Alex Cox
Also Known As: Alexander Cox
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 15, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Overview: A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Oxford Murders
Overview: At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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Herod's Law
Overview: 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 mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Scarred
Overview: 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 to maintain her hopes and dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Three Businessmen
Overview: An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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An Opera of Violence
Overview: 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 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Repo Chick
Overview: 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. Sequel to Alex Cox's 1984 cult film 'Repo Man.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Doc of the Dead
Overview: The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Overview: Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Dance with the Devil
Overview: 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 sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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Floundering
Overview: 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 gangsters, bungling bureaucrats, police fanatics, revolutionaries, and weirdos. All John wants is a little peace of mind and a little piece of the action, but in "Floundering" it wont come easy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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A Wonderful World
Overview: A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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The Queen of the Night
Overview: The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Sleep Is for Sissies
Overview: A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-03
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Mad God
Overview: A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
Overview: A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-19
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Todo el poder
Overview: 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 the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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The Curse of the Dragon Sword
Overview: 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 on a powerful warrior.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Straight to Hell
Overview: 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 of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Genres: Action Western Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Dominator
Overview: 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 thoughts and keeps the Key to Hell away from Lord Desecrater and is forced to fight off his forces including three other demons - Decimator, Extricator and Lady Violator.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-03
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Overview: The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
Overview: A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various crew members who crafted meticulously detailed miniatures and risked life and limb as suit actors. All done to bring to life some of film's most iconic monsters through a distinct Japanese artform.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-03
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Revengers Tragedy
Overview: A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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England's Glory
Overview: A humorous documentary on the making of Alex Cox's punk biopic SID AND NANCY. Features exclusive behind the scenes production and commentaries from Alex Cox, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Eric Fellner and more...
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Catchfire
Overview: 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 get her.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-03
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The Spaghetti West
Overview: A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Zero Tolerance
Overview: 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...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-14
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Fake News And How To Evade It
Overview: A P.S.A. about the dangers of fake news.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-11
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Repossessed
Overview: A conversation with Peter McCarthy, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Wacks about the 1984 film REPO MAN.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-24
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The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom
Overview: Animated version of the Ogden Nash poem.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Dispatches from Nicaragua
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-19
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Sid and Nancy
Overview: January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!
Overview: 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 boxes with fireworks at the time, so we began with an incidence of that. (A.C)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-15
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Overview: Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late Ishiro Honda and Alex Cox. This documentary incorporates footage from rare shows like "Ultra Q" and films like "King Kong Escapes".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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The Wages of Sin
Overview: 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 in 1968. (Preceded by An Opera of Violence; followed by Something to Do With Death.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Rosario Tijeras
Overview: 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 them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-12
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Repo Man
Overview: 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 revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Death and the Compass
Overview: In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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Quantum Cowboys
Overview: 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 musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!
Genres: Animation Western Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-14
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Something to Do with Death
Overview: 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 1968. (Preceded by The Wages of Sin.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
Overview: Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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Highway Patrolman
Overview: 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 consequences of his often morally gray actions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Searchers 2.0
Overview: 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 early film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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