Émile Zola Movies

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...

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local...

Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck...

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

First, the eye is introduced to the old mill itself, with a gay betrothal party in progress, and laughter and merriment on all sides. Suddenly the...

Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame...

Laurent is a failed and lazy painter. When Camille, his childhood friend, invites him to his home to get back in touch, Laurent meets...

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.

Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families)...

Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able...

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

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...

A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with...

Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to...

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning...

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.