Jean-Pierre Jeunet Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Jean-Pierre Jeunet Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
25 April 2001
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others.
12 November 1997
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
07 March 1990
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."
11 February 2022
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, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
17 May 1995
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
16 October 2013
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 travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
27 October 2004
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way.
17 April 1991
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 supply.
01 August 2015
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 behind him.
13 November 2002
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature.
25 September 2021
Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D.
28 October 2009
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head.
08 December 2011
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 to the Moon (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.
15 May 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.
09 December 2026
Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a compassionate listener.
21 February 2025
A retrospective look at the global impact of Alien, the science fiction and horror masterpiece directed by British filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1979, exploring the origins of its unique aesthetic and the audacity of its screenplay.
01 January 1993
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.
16 December 2025
Canal+ Group hosted a live splashy American-style upfront presentation the Olympia in Paris, unveiling their prestige 2026 slate.
08 June 2017
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 the new spring and reclaim the colors of life.
06 June 2014
A documentary directed by Julien Lecat.
01 February 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.
15 January 2023
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.
25 April 2001
Documentary footage from the making of "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain"
02 December 2003
The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for the film's 2003 DVD release.
09 May 1978
Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris.
01 June 1981
An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.
21 August 2019
An android, half-man half-machine, moves forward in a baroque cathedral decor. As hypnotized by a stroboscopic impulse, the ANDROID begins a journey in a maze of corridors, bridges and spiral staircases.
