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The Fifth Element(1997)
Released
1997 · FILM

The Fifth Element

A jaded moon-based rock star and a tough-acting alien taxi driver must team up to recover the four sacred elements and a mysterious "fifth element" before a deadly cosmic force consumes Earth.

“There is no future without it.”

Directed by
Luc Besson
Written by
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
126 min
Language
FR
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Sylvie LandraShot by Thierry ArbogastScored by Eric SerraDesigned by Dan Weil

Box Office

1997 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$263.9M

Budget$90.0M
Worldwide gross$263.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $63.8M — 24% of worldwide · International: $200.1M (76%)

Opening weekend: $17.0M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $22.8M — 36% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,500 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Das Fünfte Elementde
  • Le Cinquième élémenten
  • The 5th Elementen
  • El quinto elementoes
  • Le Cinquième Élémentfr
  • Il quinto elementoit

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