La Femme Nikita is a punkish action film directed by Luc Besson. It was released in 1990.

Synopsis

Nikita is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to prison, but to a school for special operatives. She is told that Nikita no longer exists and she will be trained to pay back society for what she has done, as a spy/assassin. She is trained for over two years and with no warning is handed a gun in a restaurant and told to kill the man at the next table as her handler leaves.

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La Femme Nikita Information

Movie entry in Internet Movie Database.