Alex Descas Movies

Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roberto Benigni

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isaach De Bankolé

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvan Attal

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vincent Gallo

Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yekaterina Golubeva

A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Gillain

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Amar

Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michaël Youn

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ériq Ebouaney

The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Romain Duris

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathieu Amalric

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isaach De Bankolé

A train conversation between an immigrant French woman and novelist Jean-Luc Nancy centering on the idea of intrusion within every foreigner (a more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Luc Nancy

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vincent Lindon

Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Éric Bruneau

Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets',...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Daniel Auteuil

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Wilms

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Admiral T.

At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine (played by Kim Novak), not Scottie...

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Cast: Isild Le Besco

Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “them”. In a notebook he finds in his flat, he crosses out a list of...

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Cast: Alex Descas

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Omar Sy

Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Aure Atika

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juliette Binoche

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Rouxel

Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Disiz

Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying, and its last inhabitants, who have put aside their...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alex Descas

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roman Kolinka

A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Élodie Bouchez

"Tag!" - About the American malaria researcher Nkruma who arrives with a family to Gothenburg for a lecture at Sahlgrenska Hospital. Nkruma ends up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grégoire Colin

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Subor

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Asia Argento

A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance,...

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Cast: Caroline Tresca

One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemplatif or "Duo".

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Cast: Alex Descas

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bertrand Bonello

Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade, the divisional commissioner assigned him with Alain, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Julien Béramis

Thomas, an architect, discovers that he made a serious mistake on a building site. As he attempts to destroy compromising documents, it is the world...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Denis Eyriey

This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose...

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Cast: Richard Bohringer

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bertrand Bonello

Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurent Lucas

Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing allegory of present-day Africa's bloody internecine...

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Cast: Alex Descas

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alex Descas

Images of the Port Dauphine subway terminus are accompanied by a text read aloud about masturbation (branler is slang for jacking off) in this short...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophia Matros

In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects....

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Cast: Seloua Hamse

Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His...

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Cast: Jean Rochefort

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raphaël Tilliette

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olivier Torres

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roland Amstutz

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frantz Fanon

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maruschka Detmers

Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Njami

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Berry

A film about the creation of director Šarūnas Bartas's feature film and the mysterious atmosphere of the filming location.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Šarūnas Bartas

In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alex Descas