MHz Choice has some goodies for us in April, including the return of a fan-favorite German crime drama, plus new French and Italian series and seasons, and more.
New crime dramas and mystery thrillers and period dramas, oh my! We can look forward to these, in their original languages with English subtitles, plus the English-dubbed versions of select other titles, on MHz Choice in April 2025.
Cassandre: Season 2 (France)
This crime drama series follows Florence Cassandre (Gwendoline Hamon, Fatal Reunion, Perfect Murders), a devoted mother and skilled cop who leaves Paris for a new job as the police chief in the town of Annecy, located in the beautiful Haute-Savoie region, in order to be near her son. In Season 2, she and her team investigate several crimes, including the murders of the town’s mayor and a lawyer for a biogenetics lab. (Video is from Season 1)
Costarring Alexandre Varga (Pacific Criminal), Dominique Pinon (The Island of Thirty Coffins), and Jessy Salomée Ugolin (Love and Trouble in Paris), Cassandre: Season 2 premieres Tuesday, April 1.
I3P (France)
In this crime thriller with elements of medical drama, people who show signs of amnesia, have visions, or exhibit symptoms of delirium on the streets of Paris are taken to the Paris Police Psychiatric Unit (I3P). This discreet facility is headed by Dr. Mathias Bernardt (Marc Lavoine, Crossing Lines, Don’t Leave Me), a psychiatrist who has the authority to allow patients to return to their normal lives, hospitalize them, or hand them over to the police. Unable to keep anyone for more than 24 hours, Bernardt always favors a humane approach to coercive treatment.
Working with him are psychiatrists Sophie Tran (Claire Tran, Missions, Nox) and Julien Sarment (Mickaël Chirinian, HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel, Mafiosa), as well as the young intern, Samy Jendoubi (Walid Ben Mabrouk, Spiral, The Bureau). They investigate what could have caused the person to have been brought to the I3P, while Police Commissioner Nathalie Fontaine (Barbara Schulz, Vanished by the Lake, The Art of Crime) rails against more cases being added to her already-large caseload.
I3P premieres Tuesday, April 8.
The Eagle: Season 2 (Ørnen) (Denmark) — English dub
This fan-favorite Nordic noir crime drama series stars Jens Albinus (Borgen, Deutschland 83) as Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, a half-Icelandic, half-Danish detective known as “The Eagle,” owing to his keen insight and abilities to assess situations and take quick actions. (The Season 2 video below is in Danish with English subtitles, not dubbed in English.)
The English-dubbed version of The Eagle: Season 2 premieres Tuesday, April 15.
Off Track (L’abîme) (France)
Sara Mortensen (Astrid, Deadly Tropics) and Gil Alma (The Wagner Method, Inside) star in this mystery-crime thriller as Elsa and Laurent Lacaze, a seemingly-perfect couple who are still very much in love after twenty years of marriage. They’re also parents to their teen daughter, Lucie (Marie Mallia, Women at War, Unclaimed). One day, Elsa doesn’t return from her regular morning jog. Gone without a trace, her disappearance turns Laurent and Lucie’s world on its head. Then it really falls apart when the police tell them that Elsa is not the person she has been claiming to be.
Costarring Samuel Labarthe (Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games), Anne Loiret (Cheeky Business), Hélène Seuzaret (Crime is Her Game), and Christopher Bayemi (Cassandre), Off Track premieres Tuesday, April 15.
A French Village: Season 5 (Un village français) (France) — English dub
This acclaimed drama is about the German occupation of France during World War II and its effects on the inhabitants of a small village in Jura. The cast includes Robin Renucci (Chefs), Audrey Fleurot (Spiral), Thierry Godard (Spiral), and Nicolas Gob (The Art of Crime), amongst many others. The English-dubbed version of A French Village: Season 5 begins streaming Tuesday, April 22.
Seeds of Change (Et la montagne fleurira) (France)
Opening in 1837 in Provence, this saga follows Jean-Baptiste Lombard (Guillaume Arnault, Germinal, Tandem), a young man who, after the death of his beloved mother, is banished (and later disinherited) by his brutish father, Sosthène Lombard (Philippe Torreton, The French Revolution), owing to (false) accusations made against him by Sosthène’s mistress-turned-wife, Séraphine (Hélène de Fougerolles, Balthazar).
Now without a home, Jean-Baptiste goes to stay with his mother’s sister, Blanche (Constance Dollé, Candice Renoir), who has been living with her friend, Zélie (Ophélia Kolb, Class Act), following the deaths of both her husband and son. After a bit of convincing on Blanche’s part, Jean-Baptiste takes over the work of her late husband, becoming a traveling salesman of herbal remedies and plants picked on the slopes of Lure Mountain. He soon meets and falls in love with Lila (Claire Duburcq, 1917), the daughter of healers and water diviners, and the two join the republican resistance against Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s coup d’état. But tragedy strikes again, and Jean-Baptiste realizes that, to find peace in his life, he must regain his birthright: Mas de Tilleuls, the estate of his mother and grandfather.
Based on the novel Le Mas des Tilleuls by Françoise Bourdon, the drama costars Chloé Astor (Captain Marleau), Rio Vega (Cheeky Business), Julien Boisselier (Nina), Catherine Allégret (Alexandra Ehle), and Pauline Briand (Paris Police 1905), amongst others.
Seeds of Change premieres Tuesday, April 22.
Tatort: Cologne: Season 4 (Germany)
It seems like forever and a day (in reality, seven years) since we’ve had a new season of Tatort: Cologne, so this is a treat for fans of this series. It stars Dietmar Bär (Greetings from America, Hotel Sacher) and Klaus J. Behrendt (Nord Nord Mord, Letzte Spur Berlin) as Freddy Schenk and Max Ballauf, Cologne’s best homicide detectives and two of the most popular investigators in the entire “Tatort” crime drama franchise. (Video below is from Season 3)
Tatort: Cologne: Season 4 premieres Tuesday, April 22.
Carlo & Malik: Season 1 (Nero a metà) (Italy)
This crime drama stars Claudio Amendola (Lampedusa, Suburra) as Inspector Carlo Guerrieri, a stubborn and rebellious veteran police officer in Rome, and Miguel Gobbo Diaz (Zero, B-52) as Malik Soprani, Claudio’s partner, an ambitious and brilliant young deputy inspector who was born in the Ivory Coast and raised in Rome. Working alongside them is Alba Guerrieri (Rosa Diletta Rossi, Suburra: Blood on Rome, Don Matteo), a medical examiner and Carlo’s daughter.
The crime-fighting team also includes police superintendent Cinzia Repola (Margherita Vicario, The Temptation); Marco Cantabella (Alessandro Sperduti, The Leopard), an elite agent and Malik’s friend from the police academy; Mario Muzo (Fortunato Cerlino, Gomorrah), the chief superintendent and a good friend of Carlo; and Micaela Carta (Antonia Liskova, The Good Apprentice), who heads up the Flying Squad.
Also costarring Angela Finocchiaro (The Price of Family), Alessia Barela (The Red Door), and Sandra Ceccarelli (The Lions of Sicily), Carlo & Malik: Season 1 premieres Tuesday, April 29.
Bordertown: Season 2 (Sorjonen) (Finland) — English dub
The second season of this award-winning Nordic noir mystery-crime drama consists of five two-part stories that star Ville Virtanen (Jordskott) as Kari Sorjonen, the lead investigator for the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta, Finland. Plots include a double murder, the discovery of a preserved fetus at a daycare center manager’s home, a shooting at the largest sand castle in the country, the discovery of a dead body that is linked to a missing persons case, and the reopening of an old case after two women disappear.
Costarring Matleena Kuusniemi (Maria Kallio), Anu Sinisalo (Arctic Circle), Ilkka Villi (Reindeer Mafia), and Matti Laine (Look of a Killer), the English-dubbed version of Bordertown: Season 2 begins streaming Tuesday, April 29.
Spring Tide: Season 2 (Springfloden) (Sweden)
Season 2 of this Nordic noir mystery-crime drama finds two murder cases in two European cities are connected to each other. In Stockholm, young cop Olivia Rönning (Julia Ragnarsson, Blinded, Paradis City) is drawn into the investigation of a customs agent found hanged in his home, while the broken-but-standing former detective Tom Stilton (Kjell Bergqvist, Bäckström, Death of a Pilgrim) heads to Marseille, France, to help his friend, Abbas El Fassi (Dar Salim, Tatort: Harbor Crimes, Dicte), find out why a circus artist, the love of Abbas’s life, was murdered.
Based on the “Rönning & Stilton” novels by Rolf and Cilla Börjlind (Arne Dahl, Beck), Spring Tide: Season 2 returns to streaming on Tuesday, April 29.
Unless otherwise noted, all of the above programs are shown in their original language(s) with English subtitles and will premiere in the US and Canada on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Prime Video Channels, starting on the dates shown above. (Note that scheduling changes can occur at any time and without prior notice.)
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