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Released
1989 · FILM

Valmont

A rakish libertine wagers he can corrupt a newlywed paragon of virtue, only to find his own heart ensnared as the vengeful widow who set the game threatens to ruin them both.

As unpredictable as love itself.

Directed by
Runtime
137 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

Set in Baroque France, a cunning widow and her lover place a wager on the moral downfall of a newlywed woman. The lover, Valmont, claims he can seduce her despite her reputation for virtue. If he succeeds, he will be granted unrestricted access to his lover. However, during the course of his attempt to seduce the married woman, Valmont unexpectedly falls in love with her.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Nena DanevicShot by Miroslav OndricekScored by Christopher PalmerDesigned by Pierre Guffroy

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$1.1M

Budget$33.0M
Worldwide gross$1.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $96K 8% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $145K13% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

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