Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

1953-09-03 Roanne, Loire, France 33 Credits

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...

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Alien, Terror in Space

Alien, Terror in Space

2025

as Self - Interviewee

7.0
Acting

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

Amélie: The Real Story

2023

as Self

4.3
Acting

The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

Amélie: The Real Story

Amélie: The Real Story

2023

Director, Writer

4.3
Directing Writing

The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

Bigbug

Bigbug

2022

Screenplay, Producer, Director

5.3
Writing Producing Directing

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

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

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

Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel

2017

as Self

Acting
Two Snails Set Off

Two Snails Set Off

2017

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

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

Casanova

2015

Director

8.2
Directing

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

7.0
Acting

A documentary directed by Julien Lecat.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

2013

Director, Producer, Writer

6.8
Directing Producing Writing

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

The Extraordinary Voyage

2011

as Self - Filmmaker

7.8
Acting

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

Micmacs

2009

Director, Writer, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

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

Train de Nuit

2009

Director

7.5
Directing

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"

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

2005

as Self

Acting
A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement

2004

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.3
Directing Writing Producing

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

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection

2003

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

The Alien Saga

2002

as Self (archive footage)

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Amélie

2001

Director, Writer

7.9
Directing Writing

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

Alien Resurrection

1997

Director

6.2
Directing

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

The City of Lost Children

1995

Screenplay, Director, Additional Dialogue

7.2
Writing Directing

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

The King of Ads, Part 2

1993

Director

3.0
Directing

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

Delicatessen

1991

Director, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Writing

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

Things I Like, Things I Don't Like

1990

Director, Writer, Editor

7.1
Directing Writing

Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."

No Rest for Billy Brakko

No Rest for Billy Brakko

1983

6.2
Acting

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

No Rest for Billy Brakko

1983

Director, Screenplay, Editor

6.2
Directing Writing

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

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

1982

5.9
Acting

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

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

1982

Director, Costume Design, Director of Photography

5.9
Directing Writing

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

The Carousel

1981

Writer, Animation, Director

5.6
Writing Directing

An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.

L'évasion

L'évasion

1978

Director

Directing

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

Acting

Violette

N/A

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

Directing