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Jean-Pierre Jeunet has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Amélie.

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro · With Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Dir. Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Judith Vittet

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon

A 10-year-old child prodigy 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 to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis

While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Dany Boon, Dominique Pinon, André Dussollier

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, Claude Perron
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