Released in 1994, Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional is considered a masterpiece. A crime thriller, the movie featured Natalie Portman as Mathilda and Jean Reno as Leon, the hitman with a heart.

Luc Besson’s taste for wacky plots, extravagant action and grandiose romance reached its climax with this deeply strange and much-loved crime movie about a 12-year-old girl, Mathilda, (Natalie Portman ...

One of the most oft-filmed cities on the planet, New York takes on a renewed sense of the exotic in Luc Besson’s 1994 action drama, Leon: The Professional. Accompanied by Eric Serra’s imaginative ...

French director Luc Besson has plans to direct a sequel to his action classic Léon – but only if Nathalie Portman agrees to star. Portman made her movie debut in the 1994 film as Mathilda, a young ...

HONESTLY for twenty years, I’ve struggled to watch director Luc Besson’s “The Fifth Element.” I wasn’t alone. Besson recalls in the 4K featurette “The Director’s Notes,” during one of the original ...

Currently known as a cult film, Léon: The Professional was written and directed in 1994 by Luc Besson and stars French actor Jean Reno as the titular Léon. The film is an action-thriller, and also ...

Unlike La Femme Nikita, Besson's ultra-stylish female hit-woman action/drama, Leon: The Professional never got a remake, which, looking at Point of No Return, is a good thing. Maybe it's because ...