The Best French TV Shows Of 2020
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Profilage
Raphaël Ferret, Jean-Michel Martial, Philippe BasProfilage is a French police procedural created by Fanny Robert and Sophie Lebarbier. The show follows two investigators, Chloé Saint-Laurent then Adèle Delettre, who use their experience to solve murders.
- 2Caroline Proust, Grégory Fitoussi, Philippe DuclosFollows the lives of a group of Parisian police officers, lawyers and judges.
- 3Cristina Valenzuela, Bryce Papenbrook, Keith SilversteinSeemingly normal students Marinette and Adrien are chosen to save Paris from evil.
- #276 of 538 onThe 500+ Best Cartoons Of All Time, Ranked
- #342 of 576 onThe 500+ Best Animated TV Shows Ever Made
- #186 of 418 onThe 385 Popular Children Cartoons
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Le Bureau des Légendes
Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Sara GiraudeauThe Bureau (original title: Le Bureau des Légendes) is a French political thriller television series created by Éric Rochant. The show revolves around several agents who work for DGSE.
- 5Mathieu Kassovitz, Sara Giraudeau, Florence Loiret-CailleAfter six years undercover in Syria, agent Malotru returns home, and he struggles to readjust.
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Skam France
Axel Auriant, Théo Christine, Lula Cotton-FrapierSkam France is a French teen drama created by Julie Andem. It follows five French girls as they attend high school and learn about love, friendship, loss, and the modern world.
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Family Business
Jonathan Cohen, Gérard Darmon, Julia PiatonFamily Business is a 2019 French web television series created by Igor Gotesman. The show follows Joseph, a failed entrepreneur, who discovers cannabis is about to be legalized in France, so he starts up his own marijuana coffeeshop.
A Paris family decides to turn its kosher butcher shop into the first French marijuana coffee shop.More Family Business
- #489 of 1,051 onThe 250+ Best Streaming Shows Of The Last Few Years
- #88 of 314 onThe 300+ Best Netflix Foreign Series, Ranked
- #72 of 175 onThe 150+ Best Netflix Comedy Shows, Ranked
- 8Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine
A Very Secret Service is a French comedy-drama series created by Jean-François Halin. The year is 1960, and the French Secret Service hires an impressionable 23-year old who still has much to learn on the job.
A young trainee joins the French Secret Service at the height of the Cold War. - 9Carl Malapa, Nemo Schiffman, Manon Bresch
Mortel (Netflix, 2019) is a French-produced supernatural television series. The plot revolves around three teenagers, two of whom have acquired superpowers after making a deal with a supernatural being so they can solve a murder
High schoolers Sofiane, Victor and Luisa join forces to flush out the killer of Sofiane's brother's. - 10Samuel Labarthe, Suzanne Clement, Alexia BarlierThe Forest (France 3, 2017) is a French crime drama television series, created by Delinda Jacobs. Police investigate after a teenaged girl, disappears in a forest and are assisted by her teacher, who had a traumatic experience in the same forest when she was young.More The Forest
- #5 of 19 onThe Best French TV Shows of 2019
- #39 of 93 onThe 85+ Best Mystery Shows On Netflix, Ranked
- #11 of 47 onThe Best French Shows On Netflix
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Cherif
Abdelhafid Metalsi, Greg Germain, François BureloupCherif is a French police television series produced by Lionel Olenga, Laurent Scalese and Stéphane Drouet. Police captain Kader Cherif has a laid-back way of doing police work, which runs him into trouble with his new partner.
- 12Amir El Kacem, Marilou Aussilloux, Lionel ErdoganJoseph Guillotin discovers that a virus is spreading among the nobility.More La Révolution
- #194 of 650 onThe 500+ Best Current Shows On Netflix
- #630 of 1,051 onThe 250+ Best Streaming Shows Of The Last Few Years
- #97 of 314 onThe 300+ Best Netflix Foreign Series, Ranked
- 13Suliane Brahim, Hubert Delattre, Laurent CapellutoBlack Spot (France 2, 2017) a is a French-Belgian television thriller created by Mathieu Missoffe. A prosecutor comes home to learn why the town's murder rate is six times the national average.More Black Spot
- #49 of 50 onSlow Burn TV Shows That Are Worth The Wait
- #7 of 93 onThe 85+ Best Mystery Shows On Netflix, Ranked
- #46 of 140 onThe 100+ Best Thriller Shows On Netflix, Ranked
- 14Margot Bancilhon, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane JobertTensions flare and entire cases unravel within the charged confines of a police interview room.More Criminal: France
- #582 of 650 onThe 500+ Best Current Shows On Netflix
- #455 of 1,051 onThe 250+ Best Streaming Shows Of The Last Few Years
- #470 of 802 onThe 700+ Best Netflix Original Series
- 15Tom Dingler, Joséphine Draï, Zita HanrotThe Hook Up Plan (Netflix, 2018) is a French romantic comedy series created by Chris Lang, Noemie Saglio, and Julien Teisseire. Elsa (Zita Hanrot) gets hung up on an ex and her best friends secretly hire a male escort to help her move on.
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Vampires
Oulaya Amamra, Suzanne Clément, Kate MoranVampires (Netflix, 2020) is a French supernatural television series. 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.
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Baron Noir
Kad Merad, Anna Mouglalis, Astrid WhettnallBaron Noir is a French political drama television series developed by Eric Benzekri and Jean-Baptiste Delafon. It tells the story of a soon-to-be French president and one of his closest friends: the mayor of a small town in northern France.
- 18Alfred Gerbet, Romain Ben, Maxime MerkouchenkoThe Circle: France (Netflix, 2020) is a French reality television series and a spin-off of the American installment, The Circle. The show bills itself as a game based around social media, with the concept that anyone can be anyone in The Circle. It has been compared to Big Brother and Catfish in format, as well as Black Mirror episode "Nosedive" with the concept of ratings.
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The Adventures of Paddington
Ben Wishaw, Morwenna Banks, Darren BoydThe Adventures of Paddington (Nick Jr, 2019) is an English-French children's animated television series. The show follows a younger Paddington as he writes letters to Aunt Lucy.
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Falco
Clément Manuel, Mathilde Lebrequier, Franck MonsignyFalco is a French television series created by Clothilde Jamin. Falco wakes up after 22 years in a coma only to learn that his wife remarried and he missed out on his child's adolescence.
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Qui veut gagner des millions?
Jean-Pierre FoucaultQui veut gagner des millions? is the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill, Steven Knight. The show starts with easy multiple-choice questions that gradually build in intensity, as contestants try to win the grand price of a million dollars.
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Alice Nevers
Marine Delterme, Jean-Michel Tinivelli, Guillaume CarcaudAlice Nevers is a French crime series created by Christmas Loriot. It is based on a trilogy of novels also written by Loriot. The show follows a investigating judge who partners with a policeman to solve crimes.
- 23Mimie Mathy, Karin Swenson, Jean Dell
Josephine, Guardian Angel (in French, Joséphine, ange gardien) is a French television series created by Laurent Chouchan, Philippe Niang, Michel Lengliney. It follows the adventures of a guardian angel sent to Earth to help solve various people's problems.
Heaven sends guardian angel Josephine Delamarre to Earth to help people with problems. - 24Florence Longpré, Mélissa Bédard, Ève LandryThe daily lives of three friends, Ada, Fabiola and Carolanne, from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Ad Vitam
Yvan Attal, Garance Marillier, Niels SchneiderAd Vitam (Netflix, 2018) is a French science fiction drama television series. In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled young woman investigate a strange wave of youth suicides.
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Tomorrow Is Ours
Ingrid Chauvin, Alexandre Brasseur, Charlotte ValandreyTomorrow is Ours is a French television soap opera created by Frédéric Chansel, Laura Colbert, Nicolas Durand-Zouky, Eline Le Fur, Fabienne Lesieur, and Jean-Marc Taba. The show follows the lives of several families whose lives are punctuated by police investigations, secrets, and betrayals.
