Alex Cox

Repo Chick (2010)

Cast: Alex Cox Rosanna Arquette Chloe Webb Karen Black Miguel Sandoval   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 90min

Iconoclastic filmmaker Alex Cox offers a unique look at California consumer culture in the midst of the post-millennium financial meltdown in this surreal comedy. Pixxi De La Chasse (Jaclyn Jonet) is a self-centered daughter of privilege who spends...

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La Ley De Herodes (2000)

Cast: Alex Cox Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Luis Estrada Delia Casanova Damián Alcázar   

Tags: Political Satire Comedy 

Length: 120min

Luis Estrada directs this groundbreaking and extremely controversial satire about Mexico's long-ruling political party, the PRI. Set in the late 1940s in the remote, thoroughly backwards village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, the film focuses on Vargas...

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Three Businessmen (1998)

Cast: Alex Cox Miguel Sandoval Robert Wisdom Isabel Ampudia   

Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Fantasy Comedy Fantasy 

Length: 82min

Alex Cox directed this comedy-fantasy screenplay by Tod Davies in a variety of locations (American Southwest, Hong Kong, Rotterdam). With a plot premise reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's After Hours, American art dealer Bennie (Miguel Sandoval) arrives...

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Revengers Tragedy (2002)

Cast: Derek Jacobi Alex Cox Christopher Eccleston Eddie Izzard   

Tags: Comedy Drama Period Film 

Length: 109min

Revenge, obsession, and the morally ambiguous aristocracy are targets of this adaptation by director Alex Cox of the 17th century dark comic play +Revengers Tragedy, written by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Middleton. The vindictive and mentally...

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Death and the Compass (1995)

Cast: Peter Boyle Alex Cox Christopher Eccleston Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Miguel Sandoval   

Tags: Psychological Thriller Police Detective Film Mystery 

Length: 90min

Death and the Compass is a loose adaptation of a Jorge Luis Borges short story from eccentric British writer-director Alex Cox (Repo Man). Treviranus (Miguel Sandoval), disheveled and haunted by the past, narrates the story of the last great case of a...

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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)

Cast: Alex Cox   

Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio History 

Length: 60min

One of the world's great filmmakers, and perhaps the greatest Japanese director who ever lived, Akira Kurosawa crafted a stunning body of work in his 50 years in the movie industry, creating such landmark films as Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, The...

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The Winner (1996)

Cast: Rebecca De Mornay Alex Cox Vincent D'Onofrio Delroy Lindo Michael Madsen   

Tags: Crime Drama Drama Crime 

Length: 92min

After director Alex Cox alienated the powers that be in Hollywood with Straight to Hell and Walker, his anarchic follow-ups to Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, it would be nearly a decade before he made a film in the United States again. After making the...

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La Reina da la Noche (1994)

Cast: Arturo Ripstein Alex Cox Bruno de Keyzer Blanca Guerra Alicia Paz Garciadiego   

Tags: Musical Drama Biopic Drama 

Length: 117min

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...

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Highway Patrolman (1993)

Cast: Alex Cox Pedro Armendariz, Jr. Zaide Silvia Gutierrez Roberto Sosa Bruno Bichir   

Tags: Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy 

Length: 104min

Lorenzo O'Brien wrote this scathing black comedy about a naive Mexican highway patrolman who is irresistibly drawn into corruption and violence. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide

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