Jaume Collet-Serra
☼ Born on 23 February 1974, in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
BiographyJaume Collet-Serra was born on March 23, 1974 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles and attended Columbia College Hollywood, working as an editor on the side. Upon graduation, he began shooting music videos and caught the eye of several production companies. From there he began directed various commercials for companies such as Playstation, Budweiser, Mastercard and Verizon. Since then, he has directed and produced movies such as The Shallows (2016), Orphan (2009) and Unknown (2011).


In the role of director

Carry-On (01/01/2025)

A young TSA agent is blackmailed to allow a dangerous package past security in Carry-On. Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is a young man working as a TSA agent at LAX. Worried about his future after his girlfriend Nora Parisi (Sofia Carson), who also works at LAX as the director of operations, announces that she is […]

Black Adam (31/10/2022)

A 5000-year-old meta-human is awakened in Black Adam. The country of Kahndaq is under oppression by the Intergang, and resistance fighter Adrianna Tomaz (Sarah Shahi) hopes to change all that by unearthing the Crown of Sabbac. However, when Intergang ambushes Adrianna, she reads an incantation that frees Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson), long believed to be the […]

Run All Night (15/03/2015)

Liam Neeson plays an ex-mob enforcer protecting his estranged son in the thriller Run All Night.  Jimmy Conlon (Neeson) is an aging hitman haunted by the crimes of his past.  He has fallen out with his son Michael (Joel Kinnaman), who he hasn’t seen for five years, and his only true friend is his old […]

Unknown (19/02/2011)

I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between this film and Liam Neeson’s surprise 2008 hit Taken.  However, while they are both films that feature Neeson in a genre he is not usually known for, they are two different types of film. While the term is probably overused, the best description of Unknown would be […]

Adam (10/08/2009)

Adam is a film about a man with Asperger’s syndrome that develops a relationship with his neighbour. This film features a personal subject for me, since I was diagnosed with Asperger’s last year. As a result, while I was watching the film I kept comparing the character of Adam to my own experieces and found […]