

Emilia Pérez
Passion has a new name.
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
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6.4/10
2,060 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $26M
- Box office
- $16.3M
- Language
- Spanish
- based on novel or book
- musical
- lawyer
- drug lord
- crime lord
- questioning
- based on opera
- criminal organization
- mexican cartel
- transgender
- self-redemption
- admiring
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Behind the camera
Director
Writers
Music
Produced in
Belgium, France, United States of America, Mexico
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- PremiereMumbai Film Festival19 Oct 2024
- Digital / OTTMUBI6 Dec 2024
- Theatrical (limited)A28 Feb 2025
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival30 Aug 2024
- PremiereNew York Film Festival30 Sept 2024
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival5 Oct 2024
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival6 Oct 2024
- PremiereHawai'i International Film Festival12 Oct 2024
- PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival / Woodstock Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival / Heartland International Film Festival / Newfest LGBT Film Festival / San Diego International Film Festival20 Oct 2024
- PremiereMiami Film Festival GEMS31 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)R1 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTTRNetflix13 Nov 2024
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival4 Jan 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival11 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)25 Oct 2024
- Digital / OTT15Netflix13 Nov 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereBrisbane International Film Festival25 Oct 2024
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival2 Nov 2024
- PremiereSydney, New South Wales28 Nov 2024
- PremiereMardi Gras Film Festival11 Jan 2025
- TheatricalMA 15+16 Jan 2025
- Digital / OTTMA 15+4 Mar 2025
- PhysicalMA 15+26 Mar 2025
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival9 Sept 2024
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival6 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)1 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTTRNetflix13 Nov 2024
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTTNetflix12 Nov 2024
AnguillaAI
- Digital / OTTNetflix13 Nov 2024
Antigua & BarbudaAG
- Digital / OTTNetflix13 Nov 2024
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival21 Nov 2024
- PremiereCannes Film Festival Week22 Nov 2024
- Theatrical+1323 Jan 2025
ArubaAW
- Digital / OTTNetflix13 Nov 2024
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival24 Oct 2024
BahamasBS
- Digital / OTTNetflix13 Nov 2024
Frequently asked questions
Emilia Pérez was released on 21 August 2024.
Audience reviews
5- C7/10
CinemaSerf
10/16/2024
"Rita" (Zoe Saldana) is a lawyer in Mexico who finds her professionalism attracting the attention of the powerful drug lord "Manitas". He spends his time heavily guarded and constantly on the move as he pretty much controls the synthetic drug trade in and out of his country. What does he want with "Rita" though? Well tempted by a great deal of money, she makes the perilous trip to meet him and find out. Suffice to sa…
- B3/10
Brent Marchant
12/22/2024
It generally takes tremendous courage to stand up and proclaim that the Emperor is indeed naked, especially in the face of a crowd of willfully blind onlookers who contend otherwise. Nevertheless, there are times when this truly needs to be said in light of an inexplicably misguided view to the contrary. And that’s certainly the case with the latest from often-overrated writer-director Jacques Audiard. This jumbled m…
- G
good.film
1/22/2025
Is _Emilia Pérez_ the riskiest movie in years? A Spanish-language musical from a French director, about gendered violence and corruption, starring a transgender actress as a Mexican cartel boss who abandons his family, vanishes into hiding and transitions to become a woman. It's A LOT. And yes, the film has drawn some criticism. But it’s obvious that the soul of _Emilia Pérez_ beats with the daring of a curious…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
2/4/2025
How is it a white Irish-American can speak better Spanish than the Spanish speakers in this train wreck? And.... a musical with "penis" and "vagina" as the lyrics as it pushes gender transitions? What we have is an insult to Spanish speakers, an insult that pushes the Latinx concept that most Latino's reject, and then pushes the they/them that lost Kamala the race... so of course it has 13 Academy Award nominat…
- R8/10
r96sk
3/1/2025
<em>'Emilia Pérez'</em> is a film that I feel like shouldn't work, yet I did actually have a positive two hours+ viewing it. The musical pieces do take some getting used to and I'm not entirely convinced by most of them, but again somehow it didn't overly bother me whilst watching. There's no doubt, for me, that the greatest part of this is Zoe Saldaña. I've seen her in many roles before and I love her in those, e…
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