February brings the premieres of 23 new series, seasons, and films from 12 countries to the US and beyond, plus more for folks in the US and Canada.
To see the complete list of Euro TV shows available in the US and UK, see the Euro TV Shows by Language section. Viewers in the US can check the ongoing updates of titles released throughout each month on the Euro TV Viewing Guide page.
All programs listed here are shown in their original language with English subtitles, except where noted. The trailers below, which may or may not have English subtitles, might not be suitable for all audiences; viewer discretion is advised.
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NATIONAL PREMIERES
Blackport (Verbúðin) (Iceland-UK-France)
Set in the 1980s in a small Icelandic fishing village, this dramedy follows Harpa (Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, The Valhalla Murders, Trapped) and Grimur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Entrapped, Fortitude), a married couple who, along with their childhood friends, build a small fishing empire. But when the government begins to enforce restrictive fishing quotas, they see their livelihoods threatened, their lives turned upside down, and their relationships become a feud of jealousy, greed, and betrayal.
The winner of the Grand Prize at the 2021 Series Mania TV festival, Blackport premieres in the US and Canada with the first three episodes on Thursday, February 2, exclusively on Topic and its digital channels, including Topic on Amazon. New episodes will drop weekly through March 9.
Angel of Death: Season 2 (Szadz) (Poland)
The new season of this crime drama, based on Igor Brejdygant‘s novel of the same name, opens a year after the events in Season 1. Serial killer Piotr Wolnicki (Maciej Stuhr, The Teacher), a terrifying murderer to some, a victim of the system to others, pleads not guilty to murder at the trial, while police commissioner Agnieszka Polkowska (Aleksandra Poplawska, Wataha), whose investigation led to Wolnicki’s capture, testifies against him in court. Will the collected evidence and testimonies of witnesses be enough to convict him?
Angel of Death: Season 2 premieres in the US and Canada on Friday, February 3, exclusively on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels.
Infiesto (Spain)
Opening in March 2020, on the first day of Spain’s state of emergency due to the coronavirus, this crime thriller follows detectives Garcia (Isak Férriz, Feria: The Darkest Light, Below Zero) and Castro (Iria del Río, Elite, Cathedral of the Sea), who are called to a small mining town in the Asturian lowlands. A young woman who had been missing for years suddenly reappears, and the detectives’ investigation soon leads them to think that the coronavirus might not be the only dark force at work here.
Infiesto, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, February 3, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Stromboli (Netherlands)
Based on Saskia Noort‘s novel of the same name, this drama follows Sara (Elise Schaap, Undercover, Ferry), a recently-divorced woman who arrives on the Italian volcanic island of Stromboli with a suitcase full of vodka and an exhausted heart. Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, she joins an intense self-help retreat when her vacation goes awry. Here, along with a motley crew of other wandering souls led by the charismatic guru Jens (Christian Hillborg, Top Dog, The Bridge), Sara confronts the demons from her past.
Costarring Tim McInnerny (Ten Percent, The Serpent) and Anna Chancellor (Pennyworth, Hotel Portofino), Stromboli, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, February 3, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Viking Wolf (Vikingulven) (Norway)
This horror thriller centers on Thale (Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Royalteen), a teenager who recently moved to a small town after her mother (Liv Mjönes, The Lawyer) got a new job with the local police. During a party one night, Thale witnesses a horrific murder, and then starts having strange visions as well as bizarre desires.
Viking Wolf, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, February 3, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Alice Nevers: Season 2 (France)
Marine Delterme (Coco Chanel) and Jean-Michel Tinivelli (Murder in Tahiti) return as criminal prosecutor Alice Nevers and her personal and professional partner, police captain Fred Marquand, in the second season of this crime drama, derived from the long-running series Le juge est une femme. In Season 2’s six episodes, the pair investigate crimes in Paris that often shed light on the larger societal issues of the day.
Alice Nevers: Season 2 premieres in the US and Canada on Tuesday, February 7, exclusively on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Amazon.
Love in…: Season 2 (France)
The new season of this anthology series features three French romantic movies.
Love in…: Season 2 premieres in the US and Canada on Tuesday, February 7, exclusively on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Amazon.
Attachment (Natten har øjne) (Denmark)
In this horror-romance film, Maja (Josephine Park, Darkness: Those Who Kill), a once-promising Danish actress, falls in love with Leah (Ellie Kendrick, Game of Thrones), a young Jewish academic from London. When Leah suffers a mysterious seizure that leads to a debilitating injury, Maja fears their whirlwind romance might be over and decides to follow Leah back to her home in the Hasidic area of Stamford Hill, London. There Maja meets Leah’s mother, Chana (Sofie Gråbøl, The Killing), an overbearing and secretive woman who seems resistant to all of Maja’s attempts to win her over. As Maja begins to notice strange occurrences in the building and in Chana’s behavior, she suspects Chana’s secrets could be much darker than she first thought. But the woman she loves might be carrying the biggest secret of all…
Costarring David Dencik (The Kingdom), Attachment has its streaming debut in the US and Canada on Thursday, February 9, exclusively on Shudder and its digital channels, including Shudder on Amazon and the AMC+ streaming bundle.
10 Days of a Good Man (Iyi Adamin 10 Günü) (Turkey)
This mystery thriller is the first in what will be a trilogy of films based on the “10 Days of a Good Man” novels by Mehmet Eroglu. The story follows Sadik (Nejat İşler, As the Crow Flies), a lawyer-turned-private investigator who takes on a missing person case, which propels him onto an unexpected and life-altering quest.
10 Days of a Good Man, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, February 10, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Sisi: Austrian Empress: Season 1 (Sisi) (Germany-Austria)
This biopic-historical drama series follows the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, known as Sisi. Season 1 traces the life of Sisi (Dominique Devenport, Night Train to Lisbon) in the 1850s and 1860s, during which time she, as the teen-aged Princess of Bavaria, falls in love with and marries Emperor Franz Joseph I (Jannik Schümann, Charité), and grows from being a carefree girl into a self-confident empress while dealing with losses and making difficult decisions along thee way.
Sisi: Austrian Empress premieres in the US and Canada on Friday, February 10, exclusively on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels.
Squared Love All Over Again (Miłość do kwadratu jeszcze raz) (Poland)
In this romantic comedy, a celebrity journalist and a down-to-earth teacher find their relationship in rocky waters when a job gets in the way of their new life together.
Starring Adrianna Chlebicka (Operation Hyacinth), Mateusz Banasiuk (Furioza), and Mirosław Baka (The Defence), Squared Love All Over Again, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Monday, February 13, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
In Love All Over Again (Todas las veces que nos enamoramos) (Spain)
In this romantic comedy-drama, Irene (Georgina Amorós, Elite) and Julio (Franco Masini, Rebelde) met in 2003, and ever since then, they have been falling in love, splitting up, and then trying again. Will they ever find their happy ending?
In Love All Over Again, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Tuesday, February 14, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Irish Crime: Season 1 (Der Irland-Krimi) (Germany)
Set in Galway, Ireland, this mystery-crime drama series revolves around criminal psychologist Cathrin Byrne (Désirée Nosbusch, Bad Banks, Capitani), who took a ten-year hiatus from law enforcement after her police officer husband, Liam, disappeared. This triggered a spiral into alcoholism and despair for Cathrin, which led to her 14-year-old son, Paul, being raised by his grandparents in Germany. Fast forward ten years later: Cathrin has a private therapy practice and Paul (Rafael Gareisen, Murder by the Lake, Babylon Berlin) is back in Galway as a crime scene photographer. The sudden discovery of Liam’s remains thrusts Cathrin back into law enforcement and in closer proximity to her son Paul.
Irish Crime premieres in the US and Canada on Tuesday, February 14, exclusively on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Amazon.
The Law According to Lidia Poët (Lidia Poët) (Italy)
Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing, Leonardo, Robbing Mussolini) stars in this biopic and light legal procedural drama as Lidia Poët, the real-life first female lawyer in Italy. Set in the late 1800s, the series follows Lidia, a young woman in Turin who is prevented from practicing law — just because she is a woman — when the city’s Court of Appeals rules that her enrollment on the registry of lawyers is illegitimate.
Penniless but full of pride, Lidia secures a job at her brother Enrico’s law firm, where she assists criminal suspects by investigating the murders and seeking the truth behind appearances and prejudices. Jacopo, a mysterious journalist and Lidia’s brother-in-law, passes information to her and guides her into the hidden worlds of a magniloquent Turin. At the same time, Lidia fights to obtain what is rightfully hers — enrollment on the official register of lawyers — and prepares the appeal to overturn the Court’s decision.
Costarring Eduardo Scarpetta (My Brilliant Friend, The Ignorant Angels) and Pier Luigi Pasino (Texas), The Law According to Lidia Poët, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Wednesday, February 15, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Helsinki Syndrome (Helsinki-syndrooma) (Finland-Germany-France-Belgium)
From the producers of Bordertown comes this thriller that tells the story of Elias Karo (Peter Franzén, Vikings, Beck, Johan Falk), an entrepreneur who takes four journalists hostage to get them to expose the two bank officials and the district court judge who destroyed Elias’s family, stole everything they owned, and caused his father’s suicide — and to reveal the government cover-up that allowed all of this to happen to his family and to countless others thirty years ago.
When hundreds of similar stories of other families in despair start to become known, Elias’s claims are proven true, gaining him active support from the public and even from his hostages. But the media attention that has shaken the nation is actually a smokescreen to enable the greatest robbery of all time, one through which Elias will become a modern-day Robin Hood who helps people who have suffered because of the government’s failure.
Helsinki Syndrome premieres in the US and Canada in its eight-episode entirety on Thursday, February 16, exclusively on Topic and its digital channels, including Topic on Amazon.
Ganglands: Season 2 (Braqueurs) (France)
In the new season of this action-crime drama, Mehdi (Sami Bouajila, Black Butterflies), Liana (Tracy Gotoas, Ad Vitam), and Tony (Samuel Jouy, Black Spot) find their plans to leave Belgium thwarted by the arrival of a new enemy — one that forces them to ally with former foes.
Ganglands: Season 2, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Friday, February 17, exclusively on Netflix.
A Girl and an Astronaut (Dziewczyna i kosmonauta) (Poland)
In this sci-fi romance series that spans two timelines, an astronaut’s return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn’t aged.
Starring Vanessa Aleksander (The Mire) and Jędrzej Hycnar (Glitter), A Girl and an Astronaut, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Friday, February 17, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The Swan Company: Season 1 (La compagnia del cigno) (Italy)
This new series follows seven talented musicians, all teenagers coming of age, at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. Here the students are a support for each other under the strict tutelage of Maestro Marioni (Alessio Boni, The Goodbye Kiss), known to his students as “the bastard.”
Matteo (Leonardo Mazzarotto, Circeo) is a violinist who is a sensitive newcomer. Barbara (Fotinì Peluso, Everything Calls for Salvation) is an accomplished singer whose ambitions don’t always match the expectations from her family. Dominic (Emanuele Misuraca, The Hunter) has effortless talent and finds himself in a love triangle with his new friend Matteo and Barbara. Music becomes a refuge for the insecure cellist Sofia (Chiara Pia Aurora) and shy pianist Robbo (Ario Sgroi), who are foils to the rebellious Rosario (Francesco Tozzi) on the drums. And visually-impaired violinist Sara (Hildegard De Stefano) rounds out the seven.
The Swan Company: Season 1 premieres in the US and Canada on Tuesday, February 21, exclusively on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Amazon.
Liaison (France-UK) (France)
César Award winner Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Westworld) and BAFTA Award winner Eva Green (Casino Royale, Penny Dreadful) star in this high-stakes, contemporary thriller that explores how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future.
Combining action with an unpredictable, multilayered plot where “espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love,” it costars Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake), Gérard Lanvin (Call My Agent!), Stanislas Merhar (Dry Cleaning), Daniel Francis (Small Axe), Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique), Laetitia Eido (Fauda), Eriq Ebouaney (Rogue City), Bukky Bakray (Rocks), and Thierry Frémont (Murder in Mind).
Liaison, an Apple Original series, premieres globally with its first episode on Friday, February 24, exclusively on Apple TV+. New episodes will debut weekly through March 31, 2023.
Who Were We Running From? (Biz Kimden Kaçıyorduk Anne?) (Turkey)
Based on Perihan Mağden‘s novel of the same name, this drama thriller follows a mother (Melisa Sözen, The Bureau) who, harboring a painful past, goes on the run with her young daughter. Living like nameless fugitives, they make hotels their home and see everyone else as a threat. Who Were We Running From?, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Friday, February 24, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
Candice Renoir: Season 5 (France)
Coming back to this side of the Atlantic after roughly a year is this popular police procedural series starring Cécile Bois (Germinal) as the titular cop. Following the Season 4 finale, the Season 5 opener sees Candice back at work after a well-earned holiday, acting as if nothing had happened. But something has definitely gone down at a company’s “murder party” seminar: one of the employees was actually murdered, a whodunit that Candice and her team are called in to investigate. (Trailer is from Season 1)
Candice Renoir: Season 5 premieres in the US and Canada on Monday, February 27, exclusively Acorn TV and its digital channels, including Acorn TV on Amazon.
Inspector Rex: Season 3 (Kommissar Rex) (Germany)
This light German police drama series, which has spawned local versions in Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia, returns with another season that follows police dog Rex as he investigates crimes and solves mysteries with his human partner, Richard Moser (Tobias Moretti, Bad Banks), on the streets of Vienna. (Video is from Season 2)
Inspector Rex: Season 3 premieres in the US and Canada on Tuesday, February 28, exclusively on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Amazon.
Too Hot to Handle: Germany (Germany)
Joining the American, Latino, and Brazilian versions of the “Too Hot to Handle” reality-competition format is this one, in which the hottest German-speaking singles come together in a tropical paradise for what they think will be the most exotic and erotic time of their lives. But there’s a twist: If they want to win the €200,000 grand prize, these commitment-phobes, who love a casual hook-up, will have to give up everything sexual for the entire retreat — no kissing, no heavy petting, no self-gratification, no intercourse. With every slip, the prize money goes down. Too Hot to Handle: Germany, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Tuesday, February 28, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS DEBUTING WITH ENGLISH-DUBBED AUDIO
The Killing: Season 2 (Forbrydelsen) (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany)
In Season 2 of this Nordic noir classic, a BAFTA TV Award winner for Best International series, a female lawyer is found beaten and murdered under unique circumstance, while three people from the police, the political world, and the armed forces find themselves connected to each other as they search for answers. One is former detective Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl, Fortitude), who lost her commission two years ago and was moved to a routine job in the country, far from her son and family. The second is newly-appointed Secretary of Justice Thomas Buch (Nicolas Bro, The Kingdom), and the third is imprisoned soldier and family man Jens Peter Raben (Ken Vedsegaard, When the Dust Settles).
After detectives find few clues ten days after the murder, the head of homicide makes an unpopular decision by approaching Lund to assist in the investigation. Lund’s first impulse is to stay at a safe distance, yet it may be her chance to regain her professional integrity and reputation. Once she engages in the case, it becomes impossible for her to let it go. The lawyer’s murder is only the first in a series of violent killings from what seems to be a systematic list of targets. But who is on that list? And who will be the next victim? It’s a race against time to find the perpetrator and prevent further killings. (The trailer below is in the original Danish with English subtitles.)
The English-dubbed version of The Killing: Season 2 begins streaming in its ten-episode entirety on Thursday, February 9, exclusively on Topic and its digital channels, including Topic on Amazon.
Salamander: Season 2 (Belgium)
The second season of this crime thriller sees Inspector Gerardi (Filip Peeters, Occupied), after secretive organization Salamander was dismantled and the investigation into the group nears completion, stumble upon a conspiracy involving the ownership of diamond mines in Kitangi, a former Belgian colony. It soon turns out that Salamander is not as dead as everyone thinks… (The trailer below is in the original Flemish with English subtitles.)
The English-dubbed version of Salamander: Season 2 begins streaming in its ten-episode entirety on Thursday, February 23, exclusively on Topic and its digital channels, including Topic on Amazon.
NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS DEBUTING ON LINEAR TV
On The Edge (La bella gente) (Italy)
This drama revolves around two women: Susanna (Monica Guerritore, Love Under the Elms), a happily-married, open-minded and progressive woman, and Nadja (Victoria Larchenko, Don Matteo), a well-educated Eastern European woman who was abducted and forced into prostitution in Italy. When Susanna sees Nadja being physically abused, she convinces her husband, Alfredo (Antonio Catania, The Bad Guy), to bring the poor girl to their country house for her safety — against Nadja’s will. So begins a story of how deeply-ingrained prejudices can cloud one’s judgment and how there’s a fine line between being helpful to someone and using them.
On The Edge has its US linear TV debut on Saturday, February 18, at 8:30 PM ET, on Eurochannel.
Under Suspicion (Landkrimi: Der Tote im See) (Austria)
This made-for-TV mystery movie sees Grete Öller (Maria Hofstätter, Tatort) and her colleague, Lisa Nemeth (Miriam Fussenegger, Vienna Blood), detectives with the State Criminal Police Office in Linz, called to the Steyr reservoir, where a corpse with a gunshot wound has been found. It appears to be a suicide, but things get murky after the detectives discover a connection between the deceased and a man from Grete’s past — who seems to have gone missing… or into hiding…
Under Suspicion has its US linear TV debut on Friday, February 24, at 9 PM ET, on Eurochannel.
Unseen (L’uomo privato) (Italy)
Tommaso Ragno (1992, The Miracle, Baby) stars in this mystery movie as a charming, intelligent, and successful forty-year-old university law professor who, while attractive to women, prefers to live apart from everyone. He deems himself superior and relates to people with disdain while repressing his feelings and dismissing everyone else’s. His privacy must be kept separate from the external world, to the point of breaking off relationships when more than a passing sexual interest is expressed, as with Silvia (Myriam Catania, On the Edge), who adores him and is unceremoniously dumped by him. But the tables are turned on him after one of Silvia’s friends commits suicide and the private man finds his existence invaded by outsiders…
Unseen has its US linear TV debut on Saturday, February 25, at 8:30 PM ET, on Eurochannel.
NON-PREMIERE PROGRAMS BEING ADDED TO STREAMING SERVICES
The Tunnel: Seasons 1-3 (UK-France)
Based on the original hit Swedish-Danish Nordic noir series The Bridge (Bron/Broen), this crime thriller follows the investigations conducted by British detective Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane, Game of Thrones) and French detective Élise Wassermann (Clémence Poésy, The Essex Serpent), who are forced to work together when crimes involving the UK and France are committed. In Season 1, Karl and Élise investigate the case of a “corpse” placed on the border of both countries in the Channel Tunnel. The Tunnel: Sabotage (Season 2) sees the pair reunited for a case in which a French couple have been abducted from the Eurotunnel. And in The Tunnel: Vengeance (Season 3), set in a mid-Brexit Europe, the detective duo come together once more after a stolen fishing boat is found adrift and on fire in the English Channel.
The Tunnel: Seasons 1-3 begins streaming in the US and Canada on Friday, February 3, on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels.
Acquitted: Season 1 (Frikjent) (Norway)
Nicolai Cleve Broch (Beforeigners, The Sandhamn Murders) stars in this crime drama series as Aksel Borgen, a successful businessman who has spent the last 20 years in Asia, following his acquittal for the murder of his high-school sweetheart. When his hometown’s cornerstone business is threatened by bankruptcy, Aksel is asked to return to save it and the place that once turned its back on him. However, the past has not been forgotten; his arrival tears old wounds apart and new conflicts arise as the man who pleaded not guilty is still being judged.
Acquitted: Season 1 begins streaming in the US and Canada on Friday, February 17, on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels.
Dicte: Season 1 (Denmark)
Based on the novels by bestselling author Elsebeth Egholm (who created the TV series Those Who Kill), this mystery-crime drama stars Iben Hjejle (The Rain, Dag) as Dicte Svendsen, a crime reporter with a troubled past and an uncanny knack for solving the cases she writes about. Following her divorce from the philandering Torsten (Lars Ranthe, Seaside Hotel), she and daughter Rose (Emilie Kruse, The Rain) leave Copenhagen to start life anew in Dicte’s hometown of Aarhus, where Dicte works as the lead crime reporter alongside photographer Bo Skytte (Dar Salim, Loving Adults, Deliver Us) for the local paper.
In the series opener, Dicte finds the dead body of a young woman who appears to have bled to death after a C-section, and thus meets John Wagner (Lars Brygmann, Equinox), the socially-awkward detective on the case. He doesn’t appreciate Dicte’s nosiness or her meddling in his investigation, but over time the two develop a more collaborative working relationship. Before they do, though. Dicte learns the Bosnian woman’s newborn baby is missing and that there are other pregnant Bosnians in Aarhus who are afraid for their lives.
Costarring Lærke Winther (Those Who Kill) and Lene Maria Christensen (The Legacy), Dicte: Season 1 begins streaming in the US and Canada on Friday, February 24, on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels.
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Header photo credits: Top row (L-R): Helsinki Syndrome courtesy of Topic; 10 Days of a Good Man (photo by Şinasi Serçe) courtesy of Netflix | Bottom row: Blackport courtesy of Topic; Irish Crime (photo by Sammy Hart/Beta Film) courtesy of MHz Choice
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For details about the February premieres of shows from the UK, Canada, and Ireland, visit The British TV Place. For info about the debuts of programs from Australia and New Zealand, visit The Down Under TV Place. For that of a select list of titles from other countries, visit The Global TV Place.
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