Henry-Alex Rubin studied film at Phillips Academy, Andover and Columbia University. The son of a French mother and American father (art historian James H. Rubin), he spent his life between Europe and the United States. Henry-Alex directed the humorous cult film Who is Henry Jaglom? (PBS, First Run Features, w/ Candice Bergen, Dennis Hopper) produced Freestyle (Palm Pictures, w/ Mos Def, The Roots, Biggie), which won Best Documentary at the Woodstock, LAIFF and Urbanworld Film Festivals and co-directed Murderball (Thinkfilm, MTV Films) with his friend, the novelist Dana Adam Shapiro. Murderball won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Henry-Alex was mentored by James Mangold (Walk the Line) directing the Second Unit on several films including Cop Land and Girl, Interrupted. His next project is a fiction film, scheduled to shoot in Spring 2007, about a group of returning Iraq War veterans. He is signed to SMUGGLER for directing commercials. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry-Alex Rubin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director, producer and writer
- 7 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
What are Henry Alex Rubin's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 4
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 2
Grounded 5 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 3 · Intense 0
Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Henry Alex Rubin's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Henry Alex Rubin's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
10 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
The Last Verse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Semper Fi(2019)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
The Raid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Evan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Disconnect(2012)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Murderball(2005)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Girl, Interrupted(1999)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Cop Land(1997)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Who Is Henry Jaglom?(1995)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 1997 to 2024.
Biggest box office
Disconnect (2012)
Highest rated
Murderball (2005)
Most popular right now
Disconnect (2012)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Henry Alex Rubin's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 85th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 80th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- 50th to 74th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 7 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
Reviewers score the atmosphere 69/100 and the pacing 54/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Henry Alex Rubin work with?
People who share at least 2 of Henry Alex Rubin's MovieCove titles; Kevin Tent shares the most, 2.
- Kevin TentShared titles: Semper Fi (2019), Disconnect (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Kevin Tent
