Exploring the World of Crime Thrillers: 10 Shows Like ‘Lucky’ You Should Watch

The latest hit from Reese Witherspoon’s production powerhouse Hello Sunshine, ‘Lucky’, has taken the world by storm, and fans are craving more. Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, this crime thriller follows Anya Taylor-Joy as Luciana ‘Lucky’ Armstrong, a con-artist forced to go on the run when a heist goes sideways. When you’re done watching ‘Lucky’ and are craving more, here are 10 crime thrillers like it that you should watch next.

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Good Girls (2018 – 2021)

Starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman, ‘Good Girls’ follows three moms in suburban Michigan who concoct a scheme to rob the local grocery store to solve their financial troubles. The gang leader whose money they unknowingly stole wants it back, and the store manager who spotted one of their tattoos is threatening blackmail. It’s a solid comedy-drama with a talented cast of characters who keep finding themselves in deeper and deeper trouble.

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• Stream Good Girls on Netflix.

Poker Face (2023 – 2025)

Created by Knives Out writer/director Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne, ‘Poker Face’ pays tribute to Columbo in its mystery-anthology format. One-time cocktail waitress Charlie Cale, on the run from a ruthless casino magnate, travels the backroads of North America and encounters murder pretty much everywhere she goes. Fortunately, Charlie has an uncanny ability to tell when people are lying, as well as a handy penchant for finding under-the-table work.

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• Stream Poker Face on Peacock.

Confidence Queen (2025)

This South Korean import follows Yoon Yi-rang (Park Min-young) as she leads a team of confident tricksters who prey exclusively on other criminals and crooked business-types. As the series starts, things are coming apart: Yi-rang’s childhood friend Gu-ho wants out, no longer sure that he’s cut out for a life of crime. When the team breaks up, the more experienced James sets out on his own—only to turn up later, beaten nearly to death at the hands of a famous corporate CEO.

• Stream Confidence Queen on Prime Video.

Barracuda Queens (2023 – )

Based in Sweden, ‘Barracuda Queens’ follows four mostly wealthy, privileged, and largely unsympathetic young women who wake up after a night of partying to discover that they’ve run up rather massive bills that their parents aren’t going to be responsible for. Coming up with a plan to steal from the home of another very rich family in the neighborhood, they’re very nearly caught before circumstances lead them into stealing not just to cover up their own indiscretions, but to get back at some assholes who’ve wronged them.

• Stream Barracuda Queens on Netflix.

Steal (2026)

Sophie Turner stars as Zara Dunne, a trade processor at a major London pension management company. A group of well-trained and armed individuals take the office staff hostage and arrange for trades to the tune of around £4 billion—nearly every penny to the firm’s name. During the heist, Zara interacts with the firm’s bank in order to confirm the transactions or, at least, so it seems. When co-workers discuss the possibility of an inside job at the end of the first episode, Zara’s rather cheeky smile might well suggest to you that she knows quite a bit more than she’s letting on.

• Stream Steal on Prime Video.

Queen of the South (2016 – 2021)

Very loosely based on true events, ‘Queen’ stars Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza, who we meet as the head of a vast drug empire, before we flash back to witness her rise. A poor girl in Sinaloa, Mexico, she becomes the girlfriend of a drug dealer who ends up on the wrong side of his bosses. Teresa flees the country, setting out on an action-fueled journey to the top of her own criminal empire.

• Buy Queen of the South from Prime Video.

Inventing Anna (2022)

TV’s reigning monarch Shonda Rhimes brought us this true-crime drama about Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, a Russian émigré who posed as a wealthy German heiress and eventually scammed New York City’s wealthy elite out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Julia Garner plays the con-artist with a whackadoo accent and an appropriately high level of commitment. The show’s non-linear narrative reveals the elements of the scam in such a way as to emphasize the ways in which people were very keen to believe her even when doing so began to seem very dumb.

• Stream Inventing Anna on Netflix.

Big Little Lies (2017 – )

These rich ladies are going through it, and just because they’ve got beautiful homes and nice clothes doesn’t mean they’re not getting the full treatment. As the series opens, five women (played by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz) become involved in a murder investigation connected to a school fundraiser that threatens to bring all of their private dirt out into the open—and there are secrets aplenty to uncover.

• Stream Big Little Lies on HBO Max.

Killing Eve (2018 – 2022)

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer star as the two halves of television’s great cat-and-mouse, will-they-won’t-they narratives, with Oh as Eve Polastri, a bored MI5 analyst who becomes obsessed with hunting down the brutal, notorious assassin known only as Villanelle. It starts as a professional compulsion before it gets personal, and it soon becomes clear that the fascination goes both ways.

• Stream Killing Eve on Prime Video, Paramount+, Britbox, and Netflix.

The Brothers Sun (2024)

A fun crime comedy, ‘The Brothers Sun’ stars Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh as Eileen Sun, the exiled head of a family of Taiwanese mobsters who get caught up in a series of hilarious misadventures. As the series unfolds, the Sun family finds themselves in increasingly absurd and humorous situations, all while trying to maintain their dignity and reputation in the face of their own ineptitude.

• Stream The Brothers Sun on Netflix.