Alex Descas
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

35 Shots of Rum
(2009)Train driver and single father Lionel and his student daughter Josephine share a flat. Upstairs lives Noe, for whom Josephine has a thing. Along the corridor, taxi driver Gabrielle has carried a torch for Lionel for years.

No Fear, No Die
(1990)
The Limits of Control
(2009)HD. A well-traveled espresso-drinker makes his way around Spain for a peculiar job in this Jim Jarmusch film.

Lumumba
(2000)"Lumumba" is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba. Called "the politico of the bush" by journalists of his day, the brilliant and charismatic Lumumba rose rapidly to the office of Prime Minister when Belgium conceded the Congo's independence in June, 1960. He would last two months in office. This is a true story.

Maya
(2018)December 2012. Two French reporters are released after months of captivity in Syria. Gabriel, just shy of 30, heads to his childhood home in Goa, India, to recover. There, he meets Maya.

Trouble Every Day
(2001)One of the luminaries of the contemporary arthouse, Claire Denis makes her own version of a vampire tale in this elliptical, sensual film of disease and desire. Loaded with mystery and tactility, Trouble Every Day stars Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo with an intense score by Tindersticks.

Volontaire
(2018)Laure is 23 years old, and seeking. In the National Navy, she finds structure, and values. Solid and persevering, she will learn and discover her direction.
Iskander
Rookie cop Chloé is transferred to Cayenne in French Guiana where she’s partnered with Dialo, a local cop with a prickly personality. Despite their mutual dislike, they’ll have to work together to solve the brutal, ritual murder of a French couple from the mainland. When the murdered couple’s son is discovered missing, and all clues point to a group of descendants of African slaves who worship a forest spirit called Iskander, Chloé and Dialo will have to double their efforts—and the time they spend together. A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE SERIES.

Rapt
(2009)As the unsavory details of a wealthy industrialist's personal life are revealed in the press upon his kidnapping, the urgency to free him disappears.

Irma Vep
(1996)Starring alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud, Maggie Cheung is the mysterious, latex-clad femme fatale at the center of haute auteur Olivier Assayas’s spiky and dizzyingly hip 1990s satire of the French film industry. Irma Vep both pays tribute to 100 years of French cinema and adds plenty of its own!

Bastards
(2013)Claire Denis’ moody and atmospheric thriller about an absent brother returning to the fold to investigate his family’s murky secrets.

Un enfant en danger
(2013)El caso de un niño desaparecido da un giro inesperado cuando el padre acusa a la madre, de quien está separado, de ser la secuestradora.

Let the Sunshine In
(2017)Juliette Binoche is Isabelle, a Parisian artist and middle-aged divorcée moving from relationship to relationship: from her ex-husband for whom she still has affection; the banker who bosses her around; and the handsome actor who has an inability to make a decision. Hungry for love but afraid of never having a meaningful relationship with a man, Isabelle grapples with the keys to fulfilment.