Emmanuelle

"Lets you feel good without feeling bad"

1974 1h 35m FR

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6.0

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35%

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5.2

IMDB

★6.0TMDB · 839🥫35%Rotten Tomatoes★5.2IMDB · 11,488

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Synopsis

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An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.

“Lets you feel good without feeling bad”

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Cast

Sylvia Kristel
Emmanuelle
Alain Cuny
Mario
Marika Green
Bee
Daniel Sarky
Jean
Jeanne Colletin
Ariana
Christine Boisson
Marie-Ange
Gabriel Briand
Le deuxième homme dans l'avion
Marion Webb

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Just Jaeckin
Writers: Jean-Louis Richard
Languages: French
Countries: France

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $20M — a 40.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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3 / 8

ERA

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52 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Emmanuelle Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

WORLD

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Just Jaeckin, shot by Richard Suzuki. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Pierre Bachelet. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Claudine Bouché shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Just Jaeckin directs. Richard Suzuki behind the camera. Pierre Bachelet scores. Claudine Bouché cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

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1Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $20M — a 40.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
352 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Part of the "Emmanuelle Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
6Directed by Just Jaeckin, shot by Richard Suzuki. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Pierre Bachelet. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Claudine Bouché shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Sylvia Kristel and Alain Cuny and Marika Green carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Lets you feel good without feeling bad".
11IMDB entry: tt0071464 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 9 themes, including "infidelity", "airplane", "eroticism", "bangkok, thailand".

The technical file

Cinematography: Richard Suzuki
Original score: Pierre Bachelet
Editing: Claudine Bouché
Makeup / hair: Christine Fornelli
Sound: Jean-Claude Duval
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $500,000
Box office: $20,200,000
Return: 4040% of budget
Original language: FR
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Emmanuelle (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes: 35% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 5.2/10 · 11,488 votes
MPAA: Unrated

Part of

Emmanuelle Collection

A series of French softcore erotic movies from the seventies, which were somewhat of a phenomenon when they were first released. Only the movies starring Silvia Kristel are considered part of the "official" series, excluding Emmanuelle IV, since then many spin-offs, cash-ins and rip-offs have been produced by many studios around the world.

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JPV8522026-02-01
★ 4/10
I've heard about this film (and series) over the years and having finally watched it, it's quite dull. There's not much of a story here and that's not too surprising but even the erotism was not enough to carry through the 92-minute running time and as for Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle, she was okay I guess. I at least wanted to be entertained by this 1970s erotic drama and found myself bored. 2.0/5
AlfaVitaY2K2026-06-25
★ 1/10
Rated 0 out of 10, obviously. Emmanuelle (1974) is not erotica as advertised. It's degenerate trash. The film features two beautiful women, Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) and Bee (Marika Green), but only in a few, brief normal eroric scenes. The other 90% of the movie is degenerate trash. Sylvia Kristel was a sex symbol of her generation. It's crazy that she starred in this trash. For 90% of the movie she is being dragged around by an old impotent pervert, who commands her to have humiliating, disgusting, abusive sex with random subhuman degenrates. Highly likely this movie and the book source were made by degenerates from the Frankfulrt School ideology who despise everything intelligent and beautiful, responsible of the extermination of the mentally and physically sane intellectuals by communist dictators. It's the only plausible explanation of why they would cast a beautiful woman and show her being abused in disgusting, humiliating ways by subhuman degenerates. Trivia: Marika Green is Eva Green's auntie. P.S. If you like real classic erotica, watch Gwendoline (1984).