Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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, 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). Jeunet's films often resonate with the late twentieth century French film movement, cinéma du look, and allude to themes and aesthetics involving German expressionism, French poetic realism, and the French New Wave. Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which an apartment building above a delicatessen…

Directed

1. Amélie (2001) — Director
2. Alien Resurrection (1997) — Director
3. Delicatessen (1991) — Director
4. A Very Long Engagement (2004) — Director
5. The City of Lost Children (1995) — Director
6. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) — Director
7. Micmacs (2009) — Director
8. Bigbug (2022) — Director
9. Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (1990) — Director
10. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1982) — Director
11. Casanova (2015) — Director
12. The Carousel (1981) — Director
13. No Rest for Billy Brakko (1983) — Director
14. Two Snails Set Off (2017) — Director
15. Amélie: The Real Story (2023) — Director
16. Casanova (2015) — Director
17. L'évasion (1978) — Director
18. The King of Ads, Part 2 (1993) — Director
19. Violette (2026) — Director
20. Devils and Saints — Director
21. Inside the Making of - Amélie (2001) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) — Self - Filmmaker
2. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1982)
3. One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection (2003) — Self
4. The Alien Saga (2002) — Self (archive footage)
5. Eurotrash (1993)
6. No Rest for Billy Brakko (1983)
7. Alien: Terror in Space (2025) — Self - Filmmaker
8. Amélie: The Real Story (2023) — Self
9. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
10. Riding a Train of Thoughts (2014) — Self
11. A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002) — Self
12. Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet — Jean-Pierre Jeunet
13. The Original+ (2025) — Self - Guest
14. The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus (2021) — Self (archive footage)
15. Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel (2017) — Self
16. Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" (2005) — Self
17. Aujourd'hui je mange avec... (2015) — Self - Guest