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Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and producer. He has contributed to many projects as either writer, director, producer, or a combination of the three.
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Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and producer. He has contributed to many projects as either writer, director, producer, or a combination of the three.
| Year | Film | Credited as | Rotten Tomatoes | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | ||||
| 1981 | L'Avant Dernier | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1983 | Le Dernier Combat | Yes | Yes | Yes | 71% | |
| 1985 | Subway | Yes | Yes | Yes | 75% | |
| 1988 | The Big Blue | Yes | Yes | No | 63% | Co-producer (uncredited) |
| 1990 | La Femme Nikita | Yes | Yes | Yes | 88% | |
| 1991 | Atlantis [I] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1994 | Léon: The Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | 74% | Co-producer (uncredited) |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Yes | Yes | No | 71% | |
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Yes | Yes | Yes | 30% | Co-producer |
| 2005 | Angel-A | Yes | Yes | Yes | 44% | |
| 2006 | Arthur and the Minimoys | Yes | Yes | Yes | 21% | |
| 2009 | Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard | Yes | Yes | Yes | 14% | |
| 2010 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | Yes | Yes | Yes | 83% | Associate producer |
| Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds | Yes | Yes | Yes | 20% | ||
| 2011 | The Lady | Yes | No | No | 33% | |
| 2013 | The Family | Yes | Yes | Yes | 29% | |
| 2014 | Lucy | Yes | Yes | Yes | 66% | |
| 2015 | Save Kids Lives [1] | Yes | No | No | ||
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Yes | Yes | Yes | 48% | |
| 2019 | Anna | Yes | Yes | Yes | 33% | |
| 2023 | Dogman | Yes | Yes | Yes | 62% | |
| TBA | Dracula: A Love Tale | Yes | Yes | No | Filming | |
| Year | Film | Credited as | Rotten Tomatoes | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Producer | ||||
| 1986 | Kamikaze | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1991 | Cold Moon | No | Yes | ||
| 1997 | Nil by Mouth | No | Yes | 65% | |
| 1998 | Taxi | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2000 | Cheeky | No | Yes | ||
| Taxi 2 | Yes | Yes | |||
| The Dancer | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2001 | Yamakasi | Yes | No | ||
| 15 August | No | Yes | |||
| Kiss of the Dragon | Yes | Yes | 51% | ||
| Wasabi | Yes | Yes | 43% | ||
| 2002 | Chaos and Desire (La Turbulence des fluides) | No | Yes | 56% | |
| The Transporter | Yes | Yes | 54% | ||
| 2003 | Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior | No | Yes | 86% | Executive producer (uncredited) |
| Taxi 3 | Yes | Yes | |||
| I, Cesar | No | Yes | Co-producer (uncredited) | ||
| Fanfan la Tulipe | Yes | Yes | 17% | ||
| Les Côtelettes | No | Yes | |||
| Michel Vaillant | Yes | Yes | Co-producer (uncredited) | ||
| 2004 | Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse | Yes | No | produced by Luc Besson's company (EuropaCorp) | |
| À ton image | No | Yes | Associate producer (uncredited) | ||
| Taxi | Yes | Yes | 10% | ||
| District 13 | Yes | Yes | 80% | ||
| 2005 | Unleashed | Yes | Yes | 65% | |
| Bunker Paradise | No | Yes | |||
| Imposture | No | Yes | |||
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | No | Yes | 85% | ||
| Transporter 2 | Yes | Yes | 51% | ||
| Revolver | Yes | Yes | 17% | ||
| Colour Me Kubrick | No | Yes | 52% | Executive producer | |
| La Boîte noire | No | Yes | Executive producer (uncredited) | ||
| Ze film | No | Yes | |||
| Au suivant! | No | Yes | |||
| 2006 | Bandidas | Yes | Yes | 62% | |
| When I Was a Singer | No | Yes | 94% | Executive producer | |
| Dikkenek | No | Yes | Executive producer | ||
| Nuovomondo | No | Yes | 72% | ||
| Love and Other Disasters | No | Yes | 20% | Executive producer | |
| Tell No One | No | Yes | 94% | ||
| 2007 | Michou d'Auber | No | Yes | ||
| L'Invité | No | Yes | |||
| Taxi 4 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Frontier(s) | No | Yes | 55% | Co-producer | |
| Si j'étais toi | No | Yes | |||
| Hitman | No | Yes | 14% | ||
| 2008 | Taken | Yes | Yes | 58% | |
| Transporter 3 | Yes | Yes | 37% | ||
| 2009 | I Love You Phillip Morris | No | Yes | 72% | Executive producer |
| District 13: Ultimatum | Yes | Yes | 74% | ||
| Home | No | Yes | 0% | Co-producer | |
| Staten Island | No | Yes | 22% | ||
| 2010 | From Paris with Love | Yes | Yes | 37% | |
| 22 Bullets | No | Yes | 42% | ||
| 2011 | The Source | No | Yes | 63% | |
| Colombiana | Yes | Yes | 27% | ||
| A Monster in Paris | No | Yes | 85% | ||
| 2012 | Lockout | Yes | Yes | 38% | |
| Taken 2 | Yes | Yes | 21% | ||
| 2013 | Collision | No | Yes | ||
| Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | No | Yes | 77% | ||
| 2014 | 3 Days to Kill | Yes | Yes | 32% | |
| Brick Mansions | Yes | Yes | 27% | ||
| The Homesman | No | Yes | 81% | ||
| Taken 3 | Yes | Yes | 11% | ||
| 2015 | The Transporter Refueled | Yes | Yes | 16% | |
| 2016 | The Warriors Gate [2] | Yes | Yes | 43% | Co-writer |
| 2017 | Renegades | Yes | Yes | 6% | |
| 2018 | Taxi 5 | Yes | Yes | 0% | |
| 2022 | Arthur, malédiction | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2024 | Weekend in Taipei | Yes | Yes | ||
| Years | Series | Credited as | Ratings | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Writer | Producer | |||
| 2012 | 2014 | Transporter: The Series | No | Yes | ||
| 2012 | 2015 | No Limit | Yes | Yes | ||
Léon: The Professional is a 1994 English-language French action-thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno and Gary Oldman, and features the film debut of Natalie Portman. The plot centers on Léon (Reno), a professional hitman who reluctantly takes in twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando (Portman) after her family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Norman Stansfield (Oldman). Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the hitman's trade. The film was released in France by Gaumont through Gaumont Buena Vista International on 14 September 1994 and received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Luc Paul Maurice Besson is a French filmmaker. He directed or produced the films Subway (1985), The Big Blue (1988), and La Femme Nikita (1990). Associated with the Cinéma du look film movement, he has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films Léon: The Professional (1994) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film The Fifth Element (1997). He wrote and directed the sci-fi action film Lucy (2014) and the space opera film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, and Chris Tucker. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against the impending attack of a malevolent cosmic entity.
Éric Serra is a French composer. He is a frequent collaborator of film director Luc Besson.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a 1999 English-language French epic historical drama film directed by Luc Besson and starring Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway and Dustin Hoffman. The screenplay was written by Besson and Andrew Birkin, and the original score was composed by Éric Serra.
Louis Leterrier is a French film and television director. Best known for his work in action films, he directed the first two Transporter films (2002–2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Now You See Me (2013), and the tenth Fast & Furious installment, Fast X (2023). He also directed the streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and Lupin (2021).
District 13, is a 2004 French action film directed by Pierre Morel and written & produced by Luc Besson. It depicts parkour in several action sequences, which was completed without wires or CGI, leading critics to drew comparisons to the Thai film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior. David Belle plays Leïto, the story's main character. This is the final film of Tony D'Amario, who plays K2, before his death in 2005.
Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Andrew Timothy Birkin is an English screenwriter and director.
Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Karate Kid franchise as well as for his later collaborations with French filmmaker Luc Besson, which include the screenplay for The Fifth Element and the Transporter and Taken franchises. He now produces wine from his vineyards near Sonoma, California.
Taken is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen. In the film, Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA officer, sets to track down his teenage daughter Kim and her best friend Amanda after they are kidnapped by Albanian human trafficking terrorists while travelling in France during a vacation.
EuropaCorp S.A. is a French motion picture company headquartered in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, and one of a few full-service independent studios that both produce and distribute feature films. It specializes in production, distribution, home entertainment, VOD, sales, partnerships and licenses, recording, publishing and exhibition. EuropaCorp's integrated financial model generates revenues from a wide range of sources, with films from many genres and a strong presence in the international markets.
Pierre Morel is a French film director and cinematographer. His work includes District 13, From Paris with Love, and Taken.
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with producer.
The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson, starring Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis as her late husband Michael Aris. Yeoh called the film "a labour of love" but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate.
No Limit is a 2012 French television action-adventure series created by filmmaker Luc Besson with Franck Philippon through Besson's EuropaCorp company. Along with Transporter: The Series, it represents one of Besson's first forays into television, although this time as a writer as well as a producer.
The Cité du Cinéma or Studios of Paris is a film studio complex originally supported and founded by the film director and producer Luc Besson, located in Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, in a renovated power plant, commissioned in 1933 to power the Parisian metro. The studio complex is intended to be a competitor of Cinecittà in Rome, Pinewood in London and Babelsberg in Berlin. It was inaugurated on 21 September 2012. In February 2022 Tunisian-French film producer Tarak Ben Ammar finalized a deal to purchase Studios de Paris.
Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson for his company EuropaCorp, and produced by his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla. It is an English-language film shot in Taipei, Paris, and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays the titular character, a woman who gains psychokinetic abilities when a nootropic, psychedelic drug is absorbed into her bloodstream.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a 2017 space opera film written and directed by Luc Besson, and produced by his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla. It is based on the French science fiction comics series Valérian and Laureline, written by Pierre Christin, illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, and published by Dargaud. It stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne as Valerian and Laureline, respectively, with Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu and Rutger Hauer in supporting roles. Besson independently financed and personally funded the film. With a production budget of around $223 million, it is both the most expensive European and the most expensive independent film ever made.
Taxi is a series of French comedy films, created by screenwriter and producer Luc Besson, consisting of five films primarily set in Marseille. In addition, an American-French remake of the 1998 original was made in 2004 and titled Taxi. In 2014 an American-French TV series called Taxi Brooklyn also aired.
