Throughout August, the international French-language network TV5MONDE offers a rich lineup of entertaining films, series, specials, and variety programming.

Discover our roundup of the must-see programs this month below.

TV5 Monde

Special

Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026— August 1 to 9 at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT

The 5th edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, from August 1 to August 9, 2026, will take place in Switzerland and France. This year’s Grand Départ takes place in Lausanne, traversing the Alps, the Massif Central, and the Jura mountains before ending in Nice. TV5MONDE will air the final 2 hours of the race.

Fête Nationale Suisse du 1er Août – Made in Switzerland— August 1 at 2:15am ET/11:15pm PT

What innovations have shaped Switzerland’s reputation? Absinthe, precision watchmaking, the web, humanitarian work, chocolate… A tribute to “made in Switzerland” through reports and encounters. From Lucerne, on the occasion of the national holiday, a portrait of an ingenious Switzerland, rich in expertise, traditions, and cultural specificities…

Hosts: Corina Schmed, Sven Epiney, Sébastien Pasche, Carla Norghauer (Switzerland, 2026)
Genre: Entertainment

Football – Ligue 1 McDonald’s— August 22 & 29 at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT
LIVE

French football championship. On August 22, Day 1 pits Toulouse FC against Olympique Lyonnais at the Stadium in Toulouse. On August 29, Day 2 sees Olympique Lyonnais take on Havre AC at the Groupama Stadium in Décines-Charpieu.

Host: Éric Rabesandratana (France, 2026)
Genre: Sports, soccer

Films

Colombine— August 2 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Colombine, 13 years old, is in conflict with her mother. On the run, she travels through time in search of her absent father. She is parachuted one year earlier to the Fête des Vignerons. Alone in the world of adults, Colombine tries to find traces of her father.

Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard (Switzerland, 2022)
Cast: Adrien Barazzone, Marianne Brun, Séverine Cornamusaz
Genre: Dramedy, fantasy
Awards: Selected at the Zurich Film Festival (Switzerland, 2022)

Nos vies formidables— August 4 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of director Fabienne Godet
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Thirty-two-year-old Margot has just arrived in a rehab centre where she meets Jérémy, Salomé, César, Sonia… They have nothing in common except an urgency to rebuild their lives and recreate the connection with others destroyed by addiction! Because there’s always a greater chance of recovering with others, than alone.

Director: Fabienne Godet (France, 2017)
Cast: Julie Moulier, Zoé Héran, Bruno Lochet, Françoise Pinkwasser
Genre: Drama

Avant que les flammes ne s’éteignent— August 9 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
(English ST)

In Strasbourg, Karim dies after being taken into police custody. His sister Malika embarks on a legal battle to uncover the truth. Her fight against an institution seeking to protect law enforcement upsets the balance of her life.

Director: Mehdi Fikri (France, 2023)
Cast: Camélia Jordana, Sofiane Zermani, Sonia Faidi, Larry, Sofian Khammes
Genre: Drama
Awards: Special mention from the jury at the Rome International Film Festival (Italy, 2023), selected at the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada, 2023)

Si demain— August 11 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of director Fabienne Godet
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Esther, in the midst of emotional turmoil, receives a mysterious diary written by a stranger whose break-up echoes her own. Signs reveal that she lives in Toulouse. She decides to find her and sets off on a journey that will shed light on the meaning of her own existence.

Director: Fabienne Godet (France, 2020)
Cast: Julie Moulier, Lucie Debay, Arnaud Valois, Angelina Woreth
Genre: Drama
Awards: Selected at the Stuttgart International French Language Film Festival (Germany, 2021), Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris (France, 2021) and Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York (United States, 2021)

La volante— August 16 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

While he is taking his wife to hospital to give birth, Thomas hits and kills a young man on the road. The young man’s mother Marie-France, is devastated. Nine years later, without revealing her identity, she becomes Thomas’ secretary and gets more and more involved in his life.

Director: Christophe Ali, Nicolas Bonilauri (France/Belgium/Luxembourg, 2014)
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Malik Zidi, Johan Leysen, Sabrina Seyvecou
Genre: Thriller
Awards: Selected (Champs-Élysées Film Festival 2015), in official competition (Angoulême 2015)

La menace— August 18 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

With his mistress, Dominique, Henry runs a transport company which she owns. In love with the beautiful Julie, Henry is about to leave her. Furious, Dominique violently confronts her rival then commits suicide. The police conclude that it’s murder. Julie, accused by everyone, is arrested…

Director: Alain Corneau (France/Quebec, 1977)
Cast: Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois, Jean-François Balmer
Genre: Thriller
Awards: 1978 César award for best supporting actress (Marie Dubois)

À bicyclette !— August 23 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

After the suicide of his son, Mathias sets out to cycle from La Rochelle to Istanbul, just as his boy had done a few years earlier. He takes along his friend Philippe and his dog. A cathartic journey, steeped in humour and emotion.

Director: Mathias Mlekuz (France, 2024)
Cast: Mathias Mlekuz, Philippe Rebbot
Genre: Dramedy
Awards: Best Director Award, Audience Award and Best Film Music Award (Pascal Lengagne) at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (France, 2024); Audience Award and Best Actor Award (Philippe Rebbot) – Fiction Competition section at the Festival 2 Cinéma 2 Valenciennes (France, 2024); nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film (France, 2026)

Tout ce qu’il me reste de la révolution— August 25 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Angèle, a young, qualified town planner, campaigns as much as she can against capitalist society, between happenings and expression groups. Born into a family of militants, she confronts their disengagement: a nostalgic father, an ultra-liberal sister and a mother who has retired to the countryside. Meeting Saïd shakes up her deeply held beliefs.

Director: Judith Davis (France, 2018)
Cast: Judith Davis, Malik Zidi, Claire Dumas
Genre: Comedy
Awards: Jury Valois (Jury Prize) at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (France, 2018); Audience Award at the Vevey International Funny Film Festival (Switzerland, 2019); selected for the French Film Festival in Japan (2019) and the Richmond French Film Festival (United States, 2019)

Le choix du pianiste— August 30 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
(English ST)

François Touraine has become a virtuoso pianist thanks to his teacher Rachel, with whom he has fallen in love. As the Second World War breaks out, he must make a choice: Rachel is Jewish. In an attempt to save her, he goes to perform in Germany.

Director: Jacques Otmezguine (France, 2024)
Cast: Oscar Lesage, Pia Lagrange, Zoé Adjani-Vallat, Philippe Torreton
Genre: Historical drama
Awards: Selected at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (France, 2024)

Series

Coyotes— Sundays, beginning August 2 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT
Season premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

In the middle of an acid trip, Kevin, a rebel scout and member of the Coyotes, discovers a mysterious cave containing diamonds and… a mermaid. Desperate to see her again, he persuades his best friend to accompany him. On the spot, they make a macabre discovery.

Ep. 1: Arriving in Warnaffe with his scout troop for their summer camp, Kevin goes in search of a quiet spot and meets Marie, an inhabitant of the neighbouring village. After spending the night taking drugs, the young boy finds a cave in which he makes an unusual discovery…

Ep. 2: Kevin wants to use the diamonds to escape his abusive father, but one of his friends gets hold of them during a game. Moyersoen is convinced that Marie and Toni have stolen the precious stones.

Director: Gary Seghers, Jacques Molitor (Belgium, 2021)
Cast: Louka Minnella, Dara Tombroff, Kassim Meesters, Sarah Ber, Anas El Marcouchi
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Projet innocence— Fridays, beginning August 7 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT
Season premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(French ST)

Stella Launière, a student, is an intern with Projet Innocence, an organization that helps those believed to have been wrongly convicted. She is given Anderson Jean-Louis’ case, a notorious criminal accused of a murder he has always denied. To defend him, she’ll need to get her hands dirty.

Ep. 1: Anderson Jean-Louis, gang leader, has spent thirteen years in prison for the murder of Vickie Tremblay but has always claimed his innocence. Having exhausted all other possibilities for appeal, he has called on the help of Projet Innocence. But who is he really?

Ep. 2: Stella tests Anderson’s alibi and discovers certain facts that she knew nothing about. Armand Coupal, renowned criminal lawyer, uses his influence to obtain privileged information about the investigation.

Director: Simone Leduc (Quebec, 2021)
Cast: Emi Chicoine, Guy Nadon, Fayolle Jean Jr., Benoît Brière, Audrey Roger
Genre: Thriller, crime

Documentaries

Burning Man, enflammer le désert— August 6 & 13 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Ep. 1: If a veritable ephemeral city comes to life in the heart of the Nevada Desert, it’s thanks to one of Burning Man’s fundamental principles: community effort. During the week that precedes the opening of Black Rock City, there’s enormous pressure on the builders with 80,000 people expected.

Ep. 2: Black Rock City is far more than an ephemeral city, it’s an open-air art gallery. After the construction phase, the builders hand over to the artists. On the program, a vast art exhibition: monumental interactive sculptures, mutant vehicles, music from the soul… The anonymous Burners arrive to lend a hand.

Director: Pascal Brouard, Sarah Fortin (Quebec, 2024)
Genre: Documentary, 4-part series

Laissez-nous raconter— Mondays, beginning August 17 at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Eleven First Nations from Quebec and Labrador recount their history and celebrate the wealth of their culture.

Ep. 1: Eleven First Nations, eleven territories, fifty-five communities. If you want to get to know the First Nations, you first have to understand their close, personal connection with their territory: an immense shared territory that forms the beating heart of their identities, beliefs and traditions.

Ep. 2: Abenakis, Anishinaabe, Atikamekw, Eeyou, Innu, Inuit, Kanien’kehà:ka, Mi’kmaq, Naskapi, Wyandot and Wolastoqiyik. Eleven First Nations recount the beauty of their languages, their cultures and their know-how, passed down since time immemorial through oral tradition.

Director: Kim O’Bomsawin (Quebec, 2023)
Genre: Documentary, 4-part series

TV5Monde+

Films

Les enchantés— Streaming beginning August 5
(English ST)

Discovering both the joy of learning and her father’s intellectual disability, young Luce finds herself torn by a conflict of loyalty.

Director: Stanislas Carré de Malberg (France, 2023)
Cast: Grégory Montel, Lula Cotton-Frapier, François Chattot
Genre: Drama

Series

Toussaint Louverture— Streaming beginning August 5
(English ST)

The historical drama “Toussaint Louverture” is dedicated to the fate of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, as a result of which Haiti became the first independent state in Latin America.

Director: Philippe Niang (France, 2012)
Cast: Jimmy Jean-Louis, Aïssa Maïga, Yann Ebongé
Genre: Historical miniseries, drama

Groupe de soutien— Streaming beginning August 5
(English ST)

Florian, a professional liar craving validation, poses as a therapist in an anxiety support group. Though completely ill-equipped to help the members, the strength of the group ultimately leads them to confront their demons and finally heal.

Director: Philippe Niang (Quebec, 2026)
Cast: Lou-Pascal Tremblay, Fabiola Nyrva Aladin, Russell Yuen
Genre: Comedy miniseries

Documentaries

Pingouin et Goéland et leurs 500 petits— Streaming beginning August 5
(English ST)

A couple, Roger and Yvonne Hagnauer—nicknamed “Pingouin” (Penguin) and “Goéland” (Seagull)—ran the Sèvres Children’s Home. During World War II, they hid Jewish children there, and after the war, they took in the children of deportees (including the filmmaker’s mother).

Director: Michel Leclerc (France, 2020)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Critics’ Prize at the Valenciennes Festival (France, 2020); selected at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, at the La Rochelle Festival (France, 2020)

TV5Monde+ Cinéma

Theme: Family and vacation films

Le routard— available beginning August 7
(English ST)

A Parisian delivery driver, who has never left the country, is hired by the famous travel guide Le Routard and heads to Morocco on his first trip.

Director: Philippe Mechelen (2025)
Cast: Hakim Jemili, Manon Azem, Michel Blanc
Genre: Comedy

Petite fleur— available beginning August 7
(English ST)

While visiting a neighbor and hearing the jazz standard “Petite Fleur,” a jobless young father inexplicably kills him. The next day, the neighbor is alive, as if nothing had ever happened.

Director: Santiago Mitre (2022)
Cast: Daniel Hendler, Vimala Pons, Melvil Poupaud
Genre: Comedy

À cœur ouvert— available beginning August 7
(English ST)

The balance of a passionate marriage changes when two heart surgeons welcome a baby.

Director: Marion Laine (2012)
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Édgar Ramírez, Hippolyte Girardot
Genre: Drama

Femmes de personne— available beginning August 14

Three women working at the same medical facility come together to overcome their various struggles.

Director: Christopher Frank (1984)
Cast: Marthe Keller, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Caroline Cellier
Genre: Drama

Prodigieuses— available beginning August 14
(English ST)

After twin sisters are both accepted into the prestigious Karlsruhe Conservatory to study piano, they discover they have a serious illness and are slowly losing the use of their hands.

Director: Frédéric Potier, Valentin Potier (2024)
Cast: Camille Razat, Mélanie Robert, Franck Dubost
Genre: Drama

Toutes pour une— available beginning August 21
(English ST)

When a young woman on the run discovers that the Three Musketeers who protect the Queen of France are actually women, she decides to join them.

Director: Houda Benyamina (2024)
Cast: Oulaya Amamra, Sabrina Ouazani, Déborah Lukumuena
Genre: Adventure

Le petit blond de la casbah— available beginning August 21
(English ST)

A filmmaker returns to his birthplace in Algiers with his son to present his new film about his childhood during the Algerian War.

Director: Alexandre Arcady (2023)
Cast: Léo Campion, Marie Gillain, Françoise Fabian
Genre: Drama

Madame Hyde— available beginning August 21
(English ST)

A teacher despised by her colleagues and students is struck by lightning. When she wakes up, she feels completely different.

Director: Serge Bozon (2017)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, José Garcia
Genre: Comedy

L’échange des princesses— available beginning August 28
(English ST)

In 1721, the Regent of France, hoping to secure peace with Spain, arranges a marriage between the two countries’ heirs: 11-year-old Louis XV and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish infanta.

Director: Marc Dugain (2017)
Cast: Lambert Wilson, Anamaria Vartolomei, Olivier Gourmet
Genre: Historical drama

À bicyclette !— available beginning August 28
(English ST)

From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, two old friends embark on a bicycle journey.

Director: Mathias Mlekuz (2024)
Cast: Mathias Mlekuz, Philippe Rebbot, Josef Mlekuz
Genre: Drama

Please note: Programs may change due to last-minute scheduling