"Director: Luc Besson"

• The Family | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £5.89   |  Saving you £12.10 (205.43%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the Witness Protection Program after breaking the sacred code and snitching on the his crew.

• Angel-A | Blu Ray | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

• The Fifth Element | Blu Ray | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero--what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson's high-octane film The Fifth Element incorporates presidents, rock stars and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. --Geoff Riley

• The Big Blue | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.28   |  Saving you £5.70 (132.87%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A hit in Europe but a flop in the US--where it was trimmed, rescored, and given a new ending--Luc Besson's The Big Blue has endured as a minor cult classic for its gorgeous photography (both on land and underwater) and dreamy ambiance. Jean-Marc Barr is a sweet and sensitive but passive presence as Jacques, a diver with a unique connection to the sea. He has the astounding ability to slow his heartbeat and his circulation on deep dives, "a phenomenon that's only been observed in whales and dolphins until now," remarks one scientist. Kooky New York insurance adjuster Joanna (Rosanna Arquette at her most delightfully flustered and endearingly sexy best) melts after falling into his innocent baby blues, and she follows him to Italy, where he's continuing a lifelong competition with boyhood rival Enzo (Jean Reno in a performance both comic and touching). Besson's first English-language production looks more European than Hollywood, and it suffers from a tin ear for the language. At times it feels more like an IMAX undersea documentary than a drama about free divers, but the lush and lovely images create a fairy tale dimension to Jacques's story, a veritable Little Merman. More dolphin than man, he's so torn between earthly love and aquatic paradise that even his dreams call him to the sea (in a sequence more eloquent than any speech). Besson has expanded the film by 50 minutes for his director's cut, which adds little story but slows the contemplative pace until it practically floats in time, and has restored Eric Serra's synthesizer-heavy score, a slice of 1980s pop that at times borders on disco kitsch. Most importantly, he has restored his original ending, which echoes the fairy tale he tells Joanna earlier in the film and leaves the story floating in the inky blackness of ambiguity. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Nikita | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nikita

• The Fifth Element / The Abyss / Aliens | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Fifth Element In the year 2257 a planet-sized sphere of supreme evil is approaching the earth at relentless speed threatening to exterminate every living organism unless four ancient stones representing the elements of earth wind fire and water are united with the mysterious 'Fifth Element'... The Abyss: In this thrilling underwater action-adventure from writer-director James Cameron a civilian oil-rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25 000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. Aliens: Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 lead her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate...

• Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £17.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground-breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alphaan ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. Also starring Rihanna, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer, Kris Wu, Ethan Hawke and Herbie Hancock.

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec | Blu Ray | (15/08/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (156.87%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Legendary director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element Leon) transports us to the wild days of early Twentieth Century Paris where feisty young writer Adele Blanc-Sec embarks on thrilling missions to find exciting material for her book and a cure for her sick sister. She sails to Egypt to raid a tomb that supposedly hides the cure but what will she do when an army of resurrected mummies get in the way? Back in Paris she finds the city in chaos after a 136 million-year old pterodactyl egg mysteriously hatches. Adele realises she is the only one game enough to take control of the prehistoric bird.

• Le Dernier Combat | Blu Ray | (14/09/2009) from £9.09   |  Saving you £15.90 (63.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The sky is raining fish. Skyscrapers sit in mountains of sand. Bandits sleep in trunks of used cars. It's a world of the future. A world called Planet Earth. And he's one man just trying to survive. In Besson's haunting beautifully realised vision of a post-apocalyptic world few have held onto life and fewer still to humanity. An unknown trauma has robbed mankind of their ability to speak and they remain mute in the unexplained wreckage of what once was. The Man (Pierre Jolivet) is an isolated survivor wandering the hostile streets of a collapsed civilization. He lives in a long-abandoned office building fighting off attacks from nearby thugs and gathering together disused car parts for a makeshift airplane hoping to fly away from his sombre prison. Escape however offers little respite as he leaves one dead city for another. In the midst of this new wasteland The Man encounters his nemesis The Brute (Jean Reno); a violent aggressor who becomes determined to destroy him. By chance he stumbles into a derelict hospital and finds there an old doctor who is hiding from The Brute. Together the two seek sanctuary from The Brute and gradually in the grey and sterile world a friendship begins to grow. Luc Besson's debut feature film Le Dernier Combat has been much lauded by audiences and critics alike since its release in 1984 and enjoys a richly deserved cult status in the annuls of film history.

• Anna | Blu Ray | (04/11/2019) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An assassin caught between the KGB and the CIA plays the two against each other in an attempt to reclaim her life in Anna; a sophisticated and satisfying action-thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. Anna Poliatova (Sasha Luss) is discovered by a modelling scout while selling tchotchkes at a craft market and is whisked off to Paris where she becomes an instant sensation in the fashion world. But behind her exquisite exterior, Anna has a deadly secret she is a KGB-trained assassin. Recruited after her abusive, thieving boyfriend is killed by agent Alexei Tchenkov (Luke Evans), she was given a choice: spend five years as a Soviet operative or join her late lover. Using her striking looks to gain access to her targets, Anna becomes a top asset for her handler, OLGA (Helen Mirren), but as the end of her five-year agreement comes closer, she learns the KGB has no intention of honouring it. When CIA agent Lenny Miller (Cillian Murphy) tries to force her to work as a double agent, Anna hatches a plan that could free her from both or get her killed. Knowing that each of her contacts is prepared to betray her, setting the two against each other will require every bit of her brains, her sex appeal and her assassin's skills to succeed. Startling plot twists, breath-taking action and unexpected double crosses propel a smart, stylish espionage thriller set in the glittering world of high fashion.

• Arthur and the Invisibles | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A ten-year-old goes on an epic search for the Invisibles, a tiny people living in harmony with nature.

• The Big Blue | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £7.59   |  Saving you £8.40 (110.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Enzo (Jean Reno L''on The Da Vinci Code) and Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr Breaking the Waves Dogville) have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean where they shared a love for diving. After Jacques' father dies in a diving accident the two lose contact. Now an adult Enzo is living in Sicily where for six years he has been the uncontested free diving world champion. He sends for Jacques who is living in the Peruvian Andes and insists that he competes for the title. Jacques comes to Sicily and easily beats Enzo. The competition mounts as each man dive at increasingly life-threatening depths. But when Jacques' girlfriend Johana (Rosanna Arquette After Hours Crash) arrives from New York and pleads for the risk-taking to stop events takes an unexpected turn leading to an unforgettably dark mysterious and torturously beautiful conclusion...

• Valerian and The City of A Thousand Planets | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground-breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alphaan ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. Also starring Rihanna, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer, Kris Wu, Ethan Hawke and Herbie Hancock.

• Joan Of Arc: The Messenger | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Over the years, many film directors have attempted to tell the story of legendary 15th-century heroine Joan of Arc, a simple country girl who claimed she was inspired by God to lead the French troops in a victorious assault on the mighty English army. Luc Besson's 1999 epic might not be the best version of her life, but it's certainly the biggest. The movie cost a reported $60 million. Even if you are terminally unimpressed by the scale of such recent blockbusters as Gladiator, your eyes will pop out at the sheer number of bodies (living and dead) that Besson has assembled for the dynamic battle scenes. The lavish sets and costumes are almost equally gobsmacking, though neither will show to maximum advantage on the small screen. That's a pity because size is the only thing Joan of Arc really has going for it--as a human drama, it falls completely flat.The historical Joan was eventually made a saint by the Catholic Church, and earlier biopics tended to treat her celestial visions as literal fact. It was probably a mistake for Besson and his co-screenwriter Andrew Birkin to take a more psychological approach and present them as figments of her hysterical imagination. It makes it hard to work up the necessary empathy when the spectacle revolves around a confused and neurotic babe who couldn't organise a Tupperware party, let alone a vast military campaign. Milla Jovovich (the star of Besson's previous The Fifth Element and formerly his wife) doesn't help matters with her shrill and amateurish performance. But a couple of the supporting players are passably amusing--John Malkovich camps it up energetically as Charles, the dispossessed French king whom Joan reinstates, while Faye Dunaway wears outlandish headgear and carries on like a science-fiction creation in the role of his scheming mother-in-law. (The less said the better about Dustin Hoffman's pompous turn as Joan's personified conscience.) Besson keeps to the same glossy visual style even when the Maid is burning at the stake, but it isn't enough to prevent this empty shell of a movie from being a colossal yawn. --Peter Matthews

• Arthur And The Great Adventure | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ten-year-old Arthur in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys a tiny people living in harmony with nature.

• Anna 4K | Blu Ray | (04/11/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The year is 1912. Adele Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young reporter, will go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes.

• Subway | Blu Ray | (14/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Besson's second feature after Le Dernier Combat Subway is a stylish urban odyssey which helped to consolidate Besson's growing reputation for unique visually creative output. Fred (Christopher Lambert) a charismatic safe blower realises he is in love with rich society girl H''l''na (Isabelle Adjani) when he is in the midst of trying to blackmail her. To complicate matters he is also on the run from both gangsters and the police and is forced to take refuge in the tunnels of the Paris metro. Here in the brutal and surreal world beneath the city a strange collection of petty criminals and people with a reason to hide exist. Gradually Fred's life begins to interweave with theirs as rediscovering forgotten dreams he decides to form a band. However Fred cannot forget H''l''na and he becomes determined both to win her love and drive his band to success - with the police and gangsters all the while in hot pursuit.

• Subway | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Subway

• Angel-A | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.