Luc Besson's best works
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1.
Léon: The Professional
(1994)
A professional assassin rescues a teenage girl whose parents were killed in a police raid. (110 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
2.
Angel-A
(2005)
A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together. (91 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
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Taken
(2008)
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. (93 mins.)
Director: Pierre Morel
4.
Lockout
(2012)
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. (95 mins.)
Director: James Mather, Stephen Saint Leger
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The Fifth Element
(1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay. (126 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
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The Transporter
(2002)
This film is about a man whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. Complications arise when he breaks those rules. (92 mins.)
Director: Louis Leterrier, Cory Yuen
7.
Colombiana
(2011)
A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. (108 mins.)
Director: Olivier Megaton
8.
Transporter 2
(2005)
Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official. (87 mins.)
Director: Louis Leterrier
9.
From Paris with Love
(2010)
In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. (92 mins.)
Director: Pierre Morel
10.
La Femme Nikita
(1990)
Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin. (118 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
11.
Taxi
(1998)
To work off his tarnished driving record, a hip taxi driver must chauffeur a loser police inspector on the trail of German bank robbers. (86 mins.)
Director: Gérard Pirès
12.
Taxi 2
(2000)
Police inspector Emilien and his taxi-driver pal Daniel are back, this time on the tail of a group of Japanese yakuza. (88 mins.)
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
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