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After being wrongly fired from Crédit International, a prestigious Investment bank in Luxembourg, Jana Liekam, a talented Young Investment banker, is offered a dream-job in Frankfurt Under the supervision of prominent Gabriel Fenger, Head of Investment Banking at Deutsche Invest. Suddenly, Jana not only had to give up her job, but also leave her boyfriend and his 5-year-old daughter behind. While Jana quickly manages to impress Fenger and his team with her passion and ambition, she realizes only too late that Christelle Leblanc, her former boss at Crédit International, has secretly been pulling the strings and manipulating Jana to her own advantage. Soon, Jana finds herself torn between her new obligations and Leblanc's relentless blackmail. Will she and her career survive this merciless powerplay?

At the start of 1960. French secret services hired young André Merleaux, back from Algeria. André trains with real spy more interested by their expense reports than by their work. The road is long to become an agent like 007.

In a world where death is finally conquered and people can live forever, a cop (Darius, 120yo) and a young woman (Christa, 24yo) must investigate the mysterious suicide of seven teenagers. With the promise of eternal youth, why would a group of teenagers commit such an act? Was it a cult? A political act? The two will embark on a mysterious and dangerous investigation from which there will be no turning back.

Alain Delambre is a senior executive worn out and humiliated by six years of unemployment. So when a prestigious company selects him as a candidate, he is prepared to betray his wife, steal from his daughters, hit his son-in-law and even take part in a role-playing game in the form of a hostage-taking scenario, knowing that, if he is hired, all will be forgiven. But nothing will go as planned.

Adrien is a 40 years old writer known as Mody who only wrote one successful novel and has been facing blank page syndrome ever since. He now is a ghost writer and has recently been hired by Albert, an old man dying from an uncurable disease and who will tell him everything about his life.

The economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall.

Florian Bassot suffers a swimming accident and falls into a coma. With the progressions in science, five years later his mind is transferred into the body of someone else. With transfers outlawed and his family's safety on the line, Florian has to hide his identity and live as Sylvain Bernard, one of the highest-ranking officers of B.A.I.T, the anti-transfers taskforce.

Devoted mother and wife, Elvira feels more and more invisible to her family. One day, she gives into temptation and becomes caught up in a dreadful web of lies in her quest for love and attention.

In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. A year later, it's the revenge match. For the first time in history, Kasparov will have to bow to the computer.

In the aftermath of the November 13 attacks, a psychoanalyst receives five patients. Through their sessions, the series probes the flaws of a society in shock.

Vincent Dauda, in his thirties, dreams of winning back his ex, the haunting Louise. He drags his sorrow until the day a deliveryman brings him a package he did not order. A strange, bottomless box, through which he experiences a temporal journey that brings him back ... to Louise's side before their separation.

After receiving a mysterious message, David Rousseau, author of thrillers lacking inspiration, goes to Mouthe, the coldest village in France. The same day, a murder occurs... Seeing the unexpected opportunity of a new novel, Rousseau begins an investigation which encroaches on that of Warrant Officer Louvetot. Trouble definitely sets in when the murders add up... There is a serial killer... in Mouthe!

Following the of a large cargo of cannabis, the destinies of various characters intersect between France and Spain. A thriller that sails between realism and romance to better immerse ourselves in the of traffickers.

Samuel is 10 years old. He keeps a diary and has a problem: Basile has told Julie that Samuel loves her. It's not true, he doesn't care about Julie. It's just that she laughed at one of his jokes and he thought that was nice of her. Well, Samuel actually likes Julie, but no one can know. An animated series created by Emilie Tronche about a childhood in the 2000s.

In an industrial, labyrinthine seaside town, strangers burst into flames for no reason. Suicides? Murders? Supernatural phenomena? To find out, Louise, a young journalist, and Gabriel, a psychiatrist, start investigating.

A young woman known as Machine tries to escape from a commando unit of the Intelligence and Security Directorate.

A lonely young woman, Lisa, moves into an apartment opposite an empty house. Soon afterwards, police discover the body of a man which has been sitting in an armchair inside the empty house for 30 years. Although Lisa does not know the dead man, he left her the house in his will. She moves in. At night she hears anguished cries from behind the walls. Investigating further, she becomes trapped in an eerie realm of hallways, rooms, forests and monsters. She meets a young man, Julien, who has been wandering this realm for years, and together they attempt to escape.

Made from an original animation and selected iconographies throughout the history of art, this series of twenty episodes tells the Greek myths. A creation all in images, which highlights the fascinating destinies of the gods, heroes, and great figures of mythology.

Social and musical chronicle on the beginnings of a cultural revolution, this fiction in 6 episodes retraces the beginnings of the group NTM formed by Kool Shen and JoeyStarr and the emergence of the French hip hop scene in the 80s. characters of Dee Nasty, the first importer and DJ of rap music in France, and the dancer and graffiti artist Lady Five.

The show follows a small group of scientists on a remote base in Norway uncovers a mysterious rope, apparently endless, skirting their observatory and disappearing into the vast expanse of surrounding forest. Some will follow it, others will remain. As the initial fascination transforms into a quest to unravel the mystery, all will be confronted with the life-changing consequences of their choices.

Marie Tessier, 45, director of an NGO, is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs the day when five Europeans, two of whom were taken hostage by terrorists in the Sahel. By making this crisis a personal affair, Marie will quickly cross all the red lines by trying to give the impression that everything is under control.

The story of the late DJ/producer DJ Mehdi, a young suburbanite of Tunisian origin who, during an early and extraordinary career, created the sound of the toughest collective in French rap and collaborated with the biggest names in rap in France and will subsequently become one of the most brilliant ambassadors of the "French Touch" internationally alongside Busy P, Cassius, Daft Punk, Justice and the Ed Banger label family.

As he approaches sixty, the time has come for Pierre Leprieur to take stock of his life. What did he accomplish and what did he mess up during his life? He was formerly an influential trade unionist on the docks at Le Havre. The passing years saw his relationship with his wife and his now-adult children subside. One evening, with his whole family gathered together to celebrate his birthday, the party is ruined. His sons, Jean and Simon, find themselves accused of mass drug trafficking. Whilst their sister, Emma, a criminal lawyer, tries to get them out of this difficult situation, Pierre, who si convinced that he is being targeted, does his utmost to help them. Yet he knows that if he roots around too much, he could end up unearthing truths best left untold.

Political intrigue surrounding a Paris Capuchin monastery describes only one aspect of "Ainsi Soient-ils (Churchmen)". It's not overly melodramatic, and, while respecting the core humanitarianism of Christianity, it pulls no punches lambasting church hierarchy. The series follows the lives of five seminarians and the power struggle between the seminary head and his superiors in Rome, as well as the dissonance of a medieval religious institution in a modern, secular society.

The worlds of a young Russo-German cop who investigates within the Berlin Russian mafia milieu and a young Russian woman who is forced into prostitution, intertwine when they meet and fall in love.