Nikita (1990)
- Directed by
- Luc Besson
- Genre
- drama film, action film, girls with guns, thriller film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 2,169 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young woman is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The government fakes her death and forces her to become an assassin. She struggles to find a normal life while carrying out deadly missions.
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What happens
La Femme Nikita, 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 convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a policeman during the armed robbery of a pharmacy. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, in which she struggles to balance her work with her personal life. Besson has said that he wrote Nikita with Parillaud, then his romantic partner, in mind. The film was considered a surprise hit. Roger Ebert called it a "smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller" in his review. Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times: "La Femme Nikita combines hip violence, punk anomie, lavish settings and an old-fashioned paean to the power of love." It was remade as Black Cat (1991) in Hong Kong, Point of No Return (1993) in Hollywood, and in Bollywood as Kartoos (1999). Two English-language television series were produced based on the film, La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) and Nikita (2010–2013). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.