Throughout November, the international French-language network TV5 Monde offers a rich lineup of entertaining films, series, and variety shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Discover our round-up of the must-see programs this month below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Le prix du passage<\/strong>\u2014 November 2 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Thierry Binisti (France, Belgium, 1921) Monsieur la souris<\/strong>\u2014 November 4 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Georges Lacombe (France, 1941) Le combat d\u2019Alice<\/strong>\u2014 November 7 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Thierry Binisti (France, 2024) C\u2019est mon homme<\/strong>\u2014 November 9 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Guillaume Bureau (France, Belgium, 2022) Le vieux fusil<\/strong>\u2014 November 11 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Robert Enrico (France, Germany, 1975) File d\u2019attente<\/strong>\u2014 Saturdays beginning November 22 at 6:00pm ET\/3:00pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ep. 1: Margot’s Alzheimer’s disease is progressing and Louis now lives with his mother. \u00c9l\u00e9onore is forced to rest. Alice has been suffering from depression since she learnt that Laurent was having an affair with her ex, Manon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Martin Talbot (Canada\/Quebec, 2019) 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 Ir\u00e8ne, 20 years his junior. Paule and Ir\u00e8ne find themselves bound together in running the Lebowitz law firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 Ir\u00e8ne, 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Christophe Barraud (France, 2017) La grande galerie francophone<\/strong>\u2014 Saturdays beginning November 1 at 7:30pm ET\/4:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Bruno Piney (France, 2025) La rivi\u00e8re<\/strong>\u2014 November 16 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Dominique Marchais (France, 2022) Biquefarre<\/strong>\u2014 November 18 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Georges Rouquier (France, 1983) Le chant du fleuve<\/strong>\u2014 November 23 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Pierre Mathiote (France, 2023) Prisme<\/strong>\u2014 November 30 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Rosine Mbakam, An van Dienderen, El\u00e9onore Yam\u00e9ogo (Belgium, 2020) Chien de la casse<\/strong>\u2014 Streaming beginning November 5 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Jean-Baptiste Durand (France, 2023) Awards:<\/strong> C\u00e9sar Awards: Best First Film Winner, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Nominee (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Un si longue lettre<\/strong>\u2014 Streaming beginning November 5 Adapted from Mariama B\u00e2\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Ang\u00e8le Diabang (S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, France, Mali, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, \u00c9gypte, 2025) Et Dieu… cr\u00e9a la femme<\/strong>\u2014 Streaming beginning November 5 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Roger Vadim (France, 1956) <\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u00e9tectives… Ou presque<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> Season 2 streaming beginning November 5 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Alice Isaaz, Adam Bessa, Catherine Sal\u00e9e, Ilan Debrabant
Genre: <\/strong>Dramedy
Awards:<\/strong> Previewed at the Festival du film francophone d’Angoul\u00eame(France, 2022); First prize at the Bergamo Film Meeting Festival (Italy, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cast:<\/strong> Raimu, Aim\u00e9 Clariond, Ren\u00e9 Bergeron, Paul Amiot
Genre: <\/strong>Thriller<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21<\/em>
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Cast: <\/strong>Nicolas Gob, Lucy Loste Berset, Carole Bianic, Luce Mouchel
Genre: <\/strong>Drama, TV-movie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In honor of the anniversary of the Armistice on November 11, 1918<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Le\u00efla Bekhti, Karim Leklou, Louise Bourgoin, Jean-Charles Clichet
Genre: <\/strong>Drama
Awards:<\/strong> Selected for the Munich Film Festival – Spotlight Section (Germany, 2023), Festival du film francophone d’Angoul\u00eame (France, 2022), Tapis Rouge, Festival du film fran\u00e7ais – Romance section (Netherlands, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Madeleine Ozeray
Genre: <\/strong>Drama
Awards:<\/strong> Honorary C\u00e9sar Award in 1985, three C\u00e9sar Awards in 1976 (Best Film, Best Actor, Best Music)
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Season 2 premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (French ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast: <\/strong>R\u00e9al Boss\u00e9, Muriel Dutil, Richard Fr\u00e9chette, \u00c9l\u00e9onore Loiselle, Sylvie Moreau
Genre:<\/strong> Drama
Leibowitz contre Leibowitz<\/strong>\u2014 Sundays beginning November 2 at 12:30am ET\/9:30pm PT
Season 2 premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Cl\u00e9mentine C\u00e9lari\u00e9, Michel Jonasz, Caroline Anglade, C\u00e9cile Rebboah
Genre:<\/strong> Drama, Thriller
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TV5MONDE presents the first major show celebrating Francophone art \u2014 in partnership with the Louvre and Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre: <\/strong>Cultural talk show<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre: <\/strong>Documentary
Awards:<\/strong> Jean-Vigo Award for Best Feature Film (France, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+<\/a><\/em>
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Genre: <\/strong>Documentary
Awards:<\/strong> Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival (Italy, 1983)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Nov 10-21<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDE+ beginning on Nov 5<\/em>
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Genre: <\/strong>Documentary
Awards:<\/strong> 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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Nov 25<\/em>
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Genre: <\/strong>Documentary<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cast:<\/strong> Anthony Bajon, Rapha\u00ebl Quenard, Galat\u00e9a Bellugi
Genre: <\/strong>Dramedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cast: <\/strong>Serge Abessolo, Coumba Coulibaly, Assymby Jean-Baptiste Diabang
Genre: <\/strong>Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cast: <\/strong>Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand
Genre: <\/strong>Romantic drama<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Season 1 now streaming here<\/a>.<\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n