Luc Besson filmography

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.

Films

As director

Year	Film	Credited as			Rotten Tomatoes	Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
1981	L'Avant Dernier	Yes	Yes	Yes
1983	Le Dernier Combat	Yes	Yes	Yes
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	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 Invisibles	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	Yes	No	No
2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Yes	Yes	Yes	53%
2019	Anna	Yes	Yes	Yes	37%

1. ^ Also credited as cinematographer and film editor.
2. ^ Credited as camera operator.

As writer and producer

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	Taxi 2	Yes	Yes
	The Dancer	Yes	Yes
2001	15 August	No	Yes
	Kiss of the Dragon	Yes	Yes	51%
	Wasabi	Yes	Yes	43%
	Yamakasi	Yes	No
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)
	I, Cesar	No	Yes		Co-producer (uncredited)
	Cheeky	No	Yes
	Fanfan la Tulipe	Yes	Yes	17%
	Les Côtelettes	No	Yes
	Michel Vaillant	Yes	Yes		Co-producer (uncredited)
	Taxi 3	Yes	Yes
2004	District 13	Yes	Yes	80%
	À ton image	No	Yes		Associate producer (uncredited)
	Taxi	Yes	Yes	10%
	Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse	Yes	No		produced by Luc Besson's company (EuropaCorp)
2005	La Boîte noire	No	Yes		Executive producer (uncredited)
	Bunker Paradise	No	Yes
	Colour Me Kubrick	No	Yes		Executive producer
	Imposture	No	Yes
	Revolver	Yes	Yes	17%
	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	No	Yes	85%
	Transporter 2	Yes	Yes	51%
	Unleashed	Yes	Yes	65%
	Ze film	No	Yes
	Au suivant!	No	Yes
2006	Bandidas	Yes	Yes	62%
	Love and Other Disasters	No	Yes	20%	Executive producer
	Nuovomondo	No	Yes	72%
	When I Was a Singer	No	Yes	94%	Executive producer
	Dikkenek	No	Yes		Executive producer
	Tell No One	No	Yes	94%
2007	Michou d'Auber	No	Yes
	L'Invité	No	Yes
	Si j'étais toi	No	Yes
	The Secret	No	Yes
	Taxi 4	Yes	Yes
	Hitman	No	Yes	14%
	Frontier(s)	No	Yes	55%	Co-producer
2008	Taken	Yes	Yes	58%
	Transporter 3	Yes	Yes	37%
2009	District 13: Ultimatum	Yes	Yes	74%
	Home	No	Yes	0%	Co-producer
	I Love You Phillip Morris	No	Yes	72%	Executive producer
	Staten Island	No	Yes	22%
2010	From Paris with Love	Yes	Yes	37%
	22 Bullets	No	Yes	42%
2011	Colombiana	Yes	Yes	27%
	The Source	No	Yes	63%
	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	Yes	Yes	43%	Co-writer
2017	Renegades	Yes	Yes	6%
2018	Taxi 5	Yes	Yes	0%
2022	Arthur, malédiction	Yes	Yes

1. ^ Credited as camera operator.

Television

Years		Series	Credited as		Ratings	Notes
Start	End		Writer	Producer
2012	2014	Transporter: The Series	No	Yes
2012	2015	No Limit	Yes	Yes

References

General

Specific

• Hayward, Page 117

External links

• Luc Besson at Allmovie
• Luc Besson at the Internet Movie Database