Émile Zola

Tomasz wakes up one morning and he realizes he is dead. According to his wife and friends, at least. However, he considers his catatonic state temporary and he can wake up before his own funeral.

The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914), an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely beautiful shop windows before which the owners and their employees proudly pose, hiding behind their eyes the secret history of a great era.

'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.

Молодая женщина Тереза, которая, рано оставшись без родителей, выросла под бдительным оком своей властной тетки, вышла замуж за своего двоюродного брата Камила. Болезненный и эгоистичный Камил никогда особенно не привлекал Терезу, и при первой же возможности она заводит бурный роман с одним из его друзей, Лорентом.

Уважаемый и любимый прихожанами священник добровольно соглашается на медицинский эксперимент, в результате которого он непредвиденно становится вампиром. Физические и психологические изменения приводят к тому, что герой вступает в порочную связь с уставшей от рутинной жизни женой лучшего друга. С каждым днем вампиру-священнику все труднее сохранять в себе что-то человеческое…

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 a painter.

Шахтёрский городок Монсу на севере Франции переживает экономический кризис. Закрываются предприятия, шахтёрам снижают заработки. Недовольство выливается в социальные протесты, направляемые политическими активистами, такими как Этьен Лантье. Забастовка, погромы, избиение штрейкбрехеров. Неудержимо завертелся маховик классового конфликта.

Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.

В начале 20-х годов в городок Вальдхайм возвращается Светлана. Она — девушка из буржуазной семьи. Её задача — содействовать покушению на нового короля. Но все попытки революционеров безуспешны, а Светлана предпочитает флиртовать с шефом королевской секретной службы.

Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.

In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.

Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it one step further when he throws Zaghloul into the Nile and pretends that he couldn't save him.

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 society.

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, her lavish life-style does not always bring happiness.

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, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.

Середина ХХ века. Уставшая от фиктивного брака молодая жена богатого финансиста, завязывает роман со своим пасынком. Неожиданно для себя самой Рене влюбляется в Максима и делает ему предложение — она разводится с мужем, чтобы они смогли быть вместе. Однако реакция и пасынка, и мужа оказывается абсолютно неожиданной…

Экранизация одноименного романа Эмиля Золя. Франция, 1863 год. Когда героя фильма Этьена Лантье увольняют из железнодорожной компании за его революционную деятельность, молодой человек устраивается на работу в одну из шахт на севере страны. Крышу над головой ему предоставляет один добрый местный человек, тоже шахтер, чья дочь выказывает явную симпатию Лантье. Работа в шахтах оказывается чрезвычайно тяжелой, опасной и низкооплачиваемой. Тогда герой картины «Жерминаль» решает организовать забастовку рабочих, которую власти безжалостно подавляют...

Предприимчивый, умный, циничный и обезоруживающе обаятельный провинциал Октав Мурэ приезжает в Париж, чтобы сделать карьеру в торговле. Вскоре его нарекают поэтом дамской одежды, а быстрое продвижение по службе он успешно сочетает с «коллекционированием» женщин, преимущественно замужних, с легкостью соблазняя одну за другой...

From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.

Хромоножка Жервеза уже 8 лет живет с первым красавцем квартала шляпником Лантье, у них подрастают сын и дочь. Но когда в прачечной, где она работает, над ней откровенно издеваются из-за бегства её Лантье с новой возлюбленной, Жервеза назло общественности выходит замуж за кровельщика Купо. Родив еще одного ребёнка, Жервеза мечтает о покупке мелочной лавки, но когда приходит день передачи залога, Купо падает с крыши и все деньги уходят на его лечение. В этот трудный период ей помогает друг мужа рабочий Гуже

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated.

По мотивам одноименного романа Эмиля Золя. Тереза Ракен влачит скучную и полную унижений жизнь. В свое время ее «облагодетельствовали» браком с ее кузеном Камилем, безвольным галантерейщиком, над которым всецело доминирует его властная мать мадам Ракен. Тереза неосознанно мечтает о большой любви. Однажды в ее жизни появляется водитель-дальнобойщик, Лоран, и между ними вспыхивает страсть, а вместе с ней — надежда на новую, настоящую жизнь, невзирая на все преграды.

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 worker agrees to bury the body.

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 to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate owner's son, Frederic Rostaing, decides to rest on the farm during his vacation from Law school. But his real motives are to seduce young Nais, whom he knows from their childhood days, after having seen her in town. Who will win the power struggle between the possessive father, the naive daughter, the vile student and the golden-hearted cripple?

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

The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon) faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu (Blanchette Brunoy), sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.

On board a train bound for the port city of Le Havre, France, railroad stationmaster Roubard murders Grandmorin, who seduced his beautiful young wife, Severine. Engineer Jacques Lantier, stuck in Le Havre while the train is being repaired, also begins a passionate affair with Severine, who tries to entice the handsome stranger to murder her controlling husband. However, Lantier has a secret urge of his own that changes everything.

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 that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.

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

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 all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.

В основу сценария положена пьеса, написанная В. Бюснахом по роману Э. Золя.

Состарившийся Пере Фуан, как и его пожилая жена Роза, больше не в состоянии работать на земле. Поэтому старик решает разделить свой земельный участок на равные части между детьми: одним сыном — безответственным Бюто, другим — пьяницей Гиацинтом и дочерью Фанни. Передачу земли Фуан осуществляет документом, по которому его дети, каждый в равной степени, должны выплачивать старикам небольшой пенсион, позволявший более-менее нормально существовать в оставшиеся им годы жизни. Между детьми начинаются соперничество и интриги.

During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.

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 of the story he is an engine driver, in control of his engine "La Lison". His relationship with "La Lison" is almost sexual and provides some degree of control over his mania.

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) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.

When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.

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 Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.

Following some dodgy dealings, stockbroker Saccard is determined to pull himself out of the gutter and regain is reputation. He is of such ill repute that few, not even his own brother, want anything to do with him. Yet against all the odds he manages to establish a bank. Using straw men and secret knowledge of the course of the war, Saccard inflates the bank’s shares to feed his own sordid desire for speculation. Unfortunately, false success rarely endures. The preserved material is a fragment. (stumfilm.dk)

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 kill the son who inherits, but he outfoxes her.

Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.

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 Émile Zola.

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

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 des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic locations, and although he updated the story to the present, he went to great lengths to recreate in the studio the detail of the actual mining galleries, exploiting the ability of film to be a recorder of contemporary reality.

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 laughter is hushed by the martial tread of feet, and the smile of joy fades from the two young lovers' faces as the French soldiers march into the courtyard and prepare to defend the mill against the oncoming attack of the German army. The mild summer afternoon has but half way run its course towards its western home when a wounded outpost comes staggering into the courtyard with the news of the advancing German army stamped upon his blood-stained forehead. Suddenly the courtyard is filled with the smoke of battle, and we know that the long-expected attack is on.

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 about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.