LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)

Gary Oldman plays a psychotic, drug-addled Drug Enforcement Administration agent intent on hunting down and eliminating a very young Natalie Portman. Standing in his way is her neighbour, an illiterate Italian hit man named Léon (Jean Reno). It is a violent movie with many powerful scenes, including when Portman stands at Léon’s front door, holding a bag of groceries, after her entire family has been gunned down. She cries and begs him to take her in because “if you don’t, I’ll die tonight, I know it.” Léon hesitates, not wanting to get pulled into any of this, but decides to help. Every young person needs to know that at some point they will have to choose whether to help someone even though it may put them at personal risk.