Screenplay: Émile Zola

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Broderick Crawford · Edgar Buchanan

Plot A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder.

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette

Plot In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Simone Signoret · Raf Vallone · Roland Lesaffre · Jacques Duby

Plot Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a...

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Pierre Alcover · Alfred Abel · Brigitte Helm · Marie Glory

Plot The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard...

Direction David Hourrègue

Cast Louis Peres · Guillaume de Tonquedec · Alix Poisson · Thierry Godard

Plot TV Series (2021-). The story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Mévisto · Jean Jacquinet · Henry Krauss · Sylvie

Plot Based on Emile Zola’s novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers’ strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Plot Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Gérard Philipe · Dany Carrel · Jacques Duby · Danielle Darrieux

Plot Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital. His first attempts are not too successful though as he is rebuffed...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Dita Parlo · Ginette Maddie · Andrée Brabant · Madame Barsac

Plot Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches...

Direction Yves Allégret

Cast Jean Sorel · Berthe Granval · Claude Brasseur · Claude Cerval

Plot Year 1863. Etienne Lantier, who has been fired from a railway company for being involved in union activities, lands a miner's job in the North of France. He finds bed...

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Renaud · Miou-Miou · Jean Carmet

Direction Daniel Tinayre

Cast Roberto Escalada · Massimo Girotti · Ana María Lynch · Eduardo Cuitiño

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Catherine Hessling · Jean Angelo · Werner Krauss · André Cerf

Plot Based on the famous novel by Emile Zola. The vivacious and beautiful Nana seeks fame on the stages of Paris in the shows at the Théâtre des Variétés. (which will...

Direction Bill Gallagher · David Drury · Marc Jobst · Susan Tully

Cast Joanna Vanderham · Emun Elliott · Stephen Wight · Sonya Cassidy

Plot TV Series (2012-2013). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. The story of a young girl who works in a department store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world.

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Eugénie Nau · Alexandre Arquillière · Catherine Fonteney · Jacques Grétillat

Plot Based on the novel by Émile Zola, the film is about the degradation of humans, deals with alcoholism and is, ultimately, a very pessimistic story.

Direction Charlie Stratton

Cast Elizabeth Olsen · Oscar Isaac · Tom Felton · Jessica Lange

Plot Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, IN SECRET is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen...

Direction Roger Vadim

Cast Jane Fonda · Michel Piccoli · Peter McEnery · Tina Aumont

Plot Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Francis Huster · Gillian Hills · André Lacombe · Margo Lion

Plot Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine,...

Direction Dorothy Arzner · George Fitzmaurice

Cast Anna Sten · Lionel Atwill · Richard Bennett · Mae Clarke

Direction Ferdinand Zecca