Luc Besson
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) (1983)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno
- The director's impressive debut (at the age of 24) is a post–apocalyptic fable, strikingly filmed in black and white with almost no…
- Ultimate Luc Besson Boxset (Le Dernier Combat, Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita, Atlantis, The Professional, The Fifth Element) (1983-1997)
- Dir. Luc Besson
- A seven–film boxset of Luc Besson's most memorable blockbusters.
- Subway (1985)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani
- Fast paced action thriller set in the Paris underground. A cool rebel–hero (Christopher Lambert) teams up with Isabelle Adjani in stylish…
- Big Blue, The (1988)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno
- Visually, aurally (and literally) breathtaking tale of two rival free–fall divers, an American journalist, and the glorious Mediterranean.…
- Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo…
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
- Atlantis (1992)
- Dir. Luc Besson
- Luc Besson takes his camera on an exclusive underwater journey through the world's marine life with regular composer Eric Serra on board to further…
- Leon The Professional, The (Professional, The) (1994)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman
- The director of NIKITA revamps his French hit with American money and the English language. An Italian hitman in New York reluctantly adopts a…
- Fifth Element, The (1997)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich…
- Whether you think it's a gorgeous sci–fi masterpiece or narcissistic fluff, French director Luc 'Nikita' Besson's multi–million dollar…
- Joan of Arc (The Messenger) (1999)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich…
- The French heroine gets the big–budget splurge with a religiously inspired Milla Jovovich leading the French peasantry against the Brits, only…
- Angel-A (2005)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen
- This sleek, stylized departure for dir. Luc Besson dabbles in an unlikely romance between a statuesque blonde (Rassmusen), and a nebbish, diminutive…
- Arthur and the Invisibles (Arthur et les Minimoys) (2006)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Jimmy Fallon…
- Blending animation and live–action, Luc Besson directs the tale of ‘Arthur and The Minimoys’ (translated to ‘Invisibles’ for English…
- Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, The (Adèle Blanc-Sec) (2010)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche…
- Luc Besson helms this outlandish female–scented romp, centred on the tomb raiding escapades of a writer (a fetching Louise Bourgoin) whose…
- Lady, The (2011)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Benedict Wong
- Luc Besson directs this stirring biopic of Burmese pro–democracy activist turned political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Family, The (2013)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron…
- In this stylised black comedy, De Niro sends himself up (yet again) as the patriarch of a mafia family shipped off to France under witness…
- Lucy (2014)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi
- A woman's full mental capacity is unlocked when she inadvertently digests a powerful synthetic drug in this outrageous action film from dir. Luc…
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Ethan Hawke…
- Expensive and extravagant space opera set in the 28th Century, where a team of special operatives investigate a dark force that threatens peace in…
- Anna (2019)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans…
- A beautiful Russian woman goes undercover for the KGB in this slick spy thriller that ticks all the boxes for Luc Besson fans.