The Best TV Shows on Canal+

Every Canal+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1987 through to 2024, Canal+ has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Some of the best tv shows from Canal+ include Nulle part ailleurs and Les Guignols de l'info, airing in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of Canal+’s elite series, with our list refreshed for September 2025.

  • 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 Kassos
    Les Kassos (2013)8.0

    The crisis saves nobody. Even not the characters of our childhood. To such a point that some people of them even became socially disadvantaged persons. Fortunately for them, all is not lost and a brave social worker decided to deal with their case. Come in his office and assist its confidential interviews with Aspegix and Grodebilix, Zizimir, Sandy, Proumfs, Mr Patatos, Marius and Gigi, the Tortoises Tramps and all Kassos which suffer in the biggest indifference.

  • 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+.

  • Donkey Kong Country
    Donkey Kong Country (1998)7.7

    Taking place on Kongo Bongo Island, the show focuses on Donkey Kong, the island's resident hero. Before the series' events, he was chosen as the island's future ruler by a magical artifact known as the Crystal Coconut, which is connected to a spirit known as Inka Dinka Doo. In the present, Donkey Kong must prove he deserves the role through his heroics and by simply guarding the coconut. Alongside various allies such as his best friend and sidekick Diddy Kong and his mentor Cranky Kong, he must protect the Crystal Coconut from various threats, most notably the villainous King K. Rool and his Kremling army who long to steal it in order to rule Kongo Bongo. Oftentimes, Donkey Kong has to juggle his guardian duties with his social life, his relationship with Candy Kong, and his love of gorging on bananas.

  • 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?

  • H
    H (1998)7.1

    At a dysfunctional hospital in Paris, three bumbling, eccentric medical employees embark on zany misadventures with surgical imprecision.

  • Paris Has Fallen
    Paris Has Fallen (2024)7.1

    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.

  • XIII
    XIII (2008)6.1

    The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, wearing a parachute. The young man cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity.

  • Nulle part ailleurs
    Nulle part ailleurs (1987)5.6

  • X Femmes
    X Femmes (2008)4.8

    X Femmes is a French television series of short films shown on Canal+ in 2008–2009. They were shot by female directors with the goal of producing erotica from a female point of view.

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

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