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  1. Besson's work stretches over twenty-six years and encompasses at least fifty-films. Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer known for making highly visual thriller and action films. Besson has been nominated for, and won, numerous awards and honors from the foreign press, and is often credited as inventing the so-called ...

  2. Second Unit Director. 1983. 5. (0) Deux Lions Au Soleil. Second Assistant Director. 1980. (0) Find films and movies featuring Luc Besson on AllMovie.

  3. And Besson just explains that he uses this machine to basically make or produce the same kind of movies. I suggest you take a look at the movies he produced, through his own company EuropaCorp and you will have a better idea of what Luc Besson is or tries to be. In Europe, especially in France, Luc Besson is seen as a popular director.

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    • Leon: The Professional. When the best French hitman in New York City meets a young girl in trouble, he goes against his better judgment to try and save her life.
    • La Femme Nikita. A convicted murderer is given a second chance and trained as an elite assassin for the French government. The job saves her life, but she quickly realizes it might not be a life worth living.
    • The Fifth Element. A rough-around-the-edges cab driver has a beautiful woman fall in his lap — and soon evil forces, aliens, and destiny itself are hot on their heels.
    • The Big Blue. Two men, friends and competitors since childhood, find their fates drawn to the ocean and the perilous sport of freediving. When one pushes the other to an overdue competition, though, the ocean threatens to exact a human price.
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    • “The Family”
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    • “The Lady”
    • “The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc”

    It’s something of a backhanded compliment that the most anonymous film Luc Besson has ever made is also the worst. A witless misfire that tries to split the difference between a gangster drama, a domestic satire, a coming-of-age story (or two), and a fish-out-of-water comedy about foreigners in France, “The Family” is ultimately none of those thing...

    It’s entirely possible that Luc Besson has a pathological inability to tell the difference between his good ideas and his bad ideas — he overcommits to both of them equally. Not only did he write a hackneyed children’s book about a kid who shrinks down to the size of a bug and discovers a kingdom of sprite-like creatures living in his grandmother’s...

    Maybe it shouldn’t seem so insane that the guy behind “The Fifth Element” also directed a biopic about Aung San Suu Kyi, a scholar who went on to become “Burma’s First Lady of Freedom” (the details are a bit complicated). In theory, this material should play to Besson’s strengths, or at least his obsessions. In practice, it doesn’t. At all. Maybe a...

    Sorry, Luc, but “What if Joan of Arc was hot?” isn’t really enough of an idea to sustain an 165-minute movie. The ranking continues on page 2 with an angel, a brute, and an 100-year-old Mathieu Amalric. Continue Reading: Luc Besson Movies Ranked from Worst to Best Next »

  5. 3. The Fifth Element (1997) PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 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. Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm.

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · Somewhat of a comeback from Luc Besson, ... Which really works because the movie became one of France's most commercially successful films at the time. 3 La Femme Nikita (1990)