Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Amelie

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Audrey Tautou · Mathieu Kassovitz · Rufus Magloire · Lorella Cravotta

Plot Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in...

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7.8

155K votes

7.8

155K votes

Delicatessen

1991 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Marc Caro

Cast Dominique Pinon · Howard Vernon · Chick Ortega · Pascal Benezech

Plot A young drifter named Louison (Dominique Pinon), arrives in a middle-of-nowhere town seeking work and lodging, and is given a place to stay above a local butcher's shop in exchange...

7.2

44K votes

7.2

44K votes

A Very Long Engagement

2004 · Movie · 134 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Audrey Tautou · Gaspard Ulliel · Dominique Pinon · Chantal Neuwirth

Plot Five desperate men shoot themselves in order to be relieved from the horrifying frontline at the Somme, in WWI. A court-martial decides to punish them by leaving them alone in...

6.9

29K votes

6.9

29K votes

Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (S)

1989 · Movie · 7 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Dominique Pinon · Chick Ortega · Marie-Laure Dougnac · Diane Bertrand

Plot A 7 minute comedy starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). Featuring muted colors with a sepia black and white, Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes"....

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The City of Lost Children

1995 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Marc Caro

Cast Ron Perlman · Daniel Emilfork · Judith Vittet · Dominique Pinon

Plot The evil Krank is tormented by his inability to dream. He finds it necessary to try to steal the dreams of children, but since they fear him, he only gets...

6.8

12K votes

6.8

12K votes

The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet

2013 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Kyle Catlett · Helena Bonham Carter · Robert Maillet · Judy Davis

Plot A 10-year-old 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...

6.5

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

Micmacs

2009 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Dany Boon · André Dussollier · Nicolas Marié · Jean-Pierre Marielle

Plot Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead any time? Or would you rather have the bullet taken...

6.5

7K votes

6.5

7K votes

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (S)

1981 · Movie · 25 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Marc Caro

Cast Jean Marie De Busscher · Marc Caro · Patrice Succi · Gilles Adrien

Plot A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain...

5.2

192 votes

5.2

192 votes

BigBug

2022 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Elsa Zylberstein · Isabelle Nanty · Claude Perron · Stéphane De Groodt

Plot A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.

4.6

1K votes

4.6

1K votes

Le Manège (S)

1980 · Movie · 10 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Plot Puppet animation written and directed by Jeunet with marionettes designed and operated by Marc Caro. On a dark, rainy night, children ride a merry-go-round, where they compete to grab a...

4.6

76 votes

4.6

76 votes

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