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A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism, theater or politics, the trait is fierce and portraits without concession.
As he approaches sixty, the time has come for Pierre Leprieur to take stock of his life. What did he accomplish and what did he mess up during his life? He was formerly an influential trade unionist on the docks at Le Havre. The passing years saw his relationship with his wife and his now-adult children subside. One evening, with his whole family gathered together to celebrate his birthday, the party is ruined. His sons, Jean and Simon, find themselves accused of mass drug trafficking. Whilst their sister, Emma, a criminal lawyer, tries to get them out of this difficult situation, Pierre, who si convinced that he is being targeted, does his utmost to help them. Yet he knows that if he roots around too much, he could end up unearthing truths best left untold.
Catherine Tannerre, a young journalist, witnesses a pact of friendship between three Frenchmen in Vietnam. Each takes a different path: one is a priest helping the local people, the second aspires to become an advisor to the Emperor, and the last longs to start a family. But their destinies become intertwined, and Catherine soon suffers heartbreak and betrayal...
Paul Vilar, a former officer in the Special Forces, is a specialist in survival and extreme sports. Separated from his wife, he hopes to get closer to his 17-year-old daughter, Sarah, while hiking in the mountains. However, things are not going to work out as he had planned.
Angèle returns from Africa to the country where she was born, the Cathar country, in the company of Jérémie, her child. His father's estate is on the verge of bankruptcy. José, his father and his sister Irène do not welcome her with pleasure: she then decides to isolate herself in a house which belonged to her mother. The arrival of Stéphane, a Bosnian refugee, will change Angèle's life. Both decide to create a regional natural park on the lands of their ancestors. Alas, the path is tough since the construction of a factory is under consideration and Irène supports the project...
Marie is a sweet and lively single mother who gets a Christmas Day surprise - she’s inherited an estate in Saint Petersburg!
In late 18th-century Martinique, a plantation owner, his irresponsible young aristocratic wife and his beautiful black mistress are drawn into a spiral of violence that reflects all the horror and inhumanity of the perverse relations between masters and slaves.
A lively duchess befriends the shy queen of France. The duchess aims to reunite the queen with the aloof king by injecting merriment into the staid royal atmosphere, causing controversy at court.
Hafsa, a talented art restorer newly hired at the Louvre, comes face to face with a millennia-old Mesopotamian mask representing the storm god Baal Phegor, known to the uninitiated as Belphegor. Soon entangled in a series of inexplicable disappearances, with no memory of her involvement, she finds herself in a race against time at the heart of the world's greatest museum. Hafsa must fight both her pursuers and her own demons to uncover the truth and understand the powerful bond that ties her to Belphegor.
Adapted from the novel by Eugène Le Roy, this series tells the life of Jacquou Féral, a peasant who revolted against the Count of Nansac in Périgord in 1819.
When four-year-old Gregory is murdered, his devastated parents, the police and the judiciary are tested to their limits.
A Paris teen who's half human, half vampire grapples with her emerging powers and family turmoil as she's pursued by a secret vampire community.
Police captain Déa Versini works with Jimmy. They are inseparable and have formed a perfect partnership on the streets. There is no case they can’t crack! But their relationship is shaken up by the arrival of a new lieutenant, Matthieu Belcourt. Is it possible for them to work as a trio? Unlikely… given that Jimmy is Déa’s imaginary friend!
It all begins when Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), famous builder of the moving sidewalk for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, saves the life of the beautiful Alice Avellano (Kristin Scott Thomas), whom her husband, who has gone mad, was trying to strangle. Lucien Lachenay is himself threatened by a group of anarchists who have instructed a young worker, Alphonse (Benno Fürmann), to suppress him. Alphonse messes up the job, but Lucien, impressed by his inexhaustible energy and thirst for knowledge, agrees to be his mentor instead of handing him over to the police. In the years that follow, Lucien, Alphonse, Alice and the young and attractive Laure (Isabelle Carré) will face the game of rivalry, betrayal and reconciliation.
World War II is about to end. Benito Mussolini, il Duce, supreme dictator of Fascist Italy, sees his totalitarian dream crumbling and his power slipping away as the terrible day of his ignominious death at the hands of those he so ruthlessly oppressed for more than two decades draws inexorably near.
Yrehn, an Osamodas guardian, lives a peaceful life with the legendary Elante. With them, the great eagle Eryx and the boarataur Boarus stand ready to fight should their lives be threatened. But their peaceful existence comes to an end when Karn, the great hunter-eater, lands on their island refuge. Commissioned by a strange bird, the lop hunter captures the Elante and takes her to his ship, the Bloodboat.
Sarah leads a dull, lonely life until the day she finds eleven-year-old Léo, hidden in the trunk of her car. The boy had just lost his father in a shootout in a parking garage. He hid Léo in the stranger's car for his protection. Then a killer stands in front of Sarah's apartment door, kills her neighbor and hunts down the boy. He wants to get information that apparently only Léo knows.
Jeanne Nogarède is a police officer in her home village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. The biggest regret of her life: the case of Emma Vivian, the daughter of one of her childhood friends, who disappeared on her way to school. Five years later, a new element shakes up her understanding of the case. Jeanne discovers online the video image reconstructed by an AI of the young Emma Vivian who explains what happened to her. However, her story contains an element that only her captor could know... or her mother.
As Aymeric has just been found dead in Provence, his husband, Manuel, a renowned author, is seized with doubts as to the cause of his death. While everything seemed to be going well, Manuel suspects an assassination.
Julien Mauriès, the youngest of a perfumer's family was forced to go into exile after having an unfortunate experience in the estate business. He spent 20 years in Venezuela and made fortune in the perfume business. Now, Julien has decided to come back in France in order to start again and to cleanse his honour.
After witnessing the harrowing November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks, Christelle "Chris" Blandin quickly latches onto a community of survivors. Claiming that her best friend Vincent was one of dozens critically injured at the Bataclan Theatre, Chris becomes an indispensable resource for the group but discrepancies begin to pepper her story – raising serious doubts among the true victims of the tragedy.
Provence, Summer 1982. French highscoolers and their german exhange students hold a spiritualism seance. Shortly afterwards, a series of tragic events befell the village. Could they have awakened an evil spirit? The youngsters embark on an investigation into the origins of the evil that has struck their families.
French miniseries based on the novels by Jeanne Bourin.
Screen adaptation of the memoires of Daniel Cordier, a member of the French Resistance and close friend of Resistance leader, Jean Moulin.
In the middle of the 1970s, in the north of France, an explosion occurs in a mine. Three men and their secrets are buried there. Alma, Solana and Caroline have to fight for the honor of their fathers, take their destinies in hand, and emancipate themselves in a period of great social upheaval.
In this sequel to “Li’l Quinquin,” a strange magma is found near CoinCoin’s home town, causing the inhabitants to behave strangely. Goofy detective Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier set about investigating these alien attacks, discovering that an extra-terrestrial invasion has begun.
In Vendée, a little boy, Paul Guillet, is abandoned by his mother who places him in public assistance. He will go from host family to host family, these various experiences gradually shaping his personality. Graine d'ortie is a French television series in twenty-six thirteen-minute episodes, broadcast from June 1, 1973 on the first ORTF channel. It is also the title of the autobiographical novel by Paul Wagner from which the television series is inspired. In Quebec, it was broadcast from September 1, 1974 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, and rebroadcast from December 14, 1986 on TVJQ.
All is not what it seems as a seemingly perfect family searches for their sister in haunting French mystery.
The series recounts five difficult years in the life of young Sophie who goes on the conquer the world, endowed with exceptional character and vivacity. By overcoming numerous trials and tribulations, she will reveal her best qualities.
When the Paris police's vice squad - on the orders of Police Chief Lépine - begin to clean prostitutes off the city's streets, a man's body is found in the Bois de Boulogne. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation.
The days go by and are all different at Louis-Lumière Primary School. After start of term, life resumes its steep course under the La Seyne-sur-Mer sun. Worried parents, children in difficulty, tormented teachers, Lisa Rivière, as devoted headmistress, watches over those around her.
