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Alex Descas

French-African actor
January 1, 1958 (66 years old)
Fr. 2018. Drama by Hélène Fillières with Diane Rouxel, Lambert Wilson, Corentin Fila. Enlisted as a volunteer in the French Navy, the daughter of a famous actress insists on taking her place among the men, which troubles her commander in more ways than one.
Runtime: 101 min.

Let the Sunshine In

V.O.: Un Beau Soleil intérieur
Fr. 2017. Sentimental comedy by Claire Denis with Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Nicolas Duvauchelle. The love affairs of a divorced painter and mother in her fifties who has a predilection for married men.
Runtime: 94 min.

Murder in Pacot

V.O.: Meurtre à Pacot
Fr. 2014. Drama by Raoul Peck with Alex Descas, Ayo, Thibault Vinçon. The efforts of a privileged couple in Port-au-Prince to start living again, in the ruins of their villa destroyed by the earthquake of January 2010.
Runtime: 130 min.
Fr. 2013. Drama by Claire Denis with Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Michel Subor. A merchant marine captain comes to the aid of his sister, distressed by the suicide of her husband, who was backrupted by a rich creditor who had used their daughter as a sex slave.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2013. Crime drama by Jérôme Cornuau with Aure Atika, Arié Elmaleh, Claire Borotra. A Toulouse policewoman is looking for a woman who has fled her violent ex-husband, taking her young son with her.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2012. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A commissioner tries to find an athletic woman who is a widow four times over and who has fled the scene of a scuffle in which a man was killed.
Runtime: 85 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2011. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. While investigating an underground slot machine ring, a police commissioner runs into an old friend who became a gangster after the murder of the woman they were both in love with.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2011. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A Parisian commissioner investigates a deadly shooting whose target, miraculously spared, belongs to a Serbian gang of bank robbers.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2010. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, Cédric Ido. The arrest of a major drug dealer by an honest detective displeases the head of vice, who claims to have made a cooperation agreement with the criminal.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A commissioner is reprimanded by his superiors when one of his prisoners is murdered during a furlough, victim of a vendetta.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2009. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A detective and his team try to catch a young man and his sister, two violent sociopaths specializing in racket.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Lucas Belvaux with Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon. A powerful business leader kidnapped by mysterious captors has his infidelities and passion for gambling exposed.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 2009. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A police detective investigates the death of the ex-wife of a famous Parisian gallery owner, who was found in a car that was set on fire by a criminal.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 2009. Crime drama by Jim Jarmusch with Isaach de Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Tilda Swinton. In Spain, a lonely individual meets various people who provide him with clues that will lead him to the place where he must fulfill a mysterious mission.
Runtime: 115 min.

Persecution

V.O.: Persécution
Fr. 2009. Psychological drama by Patrice Chéreau with Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A young construction worker is chased by a man madly in love with him who refuses to give up the possibility of a requited love.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2008. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A Parisian commissioner investigates the murder of a criminal, the son of an underworld godfather, who had just been arrested for the daring theft of gold ingots.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Thierry Binisti with Flannan Obé, Élisabeth Vitali, Alex Descas. Following their mother's suicide, three children are the subject of a dispute between their gay half-brother and his infertile sister, who are fighting for their custody.
Runtime: 90 min.

35 Shots of Rum

V.O.: 35 Rhums
Fr. 2008. Drama by Claire Denis with Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin. In a building in the Paris suburbs, a subway driver and his daughter, a student, are coveted by two neighbors.
Runtime: 101 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2008. Crime drama by Patrick Dewolf with Alex Descas, Marie-Gaëlle Cals, François Caron. A commissioner tries to reason with three bank robbers who have taken the staff hostage, sending his girlfriend and colleague as an emissary, unaware that she is pregnant.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2006. Drama by François Vautier with Raphaël Tilliette, Alex Descas, François Caron. Upset by the death of his mother, a teenager gradually loses touch with reality by becoming the hero of a new video game.
Runtime: 84 min.

The United States of Albert

V.O.: Les États-Unis d'Albert
Can. 2005. Fantasy comedy by André Forcier with Éric Bruneau, Émilie Dequenne, Roy Dupuis. In 1926, a young actor who left Montreal to try his luck in Hollywood meets a charming Mormon woman.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2005. Mores drama by Denis Thybaud with Disiz La Peste, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas. A young rapper from an underprivileged suburb is hired by an influential producer who is putting on a show about the history of hip-hop.
Fr. 2004. Social drama by François Luciani with Alex Descas, Jérôme Anger, Barbara Schulz. In 1893, a Black doctor from Martinique settles in a village in Charente, disturbing the habits of the local population.
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 2004. Drama by José Hayot with Viktor Lazlo, Alex Descas, Marianne Faithfull. The life of the inhabitants of a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique.
Fr. 2003. Mores drama by Bertrand Bonello with Laurent Lucas, Clara Choveaux, Thiago Telès. A transsexual girl found by a mute teenager develops the gift of clairvoyance after a a madman kidnaps her and gouges out her eyes.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 2003. Sketches by Jim Jarmusch with Cate Blanchett, Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan. Eleven short scenes in which two or three people discuss everything and anything while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 101 min
Fr. 2000. History by Raoul Peck with Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Maka Kotto. In 1961, a few months after being elected head of the first independent government of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.
Runtime: 109 min.

Le Dernier Harem

V.O.: Harem Suare
It. 1999. Mores drama by Ferzan Ozpetek with Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosè. In 1904, a young Italian woman sold into slavery finds herself in the harem of the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul.
Fr. 1997. Mores comedy by Rachid Bouchareb with Séloua Hamse, Karole Rocher, Roschdy Zem.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1997. Crime drama by Denis Amar with Richard Bohringer, Yvan Attal, Thierry Hancisse. In the course of his investigation into the deaths of two young African women, a Parisian police commissioner seeks the help of an ethnopsychiatrist, as he suspects ritual murders.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1995. Crime drama by Alain Wermus with Pierre Mondy, Bruno Madinier, Charlotte Valandrey.
Runtime: 87 min.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1994. Biography by Bassek Ba Kobhio with André Wilms, Marisa Berenson, Alex Descas.
B.F. 1994. Dramatic comedy by Idrissa Ouedraogo with Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi.
Runtime: 86 min.
G.-B. 1991. Drama by Sergio Rezende with Josette Simon, Alex Descas, Pete Postlethwaite. While in Mozambique to attend a conference, a Londoner of South African origin meets a politically involved doctor.

No Fear, No Die

V.O.: S'en fout la mort
Fr. 1990. Mores drama by Claire Denis with Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-Claude Brialy. Two Black men are in charge of covert cockfights organized by a restaurant owner in the Paris suburbs.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Yves Boisset with Lambert Wilson, Tcheky Karyo, Myriem Roussel. A police officer's wife runs away from home with a thief her husband caught.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Michel Gérard with Clémentine Célarié, Jean-Marc Maurel, Franck Dubosc. In an attempt to get his brother out of prostitution, a burglar is chased by gangsters and soon by the police.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Asphalt Warriors

V.O.: L'Arbalète
Fr. 1984. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Daniel Auteuil, Marcel Bozzuffi, Marisa Berenson. Two fiercely different detectives are called on to intervene and counter gang confrontations sparked by a drug shortage.
Runtime: 91 min.

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