
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.


Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy mayor and his project, he must make an unnatural alliance with a disillusioned lawyer, whose daughter Maxence falls in love with.

The story takes place in Brittany in 1944, a few weeks before the Allied landings in Normandy. Blanche Lacassagne and her daughter-in-law Anne leave Paris to take refuge at their family farm in Kerbriant, a village in southern Morbihan. Once there, they discover that their phone line has been mistakenly connected to the Kommandantur’s line. The Resistance quickly seizes this opportunity to eavesdrop on the German officers’ conversations.

A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.

In the 1960s, the tribulations of a young fisherman who attracts the hostility of a rich couple whose daughter he has fallen in love with.


La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.

Sylvie, Corinne and Sophie all live in the same accommodation in Paris. The first sells clothes on the steps. The second works in a factory restaurant and the third is divorced, has a child and does odd jobs.