Brilliant neurosurgeon Sophie Lamarck faces an internal investigation after a patient dies during a high-stakes surgery, but she suspects sabotage and must prove her innocence amid intense pressure and hidden dangers.
Unease grips Lyon following a series of mysterious murders. Despite the efforts of the Police, an elusive assassin kills citizens of all stripes. Their common point: suspected of serious acts, they have escaped justice. Soon, the press, part of the population and even the police come to call him "The Vigilante". A tired local police officer and a Parisian profiler, a little too sure of herself, will do everything to make the masks fall. Justice against vengeance.
The discovery of the body of a brilliant biologist, found with his throat slit in Cayenne after a warm evening at the Bals Touloulous, leads Captain Cassandra Molba and her Lieutenant Antoine Lagarde to investigate.
Superintendent Emma Colonna returns to Corsica for the first anniversary of the death of her husband, a native of the island. This introspective journey soon takes a dramatic turn when the first body is found hanged on the ramparts of Calvi.
A murder case shakes a small town when Julien Monnier is found stabbed to death near the troglodyte caves "of Régulus". An ancient book is found beside him.
February 1969 - Monsieur, is rich. He doesn't talk - he spits or he thunders. Monsieur owns everything. Catherine is poor and speaks little. At the Domaine where she works, she is one of those invisible people thanks to whom the farm runs and that evening, she has custody of little Sylvie. She holds her by the hand. But "annoyed" (as Madame says) by a lecherous lumberjack who plays at scaring her, she lets go of this hand. The child is no longer there.
On her first day at the Lille PJ, Commander Mathilde Morvan must take charge of the investigation into the suspicious disappearance of Judith, a 7-year-old girl who left the hospital where she was being treated.
As a prestigious clay-court tournament approaches, the lifeless body of Manon Picard is discovered on the court. Who could possibly have wanted to harm this young tennis hopeful? The lucrative contract with a sports equipment supplier that the future winner was due to sign could be an excellent motive. The investigation is entrusted to Captain Romain Fabiot, a tennis enthusiast. He is accompanied in his investigation by Lieutenant Camille Lauristan, a young policewoman who is slightly mute but extremely efficient.
In Paris, Astrid and Raphaëlle discover a human eye at the bottom of a jar of onions. At the same time, in Bordeaux, Alexandra Ehle investigates a corpse from which both eyes have been removed.
An executive of a multinational company is murdered on a ski lift in the heart of the French Alps. Captain Meyer decides to investigate after learning that Franzisca, his former love, is a suspect in the crime. Accompanied by Constance Vivier, he is determined to unravel the mystery surrounding this case...
Rebecca, a brilliant lawyer, manages to get Kevin Gossens acquitted, who was accused of murdering a woman after cutting off her finger on which she wore a valuable ring. To celebrate the event, he invites Rebecca to lunch. She is disturbed by her client's ambiguous speech... The next day, horrified, she discovers in her handbag a package with a severed finger wearing a ring, accompanied by a thank-you note from Kevin.
During a speleologic expedition in Prades, the body of a woman surrounded by red-bellied black snake is found in a part of the site that is closed to the public.
Following the discovery of a murdered man on the small deserted island of Tintamarre off the coast of Saint-Martin, Captain Tom Firmain is forced to work with Inspector Merlene Van de Voort of the Dutch police, with whom he has an old feud.
Anna, 35, single, and a gendarme captain, finds herself working a complex case. Mylene, 60, a concert pianist of international renown, is found dead in her cottage, smothered in her sleep.
The second installment of Secrets du Finistère, featuring the characters of Morgane Le Dantec and Commandant Jérémy Laubier. Following the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to a mermaid, Commandant Jérémy Laubier calls on Morgane Le Dantec to help him with his investigation.
Michel is an ordinary father who raises his daughter alone. Brave and hardworking, he is one of the village's indispensable figures, running the only shop in the area. To everyone, Michel is a wonderful guy.
Lucie and her husband Samuel Carrera are celebrating their wedding at the Inn of "Lac de Guéry" in the French mountains of Auvergne when lightning strikes them and five others.
Don't try to meet her...
Who is Isabelle? A murderer or a housewife? That's what Captain Mathilde Delboscq, in charge of the investigation into Isabelle's husband's death, wants to understand... It's the beginning of an inquiry, and then a dive into the life of a woman with a unique destiny.
JULIETTE GENTIL, the rural police officer in Dos-d'Âne (La Réunion), finds herself leading an investigation into the death of the sole heir of a large geranium plantation.
The heavenly archipelago of Les Saintes. The body of Caroline Boissaux, owner of the Hotel Torment d'Amour, is found at the bottom of a cliff. Like the legend of Caroline: a saintoise in love with the Chevalier de Fréminville who, out of amorous spite, threw herself from the same cliff 200 years earlier.
Captain Gaëlle Boissaux's investigation takes a personal turn when her childhood sweetheart, Ludovic Augustin, is sent to the island to support her. And the
investigators are not at the end of their surprises: in addition to a romantic investigation that resonates with their past history, they must apprehend a ghost who is terrorizing the population! Some say it would be the ghost of Caroline...
Becoming a recognized artist photographer was Jeff's dream. However, at 38, he feels like he's failed at everything. A vintage camera given to him by a strange old man and a stunning photo of a young woman will overturn his life.
Patrick, a shepherd in his forties, falls victim to a brutal attack in the mountains. Convinced that her son was killed by wolves, his mother, Marceline, decides to seek revenge.
When an SUV used for a robbery in Switzerland is discovered crushed at the bottom of a cliff in the French mountains, Officer Constance Vivier of the PGHM must once again team up with Captain Meyer of the Swiss police to find the 3 robbers on the run and their loot. But the discovery of the corpse of one of them suggests that someone else is trying to get a hold on this treasure lost in the peaks.
Captain Meyer leads the investigation while trying to keep a link with his daughter Violette in rebellion against him.
Everyone’s in shock when esteemed doctor Pierre is found to have killed his wife.
15 years later, released on parole and determined to find the culprit, he is rejected by his sons and only finds support with his daughter, Nina, who alone is convinced of his innocence. To help her father, Nina must face a painful past. But as the secrets unfold one by one, death strikes again...
Moutari Wara shankes candidate Ganka Barry with information about the embezzlement of funds on a recycling center that was never built. But the unexpected return of his wife and daughter who had been taken hostage puts him in check against his opponent, who paid the ransom for their release.
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.
For several days bales of cocaine have been washing up on
beaches. One morning, the body of Lucas Lagne is found.
Sarah, captain of the gendarmerie, is in charge of the investigation and will have to team up with Ben, sent by the narcotics squad. The investigators will carry out the investigation which will show that keeping secrets about the birth of children is not free of consequences...
On Lérins Islands, Christophe Beaumont, a film producer, is found dead on the set of the film adapted from the legend of the Iron Mask. In charge of the investigation, Laure Castaldi is surprised to find her sister Manon at the crime scene. The latter has just been transferred under her orders to the Cannes brigade. They haven't seen each other since Laure didn't come to their mother's funeral. Their investigation into the producer's crime revealed suspects who seem to echo the legend of the Iron Mask and the various identities assigned to him.
While investigating the murder of a journalist, Léa and Greg look into the secrets of the Africa, a true "French Titanic" which was shipwrecked in 1920 off the coast of Les Sables d'Olonne. On board this steamer which rallied the various colonial ports were many Senegalese skirmishers returning home after the First World War. Had the journalist figured out the theft of the liner's legendary treasure? Does the 47 meters deep wreck have new secrets to reveal?
The small town of Font Romeu is in shock when Father-Baptiste is found murdered and mutilated near the training center. Lieutenant Thomas Errelbaz, in charge of the investigation teams up with Julie Delpech, freshly arrived from Paris. The investigation leads them to take an interest in the sports center : suspicions of sexual assault, a fountain legendary for its power of fertility, but also suspicions of human trafficking,....
Back in her home Brittany, Morgane Ledantec, Captain of Gendarmerie, is confronted with the discovery of human bones after the fall of a sacred oak during a storm. The victim was a follower of druidism which Morgane was introduced to as a teenager by her godmother, the troubling Katell.
The seaside resort of Dinard rolls out its red carpet for its British film festival when we discover the body of a young English director floating between two waters. The man did not drown, he was killed...
When Christian Rivière, a renowned industrialist (from one of the most powerful white families on the island) is found murdered, Jean-Baptiste Lonteau, a retired white cop and reservist, returns to service and leads the investigation with Lieutenant Télumée Magloire (45), who just got back in Guadeloupe. A second corpse is found at the top of La Soufrière: Marie-Agnès Dragouvin, Indian, manager of a holistic center. Her inert, naked body is covered with cane fibres. Jean-Baptiste is in shock, this victim is none other than his best friend.
At the foot of the majestic mountains of Béarn, the wife of a notable is found drowned under the Sauveterre Legend bridge. Cheeky Jeanne, captain of the Oloron research brigade, as to team up with Hélène, an elegant upperclass. Once very good friends, the two fifty-somethings hate each other. And for good reason: they are the respective mothers, and very partisan, of a young couple who are divorcing.
The seabed, in the Golf du Lion, off Montpellier. A diver unearths in a wreck a treasure that many covet: the golden statuette of Medusa, one of the three Gorgons of mythology. The next day, the young man's boat is found empty, adrift. Is it the curse that surrounds the legendary statuette that has just struck again? Or a competing treasure hunter who attacked the diver?...
30-something Clarisse, a pugnacious and reckless policewoman, is called to investigate the death of Maud Duberry. Maud fell from the top of a cliff under the eyes of her husband, Jean Duberry, in his fifties, who could do nothing. The case is quickly classified as an accident. But a week later, a mysterious witness claims to have seen Jean pushing his wife.
While a murderer, Lucas, escapes during a prison transfer, a strange phenomenon suddenly disrupts the life of a village. Inhabitants fall one after the other into a prolonged sleep. It is in this climate of panic and anguish that Mathieu, a gendarmerie captain on the verge of divorce, must find Lucas and investigate a series of crimes.
The investigation into the murder of the young gallery owner, Eric Sinclair, allows police captain Marion Darosa and her father, medical examiner Sébastien Darosa, to unwittingly solve the mystery surrounding the death of Marion's mother seventeen years ago, in 2004.
Cyril is doing his Taï-Chi in a corner of the Domaine du Manoir park. A golf club slams into the back of Cyril's neck, killing him with a dead blow. The investigation is entrusted to Maud Arthuis, who is more than 8 months pregnant but widowed, the future father of the child she is carrying, died of a stroke early in her pregnancy.
Sébastien Lacassagne, 35, owner of a wine estate and a private beach in Ramatuelle, was assassinated with a statuette in his house. The investigation conducted by Deputy Prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and Captain Caroline Martinez reveals many gray areas in the victim's life
The first big fire of the season is devastating the scrublands. In the middle of the inferno, a burnt corpse is found in the steaming remainings of an ATV. Other ones will follow, forcing Guillaum, cop, and Damien, gendarme, brother in life and enemy brothers on the field, to collaborate and follow the tracks of Tiffany, a famous young photographer obsessed with fire. Unless they have to investigate on Târiq Amraoui, a Canadair pilot with a mysterious past.
After 20 years of absence, Captain Fred Carel returns to the small town of Provence where grow up. With Sara, his former high school friend who became a lieutenant in the local gendarmerie, he must investigate Antoine's death. Bernier, killed by dozens of bee stings to which he was allergic. It might just be a sad accident in this beekeeping region, but several suspicious elements call out to Fred and Sara. All converge on Chloé, Anaïs and Géraldine Portal, three generations of women from an eminent family in the region.
In the heart of winter, several notables from the Chamonix region are found murdered in their homes. To move forward with investigation, police captain Thomas Delhaye decides to release Juliette Hémon from prison, imprisoned 10 years earlier for a strangely similar case...
The lifeless body of a 60-year-old woman is discovered on the beach of Alycastre in Porquerolles. Elisabeth Carlson was a painter and admired person on the island. Her body at the foot of the cliff evokes the Lycastre, the famous dragon from the legend that gave the bay its name.
Estelle, professeur d'éducation physique dans un lycée du Sud de la France est soupçonnée d'entretenir une "relation particulière" avec une de ses élèves, Angélique.
Avec la disparition de la jeune fille, la rumeur enfle.
In Amboise, during a music festival held at the Clos Lucé, a young virtuoso pianist is found dead in a position similar to Leonard De Vinci’s famous drawing: “Vitruvian man”.
Neurologist Esthelle comes home after years spent abroad. But after meeting one of her childhood friends and finding out to her dismay that the friend is married to Paul, her one true love, she is consumed by jealousy.
A man is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Gendarme Marie Breguet and her colleague Yassine go to the scene and borrow a boat from a neighbour, Franck Lavigne, to retrieve the body.
A seemingly mystical murder takes Captain Sophie Maliquot back to the Mont-Saint-Michel region where she spent part of her childhood and where her father, who died years earlier, is buried.
The body of Roméo Saldes, an educator for troubled teenagers, is found drowned in the Punch Pond. Captain Ophélie Villedieu is in charge of the case, assisted by Alban, her young Guadeloupean subordinate.
It’s peak season at Morzine-Avoriaz ski resort. High mountain state police officer Constance Vivier, a purposeful and bordeline woman, and Swiss cop Andreas Meyer, fumbling and cerebral, investigate the suspect death of a teenager, found freezing on a slope after an alcohol coma.
Emma and Adrien are all set for a romantic getaway. But then Adrien is called to investigate a murder, after an instructor is found hanged at the gendarme academy.
Captain Marie Jourdan invites her friend Commandant Paul Danceny and his father to celebrate her 30th anniversary at the restaurant her husband Pierre just opened. The party is brutally interrupted when agents come to arrest their son Marc, a husband and father of 2, for the murder of his mistress.
Marie Lemaire is poisoned with fentanyl at a dinner for an association of tradespeople. Her business was the largest glassmaking firm in town, inherited from her recently deceased husband, François.
The trawler Marie-Morgane sinks suddenly and inexplicably with all its crew, including Captain Lenormand and his son. When Nolwenn Lenormand hears the news she’s convinced that a submarine on manoeuvres must have been responsible.
A famous editor from Marseille, Adrien Grenna, hosts a cultural event about Alexandre Dumas on the Frioul islands, with a theatre play play based on “The Count of Monte-Cristo” as the highlight of the day. In the middle of the show, the body of the editor is found on stage!
Gabriel refuses to obey a prefectural decree which requires him to treat his vineyard with pesticides. As an advocate of biodynamic principles, he opposes the use of chemical products on vines because, in his view, they weaken the land, destroy the ecosystem and are a danger to people’s health.
La Grande Motte, in the winter. A couple of 50-somethings on the verge of splitting up have to tempt fate to save their relationship and foil the mocking hand of fate which puts them on the trail of a bag full of money.
Marc Billard, boss of a public works company, regularly visits his building sites with Monica, an employee who’s used to granting him her favours in cheap hotels. One day, as they’re driving back from such an escapade, Marc fails to notice a bus travelling very fast. In swerving to avoid him, the bus crosses the road and rolls over. But the couple drive on without a word.
Jeanne’s life changes dramatically when her sister makes a deathbed confession that she sent an innocent man to jail 15 years previously by refusing to give him an alibi. Jeanne will have to do all she can to get this man released and find out who really killed her best friend.
Jean Bogossian has set up a reorientation centre in a small village, his ambition being to save young petty criminals from ending up like he did, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’ll do all he can to get his stray sheep back on the right path.
The body of a young woman is found at the top of the Mount Pelée volcano, in Martinique. To identify her, a forensic officer has to come from Paris. A mission for Captain Léna Valrose, of Martinican origins, but who’s stepping foot on the island for the first time.
Commander Paul Leclerc is a former fighter pilot, who trains soldiers to fly observation drones. During a field operation in Africa, his son Guillaume, serving in a commando unit, is killed.
On the one hand there’s country-girl Gaby, both a cop and a farmer, with a feisty character and methods all her own. On the other there’s city-girl Céline, as upright, respectful of the rules and formal as Gaby is borderline, messy and unpolished.
A man’s body with a bovine label wrapped around the neck, reading « Can they suffer? », is found in a big slaughtering and meat packaging company in the South of France.
Caroline Jeune, a gendarme captain, takes on her first murder. An 18-year-old Kurdish woman, Sabrya, was murdered on her way home from the choir she sang in.
When her daughter Chloé runs away from home, Jeanne is disappointed with the response of the police, for whom a teenager runaway is not a priority, and she realises she can only rely on herself.
11-year-old Lucas vanishes one morning from his home. His disappearance throws his parents Marion and Alexis, who recently split up, into unbearable anguish, for their son is absolutely not prepared to face the outside world, being autistic and particularly fragile.
While an unforgettable storm lashes the Breton town of Perros-Guirec, a 10-year-old boy goes missing. Supposedly taking care of him at the time, teenagers Julie and Erwan never get over his disapearance…
Newly promoted Lieutenant Valentine Ventura finds herself working with famous Captain Antoine Thomas who just came back from his medical leave after the tragedy he lived a few months ago : victim of a car crash that killed both his wife and the child she was bearing, Antoine Thomas spent several months in the hospital, and is now back in a wheelchair after losing function of his legs.
Maddy Etcheban is a cop in Bayonne, but more than anything else she’s the mother of autistic Clément, whom she’s been taking care of single-handedly since the death of her husband.
In a small town in the south-west of France tragedy strikes. The body of a young majorette is found near the property of Mrs Li, a Chinese wine grower settled in the region for 15 years.
A collection of eight films, each the fruit of an encounter between a novelist and a filmmaker, the latter given carte blanche to adapt one of the published novels, creating a hard-boiled crime story in the B-movie tradition, exploring every nuance of genre cinema, from high farce to social criticism, by way of moral (or immoral) fables, the macabre and the romantic.
Georges Simenon, author of 200 novels and 160 short stories, with 550 million copies of his books sold worldwide, is the 3rd-most-read French writer after Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.
The only son of a great surgeon, Damien almost followed in his father’s footsteps before becoming a lawyer. Elected to parliament, he’s on the verge of a successful political career before being devastated by the loss of his daughter Anaïs.
Politically committed student Aïcha fires up the campus by urging her law professor Moutari to get back into politics. Together they want to change the world. « It always seems impossible until it’s done! » (Nelson Mandela)
Camille is single and the adoptive mother of a two-year-old Vietnamese girl named Léa. She leaves Paris for a new life but is soon overwhelmed by the everyday pressures of her job, bringing up her daughter and dealing with babysitters. Luckily for her, her charming new neighbours, a couple in their sixties, offer to help with Léa. But they soon become invasive, taking over Camille’s life.
Lionel Monde had a wife, a family and a successful business in Paris. On the morning of his 49th birthday, he left home, boarded a train, and disappeared into thin air - not knowing where he was going or what he was looking for. He only knew he had to get away.
The historic procession of Saint-Jean in the city of Tulle is disrupted by dead bodies. Gendarmes Axel and Lena, who used to be a couple, will have to cooperate to find who is responsible for the murders.
During the annual party in the château of a wealthy French family, a murder is committed. The small neighbouring town is thrown into disorder, suddenly plunged back into the old relationship of master and serfs.
Justine, 40, is struggling to reconcile her family life and her job as a police officer in the serious-crimes squad. Then she’s accused of stealing money during a raid that goes wrong.
The boss of a fashionable Cap d’Agde nightclub is found murdered in her own office. Deputy public prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and gendarme captain Charles Jouanic get back together to investigate what looks like a crime with an obvious motive, since the safe has been emptied of its money.
Christophe Perrin, a renowned oyster farmer in Arcachon Bay, is the victim of a murder attempt. His three daughters rush to his bedside, where he lies wounded and unable to manage L’Héritage, the family oyster farm.
Captain Marie Jourdan of the Lyon Police answers an emergency call to help her friend, Captain Paul Danceny. He is in jail, accused of murdering his mistress, who was the wife of a charismatic and manipulative plastic surgeon.
In the pastures of the Vercors, at the heart of the French Alps, a shepherd has been murdered. The whole village suspects the former schoolteacher, because the herdsman ruined her career a few years previously, when he found out that she was dating his 17-year-old nephew. The young man now returns to the village and the tension increases.
Alice Minville is a nurse in Canada. She is travelling in the far north when her mother, Suzanne, dies in a car accident. When Alice learns of her death four days later, her corpse has already been sent to France, on the instructions of Suzanne's husband. But Suzanne’s husband, Alice's father, died 22 years earlier in a fire!
Police captain Emma Thélier is on holiday at her mother’s in the Charente-Maritime region when, while jogging in the forest, she discovers a man’s corpse. Because of her knowledge of the area and the initial findings, Emma is put in charge of the investigation. But she has to work with the gendarme captain Adrien Klévec, recently transferred here and with whom she spent the previous night. They weren’t supposed to meet again but now they are embarrassed at having to work together.
When a corpse clutching a crystal chess piece is found in the old fortress of Bitche, in the Lorraine region, police lieutenant Nicolas Muller is sent to investigate. He is accompanied by a young female intern and soon discovers, during this complex investigation, that he is actually related to her.
Roubaix is host city to an exhibition of the work of Victor Maurin, one of the most famous sculptors of nearby Lille. A few hours prior to the launch of the event, one of the sculptures starts to bleed... The artist’s corpse is found inside.
In central Provence, during a hunt, 40 year-old hunter Pascal Achard is murdered. The deputy public prosecutor Elisabeth Richard investigates for the first time with gendarme captain Charles Jouanic, accompanied by his deputy Caroline Martinez.
Mila is a cop and she’s back in Marseille after a few years away. She’s a loner, damaged and always on her guard. She’s looking for her father, whom she hasn’t seen for fifteen years.
Patricia MacDonald’s novels sell in their millions in France and around the world.
Few novelists can create such fascinating plots, holding the reader in suspense to the very last page with new twists and surprise endings.
She is the undisputed queen of psychological and up-close thrillers.
For 20 years Marion had a complicated relationship with the lawyer Olivier Queyras, who was not only her mentor, but also her husband and boss. But now she's finally found the courage to leave him and open her own practice. So, recalling unpleasant memories of her own relationship, she naturally advises Karine, one of her clients, to leave her abusive husband.
Juliette is attending the baptism of Lucas, the son of her best friend Claire. But the young mother, weakened by her childbirth, shows disturbing signs of depression.
Quiet dinner at the Lemeunier’s. The door bell rings and everything radically changes : Brice, the eldest son, is arrested by the police officer Despart, suspected to have committed four murders.
In the sumptuous setting of the Mont Blanc a family secret in the form of a perfectly conserved body has remained buried deep in the ice for 15 years. Its reappearance will spark off many emotions.
Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
Claire an 8 months pregnant young nurse is targeting Aline, main witness of a huge legal case.
48 hours earlier, David, her companion, has taken possession of a suitcase full of money that was not intended to him.
A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered.
Luis is a dreamer. Funds carrier by happenstance, only to make a living, he turns outlaw on a whim, holding up is own van -- and, incidentally, his two best friends' peace of mind.
Police Commander Louise Chaland is investigating the murder of a controversial sculptor with the help of her son Sylvain, who has become a priest. The body was discovered alongside one of his works, which has been daubed with Latin inscriptions. They soon establish a link with the disappearance of a relic of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the city of Tours.
Behind the ramparts of the beautiful village of Saint-Paul de Vence, on the Côte d’Azur, the body of a young woman is found in the swimming pool of a luxury hotel.
A young fisherman discovers the body of Morgane near the entrance to Douarnenez harbour. According to Celtic legend, this is the exact location of the sunken city of Ys.
Based on a true story.
Martin is 60. Adèle is 25. He is unhealthy, grumpy and shy. She is cheeky, brazen and provocative. He is looking for his son, she is looking for her father.
Valérie, a gifted lawyer in her fifties, acts as if she were still a rebellious teenager with a love of gambling. She takes malicious pleasure defending notorious villains.
Maussane, at the very heart of the French region of Provence, with its olive trees and its charming squares.
Deputy prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and local police commander Paul Jansac are investigating the murder of Caroline Autiero, wife of an old mill-owner.
Luisa has all she needs to be happy: she lives with Mathieu, the man she loves, and Arthur, Mathieu’s 6-year-old son by his first wife, who died in an accident. But Arthur, whom Luisa has been raising like her own, suddenly disappears from school and no one claims a kidnapping.
Julien is a famous lawyer, upright and loyal, who worships Irène Delamarche, the
rich and generous businesswoman who adopted him on the death of his parents.
Though he's often alone, Martin's world revolves around his women, his "queens": women of character, who don't always make things easy, but women he can't live without.
8 films, each the fruit of an encounter between a novelist and a filmmaker, creating a hard-boiled crime story in the B-movie tradition, exploring every nuance of genre cinema.
Hubert Vallon is a well-off antique dealer, a thrill-seeker who loves gambling a lot more than he loves his wife, Patricia, to whom he owes his fortune.
Sarlat, in south-west France, was the site of violent peasant revolts - the croquant rebellions - in the 17th Century. Now, the son of the region's largest manufacturer of preserved foods has been murdered in a ritual recalling those historical events
A businessman with a nefarious reputation is found murdered on the pier of the port of Toga. There's a particular, striking detail: the victim's ears have been cut off.
A body is found in a boat adrift somewhere between Fort Boyard and Aix Island. Solène Brach from the mainland police is sent to investigate.
17,5% market share, 4,3 million viewers on France 3, first position on 17/01/17
DEADLY SEASONS is about criminal investigations which begin on common places. Colors evoke seasons and the episodes aim at exploring all the possibilities of the thriller.
Italian jeweller Matteo Belmonte and his wife Christine are robbed for the third time in the space of a few months. With Christine in danger, Matteo fires two shots.
Florence Varthy is found dead in her garage. Witnesses to her last few days are questioned to discover who wanted her dead. How did this woman, only daughter of well-known, brash businessman Jacques Varthy, end up like this?
Would you help your brother ditch a dead body?
Etienne Leroy must make this snap decision when his younger brother Mathias admits to having accidentally killed his young mistress.
Inspired by a true story. Franck and Régis Delmas are the sons of a poor farmer in the Cantal. They form the "Robin Hoods of the Poor" gang, robbing banks and distributing the proceeds to those who need it most.
Middling lawyer Julien sees his childhood friend Jacques, now a rich property developer, accused of the murder of his wife, a woman they both loved but who ended up choosing Jacques.
Paul Berthier, an ambitious public prosecutor, is witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl in the Charente but does nothing to help. It starts to look like the girl was murdered, and the case lands on Berthier's desk.
Each family has their secrets…
Laura, a young Parisian chef, plans to go back to her native Cévennes to turn her family home into a guest house, with the help of her childhood friend Cassandra.
Ludovic Pessac, a young lawyer in his 30s, is murdered in his office. Assistant prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and police chied Paul Jansac are put in charge of the case.
CASTA is stationed in a Criminal Investigation Department that covers several districts in Paris. He is a particular cop with particular methods, not really integrated among his colleagues.
The body of a dead woman is found in a barrel hurtling down a hill in the middle of the night. The prime suspect is the husband, a violent and jealous painter from Collioure, for whom the victim was both model and muse.
It sounds like an everyday story in the sunny provinces, about a violent dispute between a butcher and his flighty wife 25 years his junior. But the following day the woman in question has disappeared.
The Versini family business has just hired an unknown as creative director. But things get even more complicated when the former director is found murdered.
A group of friends is gathered under the same roof to celebrate Christmas Eve.
But during the night, an evil hostage taker will force them to reveal their lies, resentment and cowardice.
Newlyweds Emma and David are living a dream, with a baby on the way. They go on honeymoon to a simple cabin in the forest. But the romantic getaway turns into a tragedy.
Lou, 29, was initiated into ancient hunting rituals by her father before she ran away from home 15 years ago. Now, following his death, she's back. And a series of murders are being committed.
On one side there’s Marie-Line, a beautiful woman resisting the advance of time.On the other there's Marion, her daughter-in-law, married to her son, Paul. Between the two there's a house and Marion’s son, Ludo. Following Paul’s suspicious death, Marie-Line is ready to do anything to recover her property.
Lola Jost, a former police chief who's taken early retirement, and Ingrid Diesel, an American with a tormented past are neighbours. Nothing links them, apart from a horrendous murder committed in Le Passage de Désir in Paris.
One day, Karine Blanchard is killed in a hit-and-run road accident. Emma decided to investigate herself. But what she finds out will change all of their lives …
Superintendent Rousseau of the murder squad, and his deputy Mariella De Luca, a young profiler, lead the investigation of a severed head found inside the Catacombs in Paris
One winter morning, Olivia decides to tail Philippe, the man she loves. She doubts his sincerity and faithfulness. Very soon her intuition is confirmed.
Paris, January 7th 1958. Ernest Ripper is a failed writer. Ernest goes to the « Lapin chasseur », a restaurant in Montmartre, to see a mysterious admirer who insists on meeting him. The secret admirer is Joseph Arcimboldo, a serial killer.
En 1979, Vincent Ferreira, gérant d'un grand supermarché, se voit refuser la qualité de membre du Sporting Club où se retrouvent tous les notables de sa ville qui élisent leurs pairs par cooptation.
Winter 1963. Etienne Lome, a sales rep for his wife Louise’s printing shop, is taken violently ill after eating. He gradually becomes convinced that Louise is trying to poison him.
A quiet couple in a small town nearby Orleans. The sudden and unexplained death of the young English girl hosted in their house will turn Simon’s life in a nightmare.
Rebecca is a cop in the juvenile squad. Matthieu Francoeur turns up to report that his son, Joachim, has disappeared. Rebecca is fully committed to the investigation.
Arnaud Marescot has a thing about objects. He loves not only possessing them, but also the thrill he gets from stealing them. Now though, his obsessive interest is focused on Emilie, a young woman he witnessed committing a crime of passion.
Even a harmless and innocent pot can explode, if you leave it on the heat. And it’s this heat that’s gradually warming up the posterior of Ambroise Fridelance, failed illustrator specialising in the covers of cheap paperbacks.
Sara, a budding artist, arrives at Charles de Gaulle airport from Brazzaville. Sara meets Tramson, a former youth worker, who promises to help her break free once she’s paid off what she owes.
When a teenage boy breaks free of his uptight mother and struggling musicproducer father, wanting to punish them for their separation, how does he channel all that righteous adolescent rage? As always, through the rock’n’roll.
The first time Emmanuel(le) wanted to jump from a window, he was seven years old. The second time was only a few seconds ago. Not a suicide attempt this time, just another screw-up, the disastrous consequence of yet another stroke of bad luck.
Corbucci, a private detective of Corsican and Ivoirian descent, hasn’t picked an easy case for his first investigation, nor does he go about it with any great subtlety.
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands.
Iona is from the Basque region but works as a reporter for a Parisian newspaper. She is in Saint Jean de Luz, interviewing a former member of the Eterra terrorist group, when he is shot dead in front of her.
Ten-year-old Julie lives with her mother, Marie, in an isolated house. When a real murder is committed in the house, Julie takes the blame and retreats into silence.
She is very attractive, she has a degree in psychlogy and she is a super cop raising her two young sisters. Captain Emma Sinclair investigates on the mysterious death of a young women in a parking lot.
A psychopath manipulates a female doctor revealing her at the very last minute the identity of his next victim to make sure she tries to save their life.
Lucie, a brilliant student in medecine is scared to go to sleep for fear of being again sleepwalking. Each time it happens, she wakes up with a dead body by her side.
Simon, a shy 30-year old man, meets Mélanie at work. She is dangerously beautiful. Simon’s possessive mother immediately dislikes her ; she is soon killed in an accident.
Simon is an itinerant « new age » preacher. One day he picks up Gaël, a hitchhiker. He doesn’t know yet that Gaël is wanted by the police for freeing animals about to be tortured.
As clever as he is self-conscious, due to a tyrannical mother, Pierre-Jean Morin, also know as PJ, puts his emotions on hold after his wife leaves him. Once a brilliant cop, he has now become a local policeman dealing with the everyday life of his neighbourhood, Ménilmontant.
In a hospital, it is a day like any other in the operating room. Skilled doctors are gathered, ready for a regular laparoscopy, when something tragic suddenly happens.
Véra Cabral works in a psychiatric emergency unit.
One evening, she finds her obnoxious and pretentious boss, Edouard Russel, waiting for her on her doorstep crying and begging for her help.
Betty Vitalini has just been through hell: she lost the baby she was expecting in a terrible car crash. She then receives a job offer to look after a seven year-old blind boy for a year. The boy lives with his father, a doctor, way up in the mountains.