The Best Episodes of Maigret

Maigret investigates a murder at a crossroads in rural France. Everybody has something to hide, and he's got to find the guilty one.

Director: Bertrand Van Effenterre, Alain Tasma

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A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.

Director: Claude Goretta

Writer: N/A

Maigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.

Director: Andrzej Kostenko

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When Maigret's fellow police officer Lognon is shot in Helsinki, he's forced to travel to Finland in order to investigate Lognon's shooting with the help of a local police officer Ari Vaara. But how are a Swedish art dealer, his French wife and a mysterious Brit involved in the shooting?

Director: Hannu Kahakorpi

Writer: N/A

A rich entrepreneur is assaulted and Maigret must find out who did it and why.

Director: Olivier Schatzky

Writer: N/A

Young Cécile and her aunt are killed. Maigret must find out who did it.

Director: Denys de La Patellière

Writer: N/A

A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?

Director: Joyce Buñuel

Writer: N/A

The maid to a wealthy elderly woman is murdered. The latter tells the authorities that she believes it was a case of mistaken identity by the killer and that she herself was their target.

Director: David Delrieux

Writer: N/A

What began as a short trip to question an innkeeper in the Vendee turns into days as Inspector Maigret gets confined to the inn with the flu. Then, a guest is found murdered. The police cordon off the inn and begin a careful reconstruction of events, while Maigret conducts his own investigation.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre

Writer: N/A

Even on holiday, Maigret must investigate crime.

Director: Pierre Joassin

Writer: N/A

Maigret returns to the small village where he was raised, after receiving an anonymous letter telling him that a crime would take place in the town church on All Saints' Day.

Director: Denys de La Patellière

Writer: N/A

When a French man is accused of murder in Finland and he refuses to talk unless to a French police, Inspector Maigret is once again forced to travel to Finland to investigate the case.

Director: Pekka Parikka

Writer: N/A

Four serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.

Director: Juraj Herz

Writer: N/A

Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.

Director: Claude Goretta, Christian Karcher

Writer: N/A

A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to have invented the story. Maigret must find out, first of all, if the corpse is really existed or if it is a lie of the child.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre

Writer: N/A

Maigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.

Director: Michel Favart

Writer: N/A

Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.

Director: Pierre Koralnik

Writer: N/A

Maigret travels ex officio to help the brother-in-law of commisionaire who is a friend of his. The brother-in-law is being anonymously accused of the murder of a man who died having been run over by a train just outside his property. At the same time an ex-inspector that Maigret had had dismissed also appears and seems to be following the same clues and talking to the same witnesses.

Director: Pierre Joassin

Writer: N/A

Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.

Director: Philippe Bérenger

Writer: N/A

Maigret travels to Dole after a gun found with a murdered "vagrant" matched one used to kill another "vagrant" under a Paris bridge. There he encounters a pair of feuding sisters, one of whom owns the shed the victim was found in. The feud has been going on for 30 years, the source of which is both clear and muddied at the same time, just like the weather.

Director: Edwin Baily

Writer: N/A

Maigret is called for by his nephew, a new inspector in the north after a man was found dead in a first class carriage. The 106 train to Paris which started outside France was stopped at the Jeumont station for 50 minutes during which the murder took place. His nephew had the carriage and dining car detached and isolated but ran foul of politics as a French Consol and his family, secretary, and nanny were on board. The victim's identity papers were stolen and the train is filled with a mixture of the guilty and the innocent and dentists. But of the murder? And who is and what happened to Max?

Director: Christian de Chalonge

Writer: N/A

Maigret investigates the death of a seemingly boring accountant killed while standing at the bedroom window of his fourth floor flat. The victim had no strong feelings for his wife or his children, and a boring position at a bathroom fixture supplier, and has no friends, therefore, no enemies. His only love was a canary. Maigret calls his young nephew inspector to help find out just who the victim really was. He finds, literally, more of the same. But within that sameness, one difference.

Director: François Luciani

Writer: N/A

Maigret investigates a threatening letter at the Parendon mansion.

Director: Pierre Joassin, Denys Granier-Deferre

Writer: N/A

A wealthy Englishman emotionlessly identifies a picture of his dead wife.

Director: André Chandelle

Writer: N/A

Maigret, accompanied by an inspector from Scotland Yard, visits a small island where a man, who carried an old letter coming from Maigret, was murdered.

Director: Bruno Gantillon

Writer: N/A