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Released
2016 · FILM

Elle

A powerful tech CEO fights to preserve her meticulously ordered life as a relentless, unseen stalker turns her home into a deadly cat‑and‑mouse game.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
131 min
Language
FR
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant but refuses to let the incident disrupt her carefully structured life. As she navigates various family-related crises, she becomes embroiled in a tense game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 50+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Job Ter BurgShot by Stephane FontaineScored by Anne DudleyDesigned by Laurent Ott

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.3M

Budget$9.8M
Worldwide gross$2.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $86K

Peak 2 theaters

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