Best French Action TV Shows

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Best French Action TV Shows
Best French Action TV Shows
TOP TV Shows: Ganglands (2021), Taken (2017), The Last Panthers (2015), Contact (2015), No Limit (2012), Lupin (2021), Bonkers (1993), Arcane (2021), XIII: The Conspiracy (2008), Transporter: The Series (2012), XIII: The Series (2011), Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009), Crossing Lines (2013), Code Lyoko Evolution (2013), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), The Rookies (2006), Zig & Sharko (2010), Counterstrike (1990), Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012), Crisis Jung (2018).

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 7.2
 4K
Ganglands (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, hood
Plot: drug dealer, drug lord, organized crime, gang, criminal, thief, gang war, partners in crime, bandit, criminal gang, robbery, showdown ...
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 6.6
 12K
Taken (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job ...
Style: suspense, harsh, exciting, saga, cliffhanger ...
Plot: cia agent, ex cia agent, spy, lone hero, father daughter relationship, die hard, kidnapping, daring rescue, heroes, father, police, divorced parents ...
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The Last Panthers (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and 'banksters' now rules. Naomi is the British loss adjustor charged with recovering the ...
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: heist, gang, thief, gangster, law enforcement, police investigation, french police, insurance investigator, war, diamond theft, police, criminal gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgrade serbia, marseille, london
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 6.8
 109
Contact (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Thomas Adam has an unbelievable and strange gift: when he touches an object, he can read the memories others have left behind… including their secrets.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: supernatural ability, murder investigation, crime investigation, forensics, police investigation, supernatural power, investigation, supernatural, police detective, memories, cold case, uncover truth ...
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 6.6
 453
No Limit (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terminal illness, working undercover, undercover, secret agent, parents and children, law enforcement, murder, family relations, estrangement, secret organization, danger, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
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 7.5
 137K
Lupin (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, thief, revenge, police, father son relationship, black, heist, criminal, prisoner, father, father figure, missing person ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france, paris france
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 6.7
 2K
Bonkers (1993)
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bonkers is an animated American television series that aired from September 4, 1993 to August 24, 1995 in first-run syndication. The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon. The show was last seen on Toon ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, surreal, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: police station, anti hero, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation, goofy hero, law enforcement, incompetent police, police detective, animal life, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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 9.0
 263K
Arcane (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
Style: exciting, futuristic, anime, adult animation, suspense ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: battles, power, steampunk, legend, lgbt, fight, warrior, gang, magical, girl, skill, magic ...
Time: future
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XIII: The Conspiracy (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, assassination of president, memory loss, uncover truth, riddles and clues, on the run, protagonist as suspect, election, dishonesty, assassination, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Transporter: The Series (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Canada, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Transporter: The Series is an English-language French-Canadian action-adventure television series, spun off from the Transporter film series created by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car, driving, chase, ex law enforcer, car chase, martial arts, heroes, chases and races, rivalry, danger, escapades, ex military ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, italy
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XIII: The Series (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist, memory loss, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, who to trust, life is a bitch, dishonesty, secret service, state affairs, chases and races, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)
Genre: Short, Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story: Giovanni is an assassin living during the Renaissance in 15th century Italy. At this dawn of a new era, a conspiracy is being plotted by one corrupt family to overthrow the powerful Medici family and destroy a unified Italy. As an assassin, Giovanni ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: assassin, video game, renaissance, assassination, father son relationship, investigation, danger, injustice, family secret, undercover, conspiracy, sword and sorcery ...
Time: 15th century
Place: italy, venice, rome italy, florence
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 7.3
 14K
Crossing Lines (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our ...
Style: detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic, dramatic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, police, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigator, forensics, law enforcement, organized crime, partner, chief of police, suspicion, hunt down ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe
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Code Lyoko Evolution (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action
Country: France
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Jérémie, Aelita, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd and William return to their daily lives as students of Kadic College. But XANA, the multi-agent program that had become their mortal enemy and that they had managed to destroy in their previous adventures, ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, man versus machine, danger, technology gone awry, artificial intelligence, rivalry, young heroes, escapades, computers and web, disorder, parallel world, mad scientist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. The pilot was shown during the week of December 14, 1987 in syndication as a five-part miniseries and began its official run on October 1, ...
Style: anime, retro, exciting, humorous, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: ninja turtle, mutant, martial arts, turtle, superhero, invasion, werewolf, mutant animal, master warrior, good versus evil, friends, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 6.8
 195
The Rookies (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: rookie, police academy, police protagonist, police, gay, female police officer, workplace, partners against crime, fighting crime, police detective, workplace situations, police partner ...
Place: paris france, france
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 6.8
 901
Zig & Sharko (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 7 min.
TV show
Story: On a desert island lives a starving hyena with one obsession: devour that delicious mermaid from the rock in the lagoon. But the lovely fish-girl’s best friend is a shark, a shark with a lot of muscle and who loves to sabotage the hyena’s every ...
Style: feel good, not serious, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: hyena, anthropomorphism, rivalry, friendship, surrealism, animal that acts human, obsession, anthropomorphic animal, friends, farce, animal life, humour ...
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 7.2
 229
Counterstrike (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, 007, crime fighter, espionage, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, vengeance, fighting crime, private detective ...
Time: 80s
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Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology MĂ©tal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common ...
Style: anthology, captivating, exciting, serious, saga ...
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, distant planet, mortal combat, imaginary, rivalry, androids and robots, collision, battles, fight, alternate reality, alternate dimension ...
Time: future
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 7.2
 286
Crisis Jung (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome to a world ravaged by explosions of violence, a world without love. Jung, the broken-hearted hero, pursues his quest: reunite with Maria, his lost love.
Style: anime, tense, suspenseful, brutal, captivating ...
Plot: struggle for survival, self discovery, fantasy world, brutality, dream world, extreme violence, fight, battles, martial arts, lost, fighting
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Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 13 min.
TV show
Story: Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim, is an animated series set in the world of the Dofus MMORPG. Unlike its sister series, Wakfu, there is no great overarching adventure to be had, nor any powerful villain to thwart. In fact, the central premise of the ...
Style: captivating, stylized, intense, entertaining, anime ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: obsessive quest, adventurer, friendship, treasure hunt, mythology, mentor, team, good versus evil, peril, magical, courage, fantasy world ...
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 7.9
 2K
Mighty Max (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mighty Max is an American animated action/sci-fi television series that aired from 1993 to 1994 to promote the British Mighty Max toys, an outgrowth of the Polly Pocket line, created by Bluebird Toys in 1992. It ran for two seasons, with a total of ...
Style: anime, fast, serious, exciting, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, sword and sorcery, missing person, warrior, chosen one, bird, good versus evil, destiny, partner, security guard, viking, prophecy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog is an Irish/American television series set in a fantasy version of ancient Ireland, created by Saban Entertainment. It was loosely based on actual Irish mythology. The name derives from Tír na nÓg, one of the ...
Style: cult classic
Audience: kids
Plot: medieval, magical creature, fairy, evil queen, wizard, sorcery, thief, apprentice, tyrant, sorceress, druid, legend ...
Place: ireland
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 8.7
 20K
Primal (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, France
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.
Style: sincere, disturbing, prehistoric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: dinosaur, caveman, violence, danger, survival, barbarian, hunter, eaten alive, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch, revenge, sword and sorcery ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
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 5.4
 210
Atomic Puppet (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
TV show
Story: Superhero Captain Atomic suffers a setback as he is shaking hands with Joey, a 12-year-old fan, when his disgruntled sidekick transforms him into a powerless puppet. The suddenly not-so-super superhero quickly realizes that the only way he can ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, school, friendship, escapades, mission, good versus evil, race against time, heroism, group of friends, supernatural power, teamwork, heroes ...
Place: canada
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Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism ...
Style: retro
Plot: secret agent, hotel, beach, investigation, woman with a gun, female warrior, modeling, photo model, computer, top secret, former spy, spy mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: acapulco mexico, mexico
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Xiaolin Chronicles (2013)
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Xiaolin Chronicles is a Canadian animated/CG television series and the revival and sequel series to Xiaolin Showdown. The series premiered on August 26, 2013, with three back-to-back episodes serving as a preview. The full series premiered on ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, stylized
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: martial arts, heroes, good versus evil, heroic mission, battles, monastery, danger, kung fu, shaolin monk, imaginary, ethnicity, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 7.0
 183
Dragon Flyz (1996)
Genre: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: In a future decimated by war, only a small band of humans survive. The radiation from the war has created many new species, including huge, semi-intelligent dragons and evil mutants. The only source of power is the volcanic stone amber, but locating ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
Audience: teens
Plot: sword and sorcery, mutant, good versus evil, partner, dystopian future, radiation, heroic mission, island, nuclear holocaust, survival, heroes, escapades ...
Time: future
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Monster Buster Club (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Monster Buster Club is a television series by Marathon Production and Image Entertainment Corporation. The show debuted on June 2, 2008 on Jetix in Europe, June 9, 2008 in the United States and in Asia on May 3, 2008. This show is about three ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, futuristic
Audience: kids
Plot: save the world, good versus evil, teamwork, superhero team, alien invasion, superhero, showdown, young heroes, heroes, alien contact, teenager, alien technology ...
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The New Avengers (1976)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series produced during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series, The Avengers and was developed by original series producers Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. The ...
Style: hilarious, spoof, parody, vintage, eurospy
Audience: kids
Plot: police, colleague, robot, superhero, master criminal, master warrior, avenger, world domination, spy hero, british intelligence, warrior, fistfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england
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