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 is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. They next made The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely.[3] The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a big-budget Hollywood movie. Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks, with costumes and set design but afterwards, decided to work on a solo career in illustration and computer graphics. Jeunet directed Amélie (2001), starring Audrey Tautou. Amélie is the story of a woman who takes pleasure in doing good deeds but has trouble finding love herself, was a huge critical and commercial success worldwide and was nominated for several Academy Awards. For this film, Jeunet also gained a European Film Award for Best Director. Jeunet has also directed numerous commercials including a 2'25" film for Chanel N° 5 featuring his frequent collaborator Audrey Tautou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Jeunet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- September 3, 1953 (73)
- Roanne, Loire, France
- Actor, director, producer and writer
- 10 on MovieCove · 25 credits in all
What are Jean-Pierre Jeunet's films like?
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Roles they play
- Allyas Jean-Pierre Jeunet in Cinéma par Albert Dupontel (2017)
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jean-Pierre Jeunet's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
25 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page; 12 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Violette(2026)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Amélie: The Real Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Big Bug(2022)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Looop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Two Snails Set Off (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Casanova (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Casanova(2015)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Micmacs(2009)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
A Very Long Engagement(2004)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Amélie(2001)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Inside the Making of - Amélie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Alien: Resurrection(1997)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Eurotrash (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
The King of Ads, Part 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Delicatessen(1991)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
De l'autre côté (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
No Rest for Billy Brakko (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
The Carousel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
L'évasion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Devils and Saints (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)