Best mind-bending French web series in India

By the KyaDekhu team · Updated 23 October 2026 · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb

21 web series in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.8. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.

1. Lupin (2021)

Web series · French · 3 seasons · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (1.6L votes)

TwistyVisually stunningFast-pacedEdge-of-seat

Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Netflix
2. The 7 Lives of Lea (2022)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 7.5 (7.0K votes)

TwistyFast-pacedEdge-of-seatSerious

After finding a young man's remains, Léa wakes up in the 90s and body swaps seven times as she tries to solve the mystery of his death — and prevent it.

Netflix
3. Black Butterflies (2022)

Web series · French · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (6.8K votes)

MatureDark & grittyTwistySerious

Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past.

Netflix
4. Vortex (2023)

Web series · French · 1 season · Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 7.6 (4.9K votes)

TwistyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatFast-paced

Two mysterious deaths. A rift in time. Sci-fi thriller about policeman Ludovic who risks everything when he tries to change the past.

Netflix
5. Who Killed Little Gregory? (2019)

Web series · French · 1 season · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 7.4 (3.6K votes)

TwistyCold & detachedDark & grittyDialogue-driven

When their 4-year-old son is murdered, a young couple fights a twisting and arduous battle trying to identify a frustratingly elusive killer.

Netflix
6. Criminal: France (2019)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.2 (5.2K votes)

TwistyDialogue-drivenCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.

Netflix
7. Public Enemy (2016)

Web series · French · 3 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.4 (2.1K votes)

Cold & detachedMatureTwistyDark & gritty

Freed after 20 years in prison, the child killer Guy Beranger found refuge with the monks in Vielsart, a small village in Belgian's Ardennes. He is placed under the protection of a young Federal Police's inspector, Chloé Muller. A little while after his release, a little girl disappears.

Netflix
8. The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama · IMDb 7.4 (1.9K votes)

TwistyMatureDark & grittySerious

On a cold October night in 1991, an unspeakable event rocks a small town in Quebec, forever haunting a family who tries to hide their dark secret. Thirty years later these secrets buried deep in the past resurface, sending the family on an unstoppable pursuit of reconciliation.

MUBI
9. The Circle France (2020)

Web series · French · 1 season · Reality · IMDb 7.4 (872 votes)

TwistyFast-pacedLight-heartedCold & detached

Status and strategy collide in this social media competition where online players flirt, befriend and catfish their way toward 100,000 euros.

Netflix
10. Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil (2023)

Web series · French · 1 season · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 6.8 (1.7K votes)

Cold & detachedMatureDark & grittyTwisty

From 1987 to 2003, Michel Fourniret cemented his legacy as France’s most infamous murderer. But his wife was an enigma: Was she a pawn or a participant?

Netflix
11. La Révolution (2020)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama · IMDb 6.6 (7.2K votes)

Visually stunningDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

1787, France. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, Joseph Guillotin - the future inventor of the world famous ‘Guillotine’ - uncovers an unknown virus: the Blue Blood. The disease quickly spreads amongst the French aristocracy, driving them to murder ordinary people and soon leads to a rebellion.

Netflix
12. Summer '36 (2026)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama · IMDb 6.7 (1.6K votes)

Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistySerious

Nice, 1936. As workers enjoy their first paid holidays, four very different women become entangled in the murder of a prosecutor at the Riviera hotel.

Netflix
13. Mortel (2019)

Web series · French · 2 seasons · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · IMDb 6.5 (2.0K votes)

Edge-of-seatTwistyDark & grittyFast-paced

Sofiane, Victor and Luisa, three seemingly incompatible teenagers find themselves bound together by a supernatural force.

Netflix
14. Liaison (2023)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Drama, Action & Adventure · IMDb 6.5 (7.4K votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatFast-pacedDark & gritty

Two agents—and former lovers—must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening the UK while also confronting the buried secrets of their destructive relationship.

Apple TV
15. Victor Lessard (2017)

Web series · French · 3 seasons · Drama, Crime · IMDb 6.9 (279 votes)

TwistyCold & detachedMatureDark & gritty

At the heart of Victor Lessard is a troubled cop and an addictive, unpredictable mystery. The murders are strange and unsettling, the work of a deeply disturbed mind. And as Victor goes deeper into the mystery, untangling the clues, trying desperately (and in vain) to stop more murders from occurring, his own behaviour

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16. Thicker Than Water (2023)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Mystery, Crime · IMDb 5.9 (830 votes)

Dark & grittyEdge-of-seatTwistyMature

A journalist's life devolves into chaos when she shields her brother from the law, inadvertently entangling her family in a drug lord's merciless scheme.

Netflix
17. Gone for Good (2021)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.3 (6.7K votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatFast-pacedCold & detached

Ten years after losing two loved ones, a man is plunged into another dizzying mystery when his girlfriend vanishes.

Netflix
18. Endless Night (2022)

Web series · French · 1 season · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 5.4 (261 votes)

Dark & grittyEdge-of-seatTwistyFast-paced

A group of teens must confront their deepest fears to save one another from a creature hunting them in their sleep, after trying an experimental dreaming drug.

Netflix
19. The Hunt (2026)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 5.7 (920 votes)

MatureEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached

When friends on a hunting trip get into a deadly clash with other hunters, they vow to keep it a secret. But as paranoia sets in—and a ruthless gang seeks revenge—the friends must confront their morality, families, and savage instincts.

Apple TV
20. Under a Dark Sun (2025)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 5.8 (2.0K votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyFast-paced

On the run from her troubled past, a young mother is accused of killing her new boss at a flower farm just before discovering he's actually her father.

Netflix
21. Anthracite (2024)

Web series · French · 1 season · A · Mystery, Crime · IMDb 6.1 (6.0K votes)

Dark & grittyTwistyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.

Netflix