# The best Canal+ original series

DGSE spies, Paris police, northern French politicians and carbon-tax fraud: the Canal+ originals Presse-citron says you must see.

- 16 votes · 14 items
- Sep 18, 2025 · episode_namur
- https://even.best/en/l/4539/the-best-canal-original-series

## Top 14

1. **The Bureau (2015)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Éric Rochant. The DGSE's undercover agents, with Mathieu Kassovitz.
2. **Kabul Kitchen (2012)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A restaurant for expats in 2000s Kabul.
3. **Spiral (2005)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paris police, judges and lawyers over eight seasons.
4. **Baron noir (2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kad Merad as a ruthless Socialist MP from the north.
5. **Of Money and Blood (2023)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Xavier Giannoli. The carbon-tax scam of the century.
6. **Savages (2019)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rebecca Zlotowski. A president, son of an Algerian immigrant, targeted in an attack.
7. **Platane (2011)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Éric Judor as himself, cynical version.
8. **Braquo (2009)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Olivier Marchal. Cops ready to cross the line to save a colleague.
9. **Validé (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Franck Gastambide. The rise of a rapper from the banlieue.
10. **Mafiosa (2006)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A lawyer takes over a Corsican clan.
11. **The Young Pope (2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paolo Sorrentino. Jude Law as the first American pope, co-produced by Canal+.
12. **The Returned (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The dead come back to a small mountain town.
13. **Le Flambeau (2022)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jonathan Cohen: the adventurers of Chupacabra, a TV game-show parody.
14. **Calls (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Timothée Hochet. Stories told only through recorded phone calls.

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