Best TV shows on Netflix (France) : our Top 20

2023 · François Uzan, Jean-Pascal Zadi · 2 seasons

A principled teacher, accustomed to shaping minds rather than headlines, is unexpectedly propelled into an accidental campaign for the French presidency, where media scrutiny, political scheming and the moral compromises of power put their convictions to the test.

With Jean-Pascal Zadi, Benoît Poelvoorde, Eric Judor, Fadily Camara, Marina Foïs, Fary and Panayotis Pascot

2020 · Benjamin Dupas, Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Anne Cissé · 1 season

In the shadowed corners of Paris, a teenager of human and vampire blood must learn to control newly awakened powers and navigate a crumbling family life while a covert vampire cabal closes in to claim her.

With Juliette Cardinski, Oulaya Amamra, Pierre Lottin, Aliocha Schneider, Kate Moran, Mounir Amamra and Dylan Robert

2024 · Franck Gastambide, Sylvain Caron · 2 seasons

An overlooked young fighter desperate to turn pro claws his way out of obscurity; an unexpected showdown propels him into the spotlight, giving him a chance at the big leagues — and plunging him into a merciless rivalry.

With Franck Gastambide, Melvin Boomer, Georges St-Pierre, Bosh, Adel Bencherif, Cyril Gane and Salahdine Parnasse

2021 · George Kay, Marie Roussin, Florent Meyer, François Uzan, Tigran Rosine · 3 seasons

Drawing on the legacy of Arsène Lupin, charismatic thief Assane Diop launches an elaborate campaign to avenge the injustice a powerful, wealthy family inflicted on his father.

With Omar Sy, Hervé Pierre, Ludivine Sagnier, Soufiane Guerrab, Shirine Boutella, Etan Simon and Vincent Londez

2019 · Gideon Raff · 1 season

In the 1960s, Mossad transforms Israeli clerk Eli Cohen into a deep‑cover operative who assumes a false identity to penetrate Syrian society, enduring a hazardous, years‑long double life to gather vital intelligence.

With Sacha Baron Cohen, Noah Emmerich, Hadar Ratzon Rotem, Alexander Siddig, Waleed Zuaiter, Nassim Lyes and Moni Moshonov

2019 · Anne Berest · 2 seasons

An exhausted, overextended mother juggling a demanding career and an unresponsive home life becomes convinced her partner is cheating; desperate for his attention, she invents a serious health scare, setting off a dangerous charade that forces both of them to face the truth about their relationship and who they’ve become.

With Marina Hands, Mathieu Demy, Marie Drion, Jéremy Gillet, Zélie Rixhon and Luca Terracciano

2020 · 1 season

Contestants navigate a cutthroat social-media arena, using flirtation, friendship and calculated deception to climb the ranks and seize a €100,000 prize.

2019 · Samuel Bodin · 1 season

When eerie events pulled straight from her own books start happening in real life, a bestselling writer heads back to the small town she escaped years ago to confront the long-buried traumas and the figures from her past who feed her darkest work — desperate to stop her fiction from becoming more than imagination.

With Victoire Du Bois, Lucie Boujenah, Tiphaine Daviot, Ralph Amoussou, Mehdi Meskar, Bellamine Abdelmalek and Alban Lenoir

2015 · Dominique Besnehard, Fanny Herrero · 4 seasons

When an unforeseen upheaval hits a premier Parisian talent agency, its agents frantically juggle demanding celebrity clients and urgent damage control to keep the firm from collapsing.

With Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, Liliane Rovère, Laure Calamy, Nicolas Maury and Fanny Sidney

2022 · 4 seasons

Emerging and established French MCs go head-to-head—freestyling, battling one another and crafting original songs—in a high-stakes music competition where the winner earns a transformative €100,000, with Niska, Shay and SCH judging each round.

With SCH, Shay, Niska, Driver, Soso Maness, Naps and Gradur

2015 · Thomas Astruc · 6 seasons

Two Parisian teenagers, Marinette and Adrien, are given enchanted jewels that let them become the superhero pair Ladybug and Cat Noir. Unaware of each other’s civilian identities — and that they’re classmates — they must balance school life, budding feelings, and the responsibility of protecting the city.

With Annouck Hautbois, Benjamin Bollen, Antoine Tomé, Marie Nonnenmacher, Thierry Kazazian, Fanny Bloc and Alexandre Nguyen

2025 · Alain Chabat · 1 season

When the village druid suddenly forgets the recipe for the secret strength potion, Asterix and Obelix are forced to protect their home while Caesar plots to turn an obscure Gallic law to Rome’s advantage.

With Alain Chabat, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte, Thierry Lhermitte, Géraldine Nakache and Jean-Pascal Zadi

2001 · David Michel, Vincent Chalvon-Demersay · 7 seasons

Three spirited teenage friends juggle the dramas of school—tests, friendships and crushes—while secretly working as international undercover agents. Between classroom life and covert missions they confront a parade of eccentric, dangerous masterminds whose outrageous schemes threaten chaos on a global scale.

With Jennifer Hale, Andrea Baker, Claire Guyot, Fily Keita, Céline Mauge, Jean-Claude Donda and Katie Griffin

2022 · Bruno Merle, Olivier Abbou · 1 season

Running out of material for his sophomore novel, a brooding writer agrees to ghostwrite the life story of a dying man — only to be drawn into the violent secrets of the man's past.

With Nicolas Duvauchelle, Niels Arestrup, Axel Granberger, Alyzée Costes, Brigitte Catillon, Marie Denarnaud and Lola Créton

2022 · Charlotte Sanson · 1 season

Discovering the remains of a young man sends Léa back to the 1990s, where a chain of seven involuntary body swaps thrusts her into other people's lives as she pieces together the truth behind his death and fights to stop it from happening.

With Raïka Hazanavicius, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Marguerite Thiam, Maïra Schmitt, Théo Fernandez, Rebecca Williams and Anne Azoulay

2025 · Derek Kolstad · 1 season

Feared and whispered about in intelligence circles, Sam Fisher is pulled out of retirement to take a green operative under his wing as they chase a sprawling, cross-border conspiracy that could upend the balance of power.

With Liev Schreiber, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Bella Dayne, Janet Varney, Kari Wahlgren, Aleks Le and Kiff VandenHeuvel

2020 · Aurélien Molas · 1 season

In 1787 France, physician Joseph Guillotin is drawn into a probe of grisly, unexplained killings and uncovers a contagious affliction dubbed the Blue Blood. The illness spreads through the palaces and salons of the nobility, warping the privileged into violent predators who turn on ordinary citizens. As the contagion and the panic it breeds escalate, the aristocracy’s brutality ignites a volatile uprising that threatens to overturn the social order.

With Amir el Kacem, Marilou Aussilloux, Lionel Erdogan, Isabel Aimé González Sola, Julien Frison, Doudou Masta and Dimitri Storoge

2025 · Allan Mauduit, Jean-Patrick Benes, Martin Douaire · 1 season

France, 1504. Fleeing through a kingdom riven by conflict and conspiracy, a merciless killer is forced to take his long-estranged daughter with him, and must do whatever it takes to protect her from relentless human adversaries and dark, malevolent forces that stalk their path.

With Pio Marmaï, Olivier Gourmet, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice Isaaz, Camille Razat and Yann Gael

2019 · Jim Field Smith, George Kay · 1 season

Inside a Paris interrogation room, buried truths surface and whole investigations crumble as suspects and interrogators lock into a tense, high-stakes psychological duel.

With Margot Bancilhon, Anne Azoulay, Mhamed Arezki, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane Jobert, Sara Giraudeau and Nathalie Baye

2016 · Dan Franck, Florent-Emilio Siri · 2 seasons

On the verge of handing leadership to his chosen protégé, Marseille’s long-serving mayor is thrust into an abrupt, ruthless power struggle as rivals scramble to seize control of the city.

With Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Caillard, Benoît Magimel, Géraldine Pailhas, Nadia Farès, Carolina Jurczak and Guillaume Arnault