Alex Cox

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Birthday
Dec 15, 1954 (70 years old)

Alex Cox

Known For

Quantum Cowboys
1h 38m
Movie 2023

Quantum Cowboys

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

Mad God
1h 24m
Movie 2021

Mad God

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

The Curse of the Dragon Sword
1h 15m
Movie 2017

The Curse of the Dragon Sword

Alex Cox presents, a Kung Fu adventure following a father and daughter duo as they seek to reforge the mythic Dragon Sword in order to exact revenge on a powerful warrior.

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
1h 29m
Movie 2016

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.

Zero Tolerance
0h 27m
Movie 2015

Zero Tolerance

The story of how Rudy Wurlitzer and Alex Cox worked on six drafts of a feature screenplay titled ZERO TOLERANCE, about the Contra War in Nicaragua...

Doc of the Dead
1h 21m
Movie 2014

Doc of the Dead

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

Straight to Hell
1h 26m
Movie 1987

Straight to Hell

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.

England's Glory
0h 30m
Movie 1987

England's Glory

A humorous documentary on the making of Alex Cox's punk biopic SID AND NANCY. Features exclusive behind the scenes production and commentaries from Alex Cox, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Eric Fellner and more...

Sid and Nancy
1h 54m
Movie 1986

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.

Biography

Alexander Cox (born in Bebington, Merseyside, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career on independent movies of steadily declining budgets, championing the increased individual creative freedom that comes with lower production investment.

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