time is watching shows that engage you which also help disengage from the world
  
• Here are some of the top crime and thriller movies and shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime and other OTT platforms.
  
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During lockdown, a good way to kill time is watching shows that engage you which also help disengage from the world. And the best way to do that is by watching complicated crime stories. Here are some of the top crime and thriller movies and shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime and other OTT platforms.


Mr Robot on Prime Videos

IMDb: 8.5/10
Creator: Sam Esmail
Stars: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin
Description: Mr Robot is a story of Elliot Aldersob, a cyber security engineer who has social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. He works for one of the largest data security firms in the day and becomes a vigilante hacker in the night. Mr Robot, a cryptic anarchist, later hires him to take down one of the largest conglomerates in the world.


V for Vendetta on Netflix

IMDb: 8.2/10
Director: James McTeigue
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves
Description: V for Vendetta is a dystopian thriller in which V, a mysterious guy with a mask, plans on destroying the building of British Parliament to mark a protest against totalitarian England.


In Time on Prime Videos

IMDb: 6.7/10
Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy
Description: In Time is a futuristic movie where all humans are genetically engineered to stop aging at five. Time has replaced money as the new currency. Will Salas, an 28 year old, who has barely 18 hours left on his clock, is accused of murder. Salas goes on a run to save his life from the timekeepers.


Se7en on Netflix

IMDb: 8.6/10
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey
Description: Detective David Mills partners with a retiring homicide specialist William Somerset to take down a serial killer who is killing people based on seven deadly sins. He has already murdered an obese man by forcing him to eat and a wealthy lawyer. Somerset must postpone his retirement to stop the next five murders based on lust, sloth, pride, wrath and envy.


Source Code on Apple TV

IMDb: 7.5/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Description: In an experiment named “Source Code”, the government places Captain Colter Steven into another man’s body to find out the terrorist behind the bomb blast that killed millions in downtown Chicago.


The girl with a dragon tattoo on Apple TV

IMDb: 7.8/10
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer
A journalist recruits a young computer hacker and investigator to find out about a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared forty years ago in return.

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