Throughout November, the international French-language network TV5 Monde offers a rich lineup of entertaining films, series, and variety shows.

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

TV5 Monde

Films

Le prix du passage— November 2 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (English ST)

Natacha, a single mother, is having trouble making ends meet. Walid, a migrant from Iraq, is also struggling to survive. He is trying to save enough money to pay for his passage to England. Exhausted but desperate for hope, they join forces to launch an amateurish channel of clandestine passengers.

Director: Thierry Binisti (France, Belgium, 1921)
Cast: Alice Isaaz, Adam Bessa, Catherine Salée, Ilan Debrabant
Genre: Dramedy
Awards: Previewed at the Festival du film francophone d’Angoulême(France, 2022); First prize at the Bergamo Film Meeting Festival (Italy, 2022)

Monsieur la souris— November 4 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
(English ST)

Mr. La Souris, a kind vagabond with good manners, opens the doors of a nightclub. One evening, a car arrives containing a body. La Souris picks up the dead man’s wallet. When he becomes a police suspect in the murder investigation, he decides to carry out his own investigation.

Director: Georges Lacombe (France, 1941)
Cast: Raimu, Aimé Clariond, René Bergeron, Paul Amiot
Genre: Thriller

Le combat d’Alice— November 7 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21
(English ST)

Alice, aged 16, is deeply affected by the death of her mother. While staying with her grandparents, she gets attached to a calf before realising that it is destined for the slaughterhouse. Unable to bear the thought, she commits herself, body and soul, to the care of suffering animals.

Director: Thierry Binisti (France, 2024)
Cast: Nicolas Gob, Lucy Loste Berset, Carole Bianic, Luce Mouchel
Genre: Drama, TV-movie

C’est mon homme— November 9 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In honor of the anniversary of the Armistice on November 11, 1918
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (English ST)

Julien Delaunay disappeared on the battlefield during the Great War. When the press publishes a portrait of a man with amnesia, Julie is sure she recognizes her husband. So they meet up again and learn to love each other all over again. However, another woman wants him…

Director: Guillaume Bureau (France, Belgium, 2022)
Cast: Leïla Bekhti, Karim Leklou, Louise Bourgoin, Jean-Charles Clichet
Genre: Drama
Awards: Selected for the Munich Film Festival – Spotlight Section (Germany, 2023), Festival du film francophone d’Angoulême (France, 2022), Tapis Rouge, Festival du film français – Romance section (Netherlands, 2022)

Le vieux fusil— November 11 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (English ST)

1944. Julien Dandieu, a surgeon from Montauban, decides to send his wife and daughter to the country to ensure greater safety. A few days later, he discovers that the entire population of the village has been massacred by the Germans. Mad with grief, he sets out to hunt down those responsible.

Director: Robert Enrico (France, Germany, 1975)
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Madeleine Ozeray
Genre: Drama
Awards: Honorary César Award in 1985, three César Awards in 1976 (Best Film, Best Actor, Best Music)

Series

File d’attente— Saturdays beginning November 22 at 6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT
Season 2 premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (French ST)

The paths of two multi-generational families cross while waiting on line. Different lines in different places for different reasons provide the context in which the two families have to make amends, get back together, and free themselves.

Ep. 1: Margot’s Alzheimer’s disease is progressing and Louis now lives with his mother. Éléonore is forced to rest. Alice has been suffering from depression since she learnt that Laurent was having an affair with her ex, Manon.

Director: Martin Talbot (Canada/Quebec, 2019)
Cast: Réal Bossé, Muriel Dutil, Richard Fréchette, Éléonore Loiselle, Sylvie Moreau
Genre: Drama

Leibowitz contre Leibowitz— Sundays beginning November 2 at 12:30am ET/9:30pm PT
Season 2 premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus (English ST)

50-year-old Paule, a brilliant lawyer, has dedicated her life to the firm she created with ex-husband Simon. But life turns upside down when she discovers Simon has secretly married legal associate Irène, 20 years his junior. Paule and Irène find themselves bound together in running the Lebowitz law firm.

Ep. 1: After rescuing the firm’s finances, Paule tries to work out how to resolve Warnier’s legal difficulties. She also has to continue to cope with Irène, totally overwhelmed with her new baby. Seeing an opportunity to get rid of her, Paule offers her a stake in the company, at a cost.

Director: Christophe Barraud (France, 2017)
Cast: Clémentine Célarié, Michel Jonasz, Caroline Anglade, Cécile Rebboah
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Documentaries

La grande galerie francophone— Saturdays beginning November 1 at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT
TV5MONDE presents the first major show celebrating Francophone art — in partnership with the Louvre and Condé Nast
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (English ST)

Every week and with a live studio audience, Ali Baddou and his group of columnists receive French-speaking artists who are at the heart of current events and move the lines. Space for exchanges, creations, and surprises, ”La grande galerie francophone” celebrates art in all its diversity and shares it with everyone. Columnists include Alex Vizorek, Nathalie Lesage, Hector Obalk, Fabrice Bousteau, Laurianne Melierre, Pierre Groppo, Charly Voodoo, and Margaux Beytout.

Director: Bruno Piney (France, 2025)
Genre: Cultural talk show

La rivière— November 16 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ (English ST)

Mountain streams flow between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic. These powerful rivers are drained by corn fields, and many barrages disrupt the water cycle and its biodiversity. A close look at beauty and disaster.

Director: Dominique Marchais (France, 2022)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Jean-Vigo Award for Best Feature Film (France, 2023)

Biquefarre— November 18 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+
(English ST)

Forty years after ”Farrebique,” Georges Rouquier returns to visit his cousins, who are farmers in Aveyron. In the 1940s, he filmed their day-to-day lives. Since then, everything has changed: farming has become an industry, which you have to expand and diversify to survive.

Director: Georges Rouquier (France, 1983)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival (Italy, 1983)

Le chant du fleuve— November 23 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ beginning on Nov 5
(English ST)

A poetic and patrimonial walk along the Loire. This dreamlike escapade, depicted as a love story between the river and the literature it has inspired, highlights the changing beauty of the Loire shores to the rhythm of the seasons.

Director: Pierre Mathiote (France, 2023)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Excellence Award at the IndieFest Film Festival (USA, 2024) and at the Impact Docs Festival (USA, 2024); Best International Documentary Award at the Marina del Rey Film Festival (USA, 2024); selected at the Toronto Film Festival (Canada, 2024) and at the Berlin Lift-Off Festival (Germany, 2024)

Prisme— November 30 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
In honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Nov 25
(English ST)

A film jointly created by three women filmmakers of racially diverse backgrounds. Between Brussels and Paris, they reveal the problems that come from today’s media and the technological bias that exists in favor of Caucasians. A starting point that facilitates an exploration of other inequalities also based on skin color.

Director: Rosine Mbakam, An van Dienderen, Eléonore Yaméogo (Belgium, 2020)
Genre: Documentary

TV5Monde+

Films

Chien de la casse— Streaming beginning November 5
(English ST)

Childhood friends, Dog and Mirales, find their friendship put under strain when a young girl, Elsa, arrives in the village and with whom Dog has a love affair. Driven by jealousy, Mirales will have to shake off his past in order to grow and find his own place in society.

Director: Jean-Baptiste Durand (France, 2023)
Cast: Anthony Bajon, Raphaël Quenard, Galatéa Bellugi
Genre: Dramedy

Awards: César Awards: Best First Film Winner, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Nominee (2024)

Un si longue lettre— Streaming beginning November 5
(English ST)

Adapted from Mariama Bâ’s novel of the same name, this film follows Ramatoulaye, a Senegalese schoolteacher whose husband takes a second wife after 25 years of marriage, sparking a clash between tradition and modernity.

Director: Angèle Diabang (Sénégal, France, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Égypte, 2025)
Cast: Serge Abessolo, Coumba Coulibaly, Assymby Jean-Baptiste Diabang
Genre: Drama

Et Dieu… créa la femme— Streaming beginning November 5
(English ST)

Saint-Tropez. At 18, Juliette is strikingly beautiful and far from going unnoticed. In love with Antoine Tardieu, she marries his brother Michel out of romantic spite. The latter is furious when he learns that his wife has cheated on him with Antoine. A violent struggle then put the two brothers at odds with one another.

Director: Roger Vadim (France, 1956)
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand
Genre: Romantic drama

Series

Détectives… Ou presque— Season 2 streaming beginning November 5
Season 1 now streaming here. (English ST)

In financial straits, former policeman Leo Brand sets up a detective school in Basel. To help them get the best out of the course, his amateur detectives learn on the job by solving real cases. Each has their own unique character… But none really correspond to the task in hand.

Director: Michael Steiner (Switzerland, 2022)
Cast: Roeland Wiesnekker, Meryl Marti, Dardan Sadik, Martin Rapold, Esther Gemsch
Genre: Crime and thriller

Une affaire criminelle— Season 2 streaming beginning November 5
Season 1 now streaming here. (English ST)

Catherine has spent fifteen years fighting to prove the innocence of her son, convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Bing, who has been in love with her for years, continues to investigate the case. A witness who had remained silent all this time, finally comes forward, turning everything everyone thought they knew on its head.

Director: Stéphanie Lapointe, Pascal L’Heureux (Canada/Quebec, 2023)
Cast: Céline Bonnier, Louis-Philippe Dandenault, Maxime-Olivier Potvin, Marie Tugeon, Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
Genre: Crime, mini-series (2 seasons)

Documentaries

Les fantômes des profondeurs— Streaming beginning November 5
(English ST)

In Martinique, centuries of colonization have intertwined peoples from all corners of the world. Explore this dialogue on the phenomenon of migration, the search for identity, and cultural withdrawal. Is another vision of the world possible?

Director: Annick Ghijzelings (France/Belgium, 2024)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Best Film Award at the Millenium Festival in Brussels (Belgium, 2025)
Theme: Leading Women

Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas mais elle cause— available beginning November 1
(English ST)

A housemaid who loves to gossip stirs up trouble for those around her.

Director: Michel Audiard (1974)
Cast: Bernard Blier, Annie Girardot, Evelyne Dress
Genre: Comedy

La tête froide— available beginning November 1
(English ST)

To make ends meet in the dead of winter in the Alps, a middle-aged woman smuggles cartons of cigarettes between France and Italy with the help of her lover, a border police officer.

Director: Stéphane Marchetti (2023)
Cast: Florence Loiret Caille, Saabo Balde, Jonathan Couzinié
Genre: Drama

Connasse, princesse des coeurs— available beginning November 8
(English ST)

Dissatisfied with her life, a 30-year-old French woman travels to England seeking the husband she thinks she deserves.

Director: Noémie Saglio, Éloïse Lang (2015)
Cast: Camille Cottin, Cécile Boland, Lou Cottin
Genre: Comedy

La vénus d’argent— available beginning November 8
(English ST)

Raised by an abusive police officer father and burdened with caring for her younger siblings, a young woman strives to build a career in finance.

Director: Héléna Klotz (2023)
Cast: Claire Pommet, Niels Schneider, Sofiane Zermani
Genre: Drama

Rosalie— available beginning November 15
(English ST)

In 1870s France, a young woman unlike any other becomes the first beaded lady attraction.

Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto (2024)
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
Genre: Drama

Les gens d’à côté— available beginning November 15
(English ST)

A police officer’s solitary daily life is disrupted when a young couple and their little girl move in next door.

Director: André Téchiné (2024)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hafsia Herzi, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Genre: Drama

Jour J— available beginning November 22
(English ST)

A woman finds a wedding planner’s business card and eagerly agrees to her partner’s proposal, not realizing it belongs to his mistress.

Director: Reem Kherici (2017)
Cast: Reem Kherici, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Julia Piaton
Genre: Comedy

Première affaire— available beginning November 22
(English ST)

Called into work unexpectedly after a night out, novice lawyer Nora oversees the interrogation of a teenage murder suspect.

Director: Victoria Musiedlak (2024)
Cast: Noée Abita, Anders Danielsen Lie, Alexis Neises
Genre: Drama

J’ai faim— available beginning November 29
(English ST)

A plus-sized florist in her forties is left for a stunning younger woman. Determined, she sets out to lose weight and sabotage her rival’s life to win back her handsome lover.

Director: Florence Quentin (2001)
Cast: Catherine Jacob, Michèle Laroque, Garance Clavel
Genre: Comedy

Niki— available beginning November 29
(English ST)

A biopic about Niki de Saint Phalle’s early struggle to become an actor.

Director: Céline Sallette (2024)
Cast: Charlotte Le Bon, John Robinson, Damien Bonnard
Genre: Biopic

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