
Alex Cox
Alexander Cox (born in Bebington, Merseyside, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career on independent movies of steadily declining budgets, championing the increased individual creative freedom that comes with lower production investment.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 0.136 |
Birthday | 1954-12-15 |
Place of Birth | Liverpool, England, UK |
Also Known As | Alexander Cox, |

1999

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
5.5/4
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

2008

The Oxford Murders
6/649
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...
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The Oxford Murders

1999

Herod's Law
8/182
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new may...
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Herod's Law

1984

Scarred
2/1
A 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers and johns while doing her best...
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Scarred

1998

Three Businessmen
6.2/6
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art d...
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Three Businessmen

2003

An Opera of Violence
6/3
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in...
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An Opera of Violence

2009

Repo Chick
3.4/18
As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles...
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Repo Chick

2014

Doc of the Dead
6.152/47
The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
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Doc of the Dead

2001

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
5.2/6
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

1997

Dance with the Devil
6.6/199
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sl...
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Dance with the Devil

1994

Floundering
4.9/18
John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bizarre friends, sweaty sex, pistol wielding gangste...
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Floundering

2006

A Wonderful World
7.652/99
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
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A Wonderful World

1994

The Queen of the Night
4.5/8
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary b...
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The Queen of the Night

1980

Sleep Is for Sissies
0/0
A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.
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Sleep Is for Sissies

2021

Mad God
6.858/433
A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
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Mad God

1997

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
5/1
A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.
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David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme

2000

Todo el poder
6.5/31
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows...
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Todo el poder

2017

The Curse of the Dragon Sword
5.5/2
Alex Cox presents, a Kung Fu adventure following a father and daughter duo as they seek to reforge the mythic Dragon Sword in order to exact revenge o...
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The Curse of the Dragon Sword

1987

Straight to Hell
5.3/38
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full...
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Straight to Hell

2003

Dominator
1.5/2
After a civil war in Hell, Lucifer has been defeated and the Key to Hell is in Lord Desecrater's grasp. However, the rebellious Dominator has his own...
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Dominator

2016

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
5.8/4
The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

2008

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
8.4/12
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasu...
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

2002

Revengers Tragedy
5.4/12
A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the reveng...
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Revengers Tragedy

1987

England's Glory
2/1
A humorous documentary on the making of Alex Cox's punk biopic SID AND NANCY. Features exclusive behind the scenes production and commentaries from Al...
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England's Glory

1990

Catchfire
5.4/93
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...
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Catchfire

2005

The Spaghetti West
6/3
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
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The Spaghetti West

2017

Fake News And How To Evade It
0/0
A P.S.A. about the dangers of fake news.
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Fake News And How To Evade It

2015

Zero Tolerance
0/0
The story of how Rudy Wurlitzer and Alex Cox worked on six drafts of a feature screenplay titled ZERO TOLERANCE, about the Contra War in Nicaragua...
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Zero Tolerance

2006

Repossessed
1/1
A conversation with Peter McCarthy, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Wacks about the 1984 film REPO MAN.
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Repossessed

1981

The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom
5/1
Animated version of the Ogden Nash poem.
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The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom

2008

Dispatches from Nicaragua
6/1
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.
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Dispatches from Nicaragua

1986

Sid and Nancy
6.8/517
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental ba...
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Sid and Nancy

2004

I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!
0/0
This is a forty-minute drama for schoolkids, broadcast by the BBC in Britain. There was an epidemic of Liverpool kids blowing up public telephone boxe...
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I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!

1998

Godzilla, King of the Monsters
8.9/9
Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late Ishiro Honda and Ale...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters

2003

The Wages of Sin
7.4/5
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released i...
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The Wages of Sin

2005

Rosario Tijeras
6.6/90
Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing...
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Rosario Tijeras

1984

Repo Man
6.7/616
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revo...
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Repo Man

1992

Death and the Compass
5.8/12
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series o...
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Death and the Compass

2023

Quantum Cowboys
10/2
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musi...
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Quantum Cowboys

2003

Something to Do with Death
6/2
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in...
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Something to Do with Death

2021

Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
0/0
Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON
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Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects

1991

Highway Patrolman
6.8/20
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the...
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Highway Patrolman

2007

Searchers 2.0
6.2/6
Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an e...
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