Léon: The Professional

About Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.

Luc Besson's Léon: The Professional is a 1994 crime film. Its themes are corruption, loneliness, neighbor, and immigrant.

Jean Reno appears as Léon Montana, Natalie Portman as Mathilda Lando, Gary Oldman as Norman Stansfield, and Danny Aiello as Old Tony. At 111 minutes long, it arrived in September 1994.

The screenplay is by Luc Besson. It streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and Sundance Now in the United States.

The Equalizer, Sicario, and Memories of Murder make useful companions to Léon: The Professional, all filed under assassin and gangster. TMDB voters put it at 8.3 out of 10 across 16,743 votes and it carries a R rating.