As Actor
From Darkness to Light
2025
6.7
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Acting
Birth date
October 8, 1946
Birth place
Paris, France
Death date
January 13, 2022
Biography
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.
Featured in
As Actor
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
5.0
As Director, As Writer
Mortal Transfer
2001
5.3
As Director
Locked-In Syndrome
1997
7.2
As Director
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
1994
5.0
As Director
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992
6.2
As Director, As Writer
Roselyne and the Lions
1988
5.7
As Director, As Writer
Betty Blue
1986
7.3
As Director, As Writer
The Moon in the Gutter
1983
5.8
As Director, As Writer
Diva
1981
6.7