Underplayed Gems

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes poster
Genre
crime
Country
France
Length
4 seasons, 155 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This French crime series follows police investigators as they solve each case in the final moments before a deadline. The show focuses on the step-by-step process of uncovering clues and questioning suspects.

methodicalclassicintriguingunderstatedsteady-pacedmysteriousobservationalnostalgicgrounded

What happens

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (French: [le sɛ̃k dɛʁnjɛʁ miˈnyt]; English: The Last Five Minutes) is a French crime television series created and written by Claude Loursais, broadcast from 1 January 1958 till 20 December 1996. The show was aired in four series on several channels. The first series was broadcast in 56 episodes between 1 January 1958 and 7 November 1973 on RTF. After an intermediary series of four 90-minute episodes were broadcast from 19 July 1974 to 16 January 1975, a second 72-episode series was broadcast from 1975 to 1993, then a third 17-episode series from 1993 to 1996 was broadcast on Antenne 2. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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