Gilliator's Van Damme movies
by Gilliator | created - 11 Dec 2012 | updated - 13 Jul 2013 | PublicJCVD is a legend of action, and that is why the maker of this list wants to see as much of his movies as possible. As with Seagal, at the beginning are the ones I have on a DVD or Bluray, and at the end the ones I've seen elsewhere.
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1. Cyborg (1989)
R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels
Votes: 34,251 | Gross: $10.17M
Score : 5 It's one of the most delightfully bad action films I've seen. Nothing's really good in it, but it's undeniably entertaining. Fight scenes are painful and Vincent Klyn is insanely savage. I love it!
2. Lionheart (1990)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An Ex-French Soldier begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.
Director: Sheldon Lettich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan
Votes: 39,836 | Gross: $24.08M
Score : 8
3. Death Warrant (1990)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson
Votes: 20,801 | Gross: $16.85M
Score: 7
4. Universal Soldier (1992)
R | 102 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Soldiers who were killed in action are brought back to life in a top secret military experiment that creates superhuman warriors.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross
Votes: 96,274 | Gross: $36.30M
Score : 7 It's the only Emmerich film I ever want to see. It's a lot of fun from start to finish, it has some strong violence and a fantasticly sadistic performance by Dolph.
5. Hard Target (1993)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Chuck Pfarrer
Votes: 56,322 | Gross: $32.59M
Score : 8 Classic Van Damme with great slo-mo-Woo action, terribly awesome mullet, snake getting beaten, and that ridiculously awesome motorcycle scene. Lance Henriksen shines as the bad guy.
6. Nowhere to Run (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Sam, an escaped convict, lands up on a farmland owned by a widow. When he learns that a ruthless contractor is trying to take over her land, he helps her to fight against the injustice.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine
Votes: 26,143 | Gross: $22.19M
Score : 6 It's a good movie, but it should have more action. Plot is pretty good.
7. Street Fighter (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of a civil war in South East Asia, a general intensifies the climate of violence by kidnapping 63 UN delegates. To free the hostages, a colonel leads a group of fighters, who will have to use all their skills to be successful.
Director: Steven E. de Souza | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa
Votes: 75,343 | Gross: $33.42M
Score : 5 It's simply stupid video game action fun. It is not a good film, but it doesn't have to be. It's entertaining.
8. Timecop (1994)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who's intent on changing the past to control the future.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill
Votes: 64,234 | Gross: $44.85M
Score : 7
9. Maximum Risk (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While seeking answers to the death of the twin brother he never knew he had, a French cop and his sibling's fiancee find themselves pursued by corrupt FBI agents and the Russian mafia.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Zach Grenier
Votes: 23,974 | Gross: $14.50M
Score : 8
10. Knock Off (1998)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A fashion designer must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 16,424 | Gross: $10.08M
Score : 7
11. Legionnaire (1998)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Alain is a boxer in 1925 Marseille, France. When he doesn't take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. He joins the Foreign Legion and is sent to Morocco. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs.
Director: Peter MacDonald | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 25,770
12. Replicant (2001)
R | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker, Catherine Dent, Brandon James Olson
Votes: 15,723
Score: 8
13. The Order (2001)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A playboy criminal contacts his dad after stealing a Faberge egg. Later it seems his dad has gone missing in Israel so he heads there. His disappearance is linked to the religious sect: The Order. Lots of fight and chase scenes.
Director: Sheldon Lettich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sofia Milos, Charlton Heston, Brian Thompson
Votes: 9,364
Score : 8 Good plot, great action, great Brian Thompson, great fake jew beard on Damme's face.. Total entertainment.
14. Derailed (2002)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
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!
Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tomas Arana, Laura Harring, Susan Gibney
Votes: 8,577
Score : 6 Nothing revolutionary here, just a fun train ride with nice action and some ugly special effects..
15. In Hell (2003)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista, Carlos Gómez
Votes: 21,513
Score : 8 Disgusting bloody violence, very good performance by Damme, ultrabrutal fight scenes. Great job by Ringo Lam.
16. Second in Command (2006 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Thriller, War
The new military attache is also second in command at the US embassy in "Moldavia". The loser at the recent presidential election isn't letting that stop him. The president seeks protection at the US embassy bringing it under attack.
Director: Simon Fellows | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Julie Cox, Alan McKenna, Razaaq Adoti
Votes: 6,953
Score : 6 Too political for my taste, and I couldn't follow the plot. Good action.
17. The Hard Corps (2006 Video)
R | 110 min | Action, Thriller
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.
Director: Sheldon Lettich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Razaaq Adoti, Vivica A. Fox, Peter Bryant
Votes: 6,631
Score : 8 Ridiculous gangsta characters and rap music (a good thing), pretty good plot, good action. Could have been a little more "hardcore"..
18. Until Death (2007)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Director: Simon Fellows | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stephen Rea, Selina Giles, Mark Dymond
Votes: 10,373
Score: 8 Violent! Also good plot and a great performance by Damme.
19. JCVD (2008)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Valérie Bodson, Hervé Sogne, Rock Chen
Votes: 40,316 | Gross: $0.47M
Score : 5 Great performance by Damme, but the movie itself is simply boring.
20. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Andrei Arlovski, Mike Pyle
Votes: 26,545
Score : 7 Amazing amount of bloody action. Great to have Dolph there too.
21. Assassination Games (2011)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two assassins agree to work together as one tries to avenge his wife and the other collects a reward for a job.
Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye, Valentin Teodosiu
Votes: 18,432
Score : 7
22. Dragon Eyes (2012)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 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.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Cung Le, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Johnny Holmes, Peter Weller
Votes: 6,383
Score : 6 John Hyams really knows how to direct an action picture. This movie has a pretty weird atmosphere throughout and the fight scenes are fun. Weller is very good here.
23. The Expendables 2 (2012)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
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.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Liam Hemsworth, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme
Votes: 322,455 | Gross: $85.02M
Score : 9 It's all about the stars. Damme is such a great villain.
24. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
John looks to take down Luc Deveraux after a home invasion claims his wife and daughter. The fight pits John against Andrew Scott and an army of genetically enhanced warriors; meanwhile, he must contend with a UniSol in relentless pursuit.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Mariah Bonner
Votes: 21,395 | Gross: $0.01M
Score : 8 Extremely violent and disgustingly gory, frightening, disturbing, interesting and well made. Great direction by Hyams. Great performance by JC. Amazing action scenes. Highly recommended.
25. No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)
PG | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno
Votes: 18,792 | Gross: $4.66M
Score : 3 Terrible film, but fun to watch, makes you laugh. Amazing appearance by Bruce Lee himself.. yes. It really was him. Great fight scenes at the end featuring Van Damme as a russian bad guy.
26. Bloodsport (1988)
R | 92 min | Action, Biography, Drama
"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
Director: Newt Arnold | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton
Votes: 94,085 | Gross: $11.81M
Score : 7 A legendary classic of martial arts cinema. Simple plot, bad acting, ultracool 80's action music, fantastic fight scenes. Donald Gibb, Bolo and Forrest Whitaker are simply great as well.
27. Kickboxer (1989)
R | 97 min | Action, Sport, Thriller
Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
Directors: Mark DiSalle, David Worth | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi
Votes: 60,925 | Gross: $14.70M
Score : 4 Bloodsport rip-off, but before the plot gets to things like raping, killing and shooting, it's at least mildly entertaining.
28. Sudden Death (1995)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Whittni Wright
Votes: 37,044 | Gross: $20.35M
Score : 6,5 It may not be original, but it doesn't have to. A lot of action and suspense.
29. Double Team (1997)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke, Paul Freeman
Votes: 36,682 | Gross: $11.44M
It seemed so bad I stopped watching after 15 minutes. Don't worry, I will watch it someday.
30. Desert Heat (1999)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A man (JCVD) drives out in the desert where some men steal his motorcycle and leave him for dead. He survives and no longer thinks of suicide as he now has a purpose in life: revenge and getting his bike back.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita, Danny Trejo, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick
Votes: 10,682
Score : 3 or 4 No, no, no. Definitely not a good film. The sex scene was too much.
31. Wake of Death (2004)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After his wife is brutally murdered, club enforcer Ben Archer wages war against the Chinese triads.
Director: Philippe Martinez | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Simon Yam, Philip Tan, Valerie Tian
Votes: 10,191
Score: 7
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