Germinal went head-to-head against Jurassic Park at the French box office in 1993. One film was about how the greediness of man and based around a monster from the past that still somehow terrorises us today, and the other was about dinosaurs.
New men were starting into life, a black army of vengeance slowly germinating in the furrows, growing for the harvests of the century to come; and soon this germination would tear the earth apart.”
— Émile Zola: Germinal (1885)
Synopsis: It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.