Nikita (DVD)

After being convicted of killing a cop, street-tough Nikita must choose between her own execution or training with a top-secret government agency to become an assassin. Given a new identity, new skills, and a new life by her mentor Bob (Tcheky Karyo), Nikita becomes "Josephine," a seductive, sophisticated knockout who's also a brutally efficient killing machine. Luc Besson's Nikita is the stylish, high-voltage thriller that revolutionized the action genre with a sexy, gun-wielding woman as its main character. Starring Jean Reno, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Jeanne Moreau and Anne Parillaud in the title role (winning her a 1991 Best Actress Cesar Award), Nikita achieved cult status worldwide, inspiring an American remake and a hit U.S. television series. Powered by some of the most adrenaline-pumping action scenes ever filmed, Nikita redefined femme fatale for a new generation.