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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The blue planet is full of secrets. Why do whale sharks prefer to gather off the Mexican coast? What does that have to do with the impact of a meteorite? And how could one of the most amazing tropical rainforests be completely forgotten? From the bizarre wildlife of the island of Sulawesi to the fearsome creatures of the Maya to the cloud-covered peaks of Africa - "Our Earth, the mysterious planet" takes viewers on a journey through the continents and their history.

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.

1919. World War I has just ended. During this age of turmoil, Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius' call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. His innovative approach is provocative for many but exciting to Dörte and she becomes a true disciple of the new movement that challenges not only artistic conceptions, but societal structures as well. The school becomes a breeding ground for modernity, jazz - and feminism. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire to the ensuing scandal threatening the very existence of the Bauhaus; the school of art that would go on to shape the 20th century like no other...

This documentary series chronicles the lives of celebrities who died sudden and sometimes violent deaths

What would we currently be without Copernicus or Darwin? What would Europe be if Churchill had not gone to war with the Nazis, or if the Fall of the Berlin Wall had not happened? A grain of sand can change the course of history. The Butterfly Effect tells us the great History through small events that changed the world.

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.

Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history. This series explores how cutting-edge science is changing the way we think about the ancient past - restoring the environment to its place as a key driver of human history. Throughout the series, top historians and archaeologists share with us how new collaborations with the scientific community, and a host of new data on the state of our planet, is providing them with fresh insights on how climate, disease and vulcanism have affected the course of human history.

Four years. Four programmes. One amazing series. Wildest Arctic explores four extraordinary areas of the arctic giving a unique insight into what life is like for animals trying to survive in these incredible habitats. The cameras capture life over the course of 12 months in the frozen forests of the Taiga, which contain one third of the world's trees. They also explore the arctic tundra, one of the coldest, driest places on the planet and home to hundreds of thousands of caribou. In later episodes, footage shows what life is like in the Arctic circle for the 'Ice Bears' and 'Ice Whales' and explores the country of Iceland; following the seasons and discovering the natural beauty of this country's rugged landscapes and hardy wildlife.