Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Aja

Born: August 7, 1978
in Paris, France
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978, in Paris, France), known professionally as Alexandre Aja, is a writer-director who has worked primarily in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough 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 genre films such as "Piranha 3D" (2010), "Horns" (2013) and "Crawl" (2019). He is the son of French-Algerian filmmaker Alexandre Arcady.

Movies for Alexandre Aja...

Under the Stars
Title: Under the Stars
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – this heartfelt documentary captures efforts to preserve these nostalgic theaters in small-towns across the country.
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Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Title: Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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Fury of the Demon
Title: Fury of the Demon
Character: Himself
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: Movie
An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.
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Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw
Title: Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw's blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps his victims in a sadistic game of survival. Game Changer takes you behind the scenes, as cast and crew reveal the stories behind the film that launched the most successful horror franchise in movie history.
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Why Horror?
Title: Why Horror?
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
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Du sang sur la neige
Title: Du sang sur la neige
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2013
Type: Movie
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Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Title: Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.
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French Meat
Title: French Meat
Character: Self
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary on the rise of New French Extremism.
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Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies
Title: Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about our politics, about ourselves? Why such a revival of horror today?
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The Big Pardon 2
Title: The Big Pardon 2
Character: Alexander Atlan
Released: December 9, 1992
Type: Movie
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
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Brothers in Arms
Title: Brothers in Arms
Character: The child with the skateboard
Released: March 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
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Le Grand Carnaval
Title: Le Grand Carnaval
Character: Raphaël Labrouche
Released: December 7, 1983
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Big Pardon
Character: L'enfant
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.