History Series / AFrenchVillage

It aired for seven seasons, with the series covering events from prior to the occupation until after the liberation.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Hortense finds Müller quite attractive and has an intermittent relationship with him. She even explains his appeal as being how cold and selfish he is. Even the fact he ''tortured'' Hortense at one point to coerce her husband into giving up information or related how he oversaw mass murders in the Soviet Union doesn't change her, which pushes this to it's greatest extreme.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Müller, a brutal SS officer who'd tortured and murdered French resistance fighters along with participating in massacres of Soviet Jews, escapes all charges. He's let off because the US wants information he has, and last seen [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand in Paraguay]], aiding the Paraguayan dictatorship in the same methods he used to torture prisoners during the 1960s.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Müller, a brutal SS officer who'd tortured and murdered French resistance fighters along with participating in massacres of Soviet Jews, escapes all charges. He's let off because the US wants information he has, and last seen [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand in Paraguay]], aiding the Paraguayan dictatorship in the same methods he used to suppress opponents during the 1960s.]]

* ArgentinaIsNaziland: By the 60s, former SS officer Müller is living in Paraguay, working as a trainer of torturers with the Schneider dictatorship.

* MatzoFever: Jean falls in love with Jewish woman Rita, despite being somewhat antisemitic and meeting her when going to arrest her. They begin a relationship and even conceive a child together. However, it falls apart when she learns he let her mother be sent off to Poland. Even so, he helps Rita escape to Switzerland.

* StateSec: The SS appear more than once, mostly in the form of their intelligence, the SD. Later the Milice, who served as this for Vichy France, also appear. Both groups have an infamous (deserve) notoriety as brutal, vicious enforcers of their regimes.

* TheCavalry: Müller and Hortense are rescued by American soldiers before he's about to be shot by SS border guards for desertion (with her killed for being with him) who arrive {{just in time}}.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Marie's oldest son Raoul acts like he's got a minor mental disability. She just refers to his "difficulties".

Produced by France 3 from 2009 to 2017, ''A French Village'' (original title "''Un village français''") is a French series.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The show generally has about 15-20 named characters at any time, with many minor ones besides that, which can make it difficult for some viewers.

* AdultFear: Threats to people's children are used multiple times as a form of torture. Marcel also freaks out when his pre-teen son, thinking he's in Switzerland, decides to go look for him on his own.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene:
** Multiple times German troops and Milice are shown killing civilians in retaliation for Resistance attacks (or in once case, a resistance fighter along with his entire family).
** The French Resistance later also hang and shoot captured Germans or Milice without trial.

* PutOnABus: Kurt is shipped to the Eastern Front after it's found he was in a relationship with Lucienne, as she's French (forbidden by German military regulations). Müller is also transferred to Kiev.

* BedlamHouse: Hortense, after developing a paranoid disorder, is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she's "treated" with hot baths, electroconvulsive therapy, drugs and restraints that do nothing except exacerbate her condition (as now she's ''sensibly'' afraid of what the staff will do). This is very realistic, unfortunately, for the 1940s.

* ArgentinaIsNaziland: By the 60s, Müller is living in Paraguay, working as a trainer of torturers with the Schneider dictatorship.