Biography
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, J...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Alien, Terror in Space
2025
as Self - Interviewee
In space, no one can hear you scream! the catchy slogan that accompanies Alien sums up the unprecedented stakes of this film that will mark the histor...
Amélie: The Real Story
2023
as Self
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.
Amélie: The Real Story
2023
Director, Writer
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.
Bigbug
2022
Screenplay, Producer, Director
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots...
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus has been dragging his i...
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
2017
as Self
Two Snails Set Off
2017
Director, Writer
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...
Casanova
2015
Director
Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behin...
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014
as Self
A documentary directed by Julien Lecat.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
Director, Producer, Writer
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and ...
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
as Self - Filmmaker
An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip t...
Micmacs
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a...
Train de Nuit
2009
Director
Follow the romantic paths of Audrey Tautou on a night train to Istanbul. (Commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.)
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self
A Very Long Engagement
2004
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003
as Self
The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for the film's 2003 DVD release. The cast and crew tell...
The Alien Saga
2002
as Self (archive footage)
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. T...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...
Amélie
2001
Director, Writer
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...
Alien Resurrection
1997
Director
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...
The City of Lost Children
1995
Screenplay, Director, Additional Dialogue
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
The King of Ads, Part 2
1993
Director
Part II of a compilation movie featuring European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compi...
Delicatessen
1991
Director, Screenplay
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
1990
Director, Writer, Editor
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."
No Rest for Billy Brakko
1983
On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro...
No Rest for Billy Brakko
1983
Director, Screenplay, Editor
On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro...
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1982
A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a ce...
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1982
Director, Costume Design, Director of Photography
A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a ce...
The Carousel
1981
Writer, Animation, Director
An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.
L'évasion
1978
Director
Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris. As the escape artists travels through tunnels an...
Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet
N/A
as Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Violette
N/A
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...
Des diables et des saints
N/A
Director