TV series and TV films
TV films and series to binge on
There's fire between them! Jacky and Lindsay have been in love for twenty years and have always known difficult times. They are now getting ready for the arrival of their child, with their heads full of dreams of England, but facing never-ending debts... A tragi-comical road trip which shows that misfortune never comes alone.
At 25 Anne finds the pressure piled on by her mother-in-law increasingly unbearable. For 30 year-old Édith life is tough with a husband who controls everything she does. Their close friend and older sister, 45 year-old Marie-Jo, is head over heels in love with Yves, aged just 25...
A group of eco-terrorists claim responsibility for bombing Montreal's land-fill sites. All household waste collections are suspended, rapidly turning the city into one gigantic rubbish dump. Judith, a single mother, has to get her asthmatic son out of what has become a pestilential hell.
For one family, each day peacefully follows the last... At least until one of them suffers a stroke, Valeria. Watched by little Lucas, intrigued by these adults constantly asking strange questions, the group will have to ask themselves even more and learn to grow up together.
At 39, Isabelle is a single mother with three children, an eventful everyday life and busy work schedule. In addition, she also has to keep an eye on her newly-retired mother, an energetic sister determined to find her a new man and an ex-husband incapable of organising anything by himself!
Jeanne has slammed the door on Iris. But the latter still hasn't realised that their relationship is over, convinced Jeanne will forgive her, at least that's what she hopes. But where will she stay now? Moving from place to place and person to person, Iris learns to live without Jeanne.
Almost blind, Léon is home-schooled by his mother. One day she dies and Léon suddenly finds himself having to move in with his biological father, a man he doesn't know and who lives with his wife and four children in Montreal. A new home far-removed from Léon's familiar countryside.
To further develop his business interests, Daniel Manga arranges a marriage between his son Billy and Kimberley, daughter of a wealthy oil producer. But when Billy falls in love with someone else and cancels the wedding at the last minute, Kimberley, furious and humiliated, decides to take revenge...
To celebrate Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 300th birthday, experienced and trainee film-makers were given carte blanche to capture the philosopher's life and work. Each offers a modern-day approach to Rousseau's thinking that's always stimulating and often unexpected, enabling the viewer to appreciate its very contemporary nature.
Georges Chagrin plays Schubert whilst waiting for the Brocolis, a couple invited for lunch. But it's Albert Maison, the caterer from whom he'd ordered the meal, who turns up. They get chatting, Albert calls his wife Simone to join them and Georges invites them for lunch. The Brocolis are late; they can make do with dessert. But are Albert and Simone really who they seem?
Mona et Gieri fêtent leurs vingt ans de mariage. Ils sont toujours très amoureux, mais côté sexe, ce n'est plus tout à fait ça. Mona a beau manifester son désir, Gieri prétexte les années qui passent. En réalité, il a une maîtresse, la meilleure amie de sa femme, Giulia...
In Abidjan, Gina has just inherited Melody, the school of performing arts founded by her father. But when a powerful businessman plans to replace it with a vast shopping centre, Gina needs to fight with all she has to keep the school and continue her father's work!
Solange, Michèle and Fanny, very different, are united by the same combat: a strike by the chambermaids of a hotel, which appears to be a losing battle. By changing their lives and their principles, this combat will bring them out of their solitude and at last make them visible.
France, 2030. The Covid epidemics have barely come to an end when a new strain of the plague, called YP2, is discovered in a town in the South. It is powerful. As there is no treatment, the government decides as a matter of urgency to lock down the area and implement the mysterious "Plan D".
After a drunken party, Christian drives his colleague Manuela home and sexually assaults her. Nevertheless, they continue to work together. Ten years later, Christian, who has become company chairman, is faced with several rape accusations. Will Manuela, who has risen to partner level, speak out in turn?
Sixteen-year-old Fanny dreams of adventure and becoming free from her parents. She meets Damien, an apparently successful singer. He very quickly introduces her to the world of strip clubs and leads her into prostitution. Manipulated, trapped, Fanny is out of her depth and keeps running away.
Physically abused as a child, Thierry managed to grow into adulthood despite his father's violence. When he learns of his father's imminent death, it's time for Thierry to settle his scores, and come to terms with his memories and his feelings, with help from his therapist, and friends and family.
Marc-André is a drop-out, living on the margins of society. All his friends work in finance at Stratégie Investissement Québec. For his birthday, they offer him an opportunity to return to the business world, but at the bottom of the ladder, a chance to start over again.
Having taken a short break to cure her depression, Stéphanie returns to her home village. Her best friend Cynthia, who was supposed to hide the truth about her trip, told a lie that then got totally out of control. Stéphanie now has to repair the damage, notably with her daughters.
Alexandra is a popular and very active professional coach in her thirties. Unfortunately, glaucoma means she is gradually losing her sight. In the midst of a divorce, she's fighting to keep custody of her children, but, despite all her energy, her handicap acts against her.
Laurence is struggling to get over the accidental death of her 6 year-old daughter, Camille. Her husband Daniel feels completely helpless. Laurence begins to carry out strange experiments in the family home, convinced that her dead daughter is trying to communicate with her.
Lou and Sophie, true best friends forever, have just finished high school. On the threshold of adulthood, they yearn for freedom and adventure. All summer in their run-down neighbourhood? No way! Instead they're in search of an old car to buy, ready to head off on a road trip.
The GICCS (Sex Crimes Investigation Unit), a project launched by Police Chief Alario with the aim of improving the way victims are treated. Alice, an experienced police officer, is returning to duty after a sabbatical year. She's going to have to work with colleagues that she hasn't chosen.
After winning three Olympic medals in speed skating, Frédérique decides to retire. At the same time she breaks up with her partner, with whom she had been planning to start a family. So many sudden changes, it's time for her to take a completely new look at her life.
Justine, a Parisian, has obtained a promotion in a museum in St John's, Newfoundland. She has eleven months to achieve her aims and return with an improved CV. But on arrival, she's in for a shock. Bitter weather, loneliness and the difficulty of trying to make a place for herself.
A painful legacy of Quebec's history, the indigenous boarding schools were state-financed religious establishments intended to eradicate the First Nation culture. A brother and sister of anishinaabe origin grew up there in the 1960s. Through the different periods of their lives, they try to come to terms with the past.
Justine, Clara, Myriam and Gabriel all work on the front line in the psychiatric emergency department. A difficult working life that adds to their own problems. Particularly when Justine falls for a patient suffering from a bipolar disorder. A secret relationship that rapidly becomes a dangerous one.
Isaac Lowe, famous business lawyer, is about to hand control to his daughter Mélissa. But as she prepares to conduct a merciless war against even the most untouchable criminals, little does she realise that her own father is also involved in some very murky affairs...
Following a laboratory experiment, Marc Lagdinier is stricken with an unknown contagious disease. Time passes slowly in his aseptic isolation chamber. Marc becomes impatient. His relationships with those around him and his confidence in his scientific colleagues deteriorate. His behaviour changes, with him unable to control his reactions or fantasies.
From the moment they first set eyes on one another, every couple has to face the same challenges: from honeymoon to power struggle and disillusion. From that initial true love, some finish by breaking-up. A summary of Michel and Marie's relationship through other interwoven love stories.
The little kings: a group of friends who lord it over everyone in their secondary school, with arrogance and contempt. Someone who's suffered from their thoughtless egocentricity decides to take revenge by targeting best mates Julep and Adaboy, the most popular in the school, as privileged as they are unbearable.
The Saint-Michel district of Montreal. Mélissa, Karine and Eddy live in the same block of flats. From different families, left to their own devices, they share an everyday life that is far from easy. Yet, despite it all, they try to progress, with or without the help of parental authority.
Sixty-something Lina lives a quiet life on a stud in the Swiss Jura near Berne. One day her son Daniel arrives. A son that she doesn't know and saw only once, immediately after giving birth, forty years earlier. During her pregnancy she was in prison, victim of an administrative internment for "depraved behaviour". After giving birth she wasn't allowed to keep the baby.
Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves and leaves. Then Armand turns up, in search of Carol, and the disturbing Cigare...
Lucie discovers that her real grandmother is a famous feminist campaigner from the 1970s. However, the family seem keen to forget her. But why? What terrible secret could Lucie have uncovered? Against her family's advice, she decides to track down this mysterious relative ...
The eldest of five sisters and dedicated heir to the family farm, Marie-Luce's world turns upside down on the death of her husband Guy, his body found half-eaten body in the pig pen. A dramatic discovery that perturbs the tranquillity of those closest to him and everyone living in Valmont.
Amongst the thousands of children abandoned in the city outskirts, twenty orphans find themselves in a reality TV show. Each challenge sees them confronting one another to try to win the prize money and the honour of being adopted by a famous couple. But the adventure is filled with surprises.
In an isolated village, Laurent heads off each morning for a long walk, his rifle slung over his shoulder. Today he lives alone, but before, he lived with his wife Martha. One day a man questions him about his solitary life. Laurent remembers his past: becoming engaged to Martha, then his meeting with Hélène, his wife's cousin, who became his mistress...
The Marie-Labrecque school welcomes some sixty teenagers, some of whom are pregnant, others have recently given birth. All are determined to obtain their secondary school diploma. A real challenge for them and for the two heads of the establishment, Tina and Christophe.
Last century, in a Swiss village in Valais, some shepherds decided to brave an old curse and bring the animals into the supposedly cursed Sasseneire pasture. Two decades before, others had paid dearly for their temerity. Joseph, a young shepherd, forms a small group ready to try its luck...
Wanting to save a young girl from an accident, Geneviève, eleven weeks pregnant, throws herself in front of a car. She survives, but needs an emergency hysterectomy. To save the foetus it's placed in an artificial womb. This first-ever experiment is carried out in secret, but the news rapidly leaks...
The Jacob family is no ordinary family: they all have supernatural powers. But because they're different, people fear them and want to destroy them. Having been hunted over the centuries and learnt to survive, these distinctly out-of-the-ordinary beings have also learnt to silence their gift and make themselves inconspicuous.
Julie returns to her home village to fulfil her father's dream: to beat his rival during the traditional competition between fighting cows, the "combat des reines". She buys a stable and thus becomes the new owner of Glorieuse, a particularly sought-after cow. But Glorieuse dies shortly afterwards.
During an ordinary train journey, Isabelle is surprised to see her granddaughter Anaïs, a medical student, wearing the full Islamic veil. She informs her daughter Léa, who travels from Canada to understand Anaïs's conversion. By discovering the extent of the latter's radicalisation, Léa also uncovers Isabelle's dark and terrible past.
After years of exile, Moutari Wara is allowed to return to his home country but on one condition: that he doesn't get involved in politics. But when the municipal elections are organised early, Aïcha, one of his law students, pushes him to get involved personally against corruption and cronyism.
Isabelle returns to the family hotel in the Alps for her father's funeral. An experienced climber, she aims to climb the Roches-Brunes overlooking the hotel, a mountain she was to conquer with her father 20 years earlier. This challenge now assumes a new importance for Isabelle...
To pay back an enormous debt, 26 year-old Emma, has taken on a job at Les Oubliettes, a mediaeval restaurant threatened with closure. After a series of strange events, the staff are beginning to wonder: could Emma be the "Chosen One" announced in a prophesy as the restaurant's saviour?
At the age of 20 Flore has come across the notebook in which her grandmother, 90 year-old Hortense, had set down the story of her life. To help bring back those distant memories, Flore persuades family and friends to join a theatre troupe, together they re-enact her grandmother's story.
Fred had hardly started university when breaking his back in an accident left him paralysed. Armed with his great sense of humour, he manages to keep his spirits up despite the tragedy. Thanks to the help of those around him, he learns to live with his new condition.
Marsoux, Wallonia. On his release from prison, Yvan joins Nathalie, the woman of his dreams. Together they have a baby. That's when Yvan decides he has to become a better person. And to help in this ambitious challenge, he'll need all the support of his family, the Berthelet clan.
Places where people talk. They talk while travelling or talk about travelling, talk about anything and everything, for pleasure, just for the pleasure of talking. A series that plays with the French language, its exceptions and its difficulties, but always with a touch of indulgence and plenty of humour.
The friendship that unites Nadine, Kamyar, Annie, Philippe and Josée hasn't been eroded by parenthood. In fact it's helped them to "survive" their children! Their meetings offer a sense of release and help to defuse the absurd situations they often find themselves in, thanks to their darling offspring.
Behind our often fanciful or preconceived ideas, what's the reality of shared custody and single-parenthood? Each episode puts one family and one totally crazy situation in the spotlight, exploring the lives of single parents and blended families with all their joys, unexpected challenges and regrets.
The five members of the Babin-Bibeau family live in a house in a tranquil neighbourhood. A seemingly ordinary family with a gift for turning everyday life upside-down. Two parents and three teenagers, each more creative than the others when it comes to spicing up life for themselves and their friends.
Around J.C. we find the apostles Peter, Simon and Judas, together with Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist. With characters transformed into caricatures and scenes kept short and to the point, each episode offers a light, humorous look at the major stories surrounding the life of Christ.
Martin and Julie have officially separated. Both being in search of love, there are plenty of embarrassing situations in the offing. And it's not so easy for their families to deal with the new situation either, including their children already having to cope with their own teenage crises.
And what if beauty YouTubers had always existed? In the Middle Ages, the roaring twenties, Ancient Egypt, the 19th century... These "Damoiselles" share their beauty tips with the camera and strip the make-up from the face of history at the same time! A darkly humorous glimpse of women's lives down the centuries. And, for each period, our history consultant separates the episode's fact from fiction in "L'Éclairage de Julien".
In an alternative reality Quebec has now become a republic. Jacques Hamelin, the president, has a lot on his hands. With his popularity rankings in free fall and Canada constantly putting a spanner in the works, the USA, in search of space and natural resources, wants to negotiate an alliance.
Ivory Coast. A few hours before the start of the "Dream Tour" organised by Sea Dangah, he notes the sorry state of the vehicle in which he's supposed to be carrying his customers. Panicking, he abandons his responsibilities to his trainee, Bruno Koné. And so begins an incredible journey!
Vico, a young man from Benin, inherits an alpine pasture in the heart of the Gruyère region of Switzerland. With little interest in mountain life he wants to sell it as soon as possible and return to Benin. But Vico quickly realises the financial and cultural value of his inheritance.
Micheline has devoted most of her life to her husband and three sons, now grown-up. So when she decides to get a driving licence, all of the little family habits are turned upside down. Micheline hits the road for Knokke-le-Zoute accompanied by an autistic boy from the neighbourhood...
After an absence of more than twenty years, the remarkable Rita Melanson returns to settle in her home village in Acadia and, unwittingly, becomes the owner of an estate. Deciding to open a bed and breakfast and attract visitors, her past has plenty of obstacles to put in her way...
We might all speak the same language but that doesn't mean we understand one another... In a café that could equally be in Montreal, Brussels, Geneva or Paris, characters from around the world meet, chat, move on. A closed yet cosmopolitan universe where simple conversations can lead to complicated misunderstandings!
Ben Marceau, a general news journalist, has returned to her home town of Nantes. She is searching for the child who her parents took away from her when she was a teenager. Her work takes her into the heart of three gripping and emotional investigations that raise questions about family ties.
In Tréport, graves have been desecrated. The dead have been dug up and placed in show homes in the region. In the middle of the bodies and immaculate furniture, Sandra Winckler, the inspector in charge of the case, finds a photo of Paul Maisonneuve, a former legend on the criminal investigation department in Lille.
Five people wake up, each in their own cell. Apparently they have nothing in common and quickly come to realise that their prisons have been designed to act on their worst fears. Constantly watched, they are pawns in a game intended to break them psychologically, unless they manage to escape.
Stella Launière, a student, is an intern with Projet Innocence, an organisation that helps those believed to have been wrongly convicted. She is given Anderson Jean-Louis' case, a notorious criminal accused of a murder he has always denied. To defend him, she'll need to get her hands dirty.
Félix, police officer from Metropolitan France, arrives in Polynesia. He meets his new colleagues and discovers island life, far from home and all he's used to. Alongside his police work, he also leads a more personal investigation: hoping to find clues that will lead him to his missing daughter, Roxane.
50 year-old Paule, a brilliant lawyer, has dedicated her life to the firm she created with ex-husband Simon. But life turns upside down when she discovers Simon has secretly married legal associate Irène, 20 years his junior. Paule and Irène find themselves bound together in running the Lebowitz law firm.
A new investigation for the sensitive cases squad, which takes on powerful figures who nobody dares defy. A woman has been stabbed in her flat. She had just lodged a complaint against a famous actor for sexual assault. The man is untouchable and determined to save his reputation.
The wreckage of a van used for a heist in Switzerland is discovered at the foot of a cliff in the French mountains. Once again Constance Vivier has to team up with Captain Meyer to track down the criminals on the run and recover the spoils of the robbery.
In financial straits, former policeman Leo Brand sets up a detective school in Basel. To help them get the best out of the course, his amateur detectives learn on the job by solving real cases. Each has their own unique character... But none really correspond to the task in hand.
Catherine has spent fifteen years fighting to prove the innocence of her son, convicted of a murder he didn't commit. Bing, who has been in love with her for years, continues to investigate the case. A witness who had remained silent all this time, finally comes forward, turning everything everyone thought they knew on its head.
Henri and Anne, married with two teenage children, both work in the field of psychiatry at the Institut National de Santé Mentale. One day, Anne simply disappears. Who could have wanted to harm her? Friend or family, or a patient? The investigation begins.
Everyday events at a law firm as seen through the professional and private lives of those who work there. Whether it's a criminal case or a private conflict between two individuals, the series takes a realistic look at all the major and minor ills in our society today.
What do we really know about how humanitarian organisations operate behind the scenes? In our world of communication and pretence, an idealist has no choice but to get her hands dirty, form unnatural alliances and question all she believes in, if she wants to bring the hostages home alive.
The investigations of Rosa Wilder, a police inspector from Berne. Now back in her small home town in the Swiss Alps, she faces a succession of particularly dark crimes. The series weaves close ties between the setting, the investigations and Rosa Wilder's private life.
Returning from an evening out, former childhood friends Sarah and Cédric have a serious car accident. In addition to the physical injury, this marks the start of a medical, legal and emotive conflict which brings members of the two families, once friends, into conflict.
Markus, former contestant on a televised musical talent show, had spent his entire life being denigrated. Now aged 40, he has an opportunity to change his past. Plunged into an alternative reality he becomes a superstar. Unfortunately it also means that he loses the love of his life.
Marianne needs to sell the house inhabited by her family for five generations. In front of her ancestors' family vault, she makes a desperate plea for help. Help which arrives in the form of the ghosts of her mother, grandmother and great-grandfather, who appear in the living room!
