Best African crime series

A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.

A highly trained South African spy must face changing relationships in her personal life while taking on her most dangerous mission yet.

A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.

Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

Haunted by a tragic loss, an ex-cop with a rare inability to feel pain strikes out on his own to catch offenders who've eluded Johannesburg police.

In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

Connected by a dangerous secret, best friends Sarah and Kemi are forced to flee after a wealthy groom disappears at his own engagement party.

Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past.

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

To save a kidnapped family member, an enterprising furniture tycoon must use his secret diamond smuggling operation to transport guns across the border.

Hoping to leave her past behind and start anew, Laila strikes a deal that prompts her to marry and live with Emad, a mentally-challenged man. However, their life together gets complicated when henious crimes take place at their living place each Friday.

The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.

Police Captain Hisham begins his investigation into the murder of an influencer found dead in the car of a national club electoral candidate.

Upon starting his post as a hotel receptionist, Gamal hears the rumors about the mysterious Room 207 and finds himself obsessed with discovering the truth.

A man of many faces is caught in his own web of deceit and murder. Seven love stories. Four lives. Three murders. And only one killer.

A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.

Accused of his sister's murder, Yehia is fiercely determined to seek vengeance and unmask the true perpetrator.

Wala’a and Miftah grew up together in Dar Al-Shams, bound by a deep friendship. They believe they are protecting the orphans, but when they try to defy Majed, the ruthless director, everything changes. They face a tough test as they fight for survival in a merciless world.

Trapped in a toxic marriage, Nagla dreams that her husband died—only to later find his corpse at her doorstep. With the mystery engulfing her, she turns to her three sisters for a way out.

Joe Njenga is a ruthless tycoon who will stop at nothing to get his way. But his stubbornness will lead to his downfall — and his family's.

The show revolves around the Khoza family, drug lords who hide their dealings behind their logistics company, and their conflicts with their competitors and the Tembisa Police Service. Connie Ferguson plays the role of Harriet Khoza, the widow of a drug lord and a drug lord known as "The Queen" while Shona Ferguson plays the police officer Jerry Maake.

Efemini, a down-on-his-luck everyman whose life changes forever after a chance meeting with an old friend. Forced by circumstance to suppress his principles and explore a life of cybercrime, he finds himself making ever-greater moral compromises to stay ahead of the consequences of his new choices and broadening tastes.

Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.

Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.

Cape Town. Police captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solved every crime, got every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover. Mat's been on a downward spiral ever since, haunted by a blurred past, uncertain which role he played in the murder of his wife. Now Mat is an out of shape chain smoker who is ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past. But in order to stop the violence of his current cases he must relive the nightmare of his wife's murder.

A social drama that chronicles the life of Al-Prince family, especially Radwan Al-Prince who, following the death of his parents, finds himself involved with his family members as he looks after them and tries to guide them through life.

Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.

A doctor travels to a damned hamlet, where there are no newborns, with many cases of girls and men possessed by Jinn, all of whom say that there is a woman who speaks to them and that she wants to take revenge on the whole hamlet.

A group of courtesans attempts to escape the grasp of a notorious kingpin – but political corruption and blood ties make freedom a near-impossible goal.

When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.

The series delves into real Egyptian crimes, highlighting investigations and trials that marked key moments in judicial history.

A footballer turns to petty crime when his sporting career stalls. Under the wing of a crooked cop, he soon descends deeper into the criminal underworld.

Amina tries to provide for her family, just as an old acquaintance returns after serving a prison sentence to reopen old wounds.

The play is about the work in the mortuary, the secrets of the bodies that are kept in the mortuary, the hidden world of the dead, and the many secrets that happen to them in the mortuary

The chef (Yumna) suffers from the control of her narcissistic husband (Sherif), and his control over everything. Things in their relationship develop to the point of collapse, so (Yumna) decides to take another turn in her life.

Taha Bek Barada begins his career as a young prosecutor, investigating a mysterious murder at the train station, where the victim is a young man from Upper Egypt who came to pursue his dream of acting. As evidence and speculation intertwine, Taha finds himself caught in a struggle between intuition and facts, trying to uncover the truth.

A group of university students find themselves the target of a curse killing them one by one in a manner related to their zodiac sign. Their quest to rescue themselves take them to the origin of this curse: Ancient Egypt.

When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

Only Ensaaf can reverse her grandmother’s curse on Al Samaans, but her path is paved with challenges and her destiny is tied to the success of her endeavour.

Working undercover as a sex worker in Nigeria, a young journalist out to expose corruption fights for her life as she forges a path to Europe.

Rasha’s world is upended when a man dies in her house, forcing her to hide the body from her partner and resort to ways that subject her to blackmail and fear.

In this suspenseful thriller, a police officer is trying to find clues related to the unresolved murder of a young woman, feeling haunted by her ghost along the way.

The events revolve around the lives of three childhood friends Lama, Mix, and Alfy as they transform from close companions into a clever crew of con artists, using their unique skills to outsmart the greedy and fund their wildest dreams.

As Nelson Mandela is released from 27 years in prison in 1990, Stewart 'Boetie Boer' Wilken starts his killing spree. Unlike most serial killers, he had more than one type of victim. He also claimed to engage in necrophilia and cannibalism.

The security team works to search for the criminals and arrest them after collecting sufficient information, but in a comedic and funny way, especially in the repeated clash in the thoughts and actions of the operations commander, Rashid, with one of the squad members, Ammar.

The show deals with Rahim, a rich businessman, who works in money laundry and currency smuggling. After he gets out of a long prison sentence, he finds out that his men took all his money and drove his family away. He goes on a journey to find them and get his belongings back.

The events of the series revolve around a young man who works in a security agency, and after an accident occurs that hinders him from carrying out his work duties, he is excluded from working in the agency, but at a later time the members of the security apparatus fall into confusion in front of one of the issues, and they only have to use the same The young man who was dispensed with in the past to help them unravel the mystery about this issue.

The series revolves around an investigation novel. The novel provokes five different people to commit crimes in order to achieve a fair balance in their lives. The reader must begin investigating the novel to prevent these five crimes from occurring. Our main hero, Hisham Khairy, begins reading the novel and trying to decipher its code and secrets, on a journey full of adventures and surprises. Hisham begins his investigation and visits places and characters to solve the mystery until he reaches an advanced stage of the investigation that puts him in a challenge with the writer of the novel.

Assigned to investigate the revengeful murder of an unknown man, Adam begins to uncover the truth through torn photographs he finds at his house.

Tunis' traditional districts are poor and rough but it's also when people play "Mezwed", a music believed by others from the capital to be inferior. A young man, stranger to these corners, enters them trying to prove himself

The story of the lives of sisters Rayya and Sakina, two of the most famous criminals of the 20th century in Egypt as they terrified women and masterminded dozens of deaths. The series presents the circumstances that led them to becoming criminals and the impact of the environment on their future.

A former freedom fighter orchestrates a series of heists in defiance of the law while trying to evade corrupt authorities and a cop with a tragic past.

A violent storm floods Cairo’s streets, forcing 14 strangers from different walks of life to seek shelter in a downtown café. As the night unfolds, a sudden power outage ends with one of them murdered, and paranoia grips the room as they realize the killer is among them.

‎Hilal works in the drug trade, then forces his younger religious brother Diaa to work with him, but Hilal is thrown in jail and Diaa finds himself responsible for his brother's illegal work and taking care of his family and fights a war that he knows nothing about‎‎.‎

Sakina is a girl from a poor family who lives in a popular neighborhood. Sakina is exposed to a strong shock in her adolescent, which radically changes the course of her life. Years later, life circumstances force her to return to her hometown, "Bayn Al Qosour" Sakina confronts her painful past and seeks to know the truth about what happened to her in her childhood.

When the young lawyer (Ali) receives a call from an unknown person, threatening that he has what may destroy his reputation, the events get complicated especially with the presence of many family problems that intersect with each other. Through out the series the question remains,who is that caller and what exactly does he want?

After a debilitating accident, a member of one of the security services is deemed unfit for duty and gets fired. But when his former colleagues confront a puzzling case, they are forced to call upon him to help solve the mystery.

A thriller about five friends who, after their graduation from the AUC, start working for Professor Selim Mansour, who is involved in illegal activities. But in the wake of a murder, everything changes.

The story of a rural girl named Safia whose father dies and leaves her a great inheritance. Her life takes a turn when a man claiming to be her brother suddenly appears. When he's killed, Safia is accused of the crime, forcing her to go on the run to try to prove her innocence.

Die Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless detectives - Bas Koorts and Beatrice Mack - who investigate a new phenomenon each week and try to solve crimes... even in worlds that are not our own.

A successful university professor, who seemingly leads a prosperous life, is soon revealed to have a much darker side.

The story of twin brothers who can not be any different. The first is a simple teacher who lives by his integrity, while the other is a swindler who is constantly getting himself in trouble, but his wit and his strong personality become his saving grace as they secure him a way out of trouble.

On flight 710, a number of passengers share one thing with each other: that they are all mental patients with hidden secrets. Their plans and stories converge into one fate.

The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

A mother's journey in search for her son's murderer. The story unfolds between the past, present and even nightmares which gives subtle clues and hints to guide the mother to the murderer.