Alex Descas: movies and TV shows
Alex Descas has 83 credits in the archive: 77 films and 6 TV series, from 1984 to 2026. Highest rated: Coffee and Cigarettes (6.9/10).
Career timeline
1984 – 2026 · busiest year: 1995 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Failing | L'Abbé Gomis | Film | — | 68 |
| 2025 | Adam's Sake | Naïm | Film | 6.7 | 67 |
| 2024 | Which Way Africa? | Narrator | Film | — | 66 |
| 2024 | Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 7.3 | 66 |
| 2022 | Irma Vep | Gregory Desormeaux | TV | 6.5 | 64 |
| 2022 | Brûlé neige | Henri | Film | — | 64 |
| 2021 | Exterminate All the Brutes | TV | 7.4 | 63 | |
| 2021 | Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2021 | Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté | (Voix Off) | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 2019 | Sing Me Back Home | Juan | Film | 4.8 | 61 |
| 2018 | Iskander | Oscar | TV | 5.0 | 60 |
| 2018 | Volontaire | Albertini | Film | 5.7 | 60 |
| 2018 | Maya | Frédéric | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 2017 | Let the Sunshine In | End Man | Film | 5.2 | 59 |
| 2017 | Gone | Claude Vannier | Film | 5.0 | 59 |
| 2017 | Metropole | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2016 | Chocolat | Victor | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 2015 | Nina | Mathias Savignon | TV | 5.4 | 57 |
| 2015 | Portrait of the Artist | Scottie | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 2015 | Rouge | Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts» | Film | 6.4 | 57 |
| 2014 | Murder in Pacot | L'homme | Film | 3.9 | 56 |
| 2014 | Voilà l'enchaînement | Lui | Film | 5.8 | 56 |
| 2014 | Madeleine d'entre les Morts | The man | Film | — | 56 |
| 2013 | Bastards | Dr. Béthanie | Film | 5.7 | 55 |
| 2013 | Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté | Aimé Césaire | Film | — | 55 |
| 2013 | Un enfant en danger | André | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Creole | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 2009 | Rapt | Maître Walser | Film | 6.2 | 51 |
| 2009 | 35 Shots of Rum | Lionel | Film | 6.8 | 51 |
| 2009 | Persecution | Thomas | Film | 4.4 | 51 |
| 2008 | Négropolitain | Alain | Film | — | 50 |
| 2008 | We Don't Choose Our Parents | Le juge Mauvoisin | Film | — | 50 |
| 2007 | Déjà vu | Kiff | Film | — | 49 |
| 2007 | Un flic | Schneider | TV | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2007 | Tag! | Nkruma | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 2007 | Boarding Gate | Andrew | Film | 5.0 | 49 |
| 2007 | The Elf Case | Pascal Lissouba | Film | 5.0 | 49 |
| 2007 | Elf, Kings of Oil | Pascal Lissouba | Film | — | 49 |
| 2006 | A Perfect Couple | Patrick | Film | 5.5 | 48 |
| 2006 | L'île des esclaves | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2005 | Nèg maron | Siwo | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 2005 | The United States of Albert | Nolton Barnett | Film | 3.8 | 47 |
| 2005 | In Your Dreams | Mojo | Film | 5.2 | 47 |
| 2005 | The Intruder | Le prêtre | Film | 6.5 | 47 |
| 2004 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Alex (segment "No Problem") | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 2004 | Nord-plage | Film | 8.0 | 46 | |
| 2004 | The Man Who Came From Elsewhere | Pierre Adélaïde | Film | 7.0 | 46 |
| 2003 | Tiresia | Marignac | Film | 5.9 | 45 |
| 2003 | The Dope | Shaft | Film | 4.7 | 45 |
| 2003 | La nuit sera longue | François | Film | 10.0 | 45 |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | (segment "Vers Nancy") | Film | 6.6 | 44 |
| 2002 | Vers Nancy | Film | 8.0 | 44 | |
| 2002 | La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (Segment 'Never Twice') | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 2001 | Trouble Every Day | Dr. Léo | Film | 5.8 | 43 |
| 2000 | Lumumba | Joseph Mobutu | Film | 6.9 | 42 |
| 1999 | Late August, Early September | Jérémie | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1999 | Last Harem | Nadir | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 1998 | In a Memory of a Film Gone By | himself | Film | — | 40 |
| 1998 | Le serpent a mangé la grenouille | Yves Le Guen | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1997 | The House | Film | 7.1 | 39 | |
| 1997 | Africa Dreaming | Michael | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1997 | Nenette and Boni | Gynecologist | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1997 | My Family's Honour | Malcolm | Film | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1997 | So Be It | Film | — | 39 | |
| 1996 | Irma Vep | Desormeaux | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1996 | Clubbed to Death | Mambo | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1995 | Duo | Man | Film | — | 37 |
| 1995 | The Masturbators | Narrator | Film | 3.0 | 37 |
| 1995 | Never Twice | Never Twice | Film | 10.0 | 37 |
| 1995 | The Heart's Cry | Ibrahim Sow | Film | 6.2 | 37 |
| 1995 | The Great White of Lambarene | Koumba | Film | 5.3 | 37 |
| 1995 | Un si joli bouquet | Barthélémy | Film | 10.0 | 37 |
| 1994 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Sayyid | TV | 5.3 | 36 |
| 1994 | I Can't Sleep | Théo | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1993 | The Absence | Soldier | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 1991 | Lest We Forget | Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA") | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1990 | No Fear, No Die | Jocelyn | Film | 6.1 | 32 |
| 1988 | How Good the Whites Are | Le travailleur chez Renault | Film | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1986 | Taxi Boy | Pascal | Film | 5.5 | 28 |
| 1985 | Urgence | Film | 4.9 | 27 | |
| 1984 | The Syringe | Le chef des 'Blackies' | Film | 5.1 | 26 |
| The Arrival | Film | — | — | ||
| An Odd Enchantment | Film | — | — |