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name: "Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-baptiste-pouilloux"
fi1m_id: "jean-baptiste-pouilloux"
imdb_id: "nm1412971"
tmdb_id: 1307541
roles: ["Assistant director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-02T23:28:34.539272+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."
---

# Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux

## Identity

Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-baptiste-pouilloux
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-baptiste-pouilloux
- **IMDb ID:** nm1412971
- **TMDB ID:** 1307541
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1412971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1307541

Assistant director.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 3 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 76 (1), 2010s 73 (2), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $53m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1412971/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1307541

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dheepan*](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux is a French director, first assistant director and second unit director. He has worked extensively in assistant director roles on feature films including *The Transporter* (2002), *OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies* (2006), *The Sisters Brothers* (2018), *An Easy Girl* (2019), *Paris, 13th District* (2021), *Other People's Children* (2022), *Wingwomen* (2023) and *Emilia Pérez* (2024).

Pouilloux has also directed television series such as multiple episodes of *En Famille* (2014–2024), six episodes of *Iris* (2024) and three episodes of *L'Opéra* (2022, as co-director). His short films as director include *Les Briques de Sang* (2010) and *Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?* (2014). He appeared as an actor in *Dheepan* (2015), playing the lawyer at the shelter.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (1)

- *Dheepan* (2015), Fi1m 68, as The Lawyer — [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)

### Crew (3) — the average rests on these

- *Emilia Pérez* (2024), Fi1m 58, Second Unit Director, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md)
- *The Sisters Brothers* (2018), Fi1m 78, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sisters-brothers.md)
- *OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies* (2006), Fi1m 76, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/oss-117-cairo-nest-of-spies.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *A Private Life* (2025), "B" Camera Operator
- *Iris* (2024), series, Director
- *Iris* (2024), Director
- *Freedom* (2024), Second Unit Director
- *Emilia Pérez* (2024), Second Unit Director, Assistant Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md)
- *Wingwomen* (2023), Second Unit Director
- *Other People's Children* (2022), First Assistant Director
- *Paris, 13th District* (2021), First Assistant Director
- *An Easy Girl* (2019), First Assistant Director
- *The Sisters Brothers* (2018), First Assistant Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sisters-brothers.md)
- *Planetarium* (2016), First Assistant Director
- *Dheepan* (2015), as The Lawyer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)
- *Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?* (2014), Director
- *Belle épine* (2010), First Assistant Director
- *OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies* (2006), Assistant Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/oss-117-cairo-nest-of-spies.md)
- *La Voie de Laura* (2005), Second Assistant Director
- *The Transporter* (2002), Additional Second Assistant Director
- *Grandiose*, series, Director
- *Tour de France*, series, Director
- *Les Briques de Sang*, Director, Writer

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