Alex Proyas

Alex Proyas

Birth : 1963-09-23, Alexandria, Egypt

History

Alexander "Alex" Proyas is an Greek Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing the science fiction films The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He employs a dark and stylized way of filming, usually in a post-apocalyptic setting. Throughout his career, his films have acquired a cult following.

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Alex Proyas

Movies

Home Education - Le regole del male
Executive Producer
A brainwashed girl is convinced by her authoritarian mother that her dead father will resurrect if they prove their love for him. Until he begins to rot.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Director of Photography
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Editor
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Producer
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Writer
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Director
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Strange Nostalgia
Director
A haunting short film made mostly during the lockdown, employing various remote collaboration techniques. The film explores the themes of memory, past lives and parallel universes through layered montage inspired by movies from the German Expressionist and Noir eras.
Phobos
Screenplay
A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.
Phobos
Director
A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.
Gods of Egypt
Producer
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Gods of Egypt
Director
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Knowing
Producer
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Knowing
Director
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey
Director
Documentary covering Tovey's life and career up to his untimely death in 2002. It includes rare and unreleased tracks and live footage of legendary performances, as well as classic songs recorded both under his own name and his alter ego, Fad Gadget. Put together by Frank's family in conjunction with Mute, utilising the Mute and family archives, this collection features the very first Fad Gadget demos and footage of the reborn Fad Gadget supporting Depeche Mode in 2001.
Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream
Writer
Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005
Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream
Director
Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005
I, Robot
Director
In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
Riverworld
Executive Producer
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river.
Garage Days
Producer
The story of a young Sydney band trying to get a foothold in the competitive world of rock n' roll. After the band's first gig is a colossal failure, the lead singer takes it upon himself to go out and pursue the most successful rock manager in the country. Meanwhile, the other members of the band continue to deal with the kind of everyday life issues that can ultimately tear a band apart. It may be the dawn of a new millennium, but it's still a long way to the top if you want to rock n' roll.
Garage Days
Writer
The story of a young Sydney band trying to get a foothold in the competitive world of rock n' roll. After the band's first gig is a colossal failure, the lead singer takes it upon himself to go out and pursue the most successful rock manager in the country. Meanwhile, the other members of the band continue to deal with the kind of everyday life issues that can ultimately tear a band apart. It may be the dawn of a new millennium, but it's still a long way to the top if you want to rock n' roll.
Garage Days
Director
The story of a young Sydney band trying to get a foothold in the competitive world of rock n' roll. After the band's first gig is a colossal failure, the lead singer takes it upon himself to go out and pursue the most successful rock manager in the country. Meanwhile, the other members of the band continue to deal with the kind of everyday life issues that can ultimately tear a band apart. It may be the dawn of a new millennium, but it's still a long way to the top if you want to rock n' roll.
Dark City
Story
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City
Producer
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City
Screenplay
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City
Director
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream
Writer
A stressed-out Kafkian man called Ruben retells an embarrassing dream he had. In it, his overbearing mother takes him, naked and embarrassed, to a noirish department store to buy him clothes, a penis and a wife. He looks for a way out.
Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream
Director
A stressed-out Kafkian man called Ruben retells an embarrassing dream he had. In it, his overbearing mother takes him, naked and embarrassed, to a noirish department store to buy him clothes, a penis and a wife. He looks for a way out.
The Crow
Director
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.
The Crow
Producer
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Director of Photography
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Writer
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Director
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Producer
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Writer
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Director
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
After Hours
Music
The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.
Passionless Moments
Director of Photography
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.
Strange Residues
Lighting Artist
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Editor
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Writer
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Director
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Groping
Director
This short student film by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein re-envisions the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder, offering a different explanation for the problem of witness nonintervention.
Sister Darkness
Writer
The 1930s, U.K.-set story follows the newly wed, but unhappy, Alice who stumbles across her doppelganger Isla. Her existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, a hellish supernatural nightscape and an uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.
Sister Darkness
Director
The 1930s, U.K.-set story follows the newly wed, but unhappy, Alice who stumbles across her doppelganger Isla. Her existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, a hellish supernatural nightscape and an uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.
Neon
Director
Fad Gadget - Ricky's Head