Élisa (1995)

Summary: A woman has had a tough childhood ever since her mother committed suicide. She spent most of her life in an orphanage and makes a living as a small-time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father.

Release Date: February 01, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: Jean Becker

Writers: Jean Becker

, Fabrice Carazo

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Production: Banque Nationale de Paris, Canal+, Images 2, TF1 Films Production

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 112,968

Germinal (1993)

Summary: In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Release Date: March 31, 1994

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Claude Berri

Writers: Émile Zola

, Claude Berri

, Arlette Langmann

Runtime: 2 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma, DD Productions, Canal+, Sofiarp, Investimage 2, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Groupe Pinault, Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie, Eurimages, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Guild Film Distribution, Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: France, Belgium, Italy

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 164,000,000

Betty Blue (1986)

Summary: A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Release Date: November 07, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Writers: Philippe Djian

, Jean-Jacques Beineix

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Cargo Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Alive Films, Cinema Libre Studio, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Fox Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 2,016,851

One Woman or Two (1985)

Summary: A scientist is busy searching for an ancient woman, and does not pay attention to modern ones. Until a day when a businesswoman decided to seduce him in order to use his sensational discoveries for commercial purposes.

Release Date: February 20, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Daniel Vigne