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Candice Renoir – Season 2

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 doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine.

Capitaine Marleau – Season 1

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 rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

Capitaine Marleau – Season 2

Cerebrum – Season 1

Psychiatrist Henri Lacombe heads the National Institute of Mental Health. Day after day, his mission is to ease the suffering of his patients. His partner, Anne Beaulieu, is a consultant psychologist in a private clinic. The two deal with the ups and downs of everyday family life with their two children, Marine and William. Henri’s world turns upside down the day Anne doesn’t show up at the restaurant where they are supposed to meet. What happened to him?

Cheyenne & Lola

Freshly released from prison six months ago, Cheyenne clean ferries while dreaming of running off to Amazonia. Lola is a stunning, selfish Parisian with no scruples who shows up in the North of France to move in with her lover. When Lola kills her sweetheart’s wife, Cheyenne, an involuntary witness, knows she will be accused of the murder due to her record. She is obliged to seek help from the local crime lord to get rid of the body. A favor that will sweep the two women into a dangerous game of duplicity, all the while allowing them to make a fortune behind everyone’s back.

Crisis Unit – Season 1

Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen.

Delicious

With the help of a young woman, a chef who’s been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from life as a servant and opens the first restaurant in 1789 France.

DNA – Season 1

Police investigator Rolf Larsen’s little daughter disappears in tragic circumstances, while he and his colleague Jarl Skaubo take her to work. But as a system error in the police DNA register is revealed, the hope of finding her sprouts in Rolf, and we follow his hunt for answers through Europe.

Emporte-moi

A coming-of-age tale centered around Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard’s then-recent film “Vivre sa vie”. As she begins to model herself after the film’s lead role, Hannah slowly begins to explore the confusing nature of her sexuality.

Engrenages – Season 8

Spiral is a French television police and legal drama series set in Paris. The show follows the lives and work of Paris police officers and the lawyers and judges who work at the Palais de Justice.

Fidelity

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.

Flics – Season 1

Two cops: one plays by the book; the other is all instinct and rough justice. Once best friends but now sworn enemies, they tackle organised crime in this powerful French detective drama.

Flics – Season 2

Two cops: one plays by the book; the other is all instinct and rough justice. Once best friends but now sworn enemies, they tackle organised crime in this powerful French detective drama.

Freestyle

One fine morning, Louise panics as she finds herself trapped in her own car, but when she tries to get out, Paul steals it and therefore kidnaps her.

Germinal

Étienne Lantier is conscripted into the Montsou mines, where he meets the Maheu family and falls in love with their daughter Catherine; she is courted by Chaval, a brutal worker; when the Compagnie des Mines lowers wages, Étienne rebels.

Hôtel de la Plage – Season 1

At Ronce-les-Bains, a southwestern resort of France, five families meet every year at the Hotel de la Plage for an expected summer parenthesis, away from everyday life. But nothing goes as planned.

Interns – Season 1

While their hospital is under quarantine for an undetermined duration, 4 medical students must work together to assume the job of their superiors.

Interns – Season 2

It is winter. A cold virus has hit France and hospitals are overwhelmed. A pipe burst, flooding the emergency room of the Poincaré Hospital. Caregivers and patients have to retreat to internal medicine. Alyson and Hugo continue their internship in the department. Chloé does everything to come back to practice despite her fragile health. None of the three has any news of Arben, who disappeared without a word. They will have to face a hospital in crisis, under the authority of Doctor Olivier Brun, the new head of the emergency department.

Keep Going

Sibylle is a divorced mother who can no longer stand by and watch her son sink into a meaningless and violent existence, so she decides to take Samuel on a long journey through Kyrgyzstan.

La Belle et la Bête

Beauty and the Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version by Madame de Villeneuve has never been adapted for the screen… until now!