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  • Alex Cox planning Repo Man sequel - 7 July 2008
    British director Alex Cox has been speaking of his planned follow-up to his 1984 cult movie Repo Man.-The original starred Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton and focused on their search for a 1964 Chevy Malibu with a mysterious cargo.-Now Cox is looking for stu

Alex Cox - what members say


  • Straight To Hell
  • Straight To Hell review by leftofcentre from Belfast
    Rated - 1 stars Straight to video more like... 25 July 2005
    ... think thats its so bad, it must be good - its not, its just crap full stop. Alex Cox hang your head in shame. ...  
  • Three Businessmen
  • Three Businessmen review by from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 3 stars 'Punk' 21 July 2004
    ...Alex Cox does n't quite deliver...again. Some moments of genius, but all too often it is self absorbent, disappearing up it own orifice. The film's narrative becomes in...  
  • Highway Patrolman
  • Highway Patrolman review by juradino from London
    Rated - 5 stars alex 10 January 2008
    ..., and ... well it did, repo man was great, but then, i'm notgreat dire ctorlike Alex Cox, so by standards of the old electric cinema in portobello road this is better t...  

Alex Cox - filmography


  • Dominator on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Dani Filth,  Doug Bradley,  Marc Radcliffe
    Director: Tony Luke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Voiced by a bizarre array of artistes (BBC Radio 1's Mark & Lard, cult director Alex Cox and theatre farce queen Liza Goddard), and featuring the music of Cradle of Filth, Jezebel, Digitalis and Synthetic, this futuristic animated movie is a constant battle between Earth and Hell. Dr Payne, the ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 132 members
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  • Revengers Tragedy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Eddie Izzard,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on play by Thomas Middleton from the year 1607, writer/director Alex Cox (REPO MAN) gives us a comic horror story. Marrying 17th Century theatrical verse with some contemporary references and expletives, the story is dragged 400 years to modern day Liverpool where a man is seeking revenge ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 740 members
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  • Three Businessmen on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Andrew Schofield,  Alex Cox,  Miguel Sandoval
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bennie and Frank, two businessmen, go in search of something to eat. On their travels they meet up with another businessman called Leroy and together they all go for breakfast...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 111 members
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  • Perdita Durango on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  Javier Bardem,  Harley Cross
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Perez plays Perdita Durango, a woman on the run who, along with her evil lover Romeo Delorosa, goes across the Mexican/U.S. border in a flash of human sacrifice, black magic, hitmen, and lots of other things normal people go out of their way to avoid. Based on a novel by Barry Gifford, creator of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 585 members
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  • The Winner (1996)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Delroy Lindo,  Frank Whaley
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This darkly comic crime drama examines the plight of the naive title character, a gambler known only as Philip (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose uncanny penchant for winning bets has earned him the title the luckiest man in the history of North America. A rogues' gallery of parasites swarms around him in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 37 members
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  • Death And The Compass on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Peter Boyle,  Christopher Eccleston,  Miguel Sandoval
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Alex Cox (REPO MAN) directed this stylized adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges labyrinthine detective story about a totalitarian city of the future plagued by a rash of bizarre crimes. Peter Boyle stars as Lonnrot, a decidedly even headed detective prone to philosophizing and Christopher Eccleston is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 164 members
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  • Walker on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Ed Harris,  Marlee Matlin,  Rene Assa
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as president of Nicaragua under orders from ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 329 members
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  • Straight To Hell (1987)
    Starring: Sy Richardson,  Dennis Hopper,  Courtney Love
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When a gang of wild and wanted outlaws stumble upon Blanco Town they begin a quest for blood, sex and coffee, but they must face the ruling blood-thirsty McMahon clan. A wild and wacky spaghetti western.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 184 members
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  • Sid And Nancy on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Chloe Webb,  Courtney Love
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alex Cox's riveting biopic tells the bleak, heroin-drenched story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his disturbed American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman delivers a bravura performance as Sid, matched by Chloe Webb's grating, clearly unhinged Nancy. The two lovers' childlike tenderness ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,128 members
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  • Repo Man on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Emilio Estevez,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Otto (Emilio Estevez) is a Los Angeles punk, a loser with no direction and no role models. But he discovers a code of honour and higher purpose when he joins a select group of latter-day knights: the repo men. As a fledging apprentice, Otto slowly learns the ways of these high-caliber, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,946 members
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  • Perdita Durango to Watch Now (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  Javier Bardem,  Harley Cross
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 80 minutes
    Perez plays Perdita Durango, a woman on the run who, along with her evil lover Romeo Delorosa, goes across the Mexican/U.S. border in a flash of human sacrifice, black magic, hitmen, and lots of other things normal people go out of their way to avoid. Based on a novel by Barry Gifford, creator of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 31 members
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  • Highway Patrolman to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Roberto Soza,  Bruno Bichir,  Eduardo Lopez Rojas
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 104 minutes
    Highway Patrolman charts the harrowing transition from idealism to grim realism in an intense and brilliantly played character study that offers a fascinating and gritty insight into corruption and embittered disillusionment. Graduating as a top police student from the National Highway Patrol ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 93% from 3 members
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  • Death and the Compass to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,  Pedro Armendariz Jr.,  Bruno Bichir
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 86 minutes
    Death and the Compass, one of Cox's most ambitious, inspired and visually stunning films, is a deliciously dark adaptation of the short story by acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In a totalitarian metropolis of the future (shot on location in Mexico City), Erik Lonnrot (Peter Boyle) is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 9 members
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  • Straight To Hell to Watch Now (1987)
    Starring: Dick Rude,  Sy Richardson,  Courtney Love
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 96 minutes
    Straight to Hell is Alex Cox's glorious and anarchic homage to the spaghetti western; a surreal forerunner of Tarantino's films. It features an all-star cast including Dennis Hopper, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Jim Jarmusch, Kathy Burke, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello and Shane MacGowan and music by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6 members
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Alex Cox facts

5 most recent films

Dominator - 1.5 stars
Revengers Tragedy - 3.0 stars
Three Businessmen - 2.5 stars
Dance With The Devil - 3.0 stars
Perdita Durango - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Repo Man - 3.0 stars
Highway Patrolman - 3.0 stars
Sid And Nancy - 3.0 stars
Dance With The Devil - 3.0 stars
Revengers Tragedy - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Winner - 2.5 stars
Dominator - 1.5 stars
Death And The Compass - 2.0 stars
Straight To Hell - 2.5 stars
Three Businessmen - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bruno Bichir - 3 times - show films
Aimee Graham - 3 times - show films
Sy Richardson - 3 times - show films
James Gandolfini - 3 times - show films
Rosie Perez - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alex De La Iglesia - 3 times - show films
Tony Luke - 1 times - show films