The BEST Canal+ shows of all time
Every Canal+ show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every Canal+ show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - WorkinGirls
The daily work and personal lives of a busy company which employs six young women is examined.
View Episode Rankings#2 - Mafiosa
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli (Hélène Fillières), is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality. Backed up by her brother, she learns how to assert herself in a very violent world. To rise to the occasion, the young woman will have to seduce, manipulate, and reinvent the clan in its own way. According to several media sources, the character Sandra is actually an adaptation of the current life of the Corsican widow Sandra Casanova-Germani whose brother Jean-Luc Germani is the most wanted man in France. The series contains violence and political schemes.
View Episode Rankings#3 - The Bureau
Le Bureau des légendes is a French political thriller television series, which revolves around the lives of agents of the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security), France's principal external security service. "Malotru", a French intelligence officer, undercover in Syria for 6 years, is called back home. He will face the difficulty to forget his undercover identity, the disappearance of a colleague in Algeria, and the training of a young woman.
View Episode Rankings#4 - The Wakos
Nervous breakdowns will spare no one. Even not the characters of our childhood. To such a point that some people of them even became socially disadvantaged persons. Fortunately for them, all is not lost and a brave social worker decided to deal with their case. Come in his office and assist its confidential interviews with Aspegix and Grodebilix, Zizimir, Sandy, Proumfs, Mr Patatos, Marius and Gigi, the Tortoises Tramps and all Kassos which suffer in the biggest indifference.
View Episode Rankings#5 - Homiez
The mishaps of young men living in a district, rife with hip-hop culture.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Calls
Sound recordings, taken from the black box of an airplane, testify to the tragedy that occurred on board the flight from the perspective of different passengers, but who are all interconnected to each other and may indicate the impending Apocalypse.
View Episode Rankings#7 - Bloqués
Two guys chat on a sofa while waiting for something to happen. Created by the team at Bref, this short program speaks of boredom.
View Episode Rankings#8 - Spiral
French police series in which a public prosecutor, an investigating judge and a no-nonsense police chief have to deal with political intrigue. Public prosecutor Pierre Clement works closely with the no-nonsense police chief Laure Berthaud and investigating judge François Roban. In the criminal world of Paris, full of drugs and prostitution, they are forced to navigate a web of political affairs during their work. The different members of the investigation team also have a different vision of justice and each of them struggles with their own personal demons.
View Episode Rankings#9 - Baron Noir
French politician Philippe Rickwaert thirsts for revenge against his political enemies. Philippe’s political career is in shambles after he is sacrificed by the presidential candidate from the Left, Francis Laugier, in order to save his election. Step by step, Philippe plots against him and forges an alliance with his closest advisor, Amélie Dorendeu.
View Episode Rankings#10 - The Returned
In a small Alpine village, a group of men, women and children is in a state of confusion as they try to return to their homes after years of being away. What they don't know is that no one is expecting their arrival because they have been dead for several years. Upon returning, they realize that their friends and family have moved on to the next stages of their lives since the now-returning souls passed on. Coinciding with their reappearance is a series of murders that bears a chilling resemblance to those of a serial killer from the past.
View Episode Rankings#11 - Hard
Written and directed by actress Cathy Verney, follows the misfortunes of Sophie, a middle-class housewife from a French Catholic bourgeois upbringing. Following the sudden death of her husband, Sophie uncovers a dark secret about his lifestyle.
View Episode Rankings#12 - Guyane
Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of gold trafficking. From Serra, who acts like a father to him, Vincent learns everything there is to know about the business. Newcomers aren't welcome - Louis, Serra's right hand, makes it clear that he does not trust him. Vincent and Serra start building a camp to explore a gold mine, but tensions rise to a full-fledged war between them and their Brazilian competitors. And things get even more complicated when Vincent discovers that the mythical Sarah Bernhard mine is not a legend. The Guyanese jungle is a world where businessmen, gangsters, geologists and soldiers collide, and men kill and are killed for a few grams of the precious metal.
View Episode Rankings#13 - Versailles (2015)
Born strategist, mischievous manipulator, Louis will use every resource at his disposal to keep the Noblesse on a short leash, while feeling bitter resentment in his private life, even paranoia. The man is also capable of romantic passion. But how to live them when you're the greatest king in the world?
View Episode Rankings#14 - Of Money and Blood
The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions went up in smoke on the new financial market of “carbon quotas” invented to fight against global warming. The association of crooks from Belleville with a trader from the upscale neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. According to the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Interns
A public hospital on the outskirts of a large city. Following health measures, doctors in the internal medicine department are confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a forensic doctor, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the department and the patients alone. But the quarantine lasts longer....
View Episode Rankings#16 - The Collapse
In France, as civilization collapses, everyone tries to survive. The food is lacking, the essence is becoming scarce, the most fragile are abandoned.
View Episode Rankings#17 - Platane
After a year of coma, and while his comedy partner Ramzy is enjoying a success in ' HP' , a follow up of their smash hit ' H' , Eric, slightly frustrated has a revelation : he will make a serious movie. Despite the global skepticism, he decides to write the new "La Môme" : "La Môme 2.0 Next Generation".
View Episode Rankings#18 - Carlos
The story of the Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez known as "Carlos", who was, for almost twenty years, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
View Episode Rankings#19 - Kaboul Kitchen
Afghanistan 2005. George Bush is the President of the United States, Jacques Chirac is the president of France and Jacky (Gilbert Melki), patron of the restaurant "Kitchen Kabul." All expatriates in Kabul come here to party. When his daughter arrives, Jacky does not recognize her because he has not seen her for 20 years. She came to do humanitarian work. It is there to make money ...
View Episode Rankings#20 - UFOs
As the dreams of Didier Mathure, a brilliant space engineer, literally go up in smoke when his rocket explodes on take-off, he is transferred to head GEPAN, a unit specializing in UFOs. He is tasked with coming up with scientific explanations for the UFO sightings that are currently dominating the headlines. This is a nightmare job for a die-hard rationalist like him, and he is determined to find a way out as soon as he can.
View Episode Rankings#21 - Oscar's Oasis
When you’re a lonely lizard in an unforgiving environment, life can be tough. It can seem the entire world is against you. In the case of Oscar, a rather forlorn desert denizen, it often is. He is beset on all sides. The arid landscape offers little relief, while his fellow inhabitants are anything but neighbourly. The chickens bring a whole new meaning to hen-pecked and attack Oscar with bloodthirsty relish should he stray near them. The mischievous meerkats are no help at all. Then there’s the terrible trio – Popy, Buck and Harchi – who are the bane of Oscar’s life. Anything he has, they take.
View Episode Rankings#22 - Burning Love (FR)
Life gave him everything... except a co-pilot. For nine weeks in a sublime villa, thirteen women will compete to seduce Marc, airline pilot, and try to light in him... La Flamme. So, arm the slides, check the opposite door... Marc will take his suitors to the seventh heaven!
View Episode Rankings#23 - Borgia
The story of one of the most powerful families of the Renaissance period, which became known as one of its members, Rodrigo Borgia, came to occupy the throne of San Pedro.
View Episode Rankings#24 - Marie-Antoinette (2022)
The story of the famed queen, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Validé
A talented young rapper, supported by his two childhood friends, finds himself overnight "validated" by one of the stars in the business. Only, this alliance quickly turns into a dangerous rivalry ...
View Episode Rankings#26 - War of the Worlds (2019)
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction? Emotional, cinematic and rooted in character, it is a unique marriage of human drama and the best science fiction. This is a story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances - but they are more than just victims in a brutal war. For, as we will come to realize, the aliens’ savage attack on earth is not arbitrary: its seeds are being sown before our very eyes.
View Episode Rankings#28 - XIII: The Conspiracy
Based on a Belgian comic book and a Ubisoft video game, this action mini-series is about a massive governmental conspiracy involving the assassination of the first female U.S. president. A man is found washed up on a beach with his memory gone. When elite special ops forces detect his location and track him down, he instinctively kills them one by one. Driven by the need to recover his memory...
View Episode Rankings#29 - Savages
On the verge of an historic election victory, an Arabic candidate for the French presidency sees his ambitions threatened by a perfect storm of religious, cultural, and family politics.
View Episode Rankings#30 - The Trigger
A woman who runs a crisis management company faces a major scandal when a black football player hits the team's coach, a white man.
View Episode Rankings#31 - Désordres
When she is not on stage, Florence Foresti is a woman like the others. Worse. A public figure, she is also a mother in joint custody, a drifting bachelor, an artist in search of inspiration, and a chronic anguish. DÉSORDRES invites you to enter the daily life of Florence Foresti, every other week, when she does not have her daughter to support, during the creation of her show "Epilogue", in 2017. Like her dual life, where the routine rubs shoulders with glamour, laughter flirts with the serious, and parody invites itself into reality. A beautiful mess.
View Episode Rankings#32 - Paris Has Fallen
When a terrorist group led by the villainous Jacob Pearce attacks a high-profile event, with the French Minister of Defence as their target, protection officer Vincent Taleb finds himself working with street-smart MI6 operative Zara Taylor to save the day. But when events take a dark turn, Vincent and Zara soon realize that the plan extends beyond just one politician. When they suspect that one of their colleagues in the security services is feeding information to Jacob, Vincent and Zara find themselves needing to rely only on each other. Increasingly isolated and with Jacob always one step ahead, can this unlikely pair stop Paris from falling to a man hell-bent on vengeance?
View Episode Rankings#33 - Infiniti
The ISS, the International Space Station has gone silent. The crew is in distress. Simultaneously, a decapitated and waxed body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Positive identification leaves no room for doubt: the body belongs to an American astronaut currently on a mission on the ISS. A French astronaut, dismissed from the space program, and a Kazakh cop, disowned by his ranking hierarchy, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.
View Episode Rankings#34 - Spotless
Set in London, SPOTLESS is the story of a troubled crime scene cleaner, Jean, whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
View Episode Rankings#35 - Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie
Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie is a five part Sky Original documentary series that will look into the unsolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier who was brutally murdered in West Cork in 1996. Using original evidence, never-before-seen footage and interviews with those closest to the case, including Sophie’s family and key suspect Ian Bailey, the series will aim to unravel the unsolved case that has haunted West Cork for decades.
View Episode Rankings#36 - Paris Police
Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.
View Episode Rankings#37 - Nox
When her daughter Julie disappears in the basements of Paris without leaving a trace, Catherine Suzini is convinced that she alone can find it. Former cop, retired as well as drifting, she will have to resolve to team up with Raphael, the teammate of his daughter. Together, they will leave the surface and sink into the depths of Paris to embark on a terrifying and frenzied race to the descent into hell ...
View Episode Rankings#38 - Section Zéro
Set in the near future, multi-national corporations are Europe’s new leaders. One of the most powerful, Promethee, wishes to further secure their growing dominance by replacing the police force with their own private militias, the Black Squad, led by Henry Munro. Following the shooting of his daughter, his life in shambles and darkest secrets exposed, an idealistic law enforcement officer, Sirius, with nowhere to turn, aligns himself with an old cop Franck Varnove. Sirius takes charge of Franck’s clandestine, elite squadron, Section Zéro, to battle these dark, violent militias, promising a return to traditional law enforcement before the world they’ve known disappears forever.
View Episode Rankings#39 - B.R.I.
Saïd leads a team of young elite cops and will have to find his place within his group while preventing a gang war from breaking out between Eric's family and that of the El Hassani brothers.
View Episode Rankings#40 - Vernon Subutex
Vernon Subutex, the unemployed former owner of legendary record shop Revolver, is evicted from his apartment. In his search for a place to stay, Vernon contacts his former friends who were involved in the music world with him in the 1990s. One of them is rock star Alex Bleach, who dies of an overdose shortly after they reunite, leaving behind three mysterious video tapes. Vernon collects them and slips anonymously into the city, where he soon becomes the most wanted man in Paris.
View Episode Rankings#41 - Maison Close
Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care her girls and resist pressure from a thug from the suburbs who is charging her money
View Episode Rankings#42 - Possessions
A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?
View Episode Rankings#43 - Django
Haunted by the murder of his family, but believing his daughter is still alive, a man goes looking for her.
View Episode Rankings#44 - Loups garous
13 players, specialists in strategy and deception, compete in real-time for a life-sized game of Werewolves.
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