Alexandre Aja
Birthday: 1978-08-07
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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).
Movies
Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun....
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Brothers in Arms
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo shi...
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Under the Stars
Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – thi...
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Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies
In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Euro...
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Beyond Blood
High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational...
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Why Horror?
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people lo...
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Fury of the Demon
An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a...
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Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw
Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw's blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps h...
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Le Grand Carnaval
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942....
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The Big Pardon
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew...
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The Big Pardon 2
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker...
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Les dents de la mer: Un succès monstre
In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide wi...
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Don't Scream, Just Swim: Behind-the-Scenes of 'Piranha 3D'
Behind the scenes documentary of making the film Piranha 3D...
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