If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve just finished watching the series finale of A French Village. We’re sure gonna miss this series. But if you liked A French Village, here are a few other series on MHz Choice we think you’ll like.
The Heavy Water War
DRAMA | NORWAY | NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
This six-part series profiles one of the most compelling stories of World War II: British intelligence and the Norwegian military’s heroic struggle to thwart Nazi Germany’s atomic bomb ambitions by sabotaging the heavy water plant in Norway.
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The Weissensee Saga
DRAMA | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-PG
A sweeping, gripping family saga of conflicting loyalties, love and betrayal — set behind the iron curtain in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch from Donna Leon’s Brunetti stars as an East German officer whose son falls in love with the daughter of a dissident singer. Their courtship threatens the safety of both families, and sets into motion tragic events which play out over the course of the next decade.
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Scent of Rain in the Balkans
DRAMA | SERBIA | SERBIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-PG
This 14-episode series, based on the blockbuster novel of by Gordana Kuić, follows the fortunes of a Salom family from the summer days of 1914, all the way through to 1945. Amidst cultural change, political upheaval and the threat of extermination, the six Salom siblings cling to their identity as Spanish Jews and to their commitment to each other.
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