Series like French Roulette

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   The Mother and The Assassin

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   2026 · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   Morgane Jourdan, in her forties, leads a well-ordered life with her restaurateur husband, Samuel, and their two teenage daughters, Océane and Alizée. A teacher who has become the principal of a middle school, she juggles her demanding job with her family life. Everything changes when 17-year-old Océane suddenly disappears after a party where she caught her mother in a compromising situation with Hugo Bennec, her physical education teacher. Consumed by anguish and guilt, Morgane throws herself headlong into the search for her daughter.

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   • shared network: France 2

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   HIP - High Intellectual Potential

   Same creator

   2021 · 52 min · Comedy · Crime · Family · Mystery

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   Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.

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   La Mante

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   2017 · Crime · Drama

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   Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest.

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   Anthracite

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   2024 · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.

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   Réunions

   Same creator

   2020 · 52 min · Comedy · Drama

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   When Chloé learns that Jérémy, her companion, inherited her "unknown" father's hotel in Reunion, she sees it as an opportunity to start a new life with her blended family, far from Roubaix and their financial worries ...

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   • the same creator
   • a closely matched era

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   Ça, c'est Paris !

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   2024 · 58 min · Drama

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   François, owner of Tout-Paris cabaret, struggles to decide between selling his historic venue or keeping the legacy. Amid personal stories of dancers Justine, Teresa, and Coralie, the cabaret troupe rallies to recapture its former glory.

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   • strong recommendation signals
   • shared network: France 2

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   Promethea

   Same creator

   2023 · 52 min · Drama · Mystery

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   Charles and Caroline Lasset find a naked amnesiac teen who only recalls her name. While in their care, she experiences visions of a murdered student and develops supernatural powers. As she seeks answers, her past remains a mystery.

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   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Criminal: France

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   2019 · 40 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.

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   The Lost Station Girls

   Shared cast

   2025 · Crime · Drama

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   Between 1995 and 2001 in southern France, a teenage girl vanishes and three young women are murdered—sparking a relentless manhunt that will haunt detective Flore Robin and the Perpignan police for years.

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   • a principal cast member
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    The Disappearance

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    2015 · 55 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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    A family falling apart over a missing girl. This intimate drama traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family when their 17 year old daughter, Léa, fails to return home from a night out. The Disappearance explores every parent's worst nightmare: their child going missing, their fate unknown.

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