It’s no mystery why these MHz Choice series are so beloved!
Every region featured on MHz Choice has its signature genre: the Nordics have haunting noirs, the Italians their emotional dramas, and the Germans love an off-beat comedy. The French do a little bit of everything, but does it really get any better than a charming French mystery?
Combining the sweeping beauty of the country, charming characters, and twisting plotlines, the French Mystery Collection is essential MHz Choice viewing. With over two dozen (and counting) French mysteries on offer, it can be hard to know where to start! So curl up with a cup of something warm (or a glass of something strong) and settle in for a marathon of delight with these essential French mysteries.
Alice Nevers
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
A spin-off of Le juge est une femme, a long-running series from the 1990s/2000s, Alice Nevers stars Marine Delterme as the title character, a tough and tenacious criminal prosecutor in a professional and personal partnership with police captain Fred Marquand (Jean-Michel Tinivelli, Murder In…)
Eight seasons are now streaming, with more to come in 2025!
The Art of Crime
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
The Art of Crime follows a can’t-fail formula, combining mysteries, art history, and a bit of “will-they-or-won’t-they” that has made this series one of the most popular available on MHz Choice! Captain Antoine Verlay (Nicholas Gob, A French Village) is clueless about art. Luckily, he is partnered with eccentric art historian Florence Chassagne (Eléonore Bernheim, Murder In…), and together, they manage to solve high-profile art crimes in the heart of Paris.
Seven seasons are now streaming, with more to come in 2025!
Captain Marleau
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
She wears a parka and a Holden Caulfield hunting cap, she dances and sings spontaneously, she doesn’t give a flip what people think about her and she sees through lies with laser clarity.
Most MHz Choice fans agree: you can’t help but love the quicky Captain Marleau. French audiences swooned when Captain Marleau came out – it was a ratings juggernaut. Along with being a free spirit, the good captain is very au courant, brimming with cultural references, and the series is chock-full of recognizable guest stars.
Four seasons and two bonus episodes are now streaming!
Cassandre
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
The newest addition to the MHz Choice French mystery catalog, Cassandre is a long-running series that follows Parisian cop Florence Cassandre (Gwendoline Hamon, Perfect Murders, Murder In…) as she moves to Annecy and takes a new job investigating crimes in the stunningly beautiful Haute-Savoie region near the Swiss border. A city cop solving crimes in the beautiful countryside is a proven formula for an addictive French mystery!
The first season of Cassandre is now streaming, with three more seasons scheduled for 2025 and even more in 2026!
Cherif
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Happy, handsome, and big-hearted, Captain Kader Cherif is a brilliant and eccentric detective in this addictive, long-running mystery series set in Lyon.
Cherif is a beloved series for MHz Choice fans – with good reason! Great mysteries, charming characters, a sweet love story – what’s not to love?
All six seasons of Cherif are now streaming on MHz Choice!
Magellan
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-PG
Intrigue. Betrayal. Sabotage. And that’s just Inspector Simon Magellan’s home life as a divorced single father raising two teenage daughters. By day he works as a homicide detective in the fictional small town of Saignac, an idyllic place loaded with mysteries and secret crimes.
As series go, Magellan is a summer spritzer – light, non-edgy, with beautiful settings and a comic ensemble cast.
Four seasons of this cozy mystery are now streaming!
Master Crimes
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Renowned criminology professor Louise Arbus recruits four students to help investigate a crime scene – and an off-beat new detective team is born!
From the creator of other French mystery hit Captain Marleau, Master Crimes was the most popular new series of 2024!
Season 1 is now streaming, with more on the way soon!
Mongeville
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Mongeville is a highly popular and long-running detective series that originally premiered in France in 2013. Nine years and over 26 feature-length episodes later, Antoine Mongeville has cemented his status as one of France’s most popular TV detectives!
A former investigating judge, Mongeville teams up with a no-nonsense police detective to solve tricky mysteries in Bordeaux in this cozy series.
Two seasons (28 episodes!) are now streaming!
Murder In…
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
We can’t have an Essential French Mystery Collection without THE essential French mystery series! Murder In… is a gorgeous anthology of mysteries, each one set in a different, picturesque region of France.
With 14 seasons and counting, plus a dubbed collection, Murder In… is the most streamed series on MHz Choice for very good reason!
Perfect Murders
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
A killer believes they’ve committed the perfect crime. We know “whodunnit” – we’ve seen it happen. And we know the investigators will catch the culprit; the question is how? What flaw will they find in the murderer’s Machiavellian plan?
That’s the deceptively simple set-up to the supremely entertaining Gallic mystery anthology Perfect Murders, which proved a perfect hit with French TV audiences when it premiered there in 2017. Formulaic, sure, but it’s a formula we love when done right – and here it certainly is.
Two seasons (32 episodes) are now streaming!
Poquelin & De Beaumont
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
If you’re looking for a breezy mystery series, look no further than Poquelin and De Beaumont.
Police captain Louise Poquelin, a working class single mom, teams up with aristocratic cop Etienne De Beaumont to solve tricky mysteries in Dunkirk, France. With just four episodes, it’s a quick watch that is sure to please!
Tandem
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
At the beginning of long-running French mystery Tandem, we meet Montpellier police investigators Lea Soler and Paul Marchal: co-workers who are both single parents of teenagers and both recently divorced… from each other.
The conflict (and flirting) that arises from exes working together may seem a bit predictable, but it doesn’t make it any less charming! (It also helps that lead actors Astrid Veillon and Stéphane Blancafort are just too good-looking to not make us wonder “will they or won’t they…”).
All seven seasons of Tandem are now streaming!
