Best French action series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch action shows from France, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

    Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir 2015

    Marinette and Adrien, two Parisian teenagers, are entrusted with powerful jewels in order to transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. But neither hero knows the other's true identity — or that they're classmates!

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  • Poster for Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight

    Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight 2025

    When their druid forgets how to prepare the magic potion, Asterix and Obelix must defend the village as Caesar plots to use a Gallic law against them.

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  • Poster for Totally Spies!

    Totally Spies! 2002

    Totally Spies! depicts three girlfriends 'with an attitude' who have to cope with their daily lives at high school as well as the unpredictable pressures of international espionage. They confront the most intimidating - and demented - of villains, each with their own special agenda for demonic, global rude behavior.

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  • Poster for The Tunnel

    The Tunnel 2013

    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

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  • Poster for Wakfu

    Wakfu 2008

    Follow Yogu and his friends Amalia, Evangelyne, Tristepin, Ruel and Az as they try to rescue the world of Wakfu from destruction.

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  • Poster for Furies

    Furies 2024

    Seeking to avenge her father's death, a young woman becomes entangled in the web of the Fury, peacekeeper of the Paris criminal underworld.

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  • Poster for Paris Has Fallen

    Paris Has Fallen 2024

    A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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  • Poster for Braquo

    Braquo 2009

    A group of police officers in Paris use violence and intimidation to solve crimes.

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  • Poster for Borgia

    Borgia 2011

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

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  • Poster for Spiral

    Spiral 2005

    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.

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  • Poster for Code Lyoko

    Code Lyoko 2003

    Four children travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to battle against a sentient artificial intelligence named XANA, with a virtual human called Aelita.

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  • Poster for Ganglands

    Ganglands 2021

    Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.

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  • Poster for Parallels

    Parallels 2022

    Four teenagers' lives are turned upside down when a mysterious event propels them into parallel dimensions.

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  • Poster for The Cage

    The Cage 2024

    Dreaming of going pro, a young fighter struggles to be seen until an unexpected face-off lands him a shot at the big time — and a ruthless rivalry.

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  • Poster for Blood Coast

    Blood Coast 2023

    As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own.

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  • Poster for XIII

    XIII 2008

    The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, wearing a parachute. The young man cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity.

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  • Poster for The Mysterious Cities of Gold

    The Mysterious Cities of Gold 1982

    The adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who joins a voyage to the New World in search of the lost Cities of Gold and his father.

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  • Poster for No Man's Land

    No Man's Land 2020

    Dive into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look on the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world.

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  • Poster for Lastman

    Lastman 2016

    Paxtown, a corrupt capital, torn by crime and preyed by the mafia. In this rotten megalopolis, Richard Aldana, street smart, without ties or ambitions, is a boxer in his off time. But this was all before everything got flipped on its head. Overnight, Aldana finds himself with Siri, a girl targeted by "The Order of the Lion," a religious group that thinks the girl is the key to "the other world".

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  • Poster for Taxi Brooklyn

    Taxi Brooklyn 2014

    Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a highly skilled Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.

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  • Poster for Sonic Boom

    Sonic Boom 2014

    The speedy blue hedgehog Sonic with sidekick Tails and pals Knuckles, Amy and Sticks tries to ward off the evil plans of Dr. Eggman, who is hellbent on taking over the world. Sonic faces regular battles with Eggman's henchmen, including loyal robots Orbot and Cubot, evil interns, and giant, robotic monsters.

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  • Poster for The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo 1998

    A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.

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  • Poster for Dark Hearts

    Dark Hearts 2023

    The French Special Forces are deployed in Iraq, on the eve of the battle of Mosul, in October 2016. The members of this commando have the mission of finding and exfiltrating the daughter and the grandson of an important French Emir of Daesh who captured and who will cooperate with them only on this condition.

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  • Poster for Ōban Star-Racers

    Ōban Star-Racers 2006

    Every 10,000 years, teams from all over the universe are gathered by the mysterious Avatar to compete in the Great Race of Ōban, a race with much more at stake than just honor or prize money. According to legend, the winner is awarded the Ultimate Prize, which is rumored to grant any wish, from large-scale destruction to, perhaps, the resurrection of a loved one. Some want it for glory, others as a way of universal domination. However, the true nature of the Prize is shrouded in mystery, and things are not what they appear to be…

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  • Poster for Martin Mystery

    Martin Mystery 2003

    Martin Mystery has a passion for all things paranormal. When he's not at school, this teenage lover of supernatural ooze works undercover for a secret bureau specialising in mysterious phenomena. Together with his older stepsister Diana, Java (a massive caveman lost in time) and Billy (a small green hovering creature), he checks out weird wonders. Martin is always bursting with energy and seldom thinks before he leaps. Diana is his guardian angel – a straight-A student, she brings the brains to their missions. Seen a zombie, alien or ghost? Call Martin Mystery.

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  • Poster for Jo

    Jo 2013

    Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Belgian Stromboli Pictures companies in association with broadcast partners TF1, RTBF, Sat.1, ORF and RTS.

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  • Poster for Cat's Eyes

    Cat's Eyes 2024

    In 2023, Alexia, Tam and Sylia are reunited in the City of Light after many years apart. At the same time, a work of art that belonged to their father – who had died ten years earlier in a mysterious fire at his art gallery – reappears in a prestigious exhibition at the Eiffel Tower. The sisters decide to risk everything to steal the painting, in the hope that they will finally solve the mystery of what happened to their father.

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  • Poster for Dealer

    Dealer 2021

    Tensions erupt when two filmmakers infiltrate an area ruled by gangs to shoot a music video for a rapper in this gritty found-footage series.

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  • Poster for Napoleon

    Napoleon 2002

    A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.

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  • Poster for Crisis Jung

    Crisis Jung 2020

    Welcome to a world ravaged by explosions of violence, a world without love. Jung, the broken-hearted hero, pursues his quest: reunite with Maria, his lost love, savagely decapitated by Little Jesus. He can count on the support of allies met along his bloody path, encounters that provide an understanding of others, but especially of himself. He also has to deal with his “violent outbreaks,” an incontrollable curse that springs from his murderous soul.

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  • Poster for The Source

    The Source 2024

    In 2005, in a French suburb, a drug bust shatters the network of a family of drug dealers. Driss, a brilliant student, is forced to take over the family business, setting off on a downward spiral. Facing him is William, an ambitious and idealistic young cop who will do everything in his power to stop him. Their relentless struggle will take them from the suburbs to the Ourika valley.

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  • Poster for No Limit

    No Limit 2012

    A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.

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  • Poster for Guyane

    Guyane 2017

    Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of gold trafficking. From Serra, who acts like a father to him, Vincent learns everything there is to know about the business. Newcomers aren't welcome - Louis, Serra's right hand, makes it clear that he does not trust him. Vincent and Serra start building a camp to explore a gold mine, but tensions rise to a full-fledged war between them and their Brazilian competitors. And things get even more complicated when Vincent discovers that the mythical Sarah Bernhard mine is not a legend. The Guyanese jungle is a world where businessmen, gangsters, geologists and soldiers collide, and men kill and are killed for a few grams of the precious metal.

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  • Poster for Zorro

    Zorro 2024

    In 1821, Don Diego de la Vega becomes mayor of his beloved city of Los Angeles, which he intends to make prosperous. However, the municipality is facing financial problems due to the greed of a local businessman, Don Emmanuel, against whom the mayor's powers prove insufficient to fight injustice. Don Diego has not called upon his double Zorro for 20 years. But in the name of the general interest, he has no choice but to take out his mask and his sword. Very quickly, Diego will encounter difficulties in reconciling his dual identity as Zorro and mayor, which puts a strain on his marriage to Gabriella, who is unaware of his secret. Will Diego be able to save his marriage and his sanity in the midst of chaos?

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  • Poster for Sandokan

    Sandokan 1976

    In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.

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  • Poster for Mademoiselle Holmes

    Mademoiselle Holmes 2024

    Shy cop Charlie, descendant of Sherlock Holmes, lives with grandfather until a car accident changes her. Her newfound energy and brilliance as a cop lets her embrace life and solve crimes with Watson-like partner Samy.

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  • Poster for The Brigade

    The Brigade 2023

    Saïd leads a team of young elite cops and will have to find his place within his group while preventing a gang war from breaking out between Eric's family and that of the El Hassani brothers.

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  • Poster for Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

    Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors 1985

    The Lightning League drives white and silver vehicles with assorted weaponry, and are led by a teenager named Jayce. The villains are organic green vegetable-based creatures called the Monster Minds, who tend to take the shape of black and green vehicles. They travel via large green organic vines which can grow in and across interstellar space, and sprout seeds that rapidly grow into further Monster Minds. They are led by Saw Boss.

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  • Poster for Celebrity Hunted - France - Manhunt

    Celebrity Hunted - France - Manhunt 2021

    Franck Gastambide and Ramzy, Squeezie and Seb la Frite, Dadju and his brother Darcy, and Laure and Florent Manaudou all become fugitives for 10 days. Starting from the Trocadéro, they must pull out all the stops to disappear as a team of experts is trying to track them down. At the end, the fugitives still on the run will have to reach a helicopter waiting for them at the exfiltration point.

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  • Poster for Section Zéro

    Section Zéro 2016

    Set in the near future, multi-national corporations are Europe’s new leaders. One of the most powerful, Promethee, wishes to further secure their growing dominance by replacing the police force with their own private militias, the Black Squad, led by Henry Munro. Following the shooting of his daughter, his life in shambles and darkest secrets exposed, an idealistic law enforcement officer, Sirius, with nowhere to turn, aligns himself with an old cop Franck Varnove. Sirius takes charge of Franck’s clandestine, elite squadron, Section Zéro, to battle these dark, violent militias, promising a return to traditional law enforcement before the world they’ve known disappears forever.

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  • Poster for Machine

    Machine 2024

    An action show mixing kung-fu and class war.

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  • Poster for The French Mans

    The French Mans 2022

    Vincent Piquet and Alban Burne, two losers, see their dull lives shattered when, following a misunderstanding, they uncover a conspiracy and find themselves caught up in the world of organized crime. It’s the start of a crazy and chaotic journey filled with peril and intrigue. However, even as they try desperately to save their lives, they never stop bickering.

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  • Poster for Wakfu: The Quest for the Six Eliatrope Dofus

    Wakfu: The Quest for the Six Eliatrope Dofus 2014

    Six years after the defeat inflicted on Qilby by Yugo and his team, tears flow again in Amalia's kingdom. To prevent this, the heroes must find the six missing Dofus.

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  • Poster for Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim

    Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim 2013

    Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim, is an animated series set in the world of the Dofus MMORPG. Unlike its sister series, Wakfu, there is no great overarching adventure to be had, nor any powerful villain to thwart. In fact, the central premise of the series is that all of Kerubim's adventures are already over. Instead, most episodes are about the eponymous character regaling his adopted grandson with tales about his adventures when he was younger, usually based around a trophy of some sort that he gained from it.

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  • Poster for Skyland

    Skyland 2005

    Skyland, is a CGI animated television series developed in France in partnership with Canada and Luxembourg for television channels France 2, Teletoon, NickToons Network, ABC and CITV. A 60-minute, worldwide preview was aired on November 26, 2005, at multiple times during the day and the following day. The program was hosted by Chase Francisco. It was launched on April 22, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. on Teletoon. On July 2, 2006, an encore of the one hour pilot aired on Nicktoons Network, with the full series commencing on Saturday, November 18, 2006. The show is produced by Paris's Method Films and Toronto's 9 Story Entertainment.

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  • Poster for Playground

    Playground 2017

    A lonely teenage girl joins a school for promising killers and trains hard to become an professional assassin as she uncovers the mysteries of her parents' death.

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  • Poster for Killer Coaster

    Killer Coaster 2023

    Summer 1998. Palavas-les-Flots. While the World Cup is in full swing, Sandrine Laplace, a bumbling contract worker who thinks she's a CIA agent, decides to investigate a mysterious accident that happened on the ghost train at the local fair. Incompetent but reckless, Sandrine infiltrates a brutal world - made up of clan wars, cotton candy and bumper cars - and will have to form an alliance with Carmen and Yvane, two showmen who are completely opposite. What if there was a murderer in the carnival?

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  • Poster for Arsène Lupin

    Arsène Lupin 1971

    Arsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Italian and Austrian TV stations. It was only loosely based on Maurice Leblancs novels. Georges Descrières' portrayal of Arsène Lupin showed more similarity to Graf Yoster than to Maurice Leblanc's original. He behaved in the first place as a perfect gentleman who never got angry. He was always relaxed, because whatever could possibly had bothered him in daily life was taken care of by his butler. It wasn't questioned how he had come to his financial independence although the series sometimes discreetly implied that he was a professional criminal. Besides rescuing damsels in distress Lupin took on criminals, competing with their wit and intelligence. Either he stole paintings from rich people who had to be considered white-collar criminals or he acted as a detective who derailed criminal schemes. However, when he was attacked, he could defend himself effortlessly by using elegant jujutsu methods. Among the guest stars were German actors such as Günter Strack and Sky du Mont. Jean-Paul Salomé said in his commentary on the DVD version of his film Arsène Lupin he had like this series as a child. German TV, one the investors, would broadcast the show eventually between 18:00-20:00 o'clock because it was only allowed to show commercials within that very timeslot. For them to get a financial return on investment the show had to be appropriate for families and also for children who would watch it alone. Subsequently it was nearby to ask to defuse and flatten some of Leblanc's plots in order to avoid possible complaints that could force the station to broadcast the show beyond the "Vorabendprogramm".

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  • Poster for Zak Storm

    Zak Storm 2011

    The adventures of Zak Storm - a headstrong and adventurous kid swept into the Bermuda Triangle while trying to win a surfing competition. Once inside, Zak partners up with a magical sword that allows him to transform into a swashbuckling, renegade hero to face the numerous perils of the unique and diverse Seven Seas of the Triangle.

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  • Poster for Largo Winch

    Largo Winch 2001

    Largo Winch is a television program based on the Belgian comic book series of the same name by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme that first aired on January 26, 2001 in France on M6, and May 3, 2001 in Germany on ProSieben. The show lasted two seasons. Guest stars included Kim Poirier, Vernon Dobtcheff, Elisha Cuthbert and David Carradine.

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  • Poster for Sentinelles

    Sentinelles 2022

    In the Mopti region of Mali, Lieutenant Anaïs Collet's section, deployed as part of Operation Barkhane, is dedicated to tracking down terrorists. However, an ambush rekindles tensions between the military and the Malian population.

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  • Poster for 66-5

    66-5 2023

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  • Poster for Pékin Express

    Pékin Express 2006

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  • Poster for Shuriken School

    Shuriken School 2006

    Eizan Kaburagi and his friends experience their first year at a ninja school, where they learn only the finest forms of education there are… such as how to pass through walls, disappear into clouds of smoke and fly over rooftops.

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  • Poster for Alice Nevers

    Alice Nevers 2002

    Les forces de police font ici équipe avec la juge d'instruction Alice Nevers pour résoudre leurs enquêtes...

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  • Poster for Dead Cells: Immortalis

    Dead Cells: Immortalis 2024

    On a cursed island plagued by a strange plague called "the Malaise", a king has his alchemists develop a remedy to save his people from the disease... but the antidote turns the kingdom's inhabitants into monsters! A prophecy reveals the advent of an immortal hero who will bring peace by killing the Demon King, who is responsible for this chaos. It's up to Laure Esposito, young Guardian of the Order of Truth, to find this chosen one with the Flamehead and save the world from destruction. Good for her, because the chosen one doesn't give a damn about finding a cure for the Malaise. Bringing peace? He just wants to be left alone!

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  • Poster for Fort Boyard

    Fort Boyard 1990

    A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.

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  • Poster for Le Collège Noir

    Le Collège Noir 2023

    In a small boarding school lost in the middle of the Cantal mountains, five teenagers spend the Autumn holidays with their jaded supervisor, Lena. But when they accidentally get cursed by a terrible witch, all hell breaks loose and the terrifying creatures of French folklore come after them…

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  • Poster for Les Brigades du Tigre

    Les Brigades du Tigre 1974

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  • Poster for Kabul

    Kabul 2005

    Kabul, August 14, 2021. The Taliban are at the gates of the city, and France prepares to evacuate its embassy. But the sudden fall of Kabul the next day rushes all the plans. French, Italian, German, American diplomats and the police must improvise the evacuation of hundreds of Afghans and refugees to the airport. While chaos reaches the city, the Afghans will soon have only two choices: to kneel or to run away.

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  • Poster for Team Galaxy

    Team Galaxy 2006

    "Team Galaxy" is about a group of friends who try to balance both their school work and their free time. The three protagonists, Josh, Yoko, and Brett, are among the students of a school called "Galaxy High", a galactic justice authority, which defends the galaxy against criminals. The school teaches subjects suitable for these types of missions, which their students endure. The series apparently takes place during the present day, but in an episode where they go through a time skip, a calendar says that the year is 2051, hinting that the actual series takes place in 2050.

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  • Poster for Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return

    Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return 2009

    The show follows two brothers, Nick & Toby, who discover that they have the power to transform into powerful creatures known as Gormitis. Their two friends Jessica & Lucas join the fight and together they harness the power of the four elements. Now it's up to them to save their world from destruction.

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  • Poster for Nicolas Le Floch

    Nicolas Le Floch 2008

    Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful subordinate Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals.

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  • Poster for Jade Armor

    Jade Armor 2022

    Martial arts-loving teenager Lan Jun must learn the ancient secrets of her family and uncover the unexpected, all while navigating life as a teen.

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  • Poster for L'Épopée temporelle

    L'Épopée temporelle 2021

    Meet Iris, Thomas, La Buse and Eliot as they travel through time to find the man who invited that time machine!

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  • OSmic the Hedgeh’ OS 2025

    When Sonic the Hedgehog meets BoOzy’ OS, you get OSmic the Hedgeh’ OS.

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