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Alex Ross Perry

Born July 14, 1984 · Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA (age 42)

Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. He has written and directed a series of feature films centred on unconventional characters and rife with the anxieties and joys of creation. His films have been internationally acclaimed at film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Berlin, and others. He is most known for Listen Up Philip, which premiered in 2014 at the Sundance Film Fes…

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The Green Knight

The Green Knight · 2021

The Green Knight

MovieAdventureDrama

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

Mother Mary

Mother Mary · 2026

MovieMusicDrama

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

Between the Temples

Between the Temples · 2024

Between the Temples

MovieComedyDrama

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin · 2018

Christopher Robin

MovieAdventureComedy

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

V/H/S/Halloween

V/H/S/Halloween · 2025

V/H/S/Halloween

MovieHorrorThriller

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.

An Almost Christmas Story

An Almost Christmas Story · 2024

An Almost Christmas Story

MovieAnimationAdventure

A young owl meets a lost little girl in New York City. Together, they try to get home for Christmas.

Her Smell

Her Smell · 2019

MovieDramaMusic

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

The Sweet East

The Sweet East · 2023

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

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The Green Knight

The Green Knight · 2021

The Green Knight

MovieAdventureDrama

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

Thanks

Mother Mary

Mother Mary · 2026

MovieMusicDrama

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

Thanks

Between the Temples

Between the Temples · 2024

Between the Temples

MovieComedyDrama

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

Thanks

Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin · 2018

Christopher Robin

MovieAdventureComedy

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

Screenplay

V/H/S/Halloween

V/H/S/Halloween · 2025

V/H/S/Halloween

MovieHorrorThriller

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.

Director

An Almost Christmas Story

An Almost Christmas Story · 2024

An Almost Christmas Story

MovieAnimationAdventure

A young owl meets a lost little girl in New York City. Together, they try to get home for Christmas.

Dave The Dog (voice)

Her Smell

Her Smell · 2019

MovieDramaMusic

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

Director

The Sweet East

The Sweet East · 2023

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

Producer

Nostalgia

Nostalgia · 2018

A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

Story

Pavements

Pavements · 2025

MovieComedyMusic

'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.

Director

Tiny Furniture

Tiny Furniture · 2010

MovieRomanceComedy

After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.

Ashlynn's Friend

Joshy

MovieDramaComedy

After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he’s feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.

Adam

The Scary of Sixty-First

The Scary of Sixty-First · 2021

The Scary of Sixty-First

MovieHorrorMystery

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Thanks

Rite Here Rite Now

Rite Here Rite Now · 2024

Rite Here Rite Now

MovieMusicDocumentary

Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.

Director

Golden Exits

Golden Exits · 2018

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Director

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me · 2013

Somebody Up There Likes Me

MovieComedyRomance

Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.

Pizza Customer #1

Listen Up Philip

Listen Up Philip · 2014

Listen Up Philip

MovieComedyDrama

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

Director

The Color Wheel

The Color Wheel · 2012

The Color Wheel

MovieComedyRomance

JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.

Director

Queen of Earth

Queen of Earth · 2015

MovieDramaThriller

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Director

Sun Don't Shine

Sun Don't Shine · 2013

Sun Don't Shine

MovieDramaCrime

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Thanks

Happy Life

Happy Life · 2011

MovieComedyMusic

New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90s.

Donald

Real Talk

Real Talk · 2020

MovieMusicComedy

A woman goes on a daytime show to confront a famous music producer of sexual harassment, only to find him armed with the “perfect apology.”

Thanks

7 Chinese Brothers

7 Chinese Brothers · 2015

7 Chinese Brothers

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?

Hats at Cars

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes · 2020

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.

Easy

SeriesComedyDrama

This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.

Mr. Pope

Cinema Toast

Cinema Toast · 2021

Re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films, overdubbed with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories.

Director

4x20: Quick Hits

4x20: Quick Hits · 2026

4x20: Quick Hits

SeriesDocumentary

This anthology series made up of four, twenty-minute films highlights what is arguably the world’s most beloved plant and the people who love it.

Director