The Best TV Shows on Canal+

Every Canal+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Canal+ has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1987 all the way to 2025. Dive into our updated selection of Canal+’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of October 2025. Leading the pack on Canal+ are Nulle part ailleurs and Les Guignols de l'info, with their initial broadcasts in 1987 and 1988.

  • The Sentinels
    The Sentinels (2025)10.0

    1915, WWI. French Private Gabriel is presumed dead. Selected for a top-secret program, he’s given a serum that makes him stronger and faster. To see his family again, he must join the Sentinels, elite soldiers on a mission to end the war.

  • Kaeloo
    Kaeloo (2010)8.5

    In the Super Cute Country, a happy band of animals invents lots of games to avoid boredom.

  • The Bureau
    The Bureau (2015)8.2

    Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

  • Bref
    Bref (2011)8.1

    A lost thirty-something shares his struggles, from failed relationships to boring jobs and pointless nights out. Stuck in his routine at first, he slowly evolves, searching for meaning in his life. In short, he's just trying to live.

  • Les Guignols de l'info
    Les Guignols de l'info (1988)7.9

  • Spiral
    Spiral (2005)7.9

    This gritty crime drama set in the dark underbelly of Paris follows police officers and lawyers as they investigate and prosecute crimes. Throw any romantic notion of Paris out the window. Crime is dark. The legal system is darker. This is Spiral.

  • Groland
    Groland (1992)7.7

    Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+.

  • Versailles
    Versailles (2015)7.7

    The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.

  • The Tunnel
    The Tunnel (2013)7.5

    The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process

  • Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette (2022)7.5

    Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

  • Burger Quiz
    Burger Quiz (2001)7.3

    A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.

  • Borgia
    Borgia (2011)7.3

    The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

  • War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds (2019)7.3

    When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

  • Paris Has Fallen
    Paris Has Fallen (2024)7.2

    A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

  • The Apartment
    The Apartment (2001)6.5

    The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.

  • Nulle part ailleurs
    Nulle part ailleurs (1987)5.6

  • Clique
    Clique (2013)4.5

  • Salut les Terriens !
    Salut les Terriens ! (2006)3.7

  • 20h10 pétantes
    20h10 pétantes (2003)N/A

  • Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
    Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma (2023)N/A