Alex Descas
Birthday: 1958-01-01
Place of Birth: France
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al...
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Never Twice
After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing viril...
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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...
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The Limits of Control
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...
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Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a re...
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The House
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting ...
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35 Shots of Rum
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her depar...
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Rapt
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprison...
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Trouble Every Day
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cur...
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I Can't Sleep
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors...
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Last Harem
On the eve of the fall of the Ottoman Empire: in the harem of Sultan Abdulhamit II, the odalisque of...
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Africa Dreaming
A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of...
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Against Oblivion
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to...
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The Dope
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best fri...
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Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later rede...
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Persecution
A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when ...
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Late August, Early September
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illn...
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A Perfect Couple
A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding...
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No Fear, No Die
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an...
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Vers Nancy
A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on the ...
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Bastards
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister belie...
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The United States of Albert
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywo...
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The Syringe
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs a...
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My Family's Honour
In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Ro...
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Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. ...
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How Good the Whites Are
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six ...
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La nuit sera longue
It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted t...
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The Great White of Lambarene
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting mar...
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Murder in Pacot
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with ...
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Which Way Africa?
Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land'...
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Urgence
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because i...
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In a Memory of a Film Gone By
A film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious atmosphere of...
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) dea...
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Nèg maron
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadelo...
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Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This d...
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The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in C...
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Madeleine d'entre les Morts
In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Made...
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Adam's Sake
Lucy works in an understaffed pediatric ward. When 4-year-old Adam is placed in her care, Lucy is co...
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Metropole
Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “them”. In a notebook he finds in ...
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Un enfant en danger
Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying h...
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Chocolat
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after for...
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Let the Sunshine In
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last....
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Volontaire
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilli...
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In Your Dreams
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neigh...
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Nord-plage
Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying, and ...
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Maya
The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in ...
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Clubbed to Death
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of P...
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Tag!
"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg for a ...
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Voilà l'enchaînement
With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship...
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Nenette and Boni
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mot...
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The Intruder
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estra...
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The Absence
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolat...
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Boarding Gate
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise tha...
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Un si joli bouquet
A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corrupt...
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Duo
One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemp...
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Portrait of the Artist
A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the id...
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Gone
Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to...
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Négropolitain
Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade, the di...
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The Heart's Cry
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him ...
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Rouge
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his ...
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Tiresia
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left ...
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So Be It
Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing allegory o...
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The Masturbators
Images of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about masturbation ...
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Elf, Kings of Oil
In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfr...
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The Elf Case
In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become th...
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L'île des esclaves
Shipwrecked by a storm on Slave Island, the survivors are forced, according to the law of this Repub...
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Taxi Boy
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food wai...
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We Don't Choose Our Parents
Following their mother's suicide, three children are the subject of a dispute between their gay half...
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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
After long years spent in exile in Paris, Lyubov, a strange and elusive woman, returns to her ancest...
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Sing Me Back Home
After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her ...
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The Arrival
As two long-lost blood brothers grow closer, seduced by the idea of their shared history finally mak...
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The Failing
Father Cyril Nouvel has mysteriously disappeared. Yet it is at his initiative that his brother, Gend...
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