---
name: "Alexandre Aja"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexandre-aja"
fi1m_id: "alexandre-aja"
imdb_id: "nm0014960"
tmdb_id: 59291
wikidata_id: "Q528132"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "7 August 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-03T08:11:56.501908+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alexandre Aja

## Identity

Alexandre Aja

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexandre-aja
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alexandre-aja
- **IMDb ID:** nm0014960
- **TMDB ID:** 59291
- **Wikidata ID:** Q528132
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Aja, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528132, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59291

Producer and director. Born 7 August 1978 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 7 August 1978, Paris, France
- **Also known as:** Alexandre-Jouan Arcady, Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, Alexandre Jouan, Alexandre Jouan Arcady, Alex Aja, Alex Jouan Arcady, Alexandre Juan, Alexandre Arcady Jr.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Aja, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528132, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59291

## Coming up

- *Strawberries* (2027-01-28), Co-Producer
- *Crawl 2* (2027-07-16), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Crawl*](https://film.one/film/crawl.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alexandre Aja, also credited as Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born on 7 August 1978 in Paris and is the son of director Alexandre Arcady.

Aja began his career in France with the horror film *High Tension* (2003), which he directed and wrote. He later moved to American productions, directing *The Hills Have Eyes* (2006), *Mirrors* (2008), *Piranha 3D* (2010), *Horns* (2013), *Crawl* (2019) — on which he also served as producer — *Oxygen* (2021) and *Never Let Go* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crawl* (2019), Fi1m 76, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/crawl.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Crawl 2* (2027), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Strawberries* (2027), Co-Producer
- *Never Let Go* (2024), Director, Producer
- *The Blond Boy from the Casbah* (2023), Second Unit Director
- *Night of the Hunted* (2023), Producer
- *Under the Stars* (2022), as Narrator (voice)
- *Oxygen* (2021), Producer, Director
- *Crawl* (2019), Director, Producer
- *Crawl* (2019), Director, Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/crawl.md)
- *Urban Nightmares* (2017), series, Producer
- *Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam* (2017), Director, Producer, Writer
- *47 Meters Down* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The 9th Life of Louis Drax* (2016), Director, Producer
- *The Other Side of the Door* (2016), Producer
- *The Pyramid* (2014), Producer
- *24 Days* (2014), Assistant Director
- *Rock the Casbah* (2013), Associate Producer, Script Consultant
- *Horns* (2013), Director, Producer
- *Maniac* (2012), Screenplay, Producer
- *Piranha 3D* (2010), Director, Producer
- *The Esseker File* (2009), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Mirrors* (2008), Director, Screenplay
- *P2* (2007), Screenplay, Story, Producer
- *The Hills Have Eyes* (2006), Director, Screenplay
- *Mixed Marriage* (2004), Second Unit Director
- *High Tension* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Break of Dawn* (2002), Second Unit Director, Screenplay
- *Return to Algiers* (2000), Second Unit Director
- *Furia* (1999), Screenplay, Director
- *Over the Rainbow* (1997), Writer, Director
- *The Big Pardon 2* (1992), as Alexander Atlan
- *Brothers in Arms* (1989), as The child with the skateboard
- *Le Grand Carnaval* (1983), as Raphaël Labrouche
- *The Big Pardon* (1982), as L'enfant
- *Smart House*, Producer
- *Dead by Daylight*, Screenplay
- *Mice and Mystics*, Director, Writer
- *Under Paris 2*, Director, Writer, Associate Producer
- *The Flowers of Evil*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Alexandre Aja](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-84044b7872b0.jpg) Alexandre Aja — Vicky Carras, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alexandre_Aja_%2817493159043%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Aja_%2817493159043%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Aja speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Horns", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-130a033caef7.jpg) Alexandre Aja speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Horns", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Alexandre_Aja_%2814594694299%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Aja_%2814594694299%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Aja speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Horns", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-85ae4d7f4fa2.jpg) Alexandre Aja speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Horns", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Alexandre_Aja_%2814780994492%29.jpg/1280px-Alexandre_Aja_%2814780994492%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![French filmmakers Franck Khalfoun and Alexandre Aja. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-4add8c117da6.jpg) French filmmakers Franck Khalfoun and Alexandre Aja. (2012) — Elen Nivrae, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Franck_Khalfoun_et_Alexandre_Aja.jpg/1280px-Franck_Khalfoun_et_Alexandre_Aja.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexandre Aja](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-f2cd56b86b4c.jpg) Alexandre Aja — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Englund & Alexandre Aja - Presentació CAMPFIRE CREEPERS (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/5519850/gallery-cce00c005725.jpg) Robert Englund & Alexandre Aja - Presentació CAMPFIRE CREEPERS (2017) — Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Robert_Englund_%26_Alexandre_Aja_-_Presentaci%C3%B3_CAMPFIRE_CREEPERS_%2836878500394%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sitges Film Festival Best Director award 2003: Sitges Film Festival Best Director award (won), for *High Tension*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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