Alex Descas

Born: 1958-01-01

Alex Descas (born 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in Jim Jarmusch films and for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic. He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in her films No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Irma Vep

as Desormeaux
Released: 1996-10-01

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime...

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Coffee and Cigarettes

as Alex (segment "No Problem")
Released: 2004-03-12

Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film...

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The Limits of Control

as Creole
Released: 2009-05-01

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one....

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Boarding Gate

as Andrew
Released: 2007-08-22

A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise...

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Trouble Every Day

as Dr. Léo
Released: 2001-07-11

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their...

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Chocolat

as Victor
Released: 2016-02-03

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after...

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Late August, Early September

as Jérémie
Released: 1999-02-10

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal...

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Bastards

as Dr. Béthanie
Released: 2013-08-07

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister...

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The Dope

as Shaft
Released: 2003-02-05

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best...

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Let the Sunshine In

as End Man
Released: 2017-09-27

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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Last Harem

as Nadir
Released: 1999-11-24

A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in...

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Nenette and Boni

as Gynecologist
Released: 1997-01-29

Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their...

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Volontaire

as Albertini
Released: 2018-06-06

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing...

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The Intruder

as Le prêtre
Released: 2005-05-04

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an...

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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

as (segment "Vers Nancy")
Released: 2002-09-03

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting...

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35 Shots of Rum

as Lionel
Released: 2009-02-18

A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her...

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I Can't Sleep

as Théo
Released: 1994-05-18

Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery...

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Maya

as Frédéric
Released: 2018-12-19

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage...

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Rapt

as Maître Walser
Released: 2009-11-18

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in...

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Lumumba

as Joseph Mobutu
Released: 2000-05-13

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later...

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How Good the Whites Are

as Le travailleur chez Renault
Released: 1988-01-20

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and...

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Against Oblivion

as Self
Released: 1991-12-11

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and...

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No Fear, No Die

as Jocelyn
Released: 1990-09-05

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an...

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A Perfect Couple

as Patrick
Released: 2005-09-14

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's...

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In Your Dreams

as Mojo
Released: 2005-04-13

Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his...

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Tiresia

as Marignac
Released: 2003-05-20

Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to...

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Portrait of the Artist

as Scottie
Released: 2015-03-15

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by...

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Persecution

as Thomas
Released: 2009-10-17

The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted...

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The Absence

as Soldier
Released: 1993-01-20

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a...

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Clubbed to Death

as Mambo
Released: 1996-06-25

A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts...

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The Great White of Lambarene

as Koumba
Released: 1995-04-26

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a...

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The Syringe

as Le chef des 'Blackies'
Released: 1984-11-14

Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and...

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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

as Segment 'Never Twice'
Released: 2002-04-03

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour)...

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Rouge

as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
Released: 2015-06-11

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on...

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Un enfant en danger

as André
Released: 2013-09-15

Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station,...

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L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs

as Pierre Adélaïde
Released: 2004-12-06

At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village...

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The House

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-01

A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really...

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Duo

as Man
Released: 1995-04-04

One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le...

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Urgence

as uncredited
Released: 1985-06-29

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth...

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Nèg maron

as Siwo
Released: 2005-01-19

Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose,...

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The Heart's Cry

as Ibrahim Sow
Released: 1995-04-05

This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves...

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The United States of Albert

as Nolton Barnett
Released: 2005-04-08

Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to...

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Nord-plage

as uncredited
Released: 2004-10-07

Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying,...

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Murder in Pacot

as L'homme
Released: 2014-09-05

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face...

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La nuit sera longue

as François
Released: 2003-11-24

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy,...

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Un si joli bouquet

as Barthélémy
Released: 1995-09-20

A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and...

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Africa Dreaming

as Michael
Released: 1997-01-01

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad...

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Brûlé neige

as Henri
Released: 2022-08-08

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Voilà l'enchaînement

as Lui
Released: 2014-09-07

With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained...

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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté

as (Voix Off)
Released: 2021-11-07

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance...

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Vers Nancy

as uncredited
Released: 2002-09-02

A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on...

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Négropolitain

as uncredited
Released: 2008-12-30

Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade,...

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The Masturbators

as Narrator
Released: 1995-01-01

Images of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about...

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Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

as uncredited
Released: 1998-08-12

Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of...

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Which Way Africa?

as Narrator
Released: 2024-02-16

Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the...

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Tag!

as Nkruma
Released: 2007-01-24

"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg...

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My Family's Honour

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-02

In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her...

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Escamotage

as uncredited
Released: 2017-04-28

Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he...

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So Be It

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-01

Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing...

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In a Memory of a Film Gone By

as himself
Released: 1998-01-01

A film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious...

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Les Cordier, juge et flic

as Sayyid
First aired: 1994-02-24

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son,...

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Irma Vep

as Gregory Desormeaux
First aired: 2022-06-06

Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to...

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Exterminate All the Brutes

as uncredited
First aired: 2021-04-07

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of...

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Nina

as Mathias Savignon
First aired: 2015-06-17

At the age of 39, Nina finds herself a trainee nurse under the orders of Léo, a 15-year-younger...

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Iskander

as Oscar
First aired: 2018-01-25

Rookie cop Chloé, a new arrival to French Guiana, investigates the ritualistic double murder of...

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Un flic

as Schneider
First aired: 2007-02-02

This series features the investigations of Schneider, a tormented police officer of unwavering...

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