During his childhood, and especially during adolescence, Besson showed amazing creativity. Out of boredom, he started to write stories, including the backdrop to what would later become one of his most popular movies, The Fifth Element. Besson directed and co-wrote the screenplay of this Sci-Fi thriller with the screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen. The film is inspired by the American comic books Besson read as a teenager. He also reportedly worked on the first drafts of Le Grand Bleu while still in his teens.
 
At 18, Besson returned to his birthplace of Paris. There he started to become involved in film, taking on odd jobs to get a feel for the industry. He worked as an assistant to directors including Claude Faraldo and Patrick Grandperret. Besson also directed three short films, a commissioned documentary and several commercials.
 
After this, he moved to the United States for three years, but returned to form his own production company which he called "Les Films du Loup". The name was later changed to Les Films du Dauphin. In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier.
 
In recent years, he has written and produced numerous action movies, including the "Taxi" series, "The Transporter" series, and the Jet Li films "Kiss of the Dragon" and "Unleashed/Danny the Dog". Besson was also in charge of the promotional movie which was presented to the IOC members for the bid of Paris for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
 
His future projects include The Ice People, set in Antarctica, a team of scientists discover two bodies frozen in perfect hibernation within a sphere. They are at least 900,000 years old but the technology around them surpasses anything the scientists have seen. Also currently planned is the Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy. This is, however, at odds with a report by CNN aired September 11, 2006 in which Besson announced his pending retirement with plans to establish a foundation for French inner city youth.

Movie Collections:

1. Dernier combat Le

2. Subway

3. The Big Blue

4. Nikita

5. Atlantis

6. Leon

7. The Fifth Element

8. Taxi

9. The Story of Joan of Arc

10. Taxi 2

11. The Dancer

12. Kiss of The Dragon

13. Wasabi

14. The Transporter

15. Taxi 3

16. Fanfan

17. Michael Vaillant

18. Rivieres pourpres 2 Les Anges de L'apocalypse, Les

19. Taxi ( Comedy)

20. Banlieue 13

21. Danny the Dog

22 The Transporter 2

23 Arthur and the Invisibles