Alex Descas
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Alex Descas

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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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Films Featuring Alex Descas

Coffee and Cigarettes

20046.9

Never Twice

199510.0

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté

20218.0

The Limits of Control

20096.0

Irma Vep

19966.7

The House

19977.3

35 Shots of Rum

20096.8

Rapt

20096.2

Trouble Every Day

20015.8

I Can't Sleep

19946.4

Last Harem

19995.5

Africa Dreaming

19978.0

Lest We Forget

19917.0

The Dope

20034.6

Lumumba

20006.8

Persecution

20094.3

Late August, Early September

19995.9

A Perfect Couple

20065.5

No Fear, No Die

19906.1

Vers Nancy

20028.5

Bastards

20135.7

The United States of Albert

20053.8

The Syringe

19845.1

My Family's Honour

19979.0

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

19989.0

Déjà vu

Déjà vu

2007

How Good the Whites Are

19886.6

La nuit sera longue

200310.0

The Great White of Lambarene

19955.3

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

20026.6

Brûlé neige

2022

Murder in Pacot

20143.9

Which Way Africa?

2024

Urgence

19854.9

In a Memory of a Film Gone By

1998

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

20027.0

Nèg maron

20056.3

Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants

20247.3

The Man Who Came From Elsewhere

20047.0

Madeleine d'entre les Morts

Madeleine d'entre les Morts

2014

Adam's Sake

20256.8

Metropole

Metropole

20176.0

Un enfant en danger

20137.3

Chocolat

20166.8

Let the Sunshine In

20175.2

Volontaire

20185.7

In Your Dreams

20055.2

Nord-plage

20048.0

Maya

20185.3

Clubbed to Death

19965.9

Tag!

20075.5

Voilà l'enchaînement

20145.8

Nenette and Boni

19976.5

The Intruder

20056.5

The Absence

19936.5

Boarding Gate

20075.0

Un si joli bouquet

199510.0

Duo

1995

Portrait of the Artist

20155.7

Gone

20175.0

Négropolitain

2008

The Heart's Cry

19956.2

Rouge

20156.4

Tiresia

20035.9

So Be It

1997

Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté

2013

The Masturbators

19953.0

Elf, Kings of Oil

2007

The Elf Case

20075.0

L'île des esclaves

2006

Taxi Boy

19865.5

We Don't Choose Our Parents

2008

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

2021

Sing Me Back Home

20194.8

The Arrival

The Arrival

The Failing

2026

An Odd Enchantment

An Odd Enchantment