Best French TV shows – page 2

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Family Business (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story: After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, funny
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannabis, marijuana, family relations, drug dealer, business partner, drug, family business, big business, buddy, danger, society, friendship ...
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 8.1
 21K
The Returned (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 418 min.
TV show
Story: In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
Style: mind bending, atmospheric, surreal, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, resurrection, teenage life, supernatural, accident, small town, dealing with death, haunted by the past, small town life, death, living dead, zombie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Long, Long Holiday (2015)
Genre: Animation, Family, War
Country: France
TV show
Story: The daily life of 2 kids brother and sister, who are left by their parents at their grandparents’ house near the Normandy coast for a few weeks at the beginning of World War II. As the war rumbles on, those weeks become five years.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: world war two, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, family problems, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, brother brother relationship, grandson, grandmother granddaughter relationship, granddaughter ...
Place: france, normandy
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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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 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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 7.6
 12K
Bordertown (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
Style: detective, noir, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: border, crime investigation, small town, nordic, police detective, family relations, police, teenage girl, corruption, eccentricity, danger, serial killer ...
Place: finland, russia
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 7.2
 5K
Devils (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: finance, conspiracy, bank manager, businessman, job, scandal, coping, partners in crime, ambition, fired from the job, rivalry, blackmail ...
Place: switzerland
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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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 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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 7.5
 796
Spin (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no ...
Style: tense, captivating, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: politics, political intrigue, rivalry, campaign, head of state, rise to the top, media, workplace situations, ambition, president, white house, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Disappearance (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every ...
Style: psychological, detective, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, jealousy, family relations, betrayal, police, nordic, partner, twists and turns, abduction, danger, intrigue ...
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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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 7.8
 558
Vermin (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
TV show
Story: It’s the story of a praying mantis who goes off the city to become a policeman and is going to suffer a lot. It’s a bit like Zootopia but without being tolerant.
Style: adult animation, anime, psychological, detective, captivating
Plot: satire, police, animal that acts human, police detective, homicide detective, police officer, absurd humor, animal, humour, adult humor
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Carlos the Jackal (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 334 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Style: suspenseful, political, atmospheric, captivating, epic ...
Plot: terrorism, revolutionary, murderer, terrorist, gunfight, biopic, politics, revolution, mossad, character study, danger, mission ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2010, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: south america, lebanon, palestine, israel, berlin germany ...
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 7.3
 630
Guyane (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, semi serious
Plot: gold mine, jungle, danger, golddigger, survival, organized crime, greed, geologist, intern, trainee, murder, chase ...
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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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 7.1
 2K
Gone (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.
Style: captivating, detective, suspense, serious, compassionate ...
Plot: fbi, police investigation, strong female lead, workplace situations, female protagonist, trial, justice, legal, courtroom, starting over, nobody believes, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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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 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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 7.9
 49K
The Spy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
Style: factual, serious, realistic, historical drama, exciting ...
Plot: espionage, mossad, spy, israeli palestinian conflict, secret mission, politics, arab, national security, arab israeli conflict, secrets, history lesson, real life ...
Time: 2010s, 60s
Place: middle east, syria, israel
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 6.6
 4K
Ransom (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.
Style: tense, suspenseful, compassionate, brutal, detective ...
Plot: hostage negotiator, criminal, abduction, salvation, violence, partner, police, twists and turns, danger, catastrophe, exodus, badass ...
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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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 7.9
 11K
The Tunnel (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, police detective, social worker, murder, law enforcement, hunt down, tunnel, casual sex, bodies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: english channel, europe, england, france
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Oggy and the Cockroaches (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 8 min.
TV show
Story: Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French animated comedy series produced by Xilam and Gaumont Film Company.
Style: humorous, not serious, exciting, anime, retro ...
Audience: toddlers, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: chase, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, cat, cockroach, animal protagonist, dark humor, father son relationship, fight, disorder, insect, cartoon cat ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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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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 6.2
 124
Your Honor (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
TV show
Story: Richard Altman, a respected judge, is forced to sacrifice everything he has worked for when his son Lucas commits a hit-and-run, leaving a man for dead. At first, Richard wants his son to do the right thing, but he changes his mind when he realizes ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot: criminal, judge, family relations, father son relationship, crime boss, moral dilemma, father and son, life is a bitch, mafioso, accident
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The Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Ireland, USA, Germany
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during ...
Style: humorous, not serious, offbeat, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, family life, social relations, buddies, friends, plan gone awry, fish, eccentric family, youth, teenage life, ghost, teacher ...
Time: 2010s
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Sweet Valley High (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sweet Valley High is an American comedy-drama series very loosely based on Francine Pascal's book series of the same name. The series ran from September 5, 1994 to October 14, 1997, and was produced by Saban Entertainment. The rights are now ...
Style: sweet, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, occupation, sister sister relationship, twin sister, teenage life, friendship, best friend, friends, family relations, disorder, shopping ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california, pacific ocean
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 7.7
 7K
Calls (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: A series of interconnected phone conversations chronicling the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: mysticism, telephone call, riddles and clues, cell phone, phone terror, paranoia, fear, murder, reporter, scared, violent, cursed object ...
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The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Travel with Tintin, the young and intrepid Belgian reporter, and his faithful dog Snowy as they take you from Tibet to the Moon, or from Egypt to the depths of the sea -- solving mysteries, pursuing truth and justice, and gambling with their lives.
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dog, investigation, tintin, young heroes, escapades, journalism, chases and races, friends, incompetent police, pets, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, belgium
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