A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints vs Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.5/10 for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 1h 51m. Léon: The Professional is the older of the two (1994 against 2006). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints posterA Guide to Recognizing Your Saints2006 VS Léon: The Professional posterLéon: The Professional1994
A Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsLéon: The Professional
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.3/10
Year20061994
Length1h 44m1h 51m
GenresCrime, DramaAction, Crime, Drama
Country–France
DirectorDito MontielLuc Besson
Main castRosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Chance Kelly, Shia LaBeouf, Channing TatumNatalie Portman, Michael Badalucco, Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Danny Aiello

Synopsis

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.

Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

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