Alex Cox

Q: Has Alex Cox won any awards?

While Alex Cox has not won major mainstream awards, his films have received critical acclaim and he has been recognized at various film festivals for his contributions to independent cinema.

Q: What was Alex Cox's first film?

Cox's first feature film was 'Repo Man,' released in 1984. It became a cult classic and established his reputation in the independent film industry.

Q: Is Alex Cox involved in television?

Yes, Alex Cox has directed episodes of popular television shows, including 'The Simpsons' and 'The Young Ones,' showcasing his versatility as a director.

Q: What is Alex Cox's estimated net worth?

Alex Cox's estimated net worth is around $1 million. His work in film and television has contributed to his financial standing.

Q: What themes are prevalent in Alex Cox's films?

Cox's films often explore themes of counterculture, rebellion, and the struggles of youth. His storytelling is marked by a distinctive voice that resonates with audiences.

Q: Has Alex Cox worked in any other film genres?

While primarily known for his work in independent and cult films, Alex Cox has also ventured into various genres, including documentaries and comedies.

Q: What is unique about Alex Cox's directing style?

Cox's directing style is characterized by its unconventional narratives, dark humor, and a focus on the absurdities of life, often challenging mainstream cinematic conventions.

Known for

Repo Man (1984)

IMDb 6.9 / 10

1984 / Comedy, Crime / 92mins

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is...

Walker (2021–)

IMDb 6.2 / 10

2021– / Action, Crime / N/A

Reboot of the 1993 series focusing on Walker as he returns from years undercover. A widower and father of two, he begins fighting crime...

Name

Alex Cox

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

15 December 1960, Birmingham, England

Spouses

Lynn Roth (1993–present)

Children

1 child

Parents

James Cox, Joan Cox

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Dead Souls In 1890, the year of the U.S. census, chaos erupts when a stranger named Strindler arrives in a small town...	Strindler	Not rated
2025	Movie Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult Late at night, with the glow of the TV set illuminating their post-pub comedown, a generation of film fans were...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2023	Movie Quantum Cowboys Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona...	Fr. John Kino	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	Movie Mad God A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities...	Last Man	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2021	Movie Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON	Self	Not rated
2018	TV An Unknown Enemy Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the...	Winston Scott	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2017	Movie Fake News And How To Evade It A P.S.A. about the dangers of fake news.	Himself (Host)	Not rated
2017	Movie 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...	Blacksmith	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Tombstone Rashomon The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western...	Hamlet performer	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2015	Movie Zero Tolerance The story of how Rudy Wurlitzer and Alex Cox worked on six drafts of a feature screenplay titled ZERO TOLERANCE,...	Himself	Not rated
2014	Movie Doc of the Dead The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	Movie Repo Chick As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens...	Professor	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2008	Movie Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted...	Narrator	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2008	Movie Dispatches from Nicaragua A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Oxford Murders At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders...	Kalman	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Searchers 2.0 Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated...	Entrepreneur	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie A Wonderful World A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.	Maestro de Ceremonias	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2006	Movie Repossessed A conversation with Peter McCarthy, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Wacks about the 1984 film REPO MAN.	Himself	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Spaghetti West A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	Movie Rosario Tijeras Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a...	Donovan	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2004	Movie I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! This is a forty-minute drama for schoolkids, broadcast by the BBC in Britain. There was an epidemic of Liverpool kids...	Doctor	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie An Opera of Violence First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...	Self - Filmmaker	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2003	Movie The Wages of Sin Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...	Self - Filmmaker	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Something to Do with Death Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker...	Self - Filmmaker	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Dominator After a civil war in Hell, Lucifer has been defeated and the Key to Hell is in Lord Desecrater's grasp....	Bishop (voice)	TMDB 3.2 / 10
2002	Movie Revengers Tragedy A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the...	Duke's Driver	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2001	Movie Emmanuelle: A Hard Look Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.	Himself - Host	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Gimme Power When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly...	Cuervo	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie Herod's Law In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor...	Gringo	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Kurosawa: The Last Emperor A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Three Businessmen An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper...	Frank King	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Godzilla, King of the Monsters Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.2 / 10
1997	Movie Dance with the Devil She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar...	Doyle	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1997	Movie David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.	Himself	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1996	Movie The Winner A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys...	Gaston	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1994	Movie Floundering John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bizarre...	Photographer	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1994	Movie The Queen of the Night The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo...	Klaus Eder	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1994	Movie Dead Beat The girlfriend of a womanizer threatens to reveal his secret of killing a local girl.	English Teacher	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1993	TV Cuentos de Borges	Commander Borges	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1992	Movie Death and the Compass In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates...	Commander Borges	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1991	Movie Highway Patrolman A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Catchfire A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to...	D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1988	TV Moviedrome Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.	Self - Presenter	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	TV Moviedrome Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Straight to Hell A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying...	A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie England's Glory A humorous documentary on the making of Alex Cox's punk biopic SID AND NANCY. Features exclusive behind the scenes production...	Interviewee	TMDB 2.0 / 10
1986	Movie Sid and Nancy January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the...	Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1984	Movie Scarred A 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers...	Porno Stud	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1984	Movie Repo Man A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in...	Carwash Attendant	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1981	Movie The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom Animated version of the Ogden Nash poem.	Voice characterizations (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1980	Movie Sleep Is for Sissies A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.	Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Dead Souls In 1890, the year of the U.S. census, chaos erupts when a stranger named Strindler arrives in a small town...	Director Directing	Not rated
2025	Movie Dead Souls In 1890, the year of the U.S. census, chaos erupts when a stranger named Strindler arrives in a small town...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2023	Movie Eventos en El Campo A short western picture by Alex Cox.	Director Directing	Not rated
2021	Movie Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON	Director Directing	Not rated
2018	Movie 27: The Cursed Club Following the death of a musician under suspicious circumstances, a researcher and a music fan examine why rock stars often...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2017	Movie Fake News And How To Evade It A P.S.A. about the dangers of fake news.	Director Directing	Not rated
2017	Movie 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...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Tombstone Rashomon The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie Tombstone Rashomon The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie Tombstone Rashomon The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2015	Movie Zero Tolerance The story of how Rudy Wurlitzer and Alex Cox worked on six drafts of a feature screenplay titled ZERO TOLERANCE,...	Director Directing	Not rated
2014	Movie Bill the Galactic Hero Bill is a reluctant astronaut in a fascist society.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2014	Movie Bill the Galactic Hero Bill is a reluctant astronaut in a fascist society.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	Movie Scene Missing The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).	Cinematography Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	Movie Scene Missing The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	Movie Scene Missing The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2009	Movie Repo Chick As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens...	Writer Writing	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2009	Movie Repo Chick As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens...	Producer Production	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2009	Movie Repo Chick As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens...	Editor Editing	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2009	Movie Repo Chick As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens...	Director Directing	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2007	Movie Searchers 2.0 Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie Searchers 2.0 Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie Searchers 2.0 Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Repossessed A conversation with Peter McCarthy, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Wacks about the 1984 film REPO MAN.	Producer Production	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2004	Movie I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! This is a forty-minute drama for schoolkids, broadcast by the BBC in Britain. There was an epidemic of Liverpool kids...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Revengers Tragedy A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	TV The Private Detective Mike Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2002	TV The Private Detective Mike Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2001	Movie Emmanuelle: A Hard Look Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2001	Movie Emmanuelle: A Hard Look Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1999	Movie Kurosawa: The Last Emperor A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Three Businessmen An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	Movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1996	Movie The Winner A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1993	TV Cuentos de Borges	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1992	Movie Death and the Compass In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1992	Movie Death and the Compass In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1991	Movie Highway Patrolman A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research...	Director Directing	Not rated
1988	TV Moviedrome Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.	Creator Creator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	TV Moviedrome Cult films receive interesting introductions from an expert, before the entire film is screened.	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Walker William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1987	Movie Walker William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1987	Movie Straight to Hell A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie Straight to Hell A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie England's Glory A humorous documentary on the making of Alex Cox's punk biopic SID AND NANCY. Features exclusive behind the scenes production...	Producer Production	TMDB 2.0 / 10
1986	Movie Sid and Nancy January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1986	Movie Sid and Nancy January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1986	TV ScreenPlay Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	TV ScreenPlay Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1984	Movie Repo Man A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1984	Movie Repo Man A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie Sleep Is for Sissies A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie Sleep Is for Sissies A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer Picking up after Otto boarded his trusty 1967 Chevy Malibu to journey across the infinities of time and space (during...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer Picking up after Otto boarded his trusty 1967 Chevy Malibu to journey across the infinities of time and space (during...	Writer Writing	Not rated

Dead Souls

2025

Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult

2025 / TMDB 10.0

Quantum Cowboys

2023 / TMDB 7.5

Mad God

2021 / TMDB 6.8

Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects

2021

Fake News And How To Evade It

2017

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Alex Cox is best known for films such as 'Repo Man,' 'Sid and Nancy,' and 'Straight to Hell.' These films showcase his unique style and often explore themes of rebellion.

Has Alex Cox won any awards?

What was Alex Cox's first film?

Is Alex Cox involved in television?

What is Alex Cox's estimated net worth?

What themes are prevalent in Alex Cox's films?

Has Alex Cox worked in any other film genres?

What is unique about Alex Cox's directing style?