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.

“Léon: The Professional” was first released in France on Sept. 14, 1994. It was written and directed by French filmmaker Luc Besson, and stars Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman. Known outside ...

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 ...

Spanish drama Money Heist, also known as La Casa De Papel, returned to Netflix for its fourth series earlier this month. The drama ended on a cliffhanger similar to the previous season where the gang ...

The film that arguably brought Luc Besson to a wider audience outside of his native France, Leon is the story of a hitman in New York. He leads a solitary lifestyle working as a ‘cleaner’, primarily ...

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 ...