Alex Descas
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.
Coffee and Cigarettes
as Alex (segment "No Problem")Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film...
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Chocolat
as VictorChocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after...
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The Limits of Control
as CreoleA mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one....
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Irma Vep
as DesormeauxHong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime...
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Trouble Every Day
as Dr. LéoNewlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a...
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Bastards
as Dr. BéthanieMarco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister...
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Let the Sunshine In
as End ManIsabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
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Late August, Early September
as JérémieA book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal...
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Boarding Gate
as AndrewA beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise...
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Rapt
as Maître WalserA rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in...
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Last Harem
as NadirA story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in...
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35 Shots of Rum
as LionelA widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her...
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The Dope
as ShaftAlphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best...
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Volontaire
as AlbertiniThe story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing...
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Lumumba
as Joseph MobutuThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
as (segment "Vers Nancy")Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting...
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Nenette and Boni
as GynecologistTeenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their...
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The Intruder
as Le prêtreAn emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an...
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No Fear, No Die
as JocelynDah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an...
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Maya
as FrédéricThe film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage...
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In Your Dreams
as MojoNinth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his...
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Rouge
as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on...
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A Perfect Couple
as PatrickA French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's...
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Persecution
as ThomasThe solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted...
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Urgence
as uncreditedWhen a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth...
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Tiresia
as MarignacBased on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to...
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Un enfant en danger
as AndréRebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station,...
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Portrait of the Artist
as ScottieA famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by...
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I Can't Sleep
as ThéoNinon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery...
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Nèg maron
as SiwoTwo childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose,...
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The Great White of Lambarene
as KoumbaAlbert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a...
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The Syringe
as Le chef des 'Blackies'Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and...
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Against Oblivion
as SelfContre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and...
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The Heart's Cry
as Ibrahim SowThis drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves...
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The House
as uncreditedA moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really...
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Voilà l'enchaînement
as LuiWith two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained...
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The Elf Case
as Pascal LissoubaIn 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven...
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The United States of Albert
as Nolton BarnettAlbert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to...
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Vers Nancy
as uncreditedA train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on...
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Africa Dreaming
as MichaelA series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad...
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Clubbed to Death
as MamboA young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts...
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Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
as uncreditedYves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of...
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Nord-plage
as uncreditedPortrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying,...
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My Family's Honour
as MalcolmIn the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her...
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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
as (Voix Off)Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance...
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Murder in Pacot
as L'hommeIn the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face...
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The Absence
as SoldierFour nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a...
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (Segment 'Never Twice')This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour)...
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Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
as Narrator (Voice)In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals....
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Elf, Kings of Oil
as Pascal LissoubaIn 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf....
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The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
as Pierre AdélaïdeAt the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village...
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How Good the Whites Are
as Le travailleur chez RenaultThe humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and...
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The Masturbators
as NarratorImages of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about...
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La nuit sera longue
as FrançoisIt is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy,...
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Which Way Africa?
as NarratorForest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the...
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Un si joli bouquet
as BarthélémyA young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and...
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In a Memory of a Film Gone By
as himselfA film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious...
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Négropolitain
as AlainCarl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade,...
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Tag!
as Nkruma"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg...
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So Be It
as uncreditedBased on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing...
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Duo
as ManOne of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le...
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Gone
as Claude VannierThomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he...
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Les Cordier, juge et flic
as SayyidThe Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son,...
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Irma Vep
as Gregory DesormeauxMira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to...
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Nina
as Mathias SavignonAt the age of 39, Nina finds herself a trainee nurse under the orders of Léo, a 15-year-younger...
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Exterminate All the Brutes
as uncreditedHybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of...
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Iskander
as OscarRookie cop Chloé, a new arrival to French Guiana, investigates the ritualistic double murder of...
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Un flic
as SchneiderThis series features the investigations of Schneider, a tormented police officer of unwavering...
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