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#8,737 All-time worldwide
#243 2006 releases

Movie profile

Private Fears in Public Places

2006 · 120 min · Bi M Distribuzione

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.9M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget -$8.1M
ROI 0.46x

Domestic gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$616,976

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Private Fears in Public Places ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #8,737 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2006 releases #243 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2006. Primary genre #3,706 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Private Fears in Public Places (2006) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Private Fears in Public Places (2006) earned a reported $6.9M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$8.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.46x. In this database it currently ranks #8,737 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #243 among 2006 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,855,294
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$8,144,706
ROI
0.46x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 22, 2006
Production
BiM Distribuzione, France 2 Cinéma, SFP
Countries
FR, IT

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBi M Distribuzione Release year chart2006 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2006, Private Fears in Public Places is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from BiM Distribuzione. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.9M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$8.1M, ROI is 0.46x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,737 all-time in the current chart set and #243 among 2006 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.