# The best French crime series

From Paris police stations to the forests of the Ardennes: the best-rated French TV crime dramas, according to AlloCiné, Masculin.com and SensCritique.

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- Dec 9, 2024 · episode_namur
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## Top 10

1. **Spiral (2005-2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paris cops, judges and lawyers, warts and all.
2. **Braquo (2009-2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Four Hauts-de-Seine cops who cross the line.
3. **Sambre (2023)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thirty years hunting a serial rapist in northern France.
4. **The Forest (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Disappearances in an Ardennes village.
5. **Candice Renoir (2013-)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A police commander and mother of four in Sète.
6. **Agatha Christie's Criminal Games (2009-)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Agatha Christie moved to northern France.
7. **Capitaine Marleau (2015-)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Corinne Masiero as a gendarme in a fur hat.
8. **HIP: High Intellectual Potential (2021-)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A cleaner with an IQ of 160 becomes a police consultant.
9. **Maigret (1991-2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bruno Cremer as Simenon's inspector.
10. **Balthazar (2018-2023)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A charming, unbearable forensic pathologist.
11. **The Mantis (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A serial killer helps police catch her copycat.
12. **Profilage (2009-2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A criminologist who reads killers' minds.
13. **Navarro (1989-2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Roger Hanin as a Paris police commissioner.
14. **Paris Police 1900 (2021-)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Paris police during the Dreyfus affair.

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