Biography: Alex Cox |
English director Alex Cox studied law at Oxford--at least until being deflected into theatre through his participation in the University's drama department. Cox switched to a film studies program at University of Bristol, received a Fulbright... more
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Cast: Rosanna Arquette
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...
Cast: Peter Boyle
Tags: Police Detective Film Psychological Thriller 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...
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
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...
Cast: Roger Corman
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 96min
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 in this eclectic send-up of The Searchers from Repo Man director Alex Cox. Mel and Fred...
Tags: Comedy Political Satire
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...
Cast: Alex Cox
Tags: Fantasy Fantasy Comedy Comedy Drama Satire
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...
Cast: Derek Jacobi 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...
Cast: Arturo Ripstein
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...
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
Cast: Rebecca De Mornay Frank Whaley Michael Madsen Delroy Lindo
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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