Watch your new favourite shows and films in French for free with TV5MONDEplus

Calling all film & TV fans – and bonus if you want to learn/improve your French! TV5MONDEplus is the hot French-language video-on-demand platform, available everywhere, anytime, for free on all your devices! Enjoy a vast variety of films, series, documentaries, kids TV, magazines and more. In fact, you’ll find over 5,000 hours of programmes, providing a real taste of Francophonie with hit shows from France, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. Available on all your devices, via the App or at wwww.tv5mondeplus.com. Whether you’re looking for a fascinating documentary or dramatic TV series, you’ll find it all on TV5MONDEplus. Find a sampling of some of the rich programme offerings below. And with these shows you learn and listen to real-life France, not textbook French – so you can learn to speak like a local! Learn whilst watching TV – what’s not to like 😊 and all programmes have a choice of English or French Subtitles.

Series and mini series

Les Simone

Genre: Mini-series, dramedy
Format: 1 season (10 episodes x 10′)

Summary

Three friends in their thirties lead lives as different as they are hectic. Maxim wants to drop everything to move to Montreal. Laurence, “miss perfect”, continues her career in the media. Nikki, make-up artist by day and barmaid by night, is forever in search of thrills and excitement.

Country: Canada

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Films

Camille

Genre: Film, Drama
Format: 90 min

Summary

Based on the life of French war photographer Camille Lepage.
Camille, photojournalist, age 26, leaves for the Central African Republic to cover the civil war. A committed humanist she develops a real passion for the country and the tragedy being played out to the total indifference of the international community. Today, this is where her destiny lies…

Directed by: Boris Lojkine (France, 2018)

★ Best female newcomer (2020 César awards), Audience prize (2019 Locarno Film Festival), Best actress (2019 Angoulême Francophone Film Festival)

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Environment special – Inspirational stories of climate fighters and visionary solutions for tomorrow.

Sur le front

Genre: Eco-documentary series
Format: 14 episodes of 52′ or 120′

Summary: Fighting for our planet.
Meeting with the men and women fighting to defend the planet, in those places where it is most urgent. A programme to discover those devoting their lives to protecting the world’s ecosystems.

Presented by: Hugo Clément

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Educational fun – History web series and French language curiosities.

Gros mots

Genre: mini web-originals
Format: 3 seasons (each 10 episodes x 5′)

Summary

“Merde”, “Sacrebleu”, “Putain”…  Explore the etymology of French slang!

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