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 ...

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 ...

Luc Besson has a thing for assassins, hitmen and professional killers, and his two best films on the subject are streaming right now at SBS On Demand. Can a professional assassin have a personal life?

It must be Luc Besson appreciation month, as "deluxe editions" of Besson's visually opulent The Fifth Element and artistically violent Leon The Professional have recently surfaced. Of course, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...