 Le Professionnel 1981  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: The Professional
Director: Georges Lautner
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein, Michel Beaune, Cyrielle Claire, Jean-Louis Richard, Sidiki Bakaba, Marie-Christine Descouard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Pierre Vernier
Secret Agent Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is on a mission to kill an African president. But, due to a change in leadership at home, he is jailed. Escaping jail, Joss now heads home to finish the job when the African president, now an ally, visits Paris. Will the new regime be able to stop him? An entertaining action/thriller.
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Leon 1994   R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: The Professional
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Danny Aiello, Natalie Portman, Peter Appel, Michael Badalucco, Ellen Greene, Frank Senger, Geoffrey Bateman, Tommy Hollis, Elizabeth Regan, Carl J. Matusovich, Lucius Wyatt Cherokee, Luc Bernard, Kent Broadhurst
Twelve-year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) lives with her family in a slum, and her father (Michael Badalucco) works for drug agents. One day, Mathilda returns home to find that most of her family has been killed in a botched drug deal. Corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration boss, Stansfield (Gary Oldman), ordered her family's murder. Mathilda takes refuge in the apartment of hit man Leon (Jean Reno) from whom she hopes to learn how to exact revenge on the killers. Leon becomes transfixed by Mathilda, and his life appears to be changing. Mathilda's intended victim is Stansfield, but her plans to avenge the murder of her family fail, and Mathilda is captured. Now, Leon must rescue Mathilda.
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