Thierry Ardisson

Creator

Thierry Ardisson

Born 1949-01-06 · Bourganeuf, Creuse, France

Thierry Ardisson (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁi aʁdisɔ̃]; 6 January 1949 – 14 July 2025) was a French television producer and host.

Acting credits

La face cachée de l'homme en noir poster
6.8

You've seen him interview Mikhail Gorbachev, Angelina Jolie, Robbie Williams, Mariah Carey, Brad Pitt, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro... You know him, but you don't really know him. Everyone has talked about Ardisson without ever getting close to the truth about him. My ambition: to reveal the man behind the costume of "The Man in Black." I thought to myself: if anyone can figure him out, it's me, a journalist and portraitist who has lived with him for 15 years. Who is the private Thierry behind the spectacular Ardisson? What we discover is how much Ardisson's personal history reflects the eras he has lived through, their contradictions, their utopias, their excesses, their violence. Like so many facets of a man and of society at the turn of the century.

La face cachée de l'homme en noir

2025

Paris by Night poster
6.1

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.

Paris by Night

2012

L'Âge d'or de la pub poster
6.5

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

Days of Darkness poster
6.4

Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?

Days of Darkness

2007

Fils de poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fils de

The Car Keys poster
5.2

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

The Car Keys

2003

Elohim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Elohim

2023

I Love You Coiffure poster
3.8

Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.

I Love You Coiffure

2020

Louis de Funès Intime poster
7.3

The life and career of actor Louis de Funès with interviews from his family, friends and collaborators.

Louis de Funès Intime

2007

Les Duos mythiques de la télévision poster
7.5

This entertaining documentary revisits iconic French television duos, showcasing their best moments, most memorable unexpected moments, and unforgettable laughs. A journey from the 1960s to the present day, it reveals the secrets of that unique chemistry that allows two talented individuals to complement each other perfectly, much to the delight of viewers!

Les Duos mythiques de la télévision

2021

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi

2020

La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé

2018

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès poster
8.0

Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective memory. Favorite host́ of the French during the 2000s, ideal son-in-law successful producer, his rank of star and flayed́ alive have caused him to burn his wings and lose his feet. This documentary evening recounts the breathless life journey and the twists and turns of Jean-Luc Delarue's career. Telling Jean-Luc Delarue is to tell several lives, the ambivalence of the character publicly strong, powerful and ambitious, but ultra-sensitive and tortured in the intimacy.

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès

2022

93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème

2023

214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans

2023

La folie des années 80 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La folie des années 80

2008

Ardisson : La Totale poster
7.0

Thierry Ardisson evokes the most sulphurous moments but also the least seen of the emissions which marked out its course.

Ardisson : La Totale

2019

Behind the camera

L'Âge d'or de la pub poster
6.5

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

Leila poster
5.7

Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from her older sister. She will not be able to come to join them for the holidays, pretexting once more an overload of work - Latifa attacks Hakim and pushes him to fetch Leïla. Nedjma will come with him, they will take the opportunity to discover Paris. Upon their arrival in the hair salon, they learn that Leila has actually never worked. It is the journey of a father who begins in Paris one night until dawn.

Leila

2018

Max poster
5.8

Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.

Max

2013

Max poster
5.8

Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.

Max

2013