Screenplay: Luc Besson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Luc Besson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Léon: The Professional

1994 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Jean Reno · Natalie Portman · Gary Oldman · Danny Aiello

Plot 12-year-old Mathilda's family are murdered in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned by the massacre, Mathilda is forced to take shelter in the apartment of a neighbor, Leon, whom she...

7.6

71K votes

7.6

71K votes

Taken

2008 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Pierre Morel

Cast Liam Neeson · Maggie Grace · Famke Janssen · Leland Orser

Plot When his estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy and special agent, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), sets out to find her at any cost. Relying...

6.9

43K votes

6.9

43K votes

The Big Blue

1988 · Movie · 168 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Jean-Marc Barr · Jean Reno · Rosanna Arquette · Jean Bouise

Plot French Jacques Mayol (Jean-Marc Barr) and italian Enzo Maiorca (Jean Reno) have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean. They...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

Angel-A

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Jamel Debbouze · Rie Rasmussen · Gilbert Melki · Serge Riaboukine

Plot A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Fifth Element

1997 · Movie · 127 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Bruce Willis · Gary Oldman · Milla Jovovich · Luke Perry

Plot With a deadly race of aliens ready to destroy Earth, a second race, allied with the humans, send a young girl, Leeloo (Jovovich), who is the fifth element, or supreme...

6.6

94K votes

6.6

94K votes

Dogman

2023 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Caleb Landry Jones · Jonica T. Gibbs · Christopher Denham · Clemens Schick

Plot A boy, bruised by life finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.

6.5

334 votes

6.5

334 votes

Nikita (La femme Nikita)

1990 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Anne Parillaud · Jean-Hugues Anglade · Tchéky Karyo · Jeanne Moreau

Plot Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to prison,...

6.3

17K votes

6.3

17K votes

Atlantis

1991 · Documentary · 80 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

6.3

119 votes

6.3

119 votes

Le Missionnaire

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · France

6.2

41 votes

6.2

41 votes

The Last Battle

1983 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Jean Reno · Pierre Jolivet · Jean Bouise · Fritz Wepper

Plot In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left. No one is able to speak; the film contains no dialogue, and characters communicate non-verbally. A determined loner befriends a...

6.1

894 votes

6.1

894 votes

Unleashed (Danny the Dog)

2005 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Louis Leterrier

Cast Jet Li · Morgan Freeman · Bob Hoskins · Kerry Condon

Plot This is the story of Danny (Jet Li), a slave who has lived his whole life without any sort of normal human education, with the mind and personality of a...

6.1

17K votes

6.1

17K votes

The Transporter

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Louis Leterrier · Corey Yuen

Cast Jason Statham · Shu Qi · Matt Schulze · François Berléand

Plot Frank is hired to "transport" packages for unknown clients and has made a very good living doing so. But when asked to move a package that begins moving, complications arise.

6.1

30K votes

6.1

30K votes

Kiss of the Dragon

2001 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Chris Nahon

Cast Jet Li · Bridget Fonda · Tchéky Karyo · Max Ryan

Plot Liu Siu-Jian (Jet Li), a Chinese intelligence agent, is sent to Paris to help apprehend Chinese mob boss Mr. Big (Ric Young), who is involved in heroin smuggling. He meets...

5.9

8K votes

5.9

8K votes

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

1999 · Movie · 151 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Milla Jovovich · John Malkovich · Faye Dunaway · Dustin Hoffman

Plot In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights...

5.8

15K votes

5.8

15K votes

Taxi

1998 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Gérard Pirès

Cast Samy Naceri · Frédéric Diefenthal · Marion Cotillard · Manuela Gourary

Plot To work off his tarnished driving record, a hip taxi driver must chauffeur a loser police inspector on the trail of German bank robbers.

5.8

10K votes

5.8

10K votes

Anna

2019 · Movie · 119 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Sasha Luss · Helen Mirren · Luke Evans · Cillian Murphy

Plot Beneath Anna Poliatova’s striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world’s most feared government assassins.

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes

13th District (District 13)

2004 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Pierre Morel

Cast Cyril Raffaelli · David Belle · Dany Verissimo · Tony D'Amario

Plot In the near future, the worst ghettos of Paris, France are literally walled off and among the worst is District B13. Controlled by the ruthless crime lord, Taha, a young...

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

2017 · Movie · 137 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Dane DeHaan · Cara Delevingne · Clive Owen · Ethan Hawke

Plot In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister...

5.7

14K votes

5.7

14K votes

From Paris with Love

2010 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Pierre Morel

Cast John Travolta · Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Kasia Smutniak · Amber Rose Revah

Plot A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking,...

5.6

12K votes

5.6

12K votes

Arthur and the Invisibles

2006 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Freddie Highmore · Mia Farrow · Penny Balfour · Doug Rand

Plot Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny people living...

5.6

7K votes

5.6

7K votes