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.
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Alex Descas Biography / Wiki
| Name | Alex Descas |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | France |
| Date of Birth | 1958-01-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday |
Alex Descas Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 35 Shots of Rum | Lionel | 2009-02-18 | Lionel, a widower, has raised his daughter, Josephine, on his own since she was young. The two are used to living alone, depending solely on one anoth… |
| L’Homme qui venait d’ailleurs | Pierre Adélaïde | 2004-12-06 | … |
| Metropole | 2017-01-01 | Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “themâ€. In a notebook he finds in his flat, he crosses out a list of things he s… | |
| Murder in Pacot | L’homme | 2014-09-05 | 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… |
| Nord-plage | 2004-10-07 | … | |
| Tag! | Nkruma | 2007-01-24 | “Tag!” – About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg for a lecture at Sahlgrenska Hospital. Nkruma ends up in… |
| Voilà l’enchaînement | Lui | 2014-09-07 | 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… |
| Duo | Man | 1995-04-04 | One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal’s Le Contemplatif or “Duo”…. |
| So Be It | 1997-01-01 | 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… | |
| Césaire, le prix de la liberté | Aimé Césaire | 2013-06-26 | … |
| The Masturbators | Narrator | 1995-01-01 | 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… |
| Never Twice | 1995-01-01 | … | |
| Last Harem | Nadir | 1999-11-24 | A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan’s concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire…. |
| Lumumba | Joseph Mobutu | 2000-05-13 | 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… |
| No Fear, No Die | Jocelyn | 1990-09-05 | Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, “S’en fout la mort”, for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant…. |
| Vers Nancy | 2002-09-02 | 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… | |
| Madeleine d’entre les Morts | 2014-10-03 | In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine (played by Kim Novak), not Scottie (James … | |
| Négropolitain | 2008-12-30 | 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… | |
| The House | 1997-10-01 | 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… | |
| The Great White of Lambarene | Koumba | 1995-04-26 | Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood i… |
| Nèg maron | Siwo | 2005-01-19 | 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 … |
| Maya | Frédéric | 2018-12-19 | 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… |
| The Absence | Soldier | 1992-09-06 | 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…. |
| Le serpent a mangé la grenouille | 1998-08-12 | 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… | |
| Déjà vu | Kiff | 2007-10-16 | … |
| Trouble Every Day | Dr. Léo | 2001-07-11 | Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mys… |
| The Dope | Shaft | 2003-02-05 | 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 … |
| Volontaire | Albertini | 2018-06-06 | 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… |
| Un si joli bouquet | Barthélémy | 1995-09-20 | A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance, … |
| The Heart’s Cry | Ibrahim Sow | 1994-01-01 | 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 … |
| My Family’s Honour | 1997-01-02 | 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… | |
| Rapt | Maître Walser | 2009-11-18 | A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the … |
| I Can’t Sleep | Théo | 1994-05-18 | In 1980s Paris, a series of murders captures public attention. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daiga moves from Lithuania to Paris, immigrant musician Théo s… |
| Persecution | Thomas | 2009-10-17 | The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel’s life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insi… |
| Late August, Early September | Jérémie | 1999-02-10 | A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to l… |
| Irma Vep | Desormeaux | 1996-11-13 | Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les V… |
| Bastards | Dr. Béthanie | 2013-07-06 | 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… |
| Les États-Unis d’Albert | Nolton Barnett | 2005-04-08 | Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures…. |
| Un enfant en danger | André | 2013-09-15 | 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 … |
| Nenette and Boni | The Gynecologist | 1997-01-29 | 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… |
| Boarding Gate | Andrew | 2007-08-22 | A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong…. |
| Escamotage | 2017-04-28 | 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… | |
| Tiresia | Marignac | 2003-05-20 | Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and r… |
| Let the Sunshine In | L’homme Fin (The end man) | 2017-09-27 | Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last…. |
| Clubbed to Death | Mambo | 1996-06-25 | 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 … |
| The Limits of Control | Creole | 2009-05-01 | A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik… |
| The Syringe | Le chef des ‘Blackies’ | 1984-11-14 | 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… |
| Chocolat | Victor | 2016-02-03 | The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century…. |
| The Intruder | Le prêtre | 2005-05-04 | An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son…. |
| A Perfect Couple | Patrick | 2005-09-14 | 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 … |
| Africa Dreaming | Michael | 1997-01-01 | A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of “love in Africa.”… |
| Against Oblivion | Self | 1991-12-11 | Contre l’Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea … |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | (segment “Vers Nancy”) | 2002-09-03 | 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 … |
| In Your Dreams | Mojo | 2005-04-13 | 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… |
| Portrait of the Artist | Scottie | 2015-03-15 | 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… |
| Coffee and Cigarettes | Alex | 2003-09-05 | Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individua… |
| Rouge | Scottie, dans «Madeleine d’entre les morts» | 2015-06-11 | 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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