Luc Besson has been one of Europe’s best-known film-makers for more than 40 years, an extravagant visual stylist whose career has weathered commercial highs, financial setbacks and cultural shifts.

By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) - French director Luc Besson's new film, "Lucy", about a woman who ingests a drug that gives her supernormal mental powers, says action films bore him - but his movie ...

We all have favourite directors, producers or writers of film. We're all familiar with the works of Steven Spielberg or George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock. We're fans of Quentin ...

All he needed to make a movie was a girl and a gun. There are few filmmakers currently at work who can match the volume of content offered by French auteur Luc Besson. The 58 year-old writes, directs ...

Rumours that the rapper would be making his way back to the big screen come after the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ rapper hinted that he was working on a project “in the vein” of Planet of the Apes last ...

Venice film festival: Luc Besson’s wacky revenge fantasy follows luckless drag artist Doug and his pack of canine chums that do his criminal bidding – you can’t look away Most children indulge in the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The trouble with making noble pronouncements is that you have to stick to them. Since the late 1990s, Luc Besson has always ...

Ageing hit men, blue-collar action and warrior chicks – these are the film-maker's recurring motifs. And they're not the only things that set him apart from the rest of a French film industry that ...

French film producer Luc Besson, who has directed films such as Valerian, The Fifth Element and The Big Blue, is being investigated after an actress accused him of raping her on the final day of the ...

Currently known as a cult film, Léon: The Professional was written and directed in 1994 by Luc Besson and stars French actor Jean Reno as the titular Léon. The film is an action-thriller, and also ...

Police in Paris are investigating a rape allegation made against Luc Besson, one of France's best-known film directors. The complaint was filed by an actress at a Paris police station on Friday. "Luc ...