Alex Cox

Alex Cox

Born: December 15, 1954
in Liverpool, England, UK
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.

Movies for Alex Cox...

Quantum Cowboys
Title: Quantum Cowboys
Character: Fr. John Kino
Released: October 14, 2023
Type: Movie
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!
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Mad God
Title: Mad God
Character: Last Man
Released: June 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
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Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
Title: Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
Character: Self
Released: July 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON
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Fake News And How To Evade It
Title: Fake News And How To Evade It
Character: Himself (Host)
Released: August 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A P.S.A. about the dangers of fake news.
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The Curse of the Dragon Sword
Title: The Curse of the Dragon Sword
Character: Blacksmith
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Title: Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Character: Self
Released: June 29, 2016
Type: Movie
The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
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Zero Tolerance
Title: Zero Tolerance
Character: Himself
Released: July 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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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Doc of the Dead
Title: Doc of the Dead
Released: March 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
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Repo Chick
Title: Repo Chick
Character: Professor
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
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.'
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
Title: Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
Character: Narrator
Released: August 3, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Dispatches from Nicaragua
Title: Dispatches from Nicaragua
Released: February 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.
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The Oxford Murders
Title: The Oxford Murders
Character: Kalman
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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A Wonderful World
Title: A Wonderful World
Character: Maestro de Ceremonias
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
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Repossessed
Title: Repossessed
Character: Himself
Released: January 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A conversation with Peter McCarthy, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Wacks about the 1984 film REPO MAN.
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The Spaghetti West
Title: The Spaghetti West
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
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Rosario Tijeras
Title: Rosario Tijeras
Character: Donovan
Released: August 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!
Title: I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!
Character: Doctor
Released: July 15, 2004
Type: Movie
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)
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
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.)
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Something to Do with Death
Title: Something to Do with Death
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
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.)
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An Opera of Violence
Title: An Opera of Violence
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
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.)
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Dominator
Title: Dominator
Character: Bishop (voice)
Released: March 3, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Revengers Tragedy
Title: Revengers Tragedy
Character: Duke's Driver
Released: August 6, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Title: Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Character: Himself - Host
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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Herod's Law
Title: Herod's Law
Character: Gringo
Released: November 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
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Todo el poder
Title: Todo el poder
Character: Cuervo
Released: February 28, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Title: Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
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Three Businessmen
Title: Three Businessmen
Character: Frank King
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Title: Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Released: July 11, 1998
Type: Movie
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".
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Dance with the Devil
Title: Dance with the Devil
Character: Doyle
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
Title: David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
Character: Himself
Released: January 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.
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Floundering
Title: Floundering
Character: Photographer
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.
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The Queen of the Night
Title: The Queen of the Night
Character: Klaus Eder
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Cuentos de Borges
Character: Commander Borges
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: TV
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Death and the Compass
Title: Death and the Compass
Character: Commander Borges
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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.)
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Catchfire
Title: Catchfire
Character: D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Moviedrome
Released: May 8, 1988
Type: TV
Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.
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Straight to Hell
Title: Straight to Hell
Character: A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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England's Glory
Title: England's Glory
Character: Interviewee
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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...
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Sid and Nancy
Title: Sid and Nancy
Character: Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Scarred
Title: Scarred
Character: Porno Stud
Released: July 5, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Repo Man
Title: Repo Man
Character: Carwash Attendant
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom
Title: The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom
Character: Voice characterizations (voice)
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Animated version of the Ogden Nash poem.
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Sleep Is for Sissies
Title: Sleep Is for Sissies
Character: Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)
Released: September 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.