Personal Info
Birth date
1958-01-01 (67 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
France
Also known as
-Alex Descas
Biography
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.
Filmography
Les Cordier, juge et flic
5.429
Overview:
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.Nina
5.8
Overview:
At the age of 39, Nina finds herself a trainee nurse under the orders of Léo, a 15-year-younger "girl" with a difficult temperament, and Dr. Proust, who likes to scare her ... Not easy ! Especially for all, Nina is the wife of the boss, Costa Antonakis, his ex with whom nothing is really settled despite their divorce. But after healing Lily, their daughter, for ten years, nothing scares Nina! With years spent in hospitals in contact with doctors such as nurses and health-care aides, Nina, the daughter of a great internist and a renowned obstetrician, runs the risk of disappointing them to trace her own path in the hospital universe to which she can not really escape ... Listening and care as a profession of faith, the desire to live and love as a prescription ...Iskander
5.227
Overview:
Rookie cop Chloé, a new arrival to French Guiana, investigates the ritualistic double murder of a French couple and their missing son.Irma Vep
6.7
Overview:
Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.Exterminate All the Brutes
7.4
Overview:
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.Un flic
7.2
Overview:
This series features the investigations of Schneider, a tormented police officer of unwavering integrity.Let the Sunshine In
5.216
Overview:
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.Coffee and Cigarettes
6.922
Overview:
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.Trouble Every Day
5.778
Overview:
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 stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.Bastards
5.773
Overview:
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 for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.Irma Vep
6.651
Overview:
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…Chocolat
6.838
Overview:
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.The Limits of Control
6
Overview:
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.Boarding Gate
5
Overview:
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 her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.Late August, Early September
5.9
Overview:
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.Last Harem
5.5
Overview:
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.35 Shots of Rum
6.8
Overview:
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.The Intruder
6.6
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An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.Against Oblivion
6.5
Overview:
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 on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.Volontaire
5.8
Overview:
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 communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.Rapt
6.142
Overview:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.Lumumba
6.8
Overview:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.Urgence
4.8
Overview:
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 the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.Maya
5.4
Overview:
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 captivity.Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
6.6
Overview:
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 involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.The Absence
5.3
Overview:
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.Nenette and Boni
6.5
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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 for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.The Dope
4.629
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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 way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.In Your Dreams
5.5
Overview:
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, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...The Elf Case
5
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In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company that runs on kickbacks: in exchange for the oil rights, Elf makes handsome but discreet payoffs to the leaders of African nations. With the tacit complicity of President Mitterrand, and with eventual political and personal interests in mind, the new management takes charge of the slush fund. Within months, Sirven, Le Floch-Prigent and his wife Fatima Belaïd fill their pockets with more than they could ever have imagined.Acting
2025Adam's Sake as Naïm
2024Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
2024Which Way Africa? as Narrator
2022Brûlé neige as Henri
2022Irma Vep (8 Episodes) as Gregory Desormeaux
2021Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
2021Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as Unknown
2021Exterminate All the Brutes (1 Episode) as Unknown
2018Maya as Frédéric
2018Volontaire as Albertini
2018Iskander (4 Episodes) as Oscar
2017Let the Sunshine In as End Man
2017Gone as Claude Vannier
2017Metropole as Unknown
2016Chocolat as Victor
2015Nina (1 Episode) as Mathias Savignon
2015Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
2014Madeleine d’entre les Morts as Unknown
2014Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
2014Murder in Pacot as L'homme
2013Un enfant en danger as André
2013Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
2013Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
2009Rapt as Maître Walser
2009Persecution as Thomas
2009The Limits of Control as Creole
200935 Shots of Rum as Lionel
2008Négropolitain as Alain
2008We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
2007Déjà vu as Kiff
2007Boarding Gate as Andrew
2007Un flic (10 Episodes) as Schneider
2007Tag! as Nkruma
2007Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
2007The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
2006L'île des esclaves as Unknown
2005A Perfect Couple as Patrick
2005The Intruder as Le prêtre
2005In Your Dreams as Mojo
2005The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
2005Nèg maron as Siwo
2004The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
2004Nord-plage as Unknown
2004Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
2003La nuit sera longue as François
2003Tiresia as Marignac
2003The Dope as Shaft
2002Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002Vers Nancy as Unknown
2002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
2001Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
2000Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
1999Last Harem as Nadir
1999Late August, Early September as Jérémie
1998Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Unknown
1998In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
1997The House as Unknown
1997Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
1997My Family's Honour as Malcolm
1997Africa Dreaming as Michael
1997So Be It as Unknown
1996Irma Vep as Desormeaux
1996Clubbed to Death as Mambo
1995Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
1995The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
1995The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
1995Duo as Man
1995Never Twice as Never Twice
1995The Masturbators as Narrator
1994I Can't Sleep as Théo
1994Les Cordier, juge et flic (1 Episode) as Sayyid
1993The Absence as Soldier
1991Against Oblivion as Self
1990No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
1988How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
1986Taxi Boy as Pascal
1985Urgence as Unknown
1984The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'