Best dramas on Netflix

Hundreds of financially disadvantaged players take part in a series of twisted children's games with a life-changing cash prize for one winning contestant. Starring Lee Jung-jae, Wi Ha-joon and Park Hae-soo

Members of a family that controls a North Carolina fishing empire are pitted against each other in a tense eight-part drama inspired by true events, written for the screen by Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson. Patriarch Harlan Buckley (Holt McCallany) recovers from two heart attacks and is forced to hand over the reins temporarily to his wife Belle (Maria Bello) and son Cane (Jake Weary) to keep the business afloat. Rivals scent blood in the water and begin to circle the close-knit community of Havenport so Harlan resumes command. Daughter Bree (Melissa Benoist) is a recovering addict, who is scarred by the loss of custody of her son Diller (Brady Hepner). She attempts to atone for the past but finds herself snagged in a dangerous and complicated relationship that could tarnish the Buckleys' legacy, which spans the local fishing industry and restaurants in town

Kieran Elliott (Charlie Vickers) returns to his Tasmanian hometown with his wife Mia (Yerin Ha) and their baby daughter to introduce the little one to his parents, Brian (Damien Garvey) and Verity (Robyn Malcolm). It has been 15 years since Kieran was in Evelyn Bay and two people drowned and a young girl went missing during a huge storm. A young woman is found on the beach and the past returns to haunt Kieran with a vengeance. The investigation into the suspicious death reopens the community's wounds and compels the Elliotts to confess their sins in a six-part Australian thriller based on Jane Harper's novel

Detective Carl Morck has few friends at work in the Edinburgh police force in a gritty eight-part investigation based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's series of books. When he is involved in a fatal shooting that costs a young officer his life, superiors consign Morck to the basement to head up a newly created task force, Department Q, to prevent any further damage to the force's reputation. Morck's team are charged with reviewing cold cases - a thankless task with a statistically low chance of success. This band of misfits includes self-doubting rookie Rose and Akram Salim. When Morck's relentless pursuit of the truth unearths new leads into the unsolved disappearance of a prominent civil servant several years ago, he seizes a second chance at professional glory aided by police therapist Dr Rachel Irving

Devon DeWitt (Meghann Fahy) is incredulous when her younger sister Simone (Milly Alcock) sends a fruit basket to their Navy veteran father Bruce (Bill Camp) in response to devastating news that he has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Travelling to her sister's place of work at the lavish island estate of Cliff House, Devon is horrified to discover that her sibling is under the spell of her boss, philanthropist and animal activist Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore). The cult-like retreat is financed by Michaela's billionaire husband Peter (Kevin Bacon) and attracts the creme de la creme of society, who flock to the hostess like moths to a flame. Over the course of a Labour Day weekend, Devon stages an intervention to wrestle Simone away from Michaela and her creepy acolytes including gardener Jose (Felix Solis), who is actually the shadowy head of security at Cliff House.

Kaitlyn Dever and Alycia Debnam-Carey headline an unsettling Australian drama set at the birth of Instagram, inspired by a true story detailed in Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano's book The Woman Who Fooled The World. Health and wellness blogger Milla Blake (Debnam-Carey) charts her journey with terminal illness to her followers. Ambitious rival Belle Gibson (Dever) also claims to have cancer and attracts a larger global online community than Milla by boldly claiming that she has beaten the disease through clean living. She courts celebrity and accolades by peddling a dangerous and inspiring lie that real-life patients consume in the hope of a similar recovery

Crime drama about a 13-year-old boy arrested for the murder of a classmate, filmed as one continuous unbroken shot