Alex Cox

English film director

1.52body-of-work score · ranked #626 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: December 15, 1954 · Liverpool
Nationality: United Kingdom
Work: film director, screenwriter, film producer, film actor
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
Sid and Nancy
1986 · United Kingdom / United States · biography, musical, drama
Ebert's annual top 10 1986 #4 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #20
0.694 citations
2
Repo Man
1984 · United States · sci-fi, comedy, action
NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #654 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.443 citations
3
Walker
1987 · United States · action, biography, war
Criterion Collection spine #423 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.272 citations
4
El Patrullero
1991 · Mexico · drama
Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 14 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1984Repo Man
1986Sid and Nancy
1987Straight to Hell
1987Walker
1991El Patrullero
1996Death and the Compass
1996The Winner
1998Three Businessmen
2002Revengers Tragedy
2007Searchers 2.0
2009Repo Chick
2014Bill, the Galactic Hero
2017Tombstone Rashomon
—Dead Souls