Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Aja

August 7, 1978 · 48 years old

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 Ey…

Known For

17 titles
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Crawl

Crawl

2019 · 1h 27m · Movie

Gigantic alligators swarm around a young woman and her father as floodwaters engulf their home.

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The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

2006 · 1h 47m · Movie

A traveling family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.

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47 Meters Down

47 Meters Down

2017 · 1h 29m · Movie

Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.

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Mirrors

Mirrors

2008 · 1h 50m · Movie

Ben guards a partly-destroyed property by night but begins to see strange images in its impeccable mirrors. After his sister is killed, he is convinced that evil forces are out to get him.

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Piranha 3D

Piranha 3D

2010 · 1h 28m · Movie

After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.

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Horns

Horns

2013 · 2h 0m · Movie

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead.

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High Tension

High Tension

2003 · 1h 31m · Movie

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

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Never Let Go

Never Let Go

2024 · 1h 41m · Movie

A family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and their surroundings come into question when one of the children questions if the evil is real.

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Oxygen

Oxygen

2021 · 1h 40m · Movie

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.

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Maniac

Maniac

2012 · 1h 29m · Movie

As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

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P2

P2

2007 · 1h 38m · Movie

A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.

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The Other Side of the Door

The Other Side of the Door

2016 · 1h 36m · Movie

After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.

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The Pyramid

The Pyramid

2014 · 1h 29m · Movie

An archaeological team attempts to unlock the secrets of a lost pyramid only to find themselves hunted by an insidious creature.

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The 9th Life of Louis Drax

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

2016 · 1h 48m · Movie

A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

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Night of the Hunted

Night of the Hunted

2023 · 1h 35m · Movie

A woman stops at a remote gas station in the middle of the night and becomes the target of a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta.

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The Big Pardon

The Big Pardon

1982 · 2h 10m · Movie

With the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.

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Why Horror?

Why Horror?

2014 · 1h 21m · Movie

Why Horror? Is a feature documentary following horror fan Tal Zimerman as he looks at the psychology of horror around the world in order to understand why we love to be scared.

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