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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 Returns
  • Straight to Hell Returns review by leftofcentre from Belfast
    Rated - 1.0 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. ...   Read customer review
  • Three Businessmen
  • Three Businessmen review by from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 3.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Highway Patrolman
  • Highway Patrolman review by juradino from London
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review

Alex Cox - filmography


  • Repo Chick on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jaclyn Jonet,  Miguel Sandoval,  Chloe Webb
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 her days getting into one scrape after another and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 142 members
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  • Searchers 2.0 (2007)
    Starring: Del Zamora,  Jaclyn Jonet,  Ed Pansullo
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    From the director of "Repo Man" and "Sid & Nancy" comes Searchers 2.0. As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a tee-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, AZ, where his great films were made. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 18 members
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  • 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 »
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 138 members
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  • Revengers Tragedy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Eddie Izzard,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 821 members
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  • Perdita Durango (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  Javier Bardem,  Harley Cross
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 732 members
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  • Dance With The Devil on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Rosie Perez,  James Gandolfini,  Aimee Graham
    Director: Alex De La Iglesia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 104 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 216 members
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  • The Winner (1996)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Vincent D'Onofrio,  Delroy Lindo
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 44 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 401 members
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  • Straight to Hell Returns on DVD (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. "Straight to Hell Returns," Directed by Alex Cox, is a new version of Cox's 1986 feature "..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 323 members
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  • Sid and Nancy on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Chloe Webb,  Courtney Love
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,740 members
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  • Repo Man - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 29 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,848 members
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Alex Cox facts

5 most recent films

Repo Chick - 2.0 stars
Searchers 2.0 - 3.0 stars
Dominator - 1.5 stars
Revengers Tragedy - 3.0 stars
Three Businessmen - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

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

5 lowest-rated films

The Winner - 2.5 stars
Searchers 2.0 - 3.0 stars
Repo Man - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dominator - 1.5 stars
Repo Chick - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Miguel Sandoval - 6 times - show films
Chloe Webb - 4 times - show films
Zaide Silvia Gutierrez - 4 times - show films
Courtney Love - 4 times - show films
Christopher Eccleston - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

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