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Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
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The Art of Crime premiered November 17, 2017. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
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Episode 1
The owner of a copy of a work by Claude Monet is murdered and the picture stolen. But why go as far as killing someone just to take a simple copy? The investigation leads Antoine and Florence on the trail of a particularly talented copyist.
Directed by Chris BriantGuest stars Alexia Barlier, Guillaume Marquet, Maud Forget, Léna Bréban, Bertrand Combe, Alika Del Sol, Natasha Cashman, Benoît Gourley
Episode 2
Antoine and Florence are on the trail of a particularly talented copyist of Claude Monet's work. They come to realise that the life of the one strangely mirrors that of the other. Worrying parallels lead them towards a sombre story of passion and jealousy.
Directed by Chris BriantGuest stars Ambroise Sabbagh, Delphine Braillon, Alexia Barlier, Guillaume Marquet, Maud Forget, Léna Bréban, Bertrand Combe, Miglen Mirtchev
Episode 3
Captain Verlay receives a set of Gustave Courbet's paintings postcards as a kind of treasure hunt. A corpse is discovered with each riddle solved.
Directed by Hippolyte Dard, Elsa BennettGuest stars Charlotte Adrien, Zuri François, Ambroise Sabbagh, Gavril Dartevelle, Julien Boisselier, Viktor Klepal, Pascal Casanova, Caroline Gaget
Episode 4
The murderer inspired by Gustave Courbet seems determined to follow his Machiavellian plan right to the end. One question remains: why does he appear to address himself directly to Antoine?
Directed by Hippolyte Dard, Elsa BennettGuest stars Charlotte Adrien, Zuri François, Ambroise Sabbagh, Delphine Braillon, Gavril Dartevelle, Julien Boisselier, Pascal Casanova, Aliocha Itovich
Episode 5
A seminarian is stabbed to death. A tattoo on the victim's chest intrigues Antoine and Florence, leading them on the trail of a lost work by Hieronymus Bosch, a famous painter from the Flemish Renaissance with a fascination for demons and devils.
Directed by Chris BriantGuest stars Ambroise Sabbagh, Michel Lerousseau, Rufus, Michaël Erpelding, Manon Elezaar, Matila Malliarakis, Déborah Krey, Garlan Le Martelot
Episode 6
Antoine and Florence follow the trail of the picture by Hieronymus Bosch. As one discovery leads to another they realise that the murder of the seminarian wasn't the first crime committed in the name of this particular work.
Directed by Chris BriantGuest stars Ambroise Sabbagh, Bertrand Combe, Viktor Klepal, Nicolas Marié, Michel Lerousseau, Rufus, Michaël Erpelding, Manon Elezaar
Episode information updated Aug 16, 2026
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