Alex Descas
Alex Descas (born January 1, 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in films by Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch. In France, he is also known for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic.
He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in more than half of her theatrical feature-length films, including No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, I Can't Sleep, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards, as well as Ten Minutes Older: The Cello. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.99 |
| Birthday | 1958-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | France |
| Also Known As |
2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
6.924/1039
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while...
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Coffee and Cigarettes
1995
Never Twice
10/1
After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
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Never Twice
2021
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
8/2
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers,...
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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2009
The Limits of Control
6/313
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...
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The Limits of Control
1996
Irma Vep
6.686/244
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
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Irma Vep
1997
The House
7.103/29
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetua...
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The House
2009
35 Shots of Rum
6.8/86
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
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35 Shots of Rum
2009
Rapt
6.1/60
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the...
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Rapt
2001
Trouble Every Day
5.771/229
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stu...
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Trouble Every Day
1994
I Can't Sleep
6.286/21
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arri...
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I Can't Sleep
1999
Last Harem
5.5/59
On the eve of the fall of the Ottoman Empire: in the harem of Sultan Abdulhamit II, the odalisque of Italian origin Safiyè dreams of becoming the sult...
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Last Harem
1997
Africa Dreaming
8/1
A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."
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Africa Dreaming
1991
Against Oblivion
7/3
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Je...
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Against Oblivion
2003
The Dope
4.632/209
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their...
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The Dope
2000
Lumumba
6.865/37
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumu...
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Lumumba
2009
Persecution
4.4/38
A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually insinuating himself i...
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Persecution
1999
Late August, Early September
5.883/47
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
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Late August, Early September
2006
A Perfect Couple
5.5/9
A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having...
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A Perfect Couple
1990
No Fear, No Die
6.057/35
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restauran...
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No Fear, No Die
2002
Vers Nancy
8/1
A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on the idea of intrusion within every foreigner (a more p...
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Vers Nancy
2013
Bastards
5.762/105
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared...
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Bastards
2005
The United States of Albert
3.833/6
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
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The United States of Albert
1984
The Syringe
5.067/15
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the...
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The Syringe
1997
My Family's Honour
9/1
In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects. She...
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My Family's Honour
1998
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
9/1
Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His arriva...
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Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
2007
Déjà vu
0/0
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Déjà vu
1988
How Good the Whites Are
6.643/7
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...
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How Good the Whites Are
2003
La nuit sera longue
10/1
It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of t...
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La nuit sera longue
1995
The Great White of Lambarene
5.333/6
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood i...
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The Great White of Lambarene
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
6.641/32
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2022
Brûlé neige
0/0
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Brûlé neige
2014
Murder in Pacot
3.9/9
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when t...
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Murder in Pacot
2024
Which Way Africa?
0/0
Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.
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Which Way Africa?
1998
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
0/0
A film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious atmosphere of the filming location.
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In a Memory of a Film Gone By
1985
Urgence
4.875/12
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with t...
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Urgence
2002
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
7/1
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through th...
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2005
Nèg maron
6.25/8
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary...
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Nèg maron
2024
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
7.3/3
In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in their...
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Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
2004
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
7/2
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is...
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The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
2014
Madeleine d'entre les Morts
0/0
In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine (played by Kim Novak), not Scottie (James St...
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Madeleine d'entre les Morts
2025
Adam's Sake
6.8/30
A head nurse defies hospital rules to let a mother stay with her malnourished son. As they navigate a complex crisis, the nurse's empathy proves just...
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Adam's Sake
2017
Metropole
0/0
Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “them”. In a notebook he finds in his flat, he crosses out a list of things he shoul...
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Metropole
2013
Un enfant en danger
7.3/3
Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother...
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Un enfant en danger
2016
Chocolat
6.8/753
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo...
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Chocolat
2017
Let the Sunshine In
5.2/220
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
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Let the Sunshine In
2018
Volontaire
5.7/116
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a c...
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Volontaire
2005
In Your Dreams
5.367/15
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hair...
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In Your Dreams
2004
Nord-plage
8/1
Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying, and its last inhabitants, who have put aside their hop...
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Nord-plage
2018
Maya
5.3/43
The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in capt...
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Maya
1996
Clubbed to Death
6.214/14
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled...
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Clubbed to Death
2007
Tag!
5.5/0
"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg for a lecture at Sahlgrenska Hospital. Nkruma ends up in...
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Tag!
2014
Voilà l'enchaînement
5.8/5
With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this fraug...
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Voilà l'enchaînement
1997
Nenette and Boni
6.447/38
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works...
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Nenette and Boni
2005
The Intruder
6.5/49
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
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The Intruder
1993
The Absence
6.5/4
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
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The Absence
2007
Boarding Gate
4.996/114
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of h...
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Boarding Gate
1995
Un si joli bouquet
10/1
A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance,...
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Un si joli bouquet
1995
Duo
0/0
One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemplatif or "Duo".
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Duo
2015
Portrait of the Artist
5.7/9
A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to t...
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Portrait of the Artist
2017
Gone
5/1
Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to destroy compromising documents, it is the world a...
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Gone
2008
Négropolitain
0/0
Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade, the divisional commissioner assigned him with Alain, a m...
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Négropolitain
1995
The Heart's Cry
6.167/6
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose...
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The Heart's Cry
2015
Rouge
6.429/7
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is...
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Rouge
2003
Tiresia
5.903/31
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family...
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Tiresia
1997
So Be It
0/0
Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing allegory of present-day Africa's bloody internecine convulsi...
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So Be It
2013
Césaire, le prix de la liberté
0/0
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Césaire, le prix de la liberté
1995
The Masturbators
3/3
Images of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about masturbation (branler is slang for jacking off) in this short s...
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The Masturbators
2007
Elf, Kings of Oil
0/0
In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, intr...
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Elf, Kings of Oil
2007
The Elf Case
5/3
In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company...
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The Elf Case
2006
L'île des esclaves
0/0
Shipwrecked by a storm on Slave Island, the survivors are forced, according to the law of this Republic, to exchange their status: from master, Iphicr...
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L'île des esclaves
1986
Taxi Boy
5.5/2
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three soli...
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Taxi Boy
2008
We Don't Choose Our Parents
0/0
Following their mother's suicide, three children are the subject of a dispute between their gay half-brother and his infertile sister, who are fightin...
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We Don't Choose Our Parents
2021
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
0/0
After long years spent in exile in Paris, Lyubov, a strange and elusive woman, returns to her ancestral estate, about to be sold to pay off the family...
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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2019
Sing Me Back Home
4.75/4
After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont,...
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Sing Me Back Home
The Arrival
0/0
As two long-lost blood brothers grow closer, seduced by the idea of their shared history finally making sense, they must confront the uncomfortable tr...
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The Arrival
2026
The Failing
0/0
Father Cyril Nouvel has mysteriously disappeared. Yet it is at his initiative that his brother, Gendarme Louis Nouvel, and his mentor, Abbé Gomis, fin...
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The Failing
The Odd Enchantment of Madame P.
0/0
After surviving a mass shooting, Madame P., an internationally renowned opera singer, retreats into a world where dreams and reality blur freely. Wall...
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