Pierre Lescure

Acting

Pierre Lescure

Born 1945-07-02 · Paris, France

Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris. He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972. He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock. He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government. He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

Acting credits

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy poster
7.5

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

1994

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires

2016

My Coluche poster
8.0

It’s the story of two guys — a comedian and a journalist — who become friends and get up to all sorts of antics. It’s the story of two men reflecting their era. It’s the story of one man, Coluche, seen through the eyes of his friend, Michel Denisot. It’s the story of his Coluche.

My Coluche

2026

Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien poster
7.0

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Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien

2026

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président poster
7.2

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

2022

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

2026

A Day in the Life of French Cinema poster
7.0

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

2002

By the Pricking of My Thumbs poster
6.2

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

2005

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance poster
6.0

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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

2018

A Day at the Museum poster
4.5

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

A Day at the Museum

2008

Gainsbourg and His Girls poster
4.1

Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Régine, France Gall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou... An intimate portrait of the man who could not live without them.

Gainsbourg and His Girls

2010

Pierre & Lescure poster
8.0

Journalist, columnist, creator of the show Children of Rock, boss of Universal Studios, founder and president of Canal +, president of the Cannes film festival … Pierre Lescure has multiplied helmets throughout its existence. It is on this rich life that the latter agreed to return to the documentary Pierre & Lescure directed by his former colleague, Maxime Switek

Pierre & Lescure

2020

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) poster
8.0

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

2023

Ladies' Choice poster
6.0

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

Ladies' Choice

1982

La télé de Valérie Lemercier poster
NR

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La télé de Valérie Lemercier

2017

Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot poster
NR

He never scored a single goal as a professional, but he profoundly transformed soccer. Starting from nothing, Jean-Claude Darmon ushered in a new era for the sport: one of business and spectacle. Sponsorship, marketing, television rights—he designed it all, negotiated it all, and turned it all upside down. Between confidential agreements, daring moves, and ego rivalries, his rise to the top reads like an epic tale.

Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot

2025

La télé des Nuls poster
1.0

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La télé des Nuls

2019

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années poster
5.3

A four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches, reference expressions... offer sixty or so “Guignolized” personalities the opportunity to analyze the phenomenon or react to their puppets. Their impressions, shared with Gilles Verlant, punctuate the Night. All those who have made Les Guignols what they are today - Alain De Greef, the historical authors, puppet creator Alain Duverne, etc. - take the opportunity to reveal a few of their secrets.

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

1999

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

La folie des années 90 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La folie des années 90

2010

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