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The best French crime series

The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Spiral (2005-2020) · Braquo (2009-2016) · Sambre (2023). (Updated Dec 9, 2024.)

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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Top 10

  1. 1

    Spiral (2005-2020)

    Paris cops, judges and lawyers, warts and all.

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    1
  2. 2

    Braquo (2009-2016)

    Four Hauts-de-Seine cops who cross the line.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  3. 3

    Sambre (2023)

    Thirty years hunting a serial rapist in northern France.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  4. 4

    The Forest (2017)

    Disappearances in an Ardennes village.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  5. 5

    Candice Renoir (2013-)

    A police commander and mother of four in Sète.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    Agatha Christie's Criminal Games (2009-)

    Agatha Christie moved to northern France.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  7. 7

    Capitaine Marleau (2015-)

    Corinne Masiero as a gendarme in a fur hat.

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    0
  8. 8

    HIP: High Intellectual Potential (2021-)

    A cleaner with an IQ of 160 becomes a police consultant.

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    0
  9. 9

    Maigret (1991-2005)

    Bruno Cremer as Simenon's inspector.

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    0
  10. 10

    Balthazar (2018-2023)

    A charming, unbearable forensic pathologist.

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    0

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  1. 11

    The Mantis (2017)

    A serial killer helps police catch her copycat.

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    0
  2. 12

    Profilage (2009-2020)

    A criminologist who reads killers' minds.

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    0
  3. 13

    Navarro (1989-2007)

    Roger Hanin as a Paris police commissioner.

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    0
  4. 14

    Paris Police 1900 (2021-)

    The Paris police during the Dreyfus affair.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1

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