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Christopher Lambert has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Action · Thriller

The Edge
1997
Action · Adventure

Kickboxer
1989
Action · Thriller

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

El Gringo
2012
Adventure · Drama

No Escape
1994
Action · Drama

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Richard Bohringer

as John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Prime Video · Rent
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.
Dir. Claire Denis · With Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle

In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild adventures.
Dir. Jonathan Barré · With Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Bernard Farcy

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.
Dir. Konstantin Khabenskiy · With Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Michalina Olszańska

In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Dir. Claude Lelouch · With Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.
Dir. J.F. Lawton · With Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Yoshio Harada

For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes.
Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson · With Robin Shou, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Linden Ashby

A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Christopher Lambert, Leland Orser, Barbara Tyson

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.
Dir. Carl Schenkel · With Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt
One year after the events of "Kickboxer: Vengeance", Kurt Sloan has vowed never to return to Thailand. However, while gearing up for a MMA title shot, he finds himself sedated and forced back into Thailand, this time in prison. He is there because the ones responsible want him to face a 6'8" 400 lbs. beast named Mongkut and in return for the fight, Kurt will get two million dollars and his freedom back. Kurt at first refuses, in which a bounty is placed on his head as a way to force him to face Mongkut. Kurt soon learns he will have no other choice and will undergo his most rigorous training yet under some unexpected mentors in order to face Mongkut in hopes to regain his freedom.
Dir. Dimitri Logothetis · With Alain Moussi, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Claude Van Damme
John Brennick once again finds himself imprisoned, but this time in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10-year-old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.
Dir. Geoff Murphy · With Christopher Lambert, Aidan Rea, David Roberson
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland
Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?
Dir. Douglas Aarniokoski · With Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne

The Prize has been won. Connor MacLeod is mortal... Now an old man on the verge of death, memories of his past on the planet Zeist resurface, where a vengeful enemy, General Katana, plots to destroy him once and for all.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen

as Connor 'The Highlander' MacLeod
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod wanders through the world; however, he is awakened from his peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician, Kane, escapes and comes seeking the Highlander.
Dir. Andrew Morahan · With Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger
Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.
Dir. Graham Baker · With Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Oliver Cotton
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