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Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of unapologetic realism, where characters face the darkest corners of human existence. Gritty movies and TV shows are not for the faint of heart, but for those who crave authentic storytelling that pushes the boundaries of emotional depth. From intense drama to unflinching action, we'll guide you through the best of the best, exploring the complexities of the human condition.

Cast

Bob Odenkirk

Jonathan Banks

Rhea Seehorn

Tony Dalton

Better Call Saul (2015) TV Show

8.7 6.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 63

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

Style: gritty

Plot: new mexico, moral conflict, crooked lawyer, prequel, romance, dark comedy, family relationships, tragedy, ...

Cast

Helen Mirren

Harrison Ford

Brandon Sklenar

Julia Schlaepfer

1923 (2022) TV Show

8.3 795 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Style: gritty

Plot: africa, montana, sequel, prequel, range war, cattle ranch, yellowstone, big game hunter, ...

Time: 1920s, 20th century

Cast

Alexander Dreymon

Eliza Butterworth

Mark Rowley

Ruby Hartley

The Last Kingdom (2015) TV Show

8.3 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 46

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

Style: dark, gritty, violent

Plot: based on novel or book, vikings (norsemen), royalty, historical fiction, king, historical, historical drama, costume drama, ...

Time: 9th century, middle ages

Prison Playbook (2017) TV Show

8.2 104 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.

Style: gritty, witty

Plot: prison, corruption, baseball, prisoner, gangster, dark comedy, baseball player

Cast

Pedro Pascal

Matias Varela

Damiu00e1n Alcu00e1zar

Francisco Denis

Narcos (2015) TV Show

8.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: cocaine, drug dealer, outlaw, based on true story, drug cartel, conflict, drugs, drug lord, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: colombia

Cast

Jung Hae-in

Koo Kyo-hwan

Kim Sung-kyun

Son Suk-ku

D.P. (2021) TV Show

8.0 267 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

Style: melancholy, dark, gritty

Plot: desertion, investigation, based on comic, mission, escape, soldier, military life, military police, ...

Cast

Mariska Hargitay

Ice-T

Kelli Giddish

Peter Scanavino

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) TV Show

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 28

Episodes: 595

Audience: TV-14

Story: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: detective, sexual abuse, sex scandal, domestic abuse, sexual violence, domestic violence, criminal, sex trafficking, ...

Cast

Scoot McNairy

Josu00e9 Maru00eda Yu00e1zpik

Alejandro Edda

Luis Gerardo Mu00e9ndez

Narcos: Mexico (2018) TV Show

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: corruption, cocaine, tiger, usa–mexico border, based on true story, drug cartel, marijuana, mariachi, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: mexico

Cast

Brenton Thwaites

Anna Diop

Teagan Croft

Ryan Potter

Titans (2018) TV Show

7.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 49

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

Style: gritty

Plot: secret identity, superhero, based on comic, superhero team, young heroes, teen superhero, adventure

Cast

Tom Hardy

David Hayman

Jonathan Pryce

Oona Chaplin

Taboo (2017) TV Show

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

Style: dark, slow burn, gritty

Plot: london, england, africa, corruption, blackmail, british empire, greed, investigation, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Jack O'Connell

Michelle Dockery

Scoot McNairy

Merritt Wever

Godless (2017) TV Show

7.8 717 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: gunslinger, sheriff, new mexico, wanted poster, widow, mining accident, outlaw, on the run, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Saif Ali Khan

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Pankaj Tripathi

Kalki Koechlin

Sacred Games (2018) TV Show

7.8 252 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, investigation, conspiracy, torture, drugs, criminal underworld, police officer, ...

Time: 1980s, 1990s

Sanctuary (2023) TV Show

7.8 60 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A tough, desperate kid becomes a sumo wrestler, captivating fans with his cocky attitude — and upsetting an industry steeped in tradition.

Style: gritty

Plot: infidelity, sports, revenge, rivalry, coming of age, death, sumo, furyo, ...

Cast

Tom Sharp

Rose Reid

The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin (2026) TV Show

7.5 47 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Family

Country: Hungary, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: Merlin, the immortal son of the bard Taliesin and Atlantean Princess Charis, is followed through his tragic upbringing, descent into madness, and shocking disappearance, leading to the legend that surrounds him. Set before King Arthur's birth, Merlin, assumed dead or a myth, reemerges in sub-Roman Britain to unite the fractured kingdoms under threat from Saxon invaders.

Style: gritty

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, camelot, kingdom, sword fight, king arthur, excalibur, wizard, ...

Cast

Kim Woo-bin

Kang You-seok

Esom

Song Seung-heon

Black Knight (2023) TV Show

7.4 309 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: competition, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, miniseries, social injustice, class conflict, discrimination, mysterious, ...

Time: 2070s

Cast

Zahn McClarnon

Kiowa Gordon

Jessica Matten

Deanna Allison

Dark Winds (2022) TV Show

7.4 198 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 28

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

Style: gritty

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, new mexico, indigenous, investigation, navajo, shaman, witchcraft, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Tosin Cole

Nadine Mills

Eric Kofi Abrefa

Calvin Demba

Supacell (2024) TV Show

7.4 258 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When five ordinary South Londoners discover they have extraordinary powers, it's down to just one man to bring them together to save the woman he loves.

Style: gritty

Plot: hip-hop, anthology, superhero

Cast

Chris Hemsworth

Golshifteh Farahani

Adam Bessa

Tornike Gogrichiani

Extraction 2 (2023)

7.4 3.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

Style: gritty

Plot: explosive, mercenary, rescue mission, sequel, revenge, georgia europe, criminal underworld, based on graphic novel, ...

Cast

Monica Aldama

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Gabi Butler

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Morgan Simianer

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La'Darius Marshall

Cheer (2020) TV Show

7.3 146 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Story: The stakes on the mat are high, but for these cheerleaders, the only thing more brutal than their workouts and more exceptional than their performances are the stories of adversity and triumph behind the athletes themselves.

Style: gritty, captivating

Plot: competition, dance, college, cheerleading, reality, exciting, sport

Seven Seconds (2018) TV Show

7.3 162 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: corruption, new jersey, hit-and-run, cover-up, miniseries, rogue cop, racial tension, social issues

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