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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-12-15

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

Alex Cox

Biography

Alex Cox (born December 15, 1954, in Bebington, Merseyside) is an English film director, screenwriter and author. After studying at Oxford and at UCLA's film school, he directed Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, followed by Straight to Hell and Walker. He later made independent films including Highway Patrolman, Revengers Tragedy and Repo Chick and presented the BBC series Moviedrome. He co-wrote an early screenplay of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Tod Davies, and their writing credit was retained on Terry Gilliam's film.

Known for

Moviedrome

Moviedrome

Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.

Moviedrome

Moviedrome

Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.

An Unknown Enemy

An Unknown Enemy

Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power.

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

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.

Catchfire

Catchfire

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.

Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras

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.

Dead Beat

Dead Beat

The girlfriend of a womanizer threatens to reveal his secret of killing a local girl.

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

Mad God

Mad God

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Repo Man

Repo Man

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.

Cuentos de Borges

Cuentos de Borges

Doc of the Dead

Doc of the Dead

The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.

The Oxford Murders

The Oxford Murders

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.

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.

Dance with the Devil

Dance with the Devil

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.