Émile Zola Movies

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...

Having grown up in poverty, the ambitious Nana is determined to break out of it. She becomes part of the Paris theatre scene and gets involved with...

A pregnant young heiress discovers her suitor is already married. She decides to marry a struggling lawyer to protect her reputation.

Based on the eponymous novel by É. Zola, directed by the State Academic Theatre named after Evgeny Vakhtangov.

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...

Sodfa suffers in her life from her husband, Sayed the idiot, her cousin, who lives with her in his mother’s house in Abu Qir. Mahmoud returns...

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...

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

In this programme John Berger talks about Zola's novel 'Germinal' and illustrates his subject with extensive use of film of Creswell and its colliery.

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 faces...

Based on the novel by Emile Zola. The picture was not released. The movie is not fully preserved.

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls"...

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her...

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and...

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...

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...