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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Vaerenbergh, 18 October 1960(1960-10-18)) is a Belgian martial artist and actor who is best known for martial arts and action movies. His most successful films include Bloodsport (1988), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), and...
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Filter this CollectionBlack Eagle
Black Eagle is a 1988 martial artist movie set on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The motion picture takes place with the summoning of a Japanese martial artist Ken Tami (Sho Kosugi) (codenamed the BLACK EAGLE), assigned on a US Governmental...
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Bloodsport
Bloodsport is a 1988 martial arts film "Based on true events in the life of Frank Dux" as portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Although it enjoyed little box office success, it is considered a genre classic by martial arts film enthusiasts for...
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Cyborg
Cyborg is a 1989 martial arts action sci-fi film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, an underdog street fighter who battles a group of sadistic outlaws (The Pirates) led by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) along...
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Double Team
Double Team is a 1997 film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark (in his American directorial debut) and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke. Van Damme plays counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to...
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In Hell
In Hell is a 2003 action thriller film directed by Ringo Lam and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Kyle LeBlanc(Van Damme) is an American working overseas in Russia. When he hears his wife being attacked over the phone, Kyle rushes home to find that...
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Lionheart
Lionheart (also known as Wrong Bet, A.W.O.L.) is a 1990 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Van Damme plays Lyon Gaultier, a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion stationed in Djibouti, North Africa. His brother, who is married to an American...
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No Retreat, No Surrender
No Retreat, No Surrender (also known as Karate Tiger) is a 1986 film directed by Corey Yuen and starring Kurt McKinney as Jason Stillwell and features Jean-Claude Van Damme as Ivan Krushensky.
Jason Stillwell is a young Karate student who trains in...
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- Ivan Krushensky
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Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a 1994 American martial arts action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based on the same-titled video games produced by Capcom. The film features an international and multicultural cast that included Jean-Claude...
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Til Death
Until Death is a 2007 action thriller/drama film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme who plays a dirty cop hooked on heroin whom everybody hates. After nearly dying in a gunfight he falls into a coma. Months later he recovers and gets a second chance....
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- Anthony Stowe
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Timecop
Timecop is a 1994 science fiction thriller film directed by Peter Hyams. Dark Horse published a comic book series of the same name.
The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill and Mia Sara. It is set in the future (2004) where...
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- Max Walker
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Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam but are reanimated in a secret Army project along with a large group of...
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Universal Soldier: The Return
Universal Soldier: The Return, released in 1999, was the second theatrical film in the Universal Soldier series, following two made-for-TV movies, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business. The fourth...
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- Luc Deveraux
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Nowhere to Run
Nowhere to Run is a 1993 action film, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine and Joss Ackland.
Sam Gillen (Van Damme) is a convict who gets sprung from Federal custody somewhere in the Midwest by his bank-robbing...
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Sınav
Sınav (English: The Exam) is a 2006 Turkish comedy-drama directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, the director of G.O.R.A.
Five friends (Mert, Sinan, Gamze, Kaan and Uluç) are set to sit for the daunting nationwide university entry exam. Desperate to get a...
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The Order
The Order is a 2001 20M action thriller film about a religious order, written by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Les Weldon and directed by Sheldon Lettich and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The cast also includes Sofia Milos, Brian Thompson, Ben Cross,...
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Hard Target
Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Chinese director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of...
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The Quest
The Quest is a 1996 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, Janet Gunn, and James Remar. The film is Van Damme's directorial debut. The plot revolves around an international martial arts tournament, with a storyline similar to that of...
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Death Warrant
Death Warrant is a 1990 action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially.
Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme)...
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Wake of Death
Wake of Death is an American action movie, directed by French director, Philippe Martinez. Ringo Lam was the original director, but he left the project after a few weeks of filming in Canada. The movie was released to the cinema in France but direct...
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Replicant
Replicant is a 2001 film starring Michael Rooker and Jean-Claude Van Damme and directed by Ringo Lam. It is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Seattle, Washington, United States. It's the second collaboration between Van Damme and...
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- Edward "The Torch" Garrotte
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Derailed
Derailed is a 2002 action movie directed by Bob Misiorowski and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Tomas Arana.
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin ...
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Sudden Death
Sudden Death is a 1995 action movie, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film's story was written by Karen Elise Baldwin, the wife of then-Penguins owner Howard Baldwin. It also features Dorian Harewood and Raymond J. Barry, and is directed by Peter...
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- Darren McCord
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Second in Command
Second in Command is a 2006 action film directed by Simon Fellows, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was released direct-to-video in the United States, Belgium, and Germany on May 2, 2006. It has been rated R by the MPAA for violence and some...
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- Sam Keenan
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Knock Off
Knock Off is a 1998 American action film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lela Rochon and Rob Schneider.
Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner,...
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- Marcus Ray
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Maximum Risk
Maximum Risk is a 1996 film, directed by Ringo Lam and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Natasha Henstridge.
Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a cop in Nice, France. Alain is at a funeral that is being held for a fellow cop, when Alain’s...
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The Hard Corps
The Hard Corps is a 2006 movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Vivica A. Fox.
Phillip Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is an American soldier suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his time in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sauvage snaps...
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Legionnaire
Legionnaire is a 1998 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff,...
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The Shepherd
The Shepherd Border Patrol is an 2007 film in post-production starring Jean-Claude van Damme and Scott Adkins and directed by Isaac Florentine.The movie will be released straight to DVD on March 4 2008.
Tagline:Welcome To Mexico
A former detective...
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Kickboxer
Kickboxer is a 1989 martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Like Van Damme's previous film, Bloodsport, it showcases Van Damme's unique fighting style, as well as his ability to do the complete splits.
The story follows Kurt Sloane, a...
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Double Impact
Double Impact is a 1991 action film directed by Sheldon Lettich and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a dual role.
Van Damme plays Alex and Chad Wagner, twins who are separated as babies when their parents are killed by a crime boss, in a shooting....
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Inferno
Inferno (released as Desert Heat in the UK, and in United States home video release) is a 1999 film directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a vetern soldier sick of life, wandering the desert...
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol
The Shepherd: Border Patrol is a 2007 action film starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins and directed by Isaac Florentine, the director of Undisputed 2. The movie was released to DVD on March 4, 2008.
Former New Orleans cop Jack Robideaux ...
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JCVD
JCVD is a crime-based comedy drama directed by French-Algerian director Mabrouk El Mechri, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as himself, a down-and-out action star whose family and career are crumbling around him as he is caught in the middle of a...
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Only The Strong
Only The Strong is a 1993 action film, directed by Sheldon Lettich. It is considered to be the only Hollywood film that showcases Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, from beginning to end.
Former Green Beret Louis Stevens (Mark Dacascos)...
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Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation
Universal Soldier: A New Beginning is the upcoming third film in the Universal Soldier series. The film will be directed by John Hyams, the screenplay is by Victor Ostrovsky and the film will star Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, both...
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