Alexandre Aja
Born: 1978-08-07 in Paris, France
Known For: Directing
Biography
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978) is a French filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough slasher film High Tension (2003) before making the transition to American films with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He has gone on to direct other notable horror films such as Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013), Crawl (2019), Oxygen (2021) and Never Let Go (2024).
Filmography
2024
- Never Let Go ... (Director)
- Jaws, a Monstrous Success as Self - director
2023
- Night of the Hunted ... (Producer)
- The Blond Boy from the Casbah ... (Second Unit Director)
2022
- Under the Stars as Narrator (voice)
2021
- Oxygen ... (Producer)
2019
- Crawl ... (Director)
- Beyond Blood as Self
2018
- Vidéo Club as Self
2017
- 47 Meters Down ... (Executive Producer)
- Urban Nightmares ... (Producer)
- Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam ... (Director)
- Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur as Self
2016
- The Other Side of the Door ... (Producer)
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax ... (Director)
- Fury of the Demon as Self
2015
- Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw as Self
2014
- The Pyramid ... (Producer)
- Why Horror? as Self
- 24 Days ... (Assistant Director)
2013
- Horns ... (Director)
- Rock the Casbah ... (Associate Producer)
- Maniac: The Making of Documentary as Self
- Du sang sur la neige as Self
2012
- Maniac ... (Screenplay)
2010
- Piranha 3D ... (Director)
- The Splat Pack as Self
- French Meat as Self
- Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies as Self
2009
- The Esseker File ... (Director)
2008
- Mirrors ... (Director)
2007
- P2 ... (Screenplay)
2006
- The Hills Have Eyes ... (Director)
2004
- Mixed Marriage ... (Second Unit Director)
2003
- High Tension ... (Director)
2002
- Break of Dawn ... (Second Unit Director)
2000
- Return to Algiers ... (Second Unit Director)
1999
- Furia ... (Screenplay)
1997
- Over the Rainbow ... (Writer)
1992
- The Big Pardon 2 as Alexander Atlan
1989
- Brothers in Arms as The child with the skateboard
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
1983
- Le Grand Carnaval as Raphaël Labrouche
1982
- The Big Pardon as L'enfant