Best Belgian crime series

A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.

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.

Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.

In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper into secrets of the area.

Desperate for funds, Ferry Bouman stumbles upon a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among Brabant's top dealers.

The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.

When a prodigal son sends his family's empire into crushing debt, his estranged brother returns to Antwerp's diamond district to pick up the pieces.

The nerve-racking events of a cold winter's day, seen from two different perspectives. The odd episodes tell the story of a team of police negotiators and special forces who respond to a hostage crisis in a small bank branch. The even episodes tell exactly the same events, only through the eyes of the criminals inside and their victims.

What if you had to investigate your own murder? This anthology series follows victims who wake up to find their own dead bodies and have to navigate the limbo between life and death to solve the mystery of who killed them and why.

A serial killer reverts to the 10 commandments in order to kick society a conscience with his crimes.

The investigations of two police officers from The Brussels Digital Unit, a unit specializing in cybercrime.

A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.

A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.

Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.

Late 80’s in Northern France, women are being sexually assaulted along the same road by the Samber river – with attacks taking place early mornings and in a similar style. The police fail to get to grips with the extent of these assaults or make a connection between the cases. The justice system is overwhelmed by the accumulating cases. It will take 30 years to catch a man, who never stopped attacking women and is responsible for at least 54 cases of rape or sexual assault.

Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.

Eccentric criminal psychology Professor T is a successful police advisor but his unpredictable nature drives his colleagues crazy. He has a brilliant mind, but also several psychological and neurological disorders which make him a complex and often difficult individual. However, aided by the trusty and understanding Annelies and Daan they form a team of high-powered experts that Antwerp Homicide Department rely on. After Season Two, however, things change radically. This is a thinking person's television series.

In the turbulent 1980s, friends Marc and Franky, and his sister Vicky, move to Brussels for a career with the Gendarmerie. Soon the three young people are sucked into a spiral of crimes that are attributed to the so-called "Bende van Nijvel" gang.

Freed after 20 years in prison, the child killer Guy Beranger found refuge with the monks in Vielsart, a small village in Belgian's Ardennes. He is placed under the protection of a young Federal Police's inspector, Chloé Muller. A little while after his release, a little girl disappears.

Since the death of their parents, five sisters have formed a close-knit clan—until one of them marries. The other four see the devilish husband as the source of all misery and hatch a plan to get rid of him.

Haunted by a shadowy past, the wife of a rising star in Amsterdam's mayoral office finds herself drawn into the city’s underworld of sex and drugs.

Walter Wilson (Kevin Janssens) and Robin De Rover (Ella-June Henrard) once started their careers in the police force with great dedication and noble ideals, but too often saw months of intensive and dangerous detective work lost due to what they considered irrelevant procedural errors, dexterity of expensive lawyers and dubious decisions of foreign judges. They are increasingly colouring outside the lines during their patrols: for example, they tip criminals off about future police actions and get heavily paid for them. Wilson is also addicted (women, booze, drugs...) and that makes him incalculable. When he is suspended from the police force after repeated conflicts, he looks for even more rapprochement with the criminal environment, but in the meantime is tipsy game.

When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism unit, rescue the girl in a country that's off the grid.

John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for the former TV star. It’s a harsh environment, but also one with its own rules and traditions. John fights his old demons as well as new temptations, but quickly enters a dangerous arena but also a very lucrative trade of the docks: cocaine. John Beckers came to work at the port, but finds increasingly extreme ways to make the port work for him.

De Ridder is a Flemish crime series that is broadcasted by the network één since 2013. The series is set in the court of Ghent where Helena De Ridder, played by Clara Cleymans, is a public prosecutor.

Tom and Linda are thirtysomethings living in Belgium, along the French border. He is a policeman, she is a beautician, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they embark on a get-rich-quick life insurance scam in an attempt to give themselves a fresh start someplace sunny. Their plan is going pretty well … until everything goes wrong, when Philippe, a French gendarme with whom Linda has an affair starts to investigate…Good People also tells the story of a small border town between France and Belgium and its people who can’t seem to face the evil eating away at their community.

The series follows criminology professor Mia van der Linden who chooses a small group of students to solve cold cases. But during their work they come across a case that they are suddenly no longer allowed to investigate by higher authorities. The group of students must use the law cunningly to find justice.

Five guys spent their time in prison. Some of them even for murder. Now they want to run a restaurant called Amigo's. But not everything goes how it was supposed to go.

This docuseries follows the high-profile case of Belgian politician Bernard Wesphael, who was accused of murdering his wife in 2013.

Frank De Jong a timid fraud expert, has lost his faith in the goodness of the world. He gradually discovers a completely different side of himself, a dark side that has never been revealed before. When he decides to team up with his polar opposite Chris De Wulf, he evolves into a mastermind, a wolf in sheep's clothing who is too quick for everyone.

Near the Franco-German border, in the heart of the Black Forest and the binational military base; 12 bodies are found in a mass grave. All the victims are men, both French and German.

In this bittersweet satire about what life has in store for those who pursue only their own happiness, self-made ice cream boss Phil 'Frisco' Druyts values his employees more than his family. When he discovers his family’s plan to sell his business, he takes matters into his own hands, creating turmoil for them and unleashing a nationwide manhunt.

Vermist is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VT4 and Netherlands production company Eyeworks. It is broadcast on VT4 and a French language version—Urgence disparitions—is shown by W9.Based on the characters and background of the successful Flemish film Vermist, the first episode was broadcast on March 25, 2008. A second season was broadcast in 2010.

Straight-talking Superintendent Liese Meerhout leads the homicide department in the Antwerp police force. She and her team go to great lengths to ensure justice is served, even if it means they too cross the line between right and wrong.

After the death of her father, detective Juliet Dumon starts over. She leaves Brussels and returns to her hometown of De Haan to care for her niece, who lived with her father.

The story of the family of lawyer Sofie and Commissioner Thomas that is struck by fate. Their five-year-old son, Arthur, disappears without a trace. This tragedy makes Sofie question her life. She ends her career as a criminal lawyer and starts training as a police officer. Three years later, she has a clear goal: to lock up as many criminals as possible while continuing to passionately search for her missing son.

25 years ago, the case of child molester Marc Dutroux shook the Kingdom of Belgium to its core. The process of confronting and coming to terms with the cruel fate of the missing children left people stunned. The four-part documentary portrays, with unique openness and using previously unpublished material, the struggle of the survivors and the victims’ parents. Thanks to their persistent efforts, not only Belgium’s police and judicial authorities, but society as a whole, underwent lasting change.

Freddy Bernaerts is the owner of a transport company, but he also runs an illegal side business: he uses his trucks to smuggle drugs into the country from all over Europe. Director Marc Potvin of the Federal Police is a cop with big ambitions and an even bigger ego, who is dead set on catching Bernaerts. Potvin has a proposition for small-time fraudster Danny Desmedt: if he can help him close down Freddy's operation, all charges against him will be dropped. Initially, Danny is not keen on it. He may be a fraudster, but he's not a rat. But his personal situation ...

Since his parents' divorce, Pieter has lived a low-profile life during the day as an unathletic and unremarkable schoolboy. But unbeknown to his overanxious mother, Pieter sneaks outside at night to do incredibly cool parkour jumps in another neighbourhood, along with his parkour mentor and best friend Sefu. When Pieter’s mother - a local police officer - becomes overloaded with work thanks to the rising crime rate, Pieter decides to use his secret talent to become Hoodie: a mysterious hero who protects the Brussels neighbourhood 'Vrijbeek', with the help of three other local youths who have discovered his secret. The loner suddenly has three friends and Team Hoodie is born...

When Lukas wakes up after a heavy night of partying with no memory, he discovers a video circulating online in which he appears to murder someone. He flees in panic. With the help of Noa, the roommate of his missing girlfriend Ravi, he tries to find out what happened. But is Lukas as innocent as he claims? And why is Noa so keen to help him? Can she be trusted?

A recently divorced reporter moves back to her hometown of Nantes with her daughter, but painful memories await her there… When she was just 16, her Jehovah’s Witness parents forced her to give up her newborn son, a decision that drove her to run away from home and leave Nantes.

In this Flemish detective series, the Dutch title of which means in the act, notably "in flagrante delicto", a team of the Belgian (national) police lead by John Nauwelaerts investigates serious crimes, often against the clock as victims sometimes may still be in danger. Special attention is also given to the legally necessary, but sometimes frustrating, interaction with the judicial authorities, other police forces (this inefficiency required a major reform in reality), various experts and lawyers.

Alice lives a normal, happy life as a mom, until her whole world is turned upside down: Thomas, the man of her life and father of her child, is suspected of being Antoine Durieux-Jelosse, the infamous assassin who vanished fifteen years ago after murdering his entire family. Years have passed, but Police Chief Sophie Lancelle has never given up her relentless search for the man who committed that unthinkable crime. She is determined to prove, come what may, that Thomas is that long-lost man on everyone's wanted list.

Heritage, like chromosomes, we do not choose. Son Of is the story of a gangster father (re)discovered by his children over the course of the episodes, while on a dangerous treasure hunt an hostile urban jungle in the world : Brussels