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Engrenages

  • TV Series
  • 2005–2020
  • 12
  • 52m
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8.5/10
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Philippe Duclos in Engrenages (2005)
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Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.

  • Creators
    • Alexandra Clert
    • Guy-Patrick Sainderichin
  • Stars
    • Caroline Proust
    • Audrey Fleurot
    • Thierry Godard
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.5/10
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    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,851
    1,312
    • Creators
      • Alexandra Clert
      • Guy-Patrick Sainderichin
    • Stars
      • Caroline Proust
      • Audrey Fleurot
      • Thierry Godard
    • 118User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 3 wins & 23 nominations total

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    Caroline Proust
    Caroline Proust
    • Laure Berthaud
    • 2005–2020
    Audrey Fleurot
    Audrey Fleurot
    • Joséphine Karlsson
    • 2005–2020
    Thierry Godard
    Thierry Godard
    • Gilou
    • 2005–2020
    Philippe Duclos
    Philippe Duclos
    • Juge Roban…
    • 2005–2019
    Fred Bianconi
    Fred Bianconi
    • Fromentin…
    • 2005–2019
    Bruno Debrandt
    Bruno Debrandt
    • Commissaire Vincent Brémont
    • 2010–2020
    Grégory Fitoussi
    Grégory Fitoussi
    • Pierre Clément
    • 2005–2017
    Lionel Erdogan
    • Tom
    • 2014–2020
    Jean-Pierre Colombi
    • JP
    • 2014–2020
    Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
    Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
    • Maître Éric Edelman
    • 2014–2020
    Nicolas Briançon
    Nicolas Briançon
    • Commissioner Herville…
    • 2012–2019
    Dominique Daguier
    • Procureur Machard
    • 2008–2019
    Valentin Merlet
    • Arnaud Beckriche…
    • 2017–2020
    Elisabeth Macocco
    Elisabeth Macocco
    • Marianne…
    • 2010–2017
    Kija King
    • Nico
    • 2017–2020
    Hervé Rey
    Hervé Rey
    • Didier
    • 2017–2019
    Tewfik Jallab
    Tewfik Jallab
    • Ali Amrani
    • 2019–2020
    Francis Leplay
    Francis Leplay
    • Directeur PJ Lenoir…
    • 2012–2020
    • Creators
      • Alexandra Clert
      • Guy-Patrick Sainderichin
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    10LouE15

    Top flight noir police procedural

    Series 1:

    Magnifique! - gritty French police procedural buried on BBC4, each episode enmeshing you in a darker and darker world of crime, pain, and - as everywhere - a convoluted legal system that is best summed up by a brief exchange mid-series: "It's cruel." "It's only justice." With great performances and a coldly verité mise en scene, this holds its own among the best US & UK police/legal dramas. Oh, and need I say how refreshing it is to see a non-US drama on British screens? A large cast perform excellent dialogue, an engrossing single theme backed up by numerous sub plots, each one driving the characters forward as all the best drama should. The lead characters are attractive/repellent as required, but always interesting, without looking like an advert for a shampoo. In fact there's none of that slippery high-gloss (where every 'goodie' is always right, and never makes a mistake) that has marred some US series. Spiral attracted a good deal of support on BBC comment pages and is already being replayed on BBC4, with series two on the way. If it doesn't get a showing here there may be a riot.

    Series 2:

    Now season two is over - all too quickly - I'm left actually gasping for more. It's the kind of show that makes the rash of 'CSI' type programmes looking plastic and rather basic. Is it because I'm so cynical that this show suits my way of thinking about the world so well? That dark, messy, morally ambivalent universe they live in is recognisable even past the cultural differences, such as the astonishing blurring of the boundary between investigative police work and judgement – it's not so much uniquely French as uniquely modern. I recognise this world: you could find desperate council estates and desperate police departments just like it all over the less photogenic parts of London and the UK. And as for the relationships – they're as fleeting, unresolved and problematic as everybody's are.

    I wasn't sure if they could top the tour-de-force complexity and classy storytelling of season one; and I'm not sure they did; but it doesn't matter - the quality is still so high, and the series-long story arc so engrossing, that you don't waste too much time comparing them. Some familiar faces, and some new characters, keep things ticking along nicely. My only criticism really is that the 'villains' (as if it were really possible to separate them from anybody else!) of season one were so nasty, so venal, so atrociously amoral, that it was always going to be difficult to find new villains that didn't make you wonder where the bad stuff was happening. This lot were kind of old school. The final episode did leave me slightly confused and was I think underwritten in the haste to get to the end. Isn't the crucial difficulty of policing - everywhere - precisely that no one ever does really have that last minute change of heart, so that les flics must tread their dirty path alone?
    9wd-8

    Superb and complex and often dark. Must see.

    I've just binged the full 7 seasons, 76 episodes, 57 hours. And every hour, superb.

    This highly complex police drama from France is incredibly good. The plots are complex and tightly written. The production values increase with every year, and camera work is very good by season 3.

    I love that the police and judges are often flawed, and make sometimes terrible mistakes. In particular, the lead, Caroline Proust, takes incredible stress and presents it on screen wonderfully. I also love how the writers provide redemption for the characters when they are broken or in danger, often through unexpected twists.

    There are often amazing twists in the season plots, and each year is constantly fresh and new-feeling. It's extremely rare to see any plot event or dialogue that doesn't ring true.

    This is extraordinary television. It's no wonder it's moving now into it's eighth season.

    Must see.
    cameronteague

    Maitre Carlsson is in it up to her neck

    Saw episode three of season 2 last night and I can vouch that this one is turning into a real potboiler like season 1. The series works on the basis of one big plot line and a series of more minor ones which link together. Sometimes, a new minor case is solved in a single episode like the "echangistes" (wife swappers) or the gay test pilot last night, or it is carried over to the next episode. Again, like last season, the police are morally fragile like the criminals but invariably come good, the defense lawyers are on the crooked side and the crims vary between violent, amoral wrongdoers and vile, completely sadistic and downright evil wrongdoers. There are some brilliantly funny moments too. As for 'racial stereotyping' commented on earlier, grow up! That's absolute b*llocks. Lots of non-white people live in Paris so some of them will be criminals n'est ce pas? Watch out for gorgeous moneygrabbing redhead Maitre Carlsson who is getting involved with helping arch criminals and getting paid 3000 euros per case instead of 300 and buying loads of new outfits. Expect a big showdown between Laure and her before the end of the season. This is great TV, far superior and much less formulaic than CSI NY/LV/Miami. Give it a go. I for one, am hooked.
    8jayfredem

    Paris crossed with New York

    I stumbled across this looking for to improve my French, I've ended up being gripped by the characters. There is a unifying theme but every week there is more blood and seediness and sub-plotted nastiness. It's enough to put one off Paris, however, you do get a vivid impression of reality as in "NYPD" and such work as Steve Bochco is famous for. The photographic effect is nearly monochrome, in keeping with the subject matter. Believe me this not a laugh a minute show, but it is a correction to the romantic view of France that Francophiles like me have. As a cop show it works, although there are enormous differences in legal procedures from those I know. There is also a cynical view of the wielding of power, both judicial and political. Aside from the action there is an indefinable Parisian gloss on the actors, it's no wonder falling into bed happens so easily, all the main leads are good looking and even the cops have a certain "je ne sais quoi".I am hooked on this series to find out what is going to happen to the main characters both good and bad.
    9laduqesa

    It's all come to an end

    I just watched my last ever episode of Engrenages. No more, supposedly, will be made. I've seen every single one over the years and watched the characters grow and change as well as the new ones introduced.

    It's showing a harsh reality of the underside of glamorous Paris. Corruption, poverty, slavery, immigrant crime, drugs, murder and robbery. Having used the word "reality", one mustn't go overboard. The series requires a hefty dose of acceptance of the absurd to be able to believe in the plot. Cops, judges and lawyers don't act like this in the real world. Some of the coincidences are contrived. However, the excellence of the acting and the overarching plot lines mean that one simply forgets about the inconsistencies and exaggerations.

    Everyone has to have their favourite characters in the series and mine was Judge Roban. I missed him in the final season, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I don't think he would have put up with some of the shenanigans that the two new judges allowed.

    Of course, without the character of Laure, there would be no series at all. It's hard to imagine another actress pulling this off throughout the seasons. And the disaster zone of Gilou simultaneously ruining and solving investigations.

    The series could not have been about dry police procedure only and therefore opened out onto the private lives of the characters. Usually this is done in a cosmetic way to add some purported human interest, but here the personal meshed with the professional and drove the plots along in unforeseen ways.

    The producers weren't afraid to kill popular major characters off either which was a definite plus. It added a frisson and new blood to the overall story. And neither were they frightened of losing sympathetic minor ones either that other series might have shied away from. These deaths weren't wasted as they were drivers of the plot and development itself.

    All in all, a super series that kept the tension up for far longer than many others could have. So many are burnt out after two or three seasons but not Engrenages. I'm perfectly devastated that it's all come to an end.

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    • Trivia
      Philippe Magnan & Grégory Fitoussi also worked together on Les hommes de l'ombre (2012) as Philippe Deleuvre & Ludovic Desmeuze respectively.
    • Connections
      Featured in BAFTA Television Awards 2016 (2016)

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    • Release date
      • December 13, 2005 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • CANAL+ (France)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Spiral
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Canal+
      • Son et Lumière
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      52 minutes
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1
      • 16:9 HD

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