The Count of Monte-Cristo

Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte's The Count of Monte-Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte-Cristo) opened in France on 28 June 2024 and grossed over €60 million at the domestic box office, which made it the highest-grossing French production of the year and one of the most commercially successful French films of the past decade. The same pair had already written and directed the two-part The Three Musketeers adaptation (D'Artagnan and Milady, both 2023) for the same producer, Pathé, and the projects form a deliberate Dumas cycle.

It premiered as an Out of Competition special screening at Cannes 2024, the festival's traditional slot for high-profile French commercial productions. Pierre Niney plays the lead, his most commercially significant role to date, with Anaïs Demoustier, Bastien Bouillon, Anamaria Vartolomei, Vassili Schneider, Patrick Mille and Pierfrancesco Favino in supporting parts. Nicolas Bolduc shot it and Jérôme Rebotier wrote the score.

At the 2025 César Awards it was nominated for fourteen prizes including Best Film and Best Director, the highest single-film tally of the year, and won several technical and acting categories. Dumas's novel is one of the most adapted nineteenth-century books in cinema history. By box office and by critical reception, this version is the most successful French-language adaptation of it in over thirty years, since Josée Dayan's 1998 television miniseries with Gérard Depardieu.