--- name: "Jaume Collet-Serra" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jaume-collet-serra" fi1m_id: "jaume-collet-serra" imdb_id: "nm1429471" tmdb_id: 59521 wikidata_id: "Q357183" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "23 March 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-03T08:35:36.512190+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." --- # Jaume Collet-Serra ## Identity Jaume Collet-Serra - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jaume-collet-serra - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jaume-collet-serra - **IMDb ID:** nm1429471 - **TMDB ID:** 59521 - **Wikidata ID:** Q357183 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume_Collet-Serra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357183, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59521 Producer and director. Born 23 March 1974 in Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Barcelona, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 23 March 1974, Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Barcelona, Spain - **Also known as:** Jaume Serra - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume_Collet-Serra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357183, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59521 ## Coming up - *Cliffhanger* (2027-04-29), Director ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Shallows*](https://film.one/film/the-shallows.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Jaume Collet-Serra > Jaume Collet-Serra puts one ordinary person in one small place, a plane, a train, a rock in the sea, and lets the distances do the frightening. At that size he is a dependable, clear-eyed maker of thrillers; given a studio's scale, less of him survives. Somebody reads a text message and the words appear beside their head, on the window of the plane or the face of the sea. Jaume Collet-Serra does not cut to the phone. He keeps us where the character is, and he has already told us where the door is, how many rows back the suspect sits, how far the rock lies from the beach. The fear in his films comes from knowing the distances. *The Shallows* (2016) is the purest version: one woman, one rock, one shark, 86 minutes, and we came out grinning. He arrived through music videos and commercials, which may explain the economy, and made his name with horror: *House of Wax* (2005), then *Orphan* (2009). Between those and the shark came the Liam Neeson years, four films in which a tired, decent man is trapped in a machine with a clock on it: *Unknown* (2011), a plane in *Non-Stop* (2014), a car in *Run All Night* (2015), a train in *The Commuter* (2018). Then the studios called. *Jungle Cruise* (2021), with Dwayne Johnson, kept his clarity; *Black Adam* (2022), with Johnson again, buried it under effects, and the action, usually his strength, came in short bursts that did not build. *Carry-On* (2024) took him back to an airport, which is where he belongs. What he does well he does with Flavio Labiano, who has shot five of his films: wide anamorphic frames that rarely sit still, a camera that moves when the character's mind does. In *The Shallows* the first bite is staged from the surface, a jolt and then nothing, and we flinched, properly, because the nothing is worse. Later Blake Lively does something to her own leg with her jewellery and Collet-Serra holds on her face rather than the wound; we watched most of it through our fingers and admired him for making us. He gives actors room inside the machine, Lively on the rock, the supporting cast in *Orphan*, and the machine does not slow down for them. The faults are as consistent as the virtues. Once the premise is set the plots run on familiar rails, and *The Commuter* is the usual example; *The Shallows* spends its last fifteen minutes doing what shark films do when the ideas run out. Genre critics rate him and the rest have never quite decided he is anyone in particular, which is understandable, since the films most like each other are his best. He has said, "I’m always trying to do ‘Die Hard’ over and over again." We would take that trade. Give him one person, one place and a clock, and he is worth your evening; give him a universe and he disappears into it. ## Biography Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish film director and producer. Born on 23 March 1974 in Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Catalonia, Spain, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18 and studied at Columbia College Hollywood. He began his career directing music videos and commercials before making his feature debut with the horror film *House of Wax* (2005). He is known for directing *Orphan* (2009), the Liam Neeson thrillers *Unknown* (2011), *Non-Stop* (2014), *Run All Night* (2015) and *The Commuter* (2018), *The Shallows* (2016), *Jungle Cruise* (2021), *Black Adam* (2022) and *Carry-On* (2024). He co-founded the production company Ombra Films. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Shallows* (2016), Fi1m 82, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shallows.md) ## Complete filmography (30) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Cliffhanger* (2027), Director - *The Woman in the Yard* (2025), Director, Executive Producer - *Carry-On* (2024), Director, Executive Producer - *Retribution* (2023), Producer - *Black Adam* (2022), Director - *Jungle Cruise* (2021), Director - *Horizon Line* (2020), Executive Producer - *Feedback* (2019), Producer - *The Pact* (2018), Thanks - *Reverie* (2018), series, Director, Executive Producer - *The Commuter* (2018), Director, Executive Producer - *The Shallows* (2016), Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shallows.md) - *Eden* (2015), Producer - *Curve* (2015), Producer - *Extinction* (2015), Producer - *Run All Night* (2015), Director, Executive Producer - *Non-Stop* (2014), Director - *Hooked Up* (2013), Executive Producer - *Anna* (2013), Producer - *The River* (2012), series, Director, Producer - *Unknown* (2011), Director - *Orphan* (2009), Director - *Goal II: Living the Dream* (2007), Director - *House of Wax* (2005), Director - *Play Dead*, Director - *An Innocent Girl*, Director - *The Cage*, Director - *Run the Football*, Producer - *Maelstrom*, Director - *Scope*, Producer ## Gallery - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-0aef19c1456a.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Vicky Carras, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jaume_Collet-Serra_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Jaume_Collet-Serra_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-d236cd6c9db9.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Image via TMDB - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-a09edd0c313a.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Image via TMDB - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-ea56e32e365e.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Image via TMDB - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-b02d0798041b.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Image via TMDB - ![Jaume Collet-Serra](https://film.one/media/person/5520378/gallery-0e00e2d92b32.jpg) Jaume Collet-Serra — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2011: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Unknown* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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