Movies starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

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When Jean-Claude Van Damme became an international film star, there was some debate as to his ring accomplishments. Former multiple World Kickboxing Champion Don "The Dragon" Wilson even offered Jean-Claude a "$100,000" bounty match to get into the ring and fight him. Van Damme brushed off the "challenge" as a publicity stunt. But, the truth of the matter was that Jean-Claude Van Damme had indeed  ...  show all 

Timecop (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Mia Sara | Ron Silver | Bruce McGill | Gloria Reuben | Scott Bellis | Jason Schombing | Scott Lawrence | Kenneth Welsh | Brent Woolsey | Brad Loree | Shane Kelly | Richard Faraci | Steven Lambert | Kevin McNulty
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In Washington DC in 1994, the Senate Oversight Committee (SOC) is being spoken to in the capitol building by George Spota, who explains that for the past 20 years, Doctor Hans Kleindast, the Nobel laureate who help the government with the space program back in the 1960s and 1970s, has been doing research, and his field of research has been time travel. The SOC believes that Hans is a quack — until George tells the SOC that Hans actually succeeded in his research and took a trip to the past then back to the present. You can’t travel into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. George makes it clear that a covert agency is needed to police time travel, so the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is formed. Named as the director of the TEC is Commander Eugene Matuzak, formerly of the Washington DC police department. Senator Aaron McComb, who sees possibilities, agrees to chair the oversight on the new program. Sometime later, at a shopping center, TEC agent Max Walker and his wife Melissa are being watched by a pair of shady looking men. Later, at home. Max and Melissa spend some passionate time together. That night, Melissa is about to tell Max something extremely important when the phone rings. Max answers the phone and is told to go to TEC headquarters. Max gets dressed and as soon as Max opens the front door to go outside, he is attacked by the two men from the shopping center. As the two men are beating Max up. Max sees Aaron looking out the window of the bedroom that Melissa is still in, and Aaron is holding Melissa hostage, forcing Melissa to watch Max’s beating. The two men outside then shoot Max, who is wearing a bulletproof vest — and then an explosion engulfs the house, killing Melissa. On October 30, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, a man named Lyle Atwood enters an office building and rides an elevator up to an office. There is a sudden ripple in the office, and Max enters from the future. It turns out that Lyle is Max’s partner, and Lyle is planning to stop the depression from happening. Max wants to know who Lyle is working for, and Lyie calls two security men into the office to deal with Max. Max beats up the two security men, and Lyle pulls out a gun and opens fire on Max. When Lyle runs out of bullets, Max forces Lyle to admit that he’s working for Aaron, and that Aaron has paid off a lot of other TEC agents as well. Lyle then jumps out the window. Max jumps out after Lyle, grabs him, and takes Lyle with him back to present time, which is now the year 2004, ten years after Melissa’s murder. TEC judge Marshall sentences Lyle to be immediately executed, so Lyle is sent back to 1929 and is dropped to his death from the point in midair where Max and Lyle disappeared to 2004. At TEC Headquarters in 2004, Aaron, Max, and Matuzak are showing Senator Malcolm Nelson around the TEC building. Aaron reminds everyone that people who go back in time risk coming into contact with a past version of themselves. The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because if that happens, and if it’s a person accidentally making physical contact with their past version, that person will die, and their body will disappear from the face of the Earth. Later, Max tells Matuzak that Aaron wants to shut down the TEC so no one can stop him from altering the past to his advantage, because Aaron is now running for President of the United States. Aaron’s fading campaign for president is dealt a blow when he is denied federal campaign matching funds. Just before Max wakes up, two men break into his home to kill him, but Max turns the tables and kills the two men who broke in. TEC internal affairs investigator Sarah Fielding questions Max. Max soon learns that Sarah may be on the wrong side in this. Max must travel back and forth in time to bring Aaron down…and when Max goes back to 1994 and finds out what Melissa wanted to tell him 10 years ago, it gives Max incentive to at least try to prevent Melissa’s murder.

Sudden Death (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Powers Boothe | Raymond J. Barry | Whittni Wright | Ross Malinger | Dorian Harewood | Kate McNeil | Michael Gaston | Audra Lindley | Brian Delate | Steve Aronson | Michael R. Aubele | Karen Elise Baldwin | Jennifer D. Bowser | Pat Brisson
Directors: Peter Hyams
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The Vice-President is being held at gunpoint. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena is wired with enough explosives to blow up the whole city. And if $1 billion isn’t delivered soon, thousands will die… …Darren McCord is in the arena. An arson investigator, he’s seen what explosives can do to people. And he won’t let it happen again. Because this time, one wrong move and his daughter dies, too…

Bloodsport (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Donald Gibb | Leah Ayres | Norman Burton | Forest Whitaker | Roy Chiao | Philip Chan | Pierre Rafini | Bolo Yeung | Ken Siu | Kimo Lai Kwok Ki | Bernard Mariano | Bill Yuen Ping Kuen | Lily Leung | Joshua Schroder
Directors: Newt Arnold
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As a child, a miscreant Frank Dux was taken in and trained by a champion martial artist, who went so far as to adopt Frank into his family after the premature death of his own son. Now, decades later, Frank is a skilled martial artist himself and a solider in the U.S. Military. Upon the death of his surrogate father and sensai, Frank is informed of a mysterious, no-holds barred, highly illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known only as the “kumeti.” At the bidding of his sensai and against direct orders from his military superiors Frank travels to Hong Kong to participate and uphold his master’s honor. In order to succeed not only will he have to win the tournament; he must also evade capture by two military police sent to arrest him and the prying questions of a nosy reporter eager for a story.

Legionnaire (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Steven Berkoff | Nicholas Farrell | Jim Carter | Ana Sofrenovic | Daniel Caltagirone | Joseph Long | Mario Kalli | Joe Montana | Kim Romer | Anders Peter Bro | Paul Kynman | Vincent Pickering | Takis Triggelis
Directors: Peter MacDonald
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia…but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man’s past…nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life…

Second in Command (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Romania | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Julie Cox | William Tapley | Alan Mckenna | Razaaq Adoti | Warren Derosa | Serban Celea | Colin Stinton | Emanuel Parvu | Razvan Oprea | Velibor Topic | Elizabeth Barondes | Vlad Ivanov | Mihai Bisericanu | Ian Virgo
Directors: Simon Fellows
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Jean Claude plays an official who’s just been appointed as Second In Command to the U.S.Ambassador at an American Embassy in a small, turbulent Eastern European nation.When local insurgents attempt a coup d’etat, the nation’s President takes refuge inside the embassy.The embassy is then besieged by the well-armed insurgents.The U.S. Ambassador is killed in the ensuing action, an now it’s up to Jean Claude and the embassy’s small detachment of U.S. Marines to fend off the attackers

Universal Soldier (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Dolph Lundgren | Ally Walker | Ed O'Ross | Jerry Orbach | Leon Rippy | Tico Wells | Ralf Moeller | Robert Trebor | Gene Davis | Drew Snyder | Tommy 'Tiny' Lister | Simon Rhee | Eric Norris | Michael Winther
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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An elite team of soldiers has been used against terrorists where they use astounding physical capabilities to overcome them. Victoria, a reporter, follows them and discovers a part of their secret. When one of the team kills her cameraman she tries to escape. Luc, one of the soldiers begins to have flashbacks and turns sides and helps her as the remainder of the team follows to protect their secrets.

The Hard Corps (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Razaaq Adoti | Vivica A. Fox | Peter Bryant | Ron Bottitta | Viv Leacock | Adrian Holmes | Mark Griffin | Ron Selmour | Aaron Au | Dexter Bell | Julian Christopher | Nneka Croal | Sharon Amos | Doron Bell
Directors: Sheldon Lettich
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Jean-Claude will be playing a Combat Vet who’s just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, who is hired to be a bodyguard to a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ to protect him and his family against a Rap Music Mogul. He sets up a team called “The Hard Corps”, complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister may be in love with the bodyguard.

Maximum Risk (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Natasha Henstridge | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Zach Grenier | Paul Ben-Victor | Frank Senger | Stefanos Miltsakakis | Frank Van Keeken | David Hemblen | Stéphane Audran | Dan Moran | Donald Burda | Rob Kaman | Herb Lovelle | Denis Costanzo
Directors: Ringo Lam
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A policeman takes his twin brother’s place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.

Knock Off (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Rob Schneider | Lela Rochon | Paul Sorvino | Carman Lee | Glen Chin | Wyman Wong | Moses Chan | Lynne Langdon | Ray Nicholas | Jeff Wolfe | Michael Miller | Steve Brettingham | Mark Houghton
Directors: Hark Tsui
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It is June of 1997. In 72 hours, Hong Kong will return to Chinese rule after 150 years as a British-ruled colony. Marcus Ray and Tommy Hendricks are sales reps for V SIX Jeans, and they are enjoying life in Hong Kong in this time before the island nation’s transition back to Chinese rule. While Tommy busily prepares for the latest fashion show, Marcus is off looking at knock off goods — imitation watches, jewelry, and baby dolls, in which his longtime friend Eddie Wang and his Hong Kong associate, Skinny Wang, are involved. When Marcus and Tommy’s supervisor Karen Leigh arrives and informs them that much of their last shipment of jeans was filled with knock off imitations, the two can’t believe her, but they agree to help in raiding a warehouse to prove their innocence. After a violent encounter that involves local police Ling Ho and Lieutenant Han, Marcus eventually learns that Tommy is an undercover CIA agent, and so is Karen. Meeting with their boss, agent Harry Johansson, Marcus learns of a conspiracy involving the Russian mafia and their attempts to smuggle tiny, but highly explosive “microbombs” to the worldwide terrorist black market. And these are bombs that explode into green flame when detonated. Marcus, Tommy, and Karen set out to stop the conspiracy and figure out who’s behind it.

Double Team (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Dennis Rodman | Mickey Rourke | Paul Freeman | Natacha Lindinger | Valeria Cavalli | Jay Benedict | Joëlle Devaux-Vullion | Bruno Bilotta | Mario Opinato | Grant Russell | William Dunn | Asher Tzarfati | Rob Diem | Ken Samuels
Directors: Hark Tsui
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Having retiring from the CIA, where he was an anti-terrorist operative, Jack Paul Quinn spends his days poolside at his house in Nice, France with his pregnant wife Katherine Rose Quinn. But international terrorist Stavros, an old enemy of Quinn’s, has resurfaced, and the CIA wants Quinn to come out of retirement, and go after Stavros. Quinn reluctantly accepts the assignment. Quinn goes to Antwerp, Belgium and hooks up with flamboyant arms dealer Yaz, who has the newest fully-automatic weapons. With Quinn’s assembled delta-force, an ambush is set for Stavros at a local amusement park. Stavros arrives, and greets his girlfriend…and his son. Quinn finds himself unable to shoot Stavros with his son. This moment of hesitation is costly, and Quinn’s entire team is killed off in a shoot-out with Stavros’ men — a shoot-out in which Stavros’s son and girlfriend are both killed. Quinn chases Stavros into a nearby hospital, and they battle it out in a nursery full of newborn babies. Quinn is knocked out cold, and Stavros escapes, vowing revenge on Quinn for the deaths of his son and girlfriend, not knowing that Quinn was not the agent who killed them. When Quinn comes to, he finds himself in “The Colony,” a place where “those who are too valuable to kill and too dangerous to set free” use their special skills around the world as “the last line of defense against global terrorism.” Using virtual reality and mouseless-graphical-user-interfaces, they solve all the world’s bombings, hijackings, and terrorist attacks. The only problem is that no one can ever leave The Colony. That’s why Quinn’s superiors tell Katherine that Quinn is dead. Not long after his arrival, Quinn finds evidence that Katherine is being targeted by Stavros, and so Quinn hatches an elaborate plan to escape from the Colony so he can protect Katherine. Once out of The Colony, Quinn hooks up with Yaz, and they learn that Stavros has kidnapped Katherine and taken her to Rome, planning to get revenge on Quinn through the baby, which Katherine has given birth to. Quinn and Yaz set out for Rome to rescue Katherine. It all comes to a head in a Roman coliseum in a showdown featuring a tiger, land mines…and the baby.