What's on French streaming channels in November and December
From one of the biggest political scandals of recent decades to learning more about a French national icon - here's a look at the dramas and documentaries coming up on French TV and film screenings services.
It’s cold, dark and wet outside - so maybe it’s a good time to settle down in front of the TV, and keep warm. Here's a rundown of what's coming up on the major streaming channels in France.
All the Light We Cannot See – Netflix
Available now
Director Shawn Levy knows how to tug a heart-string – and is brave enough and smart enough to pull off an adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning and much-loved novel, about a blind French teenager and a German soldier whose paths collide in occupied Saint-Malo as the Allied invasions nears. You may even forgive Mark Ruffalo’s attempt at an accent by the end…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdE-JvKqpBQ
The Billionaire, The Butler, and the Boyfriend – Netflix
Available now
Documentary examining how a personal conflict between the world's wealthiest woman – L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, who died in 2017 – and her daughter spiralled into national scandal.
Ex president Nicolas Sarkozy is still embroiled in various court cases relating to the scandal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1p-s_RoX0
Jane par Charlotte – Disney Plus
Available now
Something of a tribute to Jane Birkin, this very personal voyage-of-discovery documentary, filmed by daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg reveals as much about the film maker as it does its subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQe1eOzDcwI
Nouveaux Riches – Netflix
Available now
A con artist turns to a crypto millionaire for urgent help after a high-stakes game of poker goes badly wrong. Zoé Marchal and Nassim Lyes star in Julien Royal’s latest Netflix offering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI9uncLO5wI
Santa et Cie – Disney Plus
Available now
A variation on the unwitting-hero-saves-Christmas theme. And this time it’s Santa himself who has to do the work, after all 92,000 of his toy-making elves fall ill, and the bearded one has to scour Earth for a cure. Alain Chabat, best known as one part of French comedy group Les Nuls, stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMeZfYQ1XU
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – Netflix
Available now
One for the geek in your life – an anime update of Edgar Wright’s witty and warm-hearted 2010 comic book adventure, in which the bass-playing, garlic bread-eating slacker hero battles the seven evil exes of his dream girlfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvRvqByxUI
Doctor Who – Disney Plus
From November 25th
Doctor Who gets a new home outside the UK and Ireland, starting with the first of the under-new/old-management specials, as Russell T Davies brings back David Tennant (aka ‘Fourteen’) and Catherine Tate (aka The DoctorDonna) for a few adventures before Ncuti Gatwa takes control of the Tardis.
Un Stupéfiant Noël – Amazon Prime
From December 8th
Arthur Sanigou – the director behind the ridiculously funny Vengeance au Triple Galop – helms this seasonal body-swap comedy with a twist, in which a dour, workaholic cop and a hapless character from a Christmas movie find themselves leading each other’s lives at just the wrong, or right, time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRkzBMyLyg
The Bad Guy – Amazon Prime
From December 8th
Crime drama meets dark comedy as a Sicilian public prosecutor, who has dedicated his life to putting mafia-types behind bars, goes rogue after he’s accused of being a crime syndicate high-up.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – Netflix
From December 15th
Family Christmases and Aardman animation go together like … well, family Christmases and Aardman animation. You know the Great Escape story of the original, much-loved 2000 animated film. This time, those pesky chickens are trying to break back in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfv_T5pkdI
Maestro – Netflix
From December 20th
Bradley Cooper was in front and behind the camera, and had a hand in the script of this biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). Given the success of his directorial debut A Star Is Born, expect good things from his second stint in the big chair…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJP2QblqLA0
Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Disney Plus
From December 20th
Rick Riordan’s family friendly gods-and-monsters fantasy novels should be perfect TV and cinema adaptation fare, but the two films to date haven’t exactly enamoured fans. This time, Riordan has had some input as Disney takes the plunge with a TV series version of the first book in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. Here’s hoping for better fortunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHb7au6Gmls
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Netflix
From December 22nd
The Seven Samurai set in space is far from a new concept, but director-producer Zack Snyder works his magic on the oft-mined formula for the first part of what’s described as an, “epic science-fantasy event decades in the making”. One thing’s for sure, it’ll be spectacular. Algerian actor Sofia Boutella – who you may recognise from Kingsmen: The Secret Service, Star Trek Beyond and Tom Cruise’s The Mummy – stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHLOXbFZtI
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It’s cold, dark and wet outside - so maybe it’s a good time to settle down in front of the TV, and keep warm. Here's a rundown of what's coming up on the major streaming channels in France.
All the Light We Cannot See – Netflix
Available now
Director Shawn Levy knows how to tug a heart-string – and is brave enough and smart enough to pull off an adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning and much-loved novel, about a blind French teenager and a German soldier whose paths collide in occupied Saint-Malo as the Allied invasions nears. You may even forgive Mark Ruffalo’s attempt at an accent by the end…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdE-JvKqpBQ
The Billionaire, The Butler, and the Boyfriend – Netflix
Available now
Documentary examining how a personal conflict between the world's wealthiest woman – L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, who died in 2017 – and her daughter spiralled into national scandal.
Ex president Nicolas Sarkozy is still embroiled in various court cases relating to the scandal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1p-s_RoX0
Jane par Charlotte – Disney Plus
Available now
Something of a tribute to Jane Birkin, this very personal voyage-of-discovery documentary, filmed by daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg reveals as much about the film maker as it does its subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQe1eOzDcwI
Nouveaux Riches – Netflix
Available now
A con artist turns to a crypto millionaire for urgent help after a high-stakes game of poker goes badly wrong. Zoé Marchal and Nassim Lyes star in Julien Royal’s latest Netflix offering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI9uncLO5wI
Santa et Cie – Disney Plus
Available now
A variation on the unwitting-hero-saves-Christmas theme. And this time it’s Santa himself who has to do the work, after all 92,000 of his toy-making elves fall ill, and the bearded one has to scour Earth for a cure. Alain Chabat, best known as one part of French comedy group Les Nuls, stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMeZfYQ1XU
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – Netflix
Available now
One for the geek in your life – an anime update of Edgar Wright’s witty and warm-hearted 2010 comic book adventure, in which the bass-playing, garlic bread-eating slacker hero battles the seven evil exes of his dream girlfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvRvqByxUI
Doctor Who – Disney Plus
From November 25th
Doctor Who gets a new home outside the UK and Ireland, starting with the first of the under-new/old-management specials, as Russell T Davies brings back David Tennant (aka ‘Fourteen’) and Catherine Tate (aka The DoctorDonna) for a few adventures before Ncuti Gatwa takes control of the Tardis.
Un Stupéfiant Noël – Amazon Prime
From December 8th
Arthur Sanigou – the director behind the ridiculously funny Vengeance au Triple Galop – helms this seasonal body-swap comedy with a twist, in which a dour, workaholic cop and a hapless character from a Christmas movie find themselves leading each other’s lives at just the wrong, or right, time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRkzBMyLyg
The Bad Guy – Amazon Prime
From December 8th
Crime drama meets dark comedy as a Sicilian public prosecutor, who has dedicated his life to putting mafia-types behind bars, goes rogue after he’s accused of being a crime syndicate high-up.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – Netflix
From December 15th
Family Christmases and Aardman animation go together like … well, family Christmases and Aardman animation. You know the Great Escape story of the original, much-loved 2000 animated film. This time, those pesky chickens are trying to break back in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfv_T5pkdI
Maestro – Netflix
From December 20th
Bradley Cooper was in front and behind the camera, and had a hand in the script of this biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). Given the success of his directorial debut A Star Is Born, expect good things from his second stint in the big chair…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJP2QblqLA0
Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Disney Plus
From December 20th
Rick Riordan’s family friendly gods-and-monsters fantasy novels should be perfect TV and cinema adaptation fare, but the two films to date haven’t exactly enamoured fans. This time, Riordan has had some input as Disney takes the plunge with a TV series version of the first book in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. Here’s hoping for better fortunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHb7au6Gmls
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Netflix
From December 22nd
The Seven Samurai set in space is far from a new concept, but director-producer Zack Snyder works his magic on the oft-mined formula for the first part of what’s described as an, “epic science-fantasy event decades in the making”. One thing’s for sure, it’ll be spectacular. Algerian actor Sofia Boutella – who you may recognise from Kingsmen: The Secret Service, Star Trek Beyond and Tom Cruise’s The Mummy – stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHLOXbFZtI
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