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    French Crime TV Shows

    The 40 most popular french crime TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.

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    Tomorrow Is Ours
    TMDB3.1

    Tomorrow Is Ours

    2017

    country: France

    The story revolves around the people of Sète, France. Their lives are punctuated by family rivalries, romance and scenes from daily life, but also by plots involving police investigations, secrets and betrayals.

    Plus belle la vie
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    Plus belle la vie

    2004

    country: France

    The daily lives of the inhabitants of "le Mistral", an imaginary neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy families cross paths with the less than rich.

    Lupin
    TMDB3.8

    Lupin

    2021

    country: France

    Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

    Léa Parker
    TMDB3.6

    Léa Parker

    2004

    country: France

    No overview available

    Candice Renoir
    TMDB3.6

    Candice Renoir

    2013

    country: France

    Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

    Murders in...
    TMDB3.6

    Murders in...

    2013

    country: France

    Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

    Astrid & Raphaëlle
    TMDB4.0

    Astrid & Raphaëlle

    2020

    country: France

    Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

    The Bureau
    TMDB4.1

    The Bureau

    2015

    country: France

    Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

    Spiral
    TMDB3.9

    Spiral

    2005

    country: France

    This gritty crime drama set in the dark underbelly of Paris follows police officers and lawyers as they investigate and prosecute crimes. Throw any romantic notion of Paris out the window. Crime is dark. The legal system is darker. This is Spiral.

    Crossing Lines
    TMDB3.3

    Crossing Lines

    2013

    country: Belgium

    Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.

    HIP - High Intellectual Potential
    TMDB3.8

    HIP - High Intellectual Potential

    2021

    country: France

    Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.

    Maigret
    TMDB4.0

    Maigret

    1991

    country: Belgium

    The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

    Pacific Criminal
    TMDB3.4

    Pacific Criminal

    2019

    country: France

    Clarissa, a police captain from Réunion Island, is a squad commander in a working-class neighborhood of Nouméa, New Caledonia. Smart, stubborn, and a vital member of her squad, she's also a widow, raising two teenagers by herself.

    Police Commissioner Moulin
    TMDB3.5

    Police Commissioner Moulin

    1976

    country: France

    The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

    Ladies of the Law
    TMDB3.1

    Ladies of the Law

    2000

    country: France

    No overview available

    Profiling Paris
    TMDB3.5

    Profiling Paris

    2009

    country: France

    Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little girl who need a doll, but she's very smart and a very good profiler. Step by step, she fit in the team and her colleagues, very reserved at first, became her best friends.

    Elite Force
    TMDB3.9

    Elite Force

    2026

    country: France

    After an unprecedented attack on his unit, a high-ranking officer set to leave the field leads a perilous mission that forces him to confront his past.

    The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
    TMDB3.7

    The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

    2009

    country: France

    French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

    Deadly Tropics
    TMDB3.5

    Deadly Tropics

    2019

    country: France

    On the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the middle of the tropics, several mysterious murders occur. Now it is up to the two investigators Mélissa Sainte-Rose and Gaëlle Crivelli to solve the case - even if the two women have very different views of law.

    Capitaine Marleau
    TMDB3.1

    Capitaine Marleau

    2015

    country: France

    Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

    Faites entrer l'accusé
    TMDB4.2

    Faites entrer l'accusé

    2000

    country: France

    No overview available

    The Tunnel
    TMDB3.8

    The Tunnel

    2013

    country: France

    The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process

    P.J.
    TMDB2.8

    P.J.

    1997

    country: France

    No overview available

    The Art of Crime
    TMDB3.3

    The Art of Crime

    2017

    country: France

    Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.

    Alex Hugo
    TMDB4.3

    Alex Hugo

    2015

    country: France

    Fed-up with his violent daily life, former Marseilles police officer Alex Hugo leaves the city and the violence he can no longer bear.

    Balthazar
    TMDB3.9

    Balthazar

    2018

    country: France

    Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.

    Avocats et Associés
    TMDB2.8

    Avocats et Associés

    1998

    country: France

    No overview available

    Borgia
    TMDB3.6

    Borgia

    2011

    country: France

    The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

    Cassandre
    TMDB3.4

    Cassandre

    2015

    country: France

    No overview available

    The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
    TMDB4.4

    The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

    1967

    country: France

    No overview available

    Cain
    TMDB3.1

    Cain

    2012

    country: France

    A cynical experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around. He is accompanied by a young ,vivacious female detective who's been forced on him to train as a condition of his ability to continue to work as a field detective.

    Flunked
    TMDB3.4

    Flunked

    2026

    country: France

    Eddy, a math genius and small-time crook, avoids jail-time by going undercover as a teacher. His mission: to identify the kid of a major criminal.

    Au bout de l'enquête, la fin du crime parfait ?
    TMDB3.9

    Au bout de l'enquête, la fin du crime parfait ?

    2021

    country: France

    No overview available

    Research Unit
    TMDB4.1

    Research Unit

    2006

    country: France

    The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders.

    The Crimson Rivers
    TMDB3.3

    The Crimson Rivers

    2018

    country: France

    Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.

    Gone
    TMDB3.6

    Gone

    2018

    country: Germany

    The survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.

    Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
    TMDB2.5

    Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme

    2002

    country: France

    No overview available

    Magellan
    TMDB5.0

    Magellan

    2009

    country: France

    A French police inspector solves crimes and mysteries while also raising two teenage daughters.

    Eurocops
    TMDB3.3

    Eurocops

    1988

    country: Germany

    No overview available

    Leonardo
    TMDB3.7

    Leonardo

    2021

    country: Italy

    A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

    About French Crime TV Shows

    French television

    French television has moved from a broadcast-dominated tradition into a strong export position, particularly in crime and spy drama. The results tend to be shorter-run and more cinematic than Anglo-American equivalents.

    Crime

    Crime is arguably television's defining genre, spanning the weekly procedural, the single-case anthology, and the sprawling organized-crime epic. The serialized form suits investigation better than film ever has.

    In this list

    Years covered
    1967–2026
    Best reviewed
    The Bureau (8.2)
    Often also
    Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure
    Longest run
    26 seasons

    Common questions

    What are the best French crime TV shows?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Tomorrow Is Ours, Plus belle la vie, and Lupin. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any show for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    French crime TV shows are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
    Where can I watch these TV shows?
    Every show page lists current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region, alongside community ratings and reviews from Flickfolio members.

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