#1TVCeleste, a cancan dancer in a Montmartre cabaret, desperately tries to find her brother and sister.
Montmartre
★ 6.82025
Two French-language streaming services share the letters TV5, and they are not the same company. The European one, TV5MONDE+, plays in dozens of countries. This one belongs to TV5 Québec Canada, a Montreal nonprofit that runs the TV5 and TV5 Unis channels and has pooled their shows in one free library for years. March 2026 changed the names, not the contents: Unis TV became TV5 Unis, TV5Unis became TV5+.
The catalogue never leaves Canada with you, because the rights the broadcaster clears stop at the border, so from a foreign address the pages load but nothing plays. Behind that block sit more than 3,000 hours of French-language programming: Quebec and franco-Canadian drama, documentaries shot in Yukon and Nunavut, stand-up, films, current affairs from Europe, all of it inside TV5+. Signing up for TV5+ is free, ads run on everything except kids shows, and the live channel feeds stay with cable and satellite customers. Reaching the catalogue takes a Canadian IP address from NordVPN. Playback tops out at 1080p.
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TV5+ is only available in Canada. To access it from anywhere else, use a premium VPN.
TV5+ is blocked in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in New Zealand and in Ireland, plus in 188 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like NordVPN.
TV5+ is the free streaming platform of TV5 Québec Canada, the Montréal non-profit consortium that has run the TV5 channel since 1988 alongside Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec and TFO. It pools the catch-up catalogues of TV5 and TV5 Unis, roughly 3,000 hours of Québec and Canadian originals, series from across the francophone world, documentaries, stand-up, films and international news. Viewing costs nothing but requires an account, advertising funds part of the service, kids content carries none, and access is limited to Canada.

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