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Jean-Claude Van Damme has 54 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Bloodsport.
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The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
Action · Thriller

Hard to Kill
1990
Action · Drama

Hard Target 2
2016
Action · Thriller

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

Best of the Best 2
1993
Action · Thriller

John Wick
2014
Action · Thriller

Desperado
1995
Thriller · Action

Bloodsport
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

Kickboxer
1989 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

Lionheart
1990 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Universal Soldier
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Paramount+ · Included

The Expendables 2
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Paramount+ · Included

Assassination Games
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Tubi · Free w/ ads

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
Dir. Newt Arnold · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.
Dir. David Worth, Mark DiSalle · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan Kwok-San
Phillip and Suzanne are retired from the spy game, living peacefully off the grid. That's until their whereabouts are discovered by Vlad, the vengeful brother of their target from the first film.
Dir. Valeri Milev · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jacqueline Fernandez, Andrei Lenart

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
Dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Dir. Sheldon Lettich · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Dir. John Woo · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker

A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
Dir. Kyle Balda · With Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin

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
A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.
Dir. David Charhon · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Alban Ivanov, Samir Decazza

Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Dir. Ernie Barbarash · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye

An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Dir. Ernie Barbarash · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan, Kris Van Damme

as Ivan Kraschinsky "The Russian"
The mob is trying to strongarm local martial arts schools, forcing young Jason Stillwell and his family to move after his father is injured defending their dojo. With his father now rejecting violence, Jason is forced to train on his own to protect himself and his best friend from the members of a rival karate school.
Dir. Corey Yuen · With Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, J.W. Fails

Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
Dir. Sheldon Lettich · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
Dir. Lior Geller · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, David Castañeda, Joana Metrass

Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in this violent world.
Dir. Deran Sarafian · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb

A tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover after an unfortunate event.
Dir. Julien Leclercq · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sami Bouajila, Sveva Alviti

as Christopher Dubois · Director · Writer
Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon. But fighting prowess alone will not be enough for Chris to triumph over such daunting foes.
Dir. Jean-Claude Van Damme · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar
Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny. Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.
Dir. John G. Avildsen · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita, Danny Trejo
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bianca Bree, Phil McKee
An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Dir. Sheldon Lettich · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Razaaq Adoti, Vivica A. Fox
Every year the Prime Minister has a list of all kinds of troublemakers eliminated in the name of the famous Reason of State. Serge Shuster, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic, finds himself on this list, better known as the Matignon List. Condemned to certain death and at the heart of an implacable plot and a state secret that also put his family in danger, Serge, his wife and children have only one hope left - their gardener, Léo, who hates it when « slugs » invade his garden... Especially those that want to kill innocent families.
Dir. David Charhon · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michaël Youn, Nawell Madani

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Dir. Mabrouk El Mechri · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
Dir. Philippe Martinez · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Simon Yam, Valerie Tian

In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver

When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
Dir. Simon Fellows · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Selina Giles, Stephen Rea
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
Dir. Peter MacDonald · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
Dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker, Catherine Dent
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