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 ...

The film that launched Natalie Portman's career wouldn't have starred the future Oscar winner at all if her parents had ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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?