Best new French TV Shows in 2020 & 2019 (Netflix, Prime, Hulu & TV List)
List of the latest French TV series in 2020 on tv and the best French TV series of 2019 & the 2010’s. Top French TV series to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or on tv right now.
New French TV series in 2020
Top series up for release in 2020
- Peur sur le lacCREATOR: Jérôme Cornuau
CAST: Juliette Plumecocq-Mech, Julie de Bona & Lannick Gautry
Peur sur du lac or Fear by the Lake is a new French thriller series about a mysterious and mortally contagious virus that threatens the population of Annecy. A race against the clock envelops. Where does it come from and how to stop it? Watch the trailer of Peur sur le lac
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2019, 2018, 2017 & the 2010’s best rated French TV series out on DVD, Bluray or streaming on VOD (Netflix, Amazon Prime & Hulu).
- Le Bazar de la CharitéCREATOR: Catherine Ramberg
CAST: Audrey Fleurot, Camille Lou & Josiane Balasko
In 1897 Paris, a devastating fire at the Bazar de la Charité killed 126 people. After the tragic event, the upper class Adrienne de Lenverpré (Audrey Fleurot) hopes to flee from her marriage presidency-seeking husband, Marc-Antoine de Lenverpré (Gilbert Melki). Also followed after the fire are Adrienne’s niece, Alice de Jeansin, and her close maidservant, Rose Rivière. The series revolves around the dramatic aftermath of the fire and how these three women proceed with their lives. Watch the trailer of Le Bazar de la Charité
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Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - MortelCREATOR: Frédéric Bélier-Garcia
CAST: Manon Bresch, Corentin Fila, Fabien Giameluca, Carl Malapa
High school students Sofiane and Victor find themselves desperate enough to solve the murder of Sofiane’s brother, Reda, that they dip into the supernatural. They form a pact with the voodoo god Obé in hopes of learning the truth. Obé grants them the ability to both manipulate people and read their minds. They must remain close, however, for these powers to work. But when they need to be rid of Obé, they enlist the help of the voodoo-practicing Luisa to free them. Watch the trailer of Mortel
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Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - MarianneCREATOR: Samuel Bodin
CAST: Victoire Du Bois, Lucie Boujenah, Tiphaine Daviot, Ralph Amoussou
Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois) is a young novelist who specializes in writing horror stories. Fiction meets reality, however, when she discovers the characters she writes in her books end up becoming real. Though she has decided to stop writing horror, she finds herself returning to her hometown when the evil spirit Marianne that haunts her nightmares takes shape in reality to bring terror and horror to the residents. An investigation is soon under way to get to the bottom of this supernatural horror. Watch the trailer of Marianne
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Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - Twice Upon a TimeCREATOR: Nathalie Leuthreau
CAST: Gaspard Ulliel, Freya Mavor & Patrick d’Assumçao
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Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - The Crimson RiversCREATOR: Mathieu Kassovitz
CAST: Olivier Marchal, Erika Sainte &
Les rivières pourpres created by Jean-Christophe Grangé is yet another succesfull French detective series. It’s about a bizarre series of murders, a stubborn investigator duo and a lot of bodies. Watch the trailer of The Crimson Rivers
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RELEASE DATE: July 22nd, 2020
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - MaroniCREATOR: Aurélien Molas
CAST: Stéphane Caillard, Adama Niane, Issaka Sawadogo, Jérémie Laheurte
Stéphane Caillard, the Marseilles star, is a police offer investigating a murder and a kidnapping in the heart of French Guinea. A thriller set in the jungle, including… Watch the trailer of Maroni
RELEASE DATE: July 22nd, 2020
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - Glacé: The Frozen DeadCREATOR: Gérard Carré, Pascal Chaumeil, Caroline Van Ruymbeke
CAST: Charles Berling, Julia Piaton & Nina Meurisse
A small town in the French town in the French Pyrenees is the topic of investigation after a horrific discovery of a hidden for years mystery.
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RATING: 61/100
RELEASE DATE: January 10th, 2017
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - La ForêtCREATOR: Delinda Jacobs
CAST: Samuel Labarthe, Suzanne Clément & Alexia Barlier
A French Netflix thriller production about a teen who disappears in her small village in the Ardennes. Two detectives lead the investigation. They are helped by Eve, the girl’s lonely and mysterious teacher.
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RELEASE DATE: July 22nd, 2020
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - La ManteCREATOR: Alice Chegaray-Breugnot
CAST: Frédérique Bel, Carole Bouquet & Fred Testot
There are not many shows about female serial killers, so that is always a treat. In La Mante, the nickname of the female imprisoned serial killer, she decides to collaborate with the police when a copycat appears killing in her style.
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RELEASE DATE: July 22nd, 2020
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - 19-2CREATOR: Réal Bossé, Claude Legault
CAST: Adrian Holmes, Jared Keeso & Benz Antoine
The Story revolves around two beat cops who are incompatible with each other but have to work together as a patrol unit in district 19 downtown in cruiser no.2.
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RATING: 87/100
RELEASE DATE: February 2nd, 2011
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - EngrenagesCREATOR: Alexandra Clert, Guy-Patrick Sainderichin
CAST: Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Philippe Duclos
One of Europe’s top television series. It was already released in 2005, but it remains incredibly popular. Engrenages (‘Spiral’) is about the judicial and law-enforcement system of France. The viewer follows follows the day-to-day activities of police detectives, lawyers, public prosecutors and judges. In a sense it is like Law & Order, with the exception that it is actually any good.
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RATING: 85/100
RELEASE DATE: December 13th, 2005
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - Le Bureau des LégendesCREATOR: Eric Rochant
CAST: Mathieu Kassovitz, Sara Giraudeau & Pauline Étienne
After having worked in Syria for six year, an intelligence officer can’t seem to switch his secret identity off – not even when he’s back in France. Very good show!
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RATING: 82/100
RELEASE DATE: April 27th, 2015
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - BraquoCREATOR: Olivier Marchal
CAST: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Joseph Malerba & Karole Rocher
Most often described as the French ‘The Wire’ (HBO), Braquo is indeed remarkably dark and violent, but like the other French police show on this list, Engrenages, also goes into the specifics of law-enforcement. It follows a unit of Parisian detectives who without hesitating circumvent the law, and let nobody get in their way to achieve justice. The series starts when one of their colleagues commits suicide because of something to do with a case. They sink their teeth into it and do not let go. It is definitely one of the better European television series out there.
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RATING: 81/100
RELEASE DATE: October 12th, 2009
Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates - Unité 9CREATOR: Danielle Trottier
CAST: Ève Landry, Guylaine Tremblay, François Papineau, Émilie Bibeau
Follows a French Canadian woman going to jail for 7 years for pushing her father down the stairs. As the story unfolds we get to see how this all came about and the reasons behind it. The story follows the woman in jail as well as her family on the outside.
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RATING: 78/100
RELEASE DATE: September 11th, 2012
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n France, people no longer look down on television. The French have created a few great series like Spiral, for instance, but since The Returned they have really kicked off. Below, our pick of France’s finest.
