Alex Descas
Acting
Born 1958-01-01 · France
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.
Known for
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 · Movie
Chocolat
2016 · Movie
Irma Vep
1996 · Movie
35 Shots of Rum
2009 · Movie
The House
1997 · Movie
Lumumba
2000 · Movie
Adam's Sake
2025 · Movie
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002 · Movie
The Intruder
2005 · Movie
Never Twice
1995 · Movie
Un si joli bouquet
1995 · Movie
La nuit sera longue
2003 · Movie
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021 · Movie
Un enfant en danger
2013 · Movie
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
2024 · Movie
Nenette and Boni
1997 · Movie
My Family's Honour
1997 · Movie
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998 · Movie
How Good the Whites Are
1988 · Movie
Lest We Forget
1991 · Movie
Africa Dreaming
1997 · Movie
Nord-plage
2004 · Movie
Vers Nancy
2002 · Movie
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
2004 · Movie
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002 · Movie
The Absence
1993 · Movie
Rouge
2015 · Movie
The Failing
2026 · Movie
Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté
2013 · Movie
Duo
1995 · Movie
Négropolitain
2008 · Movie
Which Way Africa?
2024 · Movie
Tag!
2007 · Movie
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
1998 · Movie
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021 · Movie
Elf, Kings of Oil
2007 · Movie
L'île des esclaves
2006 · Movie
We Don't Choose Our Parents
2008 · Movie
So Be It
1997 · Movie
Brûlé neige
2022 · Movie
Nèg maron
2005 · Movie
I Can't Sleep
1994 · Movie
The Heart's Cry
1995 · Movie
Gone
2017 · Movie
Taxi Boy
1986 · Movie
Voilà l'enchaînement
2014 · Movie
The Elf Case
2007 · Movie
Rapt
2009 · Movie
No Fear, No Die
1990 · Movie
Portrait of the Artist
2015 · Movie
Clubbed to Death
1996 · Movie
Sing Me Back Home
2019 · Movie
A Perfect Couple
2006 · Movie
The Great White of Lambarene
1995 · Movie
Tiresia
2003 · Movie
The Masturbators
1995 · Movie
Late August, Early September
1999 · Movie
The Limits of Control
2009 · Movie
The United States of Albert
2005 · Movie
Urgence
1985 · Movie