87 Luc Besson Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

12-year-old Mathilda, living in her dysfunctional stepfamily with her abusive father, finds her entire family killed by corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield while she was out grocery-shopping. Engulfed by a rage to avenge her little brother's death, she crawls into the solitary life of her neighbor, Léon, a hitman, to train to be an assassin.

In the twenty-third century, when the Earth is threatened by the great Evil, a cab-driver and former Major finds the Fifth Element, the only weapon capable of destroying Evil, in his car in the form of the woman Leeloo. He must deliver her safely to her contact, priest Vito Cornelius, avoiding evil industrialist Zorg and his mercenary Mangalores.

Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills reluctantly allows his 17-year-old daughter Kim, who lives with her mother and wealthy step-father, to travel to Paris with her best friend, but both are kidnapped by sex traffickers. Learning that they will be auctioned off in four days, he rushes to France to rescue them with "his particular set of skills".

This is the story about two childhood friends, raised on the Greek island of Amorgos. Although they are now world renowned freedivers, they still nurture a love for each other, along with a friendly rivalry. The film takes us into an emotional journey from their childhood to their death at sea, concurrently presenting some stunning underwater scenes and location shots.   

Teenage junkie, Nikita, is sentenced to life in prison after accidentally killing a police officer during a robbery gone wrong. In prison, her captors fake her death and train her to become an assassin. Her life as an assassin goes well until a document-theft mission goes wrong and Nikita has to make life-altering choices again. 

This is the story of a Mexican ranch worker, accidentally killed by a border officer in Texas. Although he is quickly buried by his killer, the body is later found and reburied in a local cemetery. Meanwhile, his friend, a rancher, decides to fulfill a promise he has made to the deceased man and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to accomplish it. 

This drama film revolves around a highly dysfunctional family in a working-class neighborhood in London, who struggle to survive. They attempt to work out their differences, and get along, but booze, drugs and violence threaten to tear them apart.

This post apocalyptic film takes us to a future, where no one is able to speak. The few remaining humans are shown to be fighting over resources for their survival. The film revolves around a determined loner who meets and befriends a reclusive older man, and the two team up in order to survive against vicious thugs.

This French action film depicts the life in B13, a ghetto in the suburbs of Paris, having a population of two million. Surrounded by high wall, the place is overrun with gangs, one the gang members being Leïto. The story then goes on to depict how Leïto join hands with an undercover agent to rescue his sister from the grasp of a rival girl and defuse a neutron bomb. 

Taxi is a 1998 action comedy crime film which tells us the story of a taxi driver, who needs to chauffer an inept police inspector on the trail of a group of bank robbers.

When a sacred Buddhist statue is stolen from his village, Boonting goes to Bangkok in search of it. He soon finds himself facing the underworld, but his martial arts skills prove to be useful.

Andre is a small-time ex convict who owes money to a crime boss. He is given a deadline to repay the money by midnight, and failing to do so, would get him killed. He fails to find protection from the French police or American embassy and eventually decides to end his life by jumping over a bridge. However, life has other plans for him.

An action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier, Unleashed tells the story of a vicious loan shark who develops a brutal method of persuading men to pay him back. When Danny the Dog, a young man enslaved by the loan shark escapes, all hell breaks loose. 

Frank Martin is an ex-Special Forces operator working as a mercenary transporting anything on time without asking any questions. However, after being hired by the American criminal known as Wall Street, he finds that the package is a young woman, and gets into further complications after his employer attempts to eliminate him on the next job.

Tough French detective Hubert Florentini, who is asked to take long leave because of his strict work-methods, travels to Japan for the funeral of Miko, his long-lost Japanese spy girlfriend. As he learns about his teenage daughter Yumi, Florentini realizes that Miko’s death involved foul play. With the help of ex-colleague Momo, he goes after the perpetrators while protecting Yumi from them. 

Anna is a young beautiful Russian woman who has been a victim of domestic abuse, and wants to escape this life at any cost. Her life takes a turn when she accepts an offer from a KGB officer Alex, to work as an assassin for five years, after which she would be free. She soon begins working as an undercover fashion model in Paris.

A retired mafia leader, who is leaving a peaceful life with his family, is shot by some unidentified men, and left to die with twenty-two bullets in his body. After recovering, he decides to go on a revenge spree.

Lucy is an American student in Taiwan who is tricked into being a drug mule for a South Korean drug lord by her new boyfriend. She gains superhuman abilities after she is beaten and the drug gets into her system, but has mere days to live before her body disintegrates due to the effect of the drug.

The biographical dark comedy follows real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell. In prison, he falls in love with inmate Phillip Morris and after being released, secures Philip’s release posing as a lawyer and then becomes a conman to support his boyfriend. When he is finally caught he is given a life sentence. 

Chinese agent Liu Siu-jian is sent to Paris to capture mob boss Mr. Big and receives aide from Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard. But Richard who is the true mastermind murders Mr. Big and frames it on Liu. With the help of witness and prostitute Jessica, Liu must prove his innocence and bring Richard to justice. 

After stealing some compromising documents from a powerful businessman, who is also a criminal, Fred escapes and takes refuge in the underground metro station tunnels, while the police hunts for him. He meets several other people who are living under the subway to evade the law. Soon, he also develops a romance with the wife of the man whose documents he had stolen.

In the 28th century, the International Space Station has been relocated into deep space and turned into the sprawling metropolis, Alpha, inhabited by species from thousands of planets. When a dark force threatens the existence of the peaceful city, United Human Federation operatives Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline are assigned to safeguard the future of the universe.

James Reese, a personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador in France, is passionate about his side job as a low-level CIA operative and aspires to become a special agent. He finally gets the opportunity when he is asked to accompany hotheaded agent, Charlie Wax, on a mission that also reveals dark secrets about his own personal life.

When the Japanese Minister of Defense is kidnapped by Japanese yakuza from Marseille, Detective Petra is also kidnapped with him. It now falls upon Petra’s boyfriend, Inspector Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec, not only to save them, but also the honor of his department.

In 1854, strong and independent spinster Mary Bee Cuddy takes on the responsibility of transporting three mentally unstable women in a covered wagon to a church in Iowa, but soon realizes how formidable the task can be. When she saves the life of a claim jumper George Briggs, she asks him to help her transport the women through the perilous harsh Nebraskan territory. 

After serving seven year solitary sentence, con-trickster, Jake Green, is released from prison. Ready with a perfect conning formula learned from 2 mysterious prisoners, Jake takes his revenge by humiliating Dorothy Macha, the mob-boss responsible for his unjust sentence. With Macha’s hit-men after him, Jake accepts protection, at a price, from inscrutable partners Avi and Zack. Do they win the deadly game?  

The movie tells the story of St. Joan of Arc, the French war heroine who led the French army to many victories against the English and was instrumental in allowing Charles VII to take the throne of France. Joan was later betrayed by Charles VII and burned alive by the English, on the pretext of religious heresy. 

Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector controlled by the mafia. However, problem erupts when intelligence officers try to interfere in their operation.  

A ten year old Cataleya sees the Colombian drug lord murdering her parents and grows up—with her gangster uncle in Chicago—seeking revenge from the culprits. She trains and becomes a ruthless professional assassin, but is constantly looking out for her ultimate targets. But Special Agent Ross is right after her.

After making a deal under the FBI witness protection program to snitch on his old mafia associates, mobster Giovanni Manzoni is relocated to a quiet town of France with his wife Maggie, daughter Belle and son Warren. However, they do a poor job of masking their former "family" ways and draw the attention of vengeful mafia bosses.

Transporter Frank Martin fills in for his friend as a temporary chauffeur for the affluent Billings family and is required to drive a young Jack to and from school safely. When Jack is kidnapped, Frank becomes one of the suspects. However, Jack is soon released and Frank realises that the actual plan is far more deadly.

This fantasy adventure film takes us to the early 20th century, and tells us the story of Adele, who is an adventurer as well as a novelist. She is seeking for a cure for her comatose sister. She finds hope in an eccentric professor, but things don’t go as planned.

Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills invites his estranged wife Lennie and teenage daughter Kim to spend time with him in Istanbul, where he trains the latter in self-defense. Murad, the father of Kim's kidnapper in the first film and a mafia leader, sends goons to abduct the family, but Kim escapes and must now lead the rescue initiative.

CIA Agent, Ethan Renner, decides to retire and spend more time with his family after realizing that he has terminal cancer during a mission. Meanwhile, elite CIA assassin Vivi enlists his help to kill the arms trafficker, the Wolf in exchange for a drug that can prolong his life.  

The short presents a depiction of mankind’s struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The worldwide nuclear devastation has reduced the earth’s civilization to ruins and human beings are barely managing an abject survival amidst the wrecks. Trying to flee a mob of plunderers, a man somehow reaches a dystopian city, but here, too, all that he finds is violence. 

Love and Other Disasters is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Emily, who loves playing matchmaker but avoids finding a partner for herself, since she is afraid of being heartbroken by a serious relationship.

After Malcolm dies while delivering a package, his employer shows up and forces Frank to complete the job. He has to deliver a package and a young girl, Valentina, to Budapest in a car which he has to stay close to or else it will explode. As the two set out on a dangerous journey, they grow close. What exactly is in this package?

In the near future, Emilie, the idealistic daughter of the US President, visits maximum security space penitentiary 'MS One' to investigate mistreatment of the prisoners kept in stasis. When the prisoners escape and take her hostage, wrongly convicted CIA operative, Snow, is offered to prove his innocence and rescue her in a dangerous mission to the outer-space prison.

To avoid being executed, Maggie agrees to work as an assassin for a covert government agency in exchange for her life. However, when she falls in love, she thinks about quitting this life.

Returning home to meet his ex-wife Lenore, former covert operative Bryan Mills finds her dead body on his bed and is immediately surrounded by LAPD units. He manages to flee from the scene, but must now clear his name and secure the wellbeing of their only daughter Kim, while being chased by the CIA, FBI and the police.

When a dead body is found, Detective Pierre Niemans is called to investigate. Soon it seems that it may be a cult killing based on obscure passages from the Bible. He soon finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy, which goes back to the Second World War.

Taxi 3 is an action comedy film, which tells the story of a police inspector and a detective who take the help of a taxi driver so that he can assist them stop a gang of thieves who are wreaking havoc in the city. Meanwhile, they need to sort out their personal problems as well. 

Brick Mansions is an action-crime thriller film, which tells the story of an undercover policeman in Detroit, who teams up with an ex-convict to take down a dreaded crime lord. 

Maria Alvarez, a poor farm girl, and Sara Sandoval, a wealthy landowner’s daughter, join forces and become a bank-robbing duo in their effort to combat against a ruthless land baron who tries to capture their lands. 

Fanfan la Tulipe is a romantic adventure comedy film which tells the story of a charming swashbuckler who is tricked by a woman named Adelaine into joining the army of Louis XV. She tells him that by doing so, he is going to be allowed to marry one of the King’s daughters.

The fourth film of the French action-comedy series ‘Taxi.’ When clumsy police detective Emilien of Marseille PD is assigned to guard the notorious Belgian criminal wanted all over Europe, the criminal escapes by deceiving Emilien, who gets fired. But as his taxi-driver friend Daniel is the one who drove the criminal from police station, he helps catch the criminal and Emilien’s job is saved.

During an assignment in war-torn Europe, Navy SEALS discover gold at the bottom of a Bosnian lake, which is rumored to be worth hundreds of millions. The soldiers try to come up with a plan to claim the treasure and return it to its rightful owners. However, they need to do it within ten hours.

Former special-ops mercenary, Frank Martin, is living a life transporting classified packages for questionable people. He eventually gets involved with Anna, a runaway sex slave, and they join forces to bring down a Russian crime lord. 

Andy Washburn, an inefficient police officer, sets out to solve a bank robbery in order to prove himself to his colleagues. He is eventually forced to seize a cab belonging to a feisty and mouthy taxi driver named Belle. 

This animated adventure comedy film revolves around Raoul who is a delivery boy during the day and an amateur scientist at night. However, one night, one of his experiments goes wrong.

Ten-year-old Arthur finds his family’s home in danger of being demolished by a real estate developer. He goes looking for help in the land of Minimoys, a group of tiny fairy-like creatures, who live in harmony with nature.

This animated adventure film tells the story of a seven-foot tall Maltazard, who intends to rule over the world. Meanwhile, Arthur sets out to defeat him, with the help of Selenia and Betameche, but first he needs to get back to his usual size.

Arhur is preparing to visit the world of the Minimoys after having passed a series of tests, but his parents take him back to the city. He soon receives a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is held by the nefarious Maltazard, who also plans to invade the human world by increasing his own size.