Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 3, 1953, Roanne, Loire, France
- Movies
- 33
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, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed numerous advertisements and music videos, such as Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook (together with Caro).
Upcoming Jean-Pierre Jeunet Movies
Violette
2026
December 9, 2026
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | The Original+ | Self - Guest |
| 2025 | Alien: Terror in Space | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2023 | Amélie: The Real Story | Self |
| 2021 | The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel | Self |
| 2014 | Riding a Train of Thoughts | Self |
| 2011 | The Extraordinary Voyage | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2005 | Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" | Self |
| 2003 | One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection | Self |
| 2002 | The Alien Saga | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | A Day in the Life of French Cinema | Self |
| 1983 | No Rest for Billy Brakko | |
| 1982 | The Bunker of the Last Gunshots |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Violette | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2023 | Amélie: The Real Story | Writer, Director |
| 2022 | Bigbug | Producer, Screenplay, Director |
| 2019 | Looop | Producer |
| 2017 | Two Snails Set Off | Director, Writer |
| 2015 | Casanova | Director |
| 2013 | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2009 | Micmacs | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2001 | Amélie | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | Inside the Making of - Amélie | Director |
| 1997 | Alien Resurrection | Director |
| 1995 | The City of Lost Children | Director, Screenplay |
| 1993 | The King of Ads, Part 2 | Director |
| 1991 | Delicatessen | Director, Screenplay |
| 1990 | Things I Like, Things I Don't Like | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | No Rest for Billy Brakko | Director, Screenplay |
| 1982 | The Bunker of the Last Gunshots | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | The Carousel | Writer, Director |
| 1978 | L'évasion | Director |
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