The action movies may not be quite on the level of Face/Off, Con Air, or Hard Boiled, but they're not all that far off.

In the years that followed, Van Damme would star in some of the most popular martial arts-themed action movies. For this list, we shall leave out gun-heavy movies like Hard Target and Sudden Death ...

Van Damme’s extraordinary agility and martial arts background made him perfect for this interpretation. As he recalled, “They made me run around the studio and I jumped like a dancer.

With him, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there ... the reputation that his action films brought him and which has been ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme is one of the world’s most iconic 1980s action stars, but while many of his movies began franchises, he does not always star in their sequels. Van Damme’s movies have oft ...

For Jean-Claude Van Damme, his rise to fame came with 1988's martial arts movie Bloodsport. Bloodsport's premise is simple, yet engaging: Frank Dux (Van Damme) enters the deadly fighting ...