
Jean-Claude Van Damme films, ranked by your taste
Actor and director · 53 films on Boxlist
Known for Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Minions: The Rise of Gru.
See which ones match your tasteStarring Jean-Claude Van Damme

Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBA 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.
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Bloodsport
1988 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBU.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to...

Darkness of Man
2024 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBRussell Hatch, 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 uncle from a group of merciless...

Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBPo is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened...

The Last Mercenary
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBA 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.

We Die Young
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBLucas, 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.

Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBContinuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to his home.
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Kickboxer
1989 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBIf your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt (Van Damme), American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio), arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent...

Kill 'em All 2
2024 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBPhillip 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.

JCVD
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBBetween 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! Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the...

Lionheart
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBLyon 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...

Last Action Hero
1993 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBDanny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to...
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The Expendables 2
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBMr. 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.
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Universal Soldier
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBAn 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...
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Hard Target
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBWhen 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.

Nowhere to Run
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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In Hell
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBA man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

The Bouncer
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBA tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover after an unfortunate event.

No Retreat, No Surrender
1986 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBYoung Jason Stillwell moves with his parents to Seattle, where local bullies harass them without mercy. Jason's father Tom does not believe in violence, so the family takes it on the chin. One day Jason enrolls in a martial arts class and...
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Assassination Games
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBBrazil 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...

Halloween Ends
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBFour years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror...
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Double Impact
1991 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBJean 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...

The Quest
1996 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBGhang-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...
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Death Warrant
1990 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBThe Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Louis, using his outstandings martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in that...

Inferno
1999 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBEddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a...

Timecop
1994 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBAn 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.

6 Bullets
2012 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBAn ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
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Wake of Death
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBBen 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.

The Hard Corps
2006 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBAn 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.

Sudden Death
1995 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBWhen 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...
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol
2008 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBA Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
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Missing in Action
1984 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBAmerican servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese...

Replicant
2001 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBScientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.

Until Death
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBAnthony 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.

Black Water
2018 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBA deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.

Second in Command
2006 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBArmed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the...

Legionnaire
1998 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDBAlain 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...

Universal Soldier: Regeneration
2009 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDBWhen terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal...

Maximum Risk
1996 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDBAlain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless...

Pound of Flesh
2015 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDBIn China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, former black-ops agent Deacon awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up and pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in...

Cyborg
1989 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBA martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

Universal Soldier: The Return
1999 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBLuc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth, the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks...
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
2012 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBAfter his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion, a widower named John now finds himself up against an army of Universal Soldiers in relentless pursuit, led by a mysterious leader who promises to set UniSols free from their...
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Kill 'em All
2017 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBAfter a massive shootout, a mysterious stranger arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Then, a foreign gang brazenly comes to the hospital to hunt him down. His nurse, the sole surviving witness to the follow-up shootout, must...
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Kickboxer: Retaliation
2018 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDBOne 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...

Double Team
1997 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDBHe's a one-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world. They Don't Play by the Rules. You're either on their side...or in their way. America's top counter-terrorist usually works alone...this time he's got company.
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Knock Off
1998 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDBMarcus Ray, a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner, Tommy Hendricks, are about to be busted for selling "knock off" jeans. Their American contact, Karan Leigh, who by the way is not only their employer but a CIA agent...

Welcome to the Jungle
2013 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDBA company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
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Kickboxer: Vengeance
2016 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDBEric and Kurt Sloane are the descendants of a well-known Venice, California-based family of martial artists. Kurt has always been in older brother, Eric's shadow, as he lacks the instincts needed to become a champion. Against Kurt's...
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Derailed
2002 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDBNATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the...

The Gardener
2025 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDBEvery 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...
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Street Fighter
1994 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDBCol. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
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Haters
2021 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDBInternet humor star Thomas the Lama gets out of hand in a video. He becomes the target of all haters and his life falls apart. To win back his girlfriend and his audience, he decides to go meet his 10 biggest detractors to see if they can...
Directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme

The Quest
1996 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBGhang-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...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
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