Biography
Alexandre Rockwell was born in Boston in 1956. His first film, LENZ, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. After his road movie HERO (1983), he directed the legendary SAM FULLER IN SONS (1989). In 1992 he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his film IN THE SOUP, which made his reputation as one of the most interesting filmmakers on America’s independent film scene. SOMEBODY TO LOVE (1994) competed at the Venice flim Festival. Rockwell also directed ‘The Wrong Man’...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Lump
2024
Director, Writer
Ralph, a mourning detective, discovers an unwelcome lump and an equally unwelcome partner, Xavier. The investigator contends with Xavier’s exuberance ...
Sweet Thing
2020
Writer, Director
For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and thei...
In the Same Garden
2016
Director
We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from ...
Little Feet
2013
Director, Writer, Editor
Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey.
Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010
Writer, Director, Producer
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
A Perfect Place
2008
Co-Producer
Losers get involved in a crime that could lead to murder.
Edge of Outside
2006
as Self
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and ...
Nobody Wants Your Film
2005
as Self
Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and e...
Rockets Redglare!
2003
as Self
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug...
13 Moons
2002
as Man
Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting ...
13 Moons
2002
Director, Writer, Producer
Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting ...
Dreams about Alfeoni
2002
as Self - director, grandson of Alexeieff
Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the ...
Louis & Frank
1998
Director, Writer, Producer
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.
Four Rooms
1995
Executive Producer, Director, Writer
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t...
Somebody to Love
1994
Writer, Director
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in lo...
Dear Diary
1993
as Self
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted ...
In the Soup
1992
Director, Writer
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Sons
1990
Director, Writer
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Hero
1983
Cinematography, Editor, Director
A group of misfits sets out from Los Angeles for a destination they never arrive at.
Lenz
1982
as Lenz
A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name, which in turn chronicles the life of writer Jakob Mich...
Lenz
1982
Director, Producer, Writer
A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name, which in turn chronicles the life of writer Jakob Mich...
I Miss My Mom & Dream of Our New Home
N/A
Thanks
Matoom, a young Thai boy comes to the gradual understanding on the ephemerality of his family life through his re-collected memories - inspired by 'Br...