Best French Crime TV Shows

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Best French Crime TV Shows
Best French Crime TV Shows
TOP TV Shows: Spiral (2005), Candice Renoir (2013), Braquo (2009), Balthazar (2018), The Mantis (2017), Ganglands (2021), Paris Police 1900 (2021), The Forest (2017), Death in Paradise (2011), Black Spot (2017), Art of Crime (2017), Profiling Paris (2009), Captain Sharif (2013), Murders in... (2013), Perfect Murders (2017), Mafiosa (2006), Fabio Montale (2001), Jo (2013), Falco (2013), Capitain Marleau (2014).

List of Best TV Shows

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 8.5
 7K
Spiral (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Spiral is a French television police drama series created by the TV production company Son et Lumière. The first eight episodes series started on Canal+ in France on 13 December 2005. It returned for a second series, partly funded by the BBC, of ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: lawyer, police, judge, double life, uncover truth, legal, murder, police detective, legal investigation, suspicion, twists and turns, trial ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Candice Renoir (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who ...
Style: realistic, captivating, detective, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: police, policewoman, female detective, police investigation, workplace situations, law enforcement, new job, family relations, police detective, female protagonist, woman, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
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 7.9
 4K
Braquo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: A group of police officers in Paris use violence and intimidation to solve crimes.
Style: bleak, tense, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: police corruption, against the rules, partner, police brutality, right and wrong, law enforcement, police, temperamental, crime investigation, uncover truth, cold case, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 7.6
 2K
Balthazar (2018)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.
Style: psychological, realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: police, murder, policewoman, investigation, police investigation, pathologist, murder investigation, workplace situations, police detective, nypd, crime scene, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: france
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 7.4
 14K
The Mantis (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, detective, surprise ending, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, whodunit, murder investigation, haunted by the past, killings, strong female character, maniac, sociopath, murder mystery, murder, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
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HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
TV show
Story: Morgane is 38 years old. She raises her 3 children alone. She manages (or not) her 2 exes and her various credits. Her 160 IQ scores spoil her life a bit until the day when Morgane sees her destiny as a cleaning lady turned upside down. Her ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, tense, detective ...
Plot: amateur detective, female detective, genius, single parent, whodunit, police, police partner, detective inspector, single mother, police detective, uncover truth, investigation ...
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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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Paris Police 1900 (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.
Style: detective, neo noir, captivating, tense, costume drama ...
Plot: french police, spy, intrigue, investigation, murder investigation, police detective, political intrigue, crime investigation, cold case, homicide detective, organized crime, crime solving ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place: france, paris france
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 7.2
 13K
The Forest (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 313 min.
TV show
Story: In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, twist ending, dark ...
Plot: forest, police, lost child, police investigation, mind game, investigation, twists and turns, missing child, secrets, partner, police detective, deception ...
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Death in Paradise (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with ...
Style: realistic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, police investigation, lifestyle change, murder, island, whodunit, investigator, suspicion, new job, multiple suspects, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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 7.4
 14K
Black Spot (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper ...
Style: scenic, dark, suspense, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: murder, supernatural, forest, small town, police, investigation, missing child, secret, isolation, danger, crime investigation, nature ...
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 7.2
 916
Art of Crime (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: fighting crime, art critic, crime solving, art theft, uncover truth, art thief, partners against crime, partner, teamwork, secret revealed, unsolved crime, theft ...
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Profiling Paris (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little girl who need a doll, but she's very smart and a ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: profiler, criminal psychologist, police investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime, unlikely partners, workplace situations, psychologist, partner, law enforcement, workplace, murder investigation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 7.2
 491
Captain Sharif (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Police Captain Kader Cherif knows the city like the back of his hand, and, as someone could say, never leaves his duty, because his apartment located on the first floor of the building opposite to the police station. He is assigned to investigate ...
Style: detective, disturbing, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, police investigation, police detective, workplace situations, murder investigation, crime investigation, serial killer, expert, forensics, law enforcement, police station, law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 6.8
 353
Murders in... (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: murder, murder investigation, investigation, murderer, violence, partner, who done it, partners against crime, friendship, law enforcement, death, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Perfect Murders (2017)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: forensics, uncover truth, investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, unsolved crime, police investigation, criminal, sleuth, crime solving, homicide detective ...
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 7.2
 687
Mafiosa (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, betrayal, drug dealing, gang, family problems, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 6.9
 285
Fabio Montale (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fabio Montale, a crime squad superintendent who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. The city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia – all standing in the way of justice.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: investigation, police, forensics, fighting crime, murder investigation, mafia, police investigation, police detective, sleuth, unsolved crime, homicide detective, uncover truth ...
Place: marseille
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 6.5
 2K
Jo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 366 min.
TV show
Story: Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, danger, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, criminal, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 7.3
 477
Falco (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, philosophical, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: police detective, true love, coma, life & death, deception, police investigation, dying, danger, life philosophy, getting home, showdown, peril ...
Time: future
Place: france
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Capitain Marleau (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior - Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never ...
Style: detective, light, entertaining, humorous
Plot: police, law enforcement, policewoman, workplace, investigation, uptight character, sarcasm, unconventional method, women, female partner, organized crime, police investigation ...
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 5.7
 487
Possessions (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?
Style: contemplative, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: murder investigation, murder, who done it, police investigation, society, uncover truth, danger, investigation, police detective, youth, violence, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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Forgotten Girls (2007)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: A detective works to solve a string of cases involving missing girls.
Style: detective, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, suspense
Plot: serial killer, female victim, crime solving, homicidal maniac, murder mystery, who done it, investigation, unsolved crime, murder investigation, cold case, killings, uncover truth ...
Place: flanders
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 6.5
 301
Frank Riva (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story: After 25 years in exile, undercover cop Frank Riva comes back in Paris. He faces mob boss Norbert Loggia and his son Maxime, who put a bounty on his head during the French Connection days.
Style: dramatic, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
Plot: investigation, mafia, police, drug, police commissioner, organized crime, police officer, criminal, commissioner, criminal underworld
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 7.2
 3K
Witnesses (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: A young female detective is put in charge of a case and must delve into her partner's mysterious past in order to solve it.
Style: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, serious, noir ...
Plot: who done it, police investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, law enforcement, grave robbing, under the surface, village, nordic, policewoman, revenge, retirement ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, normandy
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 5.6
 243
Research Unit (2006)
Genre: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The police work of a special Gendarmerie unit that operates in Bordeaux, their complicated cases and the interpersonal relationships established among the team members.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: gendarme, police, partners against crime, police detective, crime solving, police investigation, investigation, homicide detective, fighting crime, partner, police officer, cold case ...
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The Crimson Rivers (2018)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, detective
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, police detective, blood, murder, police, secret society, religious sect, relationships, adaptation, police investigation, investigation ...
Place: france
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 7.4
 5K
Midnight Sun (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, frenchwoman, murder, conspiracy, murder investigation, homicide detective, female protagonist, danger, nordic, small town, twists and turns, sapmi ...
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 7.7
 4K
Spotless (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in London, SPOTLESS is the story of a troubled crime scene cleaner, Jean, whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
Style: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disorder, haunted by the past, family problems, violent content, gangster, brother brother relationship, murder, crime boss, graphic violence, courtroom drama, mental health, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, france
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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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