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Mafiosa – Season 3

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.

Mafiosa – Season 4

Mafiosa – Season 5

Sandra’s reclaimed her throne in Bastia but fights dissention over the Paoli clan’s ferry business as the fifth series of the gritty, Corsica-set crime drama begins.

Maison Close – Season 1

Set in Paris in 1871, this is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel ‘Paradise’. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, who was a former prostitute. Searching in brothels, she was trapped and forced to enrol in Paradise. Meanwhile Vera is 35 and is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise who takes care of the girls and must avoid a thug who is charging her money.

Maison Close – Season 2

The brothel, ‘Le Paradis’, now collectively managed by its prostitutes, enjoys a period of commercial success once again. However the Paris vice squad wants to put an end to that revived utopia and pushes for a return to public morality. Hortense, Rose and Véra must ally themselves with a young and flamboyant Parisian gangster who takes the opportunity to establish his quarters in the brothel.

Manon Five Years On

A few years after leaving reform school, Manon aged 20 has acquired her diploma as a mechanic. The person we came to know as a teenager must now face up to the working world. Manon’s violent tendencies come to the surface again as she encounters disappointment and conflict when trying to juggle her work, love life and complex relationship with her mother.

Maria Into Life

Shy cleaning lady Maria is assigned to the School of Fine Arts and meets whimsical tutor Hubert. She discovers a fascinating new world where freedom, creativity and audacity reign.

Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France’s male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

Meander

After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter.

Midnight Sun – Season 1

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 the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg.

Missions – Season 1

The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for their mental health. But just as they are about to land, something goes wrong.

Missions – Season 2

Five years have passed since the return of Ulysses’ crew to Earth. The memories and traumas of the first trip to Mars still haunt every survivor of the mission. But a vision of Jeanne shared by each of them will change everything. From now on, they are sure of it: she is alive. Somewhere. Under the aegis of William Meyer and in the greatest secrecy, a new mission for the Red Planet is launched to find it. But the billionaire did not reveal all his secrets to his crew. Mars no more.

Mother Is Wrong – Season 1

When a three-and-a-half-year-old boy tells a school psychologist that his mother is not his real mommy, he seeks the help of a police captain who’s reluctant to take on the case as she’s already occupied by a major robbery investigation.

My Sole Desire

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow strippers, particularly Mia, an aspiring actress with a boyfriend and child. Manon learns that it is “not easy money, but fast money” and when she finds herself falling for Mia, she is forced to question her priorities as she explores her newfound erotic life.

Night Shift

Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant out of the country. During the trip, the officers begin to feel the guilt associated with their mission.

No Limit – Season 1

A potentially fatal brain tumor forces Vincent Liberatti to abandon the glamour of a globetrotting secret agent’s life and return to Marseille to be close to his teen daughter Lola and ex-wife Alexandra. In order to receive an experimental medical treatment, Vincent agrees to join Hydra, a confidential organization set up by secret services to fight organized crime on the French Riviera with illegal means. As if it was not enough, Vincent still isn’t over Alexandra and is still trying to figure out Lola. It’s a superhuman task, but wisecracking, quick-witted, all-action hero Vincent Liberatti is the man for the job.

No Limit – Season 2

Vincent Liberati is back! And as if a tangled family life and an incurable tumor weren’t trouble enough, the ultra-secret agent now has to get used to working with Hydra’s newest recruit, Bertrand, the latest flame of his ex-wife, Alexandra. Sparks will fly even if the two rivals are supposed to collaborate to bring down a mysterious criminal organization, the Black Hand, run by Franck Koskas, a former Special Forces colonel.

No Limit – Season 3

Super agent Vincent Liberati, after two years of service in the secret government agency Hydra, dreams of changing his life. With his brain tumor finally healed, he no longer feels the need to take on Hydra’s top secret missions, and plans to go back to his ex-wife Alexandra and their daughter Lola. But his last mission changes everything. Severe liver damage from toxic gas poisoning makes a transplant an urgent necessity. The only person with a compatible liver? His father, with whom he fell out twenty years ago, now penned up in a Columbian prison. Not just your ordinary guy. Vincent’s father is still well known among Marseille Mafioso as “The Magician.”

No Second Chance

How far will you go to save your child? Alice has no choice. She will go as far as it takes. But as she descends into her own private hell, dark secrets about the past begin to surface.

Nude – Season 1

A police inspector who wakes up from an eight year coma must adapt to the radical change that everyone living in France is naked. He soon learns that not everyone agrees with the government’s mandatory nudity policy.