Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme
Date of Birth: 18 Oct 1960
Country: Belgium
Biography: Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Van Damme is best known for his martial arts action movies. His most successful films include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Timecop (1994), and JCVD (2008). Due to his physique and his Belgian background, he is known as "The Muscles from Brussels."...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 68 (Actor), 3 (Director), 10 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (68) | Director (3) | Writer (10)
Knock Off
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in an explosive thriller set in Hong Kong's shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China. (Sony)
Universal Soldier: The Return
Luc Devereaux, the only surviving member of the original Universal Soldier Team. He now works with Dylan Cotner, on a project to create and improve a new Universal Soldier. Their plan is for the Universal soldier or UNISOLS to be controlled by a computer they call SETH. When the government decides to terminate the project, which includes shutting down SETH. SETH, not wanting this to happen, takes steps to prevent this. He first kills Dylan. He then has himself transfered into a body... (imdb)
Bloodsport
Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament... (imdb)
Street Fighter
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts. (imdb)
Timecop
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. (imdb)
Hard Target
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process. (imdb)
Lionheart
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 (imdb)
Breakin\
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC. (imdb)
Kickboxer
Kurt Sloan is the corner-man for his brother, U.S. kickboxing champion Eric Sloan. When Kurt witnesses his brother become maliciously paralyzed in the ring by Thailand champion Tong Po, Kurt vows revenge. (imdb)
Double Impact
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents... (imdb)
Universal Soldier
Luc and Scott were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating dead people as near-perfect soldiers. (imdb)
In Hell
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment. (imdb)
Sudden Death
A disgraced former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals. (imdb)
The Order
Van Damme plays Rudy whose father, Oscar is an archaeologist. His father goes to Israel. When his father disappears... (imdb)
Missing in Action
Colonel Braddock, who escaped from a POW camp after 10 years, returns to Vietnam. He attempts to track down the location of a POW camp and rescue the prisoners to prove that several MIAs are still alive and being held captive.(imdb)
Wake of Death
After his wife is brutally murdered, an ex-cop wages war against the Chinese triads. (imdb)
Death Warrant
The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors... (imdb)
Double Team
Counter-terrorist Jack Quinn misses his target, Stavros, on the eve of his final mission. From there, he is sent to "The Colony", a rebirth for presumed-dead assassins. He breaks free from there, and seeks the aid of Yaz, a weapons dealer, for his final battle with Stavros. (imdb)
The Hard Corps
The Hard Corps (2006) - Direct-to-Video
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. (imdb)
Maximum Risk
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. (imdb)
Nowhere to Run
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is. (imdb)
Legionnaire
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... (imdb)
Sinav
The Exam portrays the difficult school life of the high school students Mert, Sinan, Gamze, Kaan and Uluç, who suffer under the pressures of the forthcoming university entrance exam. In order to study, they must keep their grade point averages as high as possible, which is not the case yet... (imdb)
Cyborg
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where starvation and disease are plaguing the few remaining inhabitants of Earth. Scientists are close to discovering a cure for the plague that is sweeping the country. Gibson Rickenbacker is a strong fighter who leads a group to Atlanta to gain information needed for the cure, along the way attempting to avoid the villains. (imdb)
No Retreat, No Surrender
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan. (imdb)
Desert Heat
Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a vetern soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddies motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. Helped by Mr. Early, and some other good fellows, Eddie is out for vengeance. (imdb)
The Quest
Chris embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery that spans the globe. Kidnapped and enslaved by gun smugglers, sold by pirates and thrust into the murky underworld of gambling and kickboxing, Chris' journey takes him to forbidding Muay Thai Island where deadly martial arts are taught... (imdb)
Until Death
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this bone-chilling, Dark action-packed thriller as Anthony Stowe, a down-and-out detective addicted to heroin whose days always seem to go from bad to worse... (imdb)
Replicant
Jake Riley is working on the "Torch" case, a psycho serial killer, who kills women with kids and sets them on fire after they are dead. The killer calls Riley sometimes and now, that Riley retires, the killer has no person to play against anymore. The NSA comes into play here and offers a job to Riley. A replicant, or better a clone of the killer should help him find the real one... (imdb)
Second in Command
Second in Command (2006) - Direct-to-Video
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 (imdb)
Narco
Narco is a French film about Gus, a narcoleptic, whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his narcolepsy.
JCVD
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! In JCVD, 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. (imdb)
The Shepherd: Border Patrol
A texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA. (imdb)
Derailed
On an out of control train holding hostages and high-tech bio-weapons agent Kristoff (Van Damme) becomes a one man army to derail the terrorists and save the lives of everyone on board! (imdb)
Black Eagle
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, a F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent Ken Tami to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island. Ken Tami's tough opponent is KGB agent Andrei. (imdb)
The Best of the Martial Arts Films
There is no plot in this film. It is a collection of the best fighting scenes from the martial arts films (i.e. Bruce Lee and others). (imdb)
The Eagle Path
Frenchy, an emotionally lost Ex-GI turned taxi driver, crosses paths with a mysterious woman Sofia.
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
The militant Islamist Chechen Basayev abducts the children of the President and takes control of Chernobyl, threatening to unleash a radioactive cloud unless his demands are met. Luc Deveraux (Van Damme), now an Universal Soldier again, joins a new team of UniSols secretly held in deep storage. Their mission: retake Chernobyl and disable explosives that will unleash radioactive clouds. Luc discovers that one of the reactivated Universal Soldiers is a clone of his old, homicidal Sergeant, Andrew (Wikipedia)
Kung Fu Panda 2
As the legendary Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black), the kung fu panda, dutifully guards the Valley of Peace alongside his allies the Furious Five. When a frightful new enemy emerges, Po and company embark on a perilous journey to save China and the art of kung fu.
Assassination Games
Rival assassins -- each of whom are masters of their respective weapons -- form an uneasy alliance in their mission to take down a DEA-backed drug cartel. (imdb)
Dragon Eyes
n St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself. (imdb)
The Expendables 2
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. (imdb)
6 Bullets
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped. (imdb)
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
John awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible: Luc Deveraux. While John tries to piece his reality back together, things get more complicated when he is pursued by a relentless UniSol named Magnus. (imdb)
Alien Uprising
Friends get together for a night out in a bar. Life is wonderful as a couple share their proposal moment. When, suddenly strange things start to happen. Loss of power. Throughout the city. ... (imdb)
Welcome to the Jungle
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry. (imdb)
Enemies Closer
Deep within a forest on the US-Canadian border, two sworn enemies must work together to escape a ruthless drug cartel hell-bent on retrieving a drug shipment which went missing there. (imdb)
Swelter
In the vein of the brutal heist drama Reservoir Dogs, the modern crime thriller A History of Violence, and the classic western High Plains Drifter, SWELTER is a violent story of greed and retribution. (imdb)
Monaco Forever
An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery. (imdb)
Pound of Flesh
A man's heroic attempt to help a woman in distress ends up with him waking up the next day without a kidney and plotting his revenge. (imdb)
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films
THE GO-GO BOYS: The Inside Story of Cannon Films is a documentary about two Israeli-born cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the American Dream turned the Hollywood power structure upside down, producing over 300 films and becoming the most powerful independent film company in the world. Up close and personal, the film examines the complex relationship between two contradictory personalities whose combined force fueled their success and eventual collapse. (imdb)
Kickboxer: Vengeance
A kick boxer is out to avenge his brother. (imdb)
Jian Bing Man
A story of a disgraced actor struggling to find a way back to the top, finding the meaning of true friends on the way. (imdb)
Beur sur la ville
The main story revolves around a trio of cops coming from the minority living in France (1 African Arab, 1 black African and 1 Asian) who are assigned the task to find a serial killer, who kills and rapes women in the french town Villeneuve. Their investigation leads to many comical and absurd situations, which are used to complete the main plot of the movie. (imdb)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
A famous action movie hero and martial arts star comes out of retirement to assume his alter ego as undercover private contractor named Jean-Claude Van Johnson. He must also deal with aging and his handler Vanessa, the ex he still loves. (imdb)
Kill\
An unidentified man arrives at a local hospital, seriously wounded. He is taken care of by a devoted nurse, Suzanne. Things take a turn for the worse when an international gang shamelessly invades the hospital to kill him.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Stars global martial arts & actor Jean-Claude Van Damme playing "Jean-Claude Van Damme", a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably. (imdb)
Kickboxer: Retaliation
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. (imdb)
Black Water
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine. (imdb)
The Bouncer
A nightclub bouncer in his fifties who's taken punches, literally and figuratively, struggles to raise his 8-year-old daughter.
Full Love
A military veteran and former mercenary named Frenchy is haunted by his childhood, as well as his past in the military.
We Die Young
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. (imdb)
Minions: The Rise of Gru
The untold story of one twelve-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain (IMDb).
The Last Mercenary
A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.
Dans la peau de Jean-Claude Van Damme
If you want to find out how it is being Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Darkness of Man
Russell Hatch (played by Jean-Claude Van Damme), an Interpol operative who takes on the role of father figure to Jayden, the son of an informant killed in a routine raid gone wrong. Years later, Hatch finds himself protecting Jayden and his grandfather from a group of merciless gangs in an all-out turf war, stopping at nothing to protect Jayden and fight anyone getting in his way.
Kill \
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.
Le jardinier
Every year, the Prime Minister eliminates a list of troublemakers in the name of raison d'État. In spite of himself, Serge Shuster, special advisor to the President, finds himself on the list. He and his family are condemned to certain death. But what everyone doesn't know is that the Shusters have a new gardener, Léo, who in the past hasn't just sheared hedges.