La Femme Nikita, [a] released as Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is …

La Femme Nikita: Directed by Luc Besson. With Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière. Convicted felon Nikita isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as …

Convicted felon Nikita (Anne Parillaud), instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained to be a secret police assassin controlled by the government.

Nikita is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to prison, but to a school for special operatives.

Apr 3, 1991 · “La Femme Nikita” is a smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller by the young French director Luc Besson (“Subway”), who follows a condemned woman as she exchanges one doom for …

Nikita, also known by the title La Femme Nikita, is a 1990 Franco-Italian action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film centers around a young female criminal who is recruited to work as …

Mar 6, 2025 · One of the best movies about a female spy ever made, La Femme Nikita also helped popularize a wider genre that features a variety of highly trained, capable women, who display …

Jun 22, 2025 · La Femme Nikita is a neo-noir action-thriller, blending action, suspense, and elements of psychological drama. It is a stylish, gritty film that focuses on themes of identity, redemption, and …

When drug-addicted teen Nikita (Anne Parillaud) shoots a cop in a robbery gone wrong, her sentence is death. But behind prison walls, she is given a secret ultimatum: harness her penchant for...

Luc Besson’s LA FEMME NIKITA is the stylish, high-voltage thriller that revolutionized the action genre with a sexy, gun-wielding woman as its main character.