Screenplay: Émile Zola

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Émile Zola. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Request

1976 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Pilar Miró

Cast Ana Belén · Frédéric de Pasquale · Carmen Maura · Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Plot An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in...

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Nana

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · Mexico

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La terre

1921 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction André Antoine

Cast Armand Bour · René Alexandre · Germaine Rouer · Jean Hervé

Plot As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading....

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Au bonheur des dames

1943 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Michel Simon · Albert Préjean · Blanchette Brunoy · Suzy Prim

Plot Denise Baudu, an orphaned girl in need, decides to go to Paris where her uncle Baudu keeps a small draper's shop, "Le Vieil Elbeuf". The young woman hopes her kinsman...

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Take Me, Love Me

1970 · Movie · 110 min. · Sweden

Direction Mac Ahlberg

Cast Anna Gael · Gillian Hills · Lars Lunøe · Keve Hjelm

Plot This adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "NANA," is about the sexual liaisons of a woman who through her relationships with different men, enjoys a life of pleasure and luxury. However,...

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Work

1920 · Movie · 480 min. · France

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Nana (TV)

2001 · Movie · 180 min. · France

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Thérèse Raquin

1928 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

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Nana

1955 · Movie · 120 min. · France

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Suspense (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul

Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey

Plot Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from...

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A night of love

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Camilla Søeberg · Alfred Molina · Simon Callow · Eric Stoltz

Plot In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither...

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This Filthy Earth

2001 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andrew Kotting

Cast Rebecca R. Palmer · Shane Attwooll · Demelza Randall · Xavier Tchili

Plot The tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition, events unfurl which threaten their...

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People of the Border

1913 · Movie · 51 min. · Sweden

Direction Mauritz Stiller

Cast Stina Berg · Carl Borin · Egil Eide · John Ekman

Plot Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by...

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The Great Mine Disaster

1912 · Movie · 34 min. · France

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Charles Krauss · André Liabel · Marcel Vibert · Cécile Guyon

Plot In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair’s new series of social dramas. For Au pays...

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Germinal (TV Miniseries)

1970 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Davies

Cast Donald Burton · Freddie Jones · Rosemary Leach · John Caesar

Plot TV Mini-Series (1970). 5 episodes.

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Nana

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · Mexico

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La joie de vivre (TV)

2012 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Améris

Cast Anaïs Demoustier · Swann Arlaud · Marianne Basler · Jean-François Balmer

Plot The film is an adaptation of the novel by Emile Zola. The story revolves around Pauline Quenu, a young woman who loves life, daughter of Lisa Marcquart and the butcher...

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