Jean-Jacques Beineix
Known for: Directing
Born: October 8, 1946
Died: January 13, 2022
Place of birth: Paris, France
French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is best-known for making two of the most provocative films of the 1980s; Diva (1982) and 37.2 le matin (Betty Blue, 1986). Dark, haunting, and filled with substantial helpings of violence and/or sex, both films were great successes in France, winning a number of awards and a degree of cinematic immortality for their director. The director's screen work during the 1990s was sporadic, and he concentrated much of his energy on such offscreen projects as his presidency of the ARP (an association for writers, directors, and producers) and his efforts to protect European film from North American cultural hegemony. He breathed his last on Januray 14, 2022.
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Filmography
30 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
5.0
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026
6.7
From Darkness to Light
2025
NR
Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau
2016
8.0
The Clown
2016
5.0
Blue Notes and Bungalows
2013
NR
Les Gaulois au-delà du mythe
2013
NR
Minus
2011
NR
On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!
2010
NR
Classification systématique du vivant extraterrestre
2006
3.5
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
9.0
Loft Paradoxe
2002
5.3
Mortal Transfer
2001
6.5
Locked-In Syndrome
1997
NR
Place Clichy sans complexe
1996
5.0
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
1994
3.0
The King of Ads, Part 2
1993
6.1
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992
NR
Pictures of Europe
1990
5.5
Roselyne and the Lions
1988
6.1
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
7.2
Betty Blue
1986
5.7
The Moon in the Gutter
1983
6.7
Diva
1981
5.1
French Postcards
1979
7.3
Mr. Michel's Dog
1977
7.2
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976
6.1
The Wild Goose Chase
1975
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
5.2
By the Blood of Others
1974
5.9
Défense de savoir
1973
6.8
A Full Day's Work
1973
6.4
And Hope to Die
1972
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972