1609, Basque Country. From a long line of abortionist-healers, three sisters find their lives endangered by the arrival of Judge Pierre De Lancre in the region. Hostile and terrified of women's freedom and knowledge, he leads one of the deadliest witch hunts in France. Plunged into a nightmare, the three sisters find themselves struggling, each in their own way, to survive...
1557, The Wars of Religion threaten France. Behind the ramparts of the castle of Mespech, surrounded by a dangerous, hostile and intolerant world, the Siorac family fights for its survival and its convictions.
César Casalonga wins a France presidential election primary for his party. But that victory was rigged. Helped by Paul Francoeur and Marylin, before the press or his opponents find out, César Casalonga must disentangle the conspiracy.
Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. In the first season, police detectives Sandra Winckler and Justin investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve, is implicated. In the second season, Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims.
The story opens in the present day, at a high school reunion in the south of France where three former friends reconnect. They grew apart and lost touch, but they are still bound by a tragic secret tied to the disappearance of a high school girl who went missing 25 years ago in the region.
Tony Roucas, a long-term convicted criminal, escapes from prison with Kenz, a small-town big shot. Their run reveals a generational conflict of a new genre. Tony’s quest for truth and desire for vengeance take you to the heart of great French organized crime, from the 50s to today.
A series of mysterious murders, break-ins and other events in Avignon all have to do with the papal palace and a prophecy legend has to be contained in it. Centuries old family and organized legacies, even the murderous secret Judas brotherhood, are obsessed by it. Cops from various agencies have totally different methods and attitudes. The criminal hustle complicates several romantic affairs, whether true or manipulative. All ends seem to meet in the Esperanza family and the papal palace itself.
- Written by KGF Vissers
Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her. In disgust, his father banishes him forever from the family home. Jean-Baptiste's only solution is to live with Blanche, his mother's sister, in the mountains.
Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is without counting on the pugnacity of the Red Army and the Allied intervention in the West. Month after month, the noose tightens on the Nazi tyrant who refuses to admit defeat and precipitates his country in its fall.
Police Captain César Wagner is a compulsive hypochondriac, obsessed with his work. His singular, distinctive style unsettles not only his suspects but also the members of his squad.
Le Havre, France. The city’s at war as local mobsters and petty gangsters fight over territory, while the police do their best to put an end to the drug trafficking that holds sway over town. Set on a backdrop of social misery, the cases followed by dutiful Inspector Faraday and Paul Winckler, his former partner with completely opposite methods, combine gripping realism and riveting investigations.