Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional

1994 · 1 hr 50 min · R

Action, Crime, Drama

Directors

Luc Besson

Actors

  • Jean Reno
  • Gary Oldman
  • Natalie Portman

Credits: 6

Summary

12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.

More about this movie

After her father, step-mother, step-sister and little brother are killed by her father's employers, the 12-year-old daughter of an abject drug dealer manages to take refuge in the apartment of a professional hitman who at her request teaches her the methods of his job so she can take her revenge on the corrupt DEA agent who ruined her life by killing her beloved brother.