
Alexandre Aja
Director
Born: August 7, 1978 (47 years old)
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).
Filmography (31)
- Brothers in Arms (1989, ★ 6.7)
- Under the Stars (2022, ★ 5.8)
- Why Horror? (2014, ★ 5.9)
- Fury of the Demon (2016, ★ 6.6)
- Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw (2015, ★ 7)
- The Big Pardon (1982, ★ 6.2)
- The Big Pardon 2 (1992, ★ 5.8)
- Le Grand Carnaval (1983, ★ 5.5)
- Jaws, a Monstrous Success (2024, ★ 6.3)
- High Tension (2003, ★ 6.8)
- The Hills Have Eyes (2006, ★ 6.5)
- Mirrors (2008, ★ 6.3)
- Piranha 3D (2010, ★ 5.4)
- P2 (2007, ★ 6.2)
- Furia (1999, ★ 5.3)
- Maniac (2012, ★ 6)
- Never Let Go (2024, ★ 6.1)
- Horns (2013, ★ 6.3)
- The Other Side of the Door (2016, ★ 5.6)
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016, ★ 6.4)
- 24 Days (2014, ★ 6.6)
- Return to Algiers (2000, ★ 6.5)
- Crawl (2019, ★ 6.3)
- The Pyramid (2014, ★ 5.3)
- Mixed Marriage (2004, ★ 4.9)
- Break of Dawn (2002, ★ 4.9)
- 47 Meters Down (2017, ★ 5.8)
- The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023, ★ 5.2)
- Night of the Hunted (2023, ★ 6)
- Oxygen (2021, ★ 6.6)