Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Typical Vibe
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has 45 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Terminator.
Recurring themes

Death Race 2
2010
Action · Thriller

Death Race: Inferno
2013
Action · Science Fiction

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Action · Thriller

John Wick
2014
Action · Thriller

I Am Number Four
2011
Action · Thriller

Universal Soldier
1992
Thriller · Action

Mad Max 2
1981
Action · Thriller

Skyscraper
2018
Action · Thriller

The Terminator
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Predator
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%AMC+ · Included

Total Recall
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

I Am Not Your Negro
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Running Man
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Paramount+ · Included

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Dir. James Cameron · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Dir. James Cameron · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Dir. John McTiernan · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
Dir. James Cameron · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Dir. Raoul Peck · With Samuel L. Jackson, JoeyStarr, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
Dir. Mikael Håfström · With Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
Dir. John Milius · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Dir. Paul Michael Glaser · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, María Conchita Alonso

An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.
Dir. Jason Hehir · With André Roussimoff, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger

From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes—each on a mission to create a seismic shift in the way we eat and live.
Dir. Louie Psihoyos · With James Wilks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrik Baboumian

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
Dir. Tim Miller · With Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis

This intimate docuseries follows Arnold Schwarzenegger's multifaceted life and career, from bodybuilding champ to Hollywood icon to politician.
With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
Dir. Thom Zimny · With Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Stallone Jr.

After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.
Dir. John McTiernan · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, Bridgette Wilson

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Dir. Simon West · With Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li

Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young Lou Ferrigno.
Dir. Robert Fiore, George Butler · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Mike Katz

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Dir. Patrick Hughes · With Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
Dir. Jonathan Mostow · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes

Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.
Dir. Oleg Stepchenko · With Jason Flemyng, Yao Xingtong, Anna Churina

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan

Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Jaimie Alexander

Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston

Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain

Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world's most premiere bodybuilding stage - Mr. Olympia.
Dir. Vlad Yudin · With Mickey Rourke, Michael Jai White, Lou Ferrigno
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