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Kumite is an action-packed story of courage, friendship, and redemption, set against the backdrop of the most brutal and elite fighting tournament in the world, The Kumite. Vic Latour (Jean-Claude Van Damme), the only westerner to ever win the Championship of the Kumite, returns to defend his title after years of alcoholism and despair, overcoming great odds to achieve greater glory.

Directed by
Frédéric Forestier

Writing credits
René Goscinny (comic book)
Thomas Langmann (screenplay)

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.

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

Jeanne-Claude Van Damme is Ben Archer, a gangster from Marseilles who now lives in LA; after a few decades of crime, he's decided to go straight and spend more time with his family. His wife Cynthia is an agent for the INS; she works to keep illegal Chinese immigrants out of the US. But when she discovers Kim (Valerie Tian), a troubled young girl on board a ship full of immigrants, she takes pity on her and brings the girl home with her. This turns out to be a mistake, as Kim is running for her life; when her maniacal father Sun Quan (Simon Yam), the trigger-happy leader of the Chinese Triad, discovers Kim's hiding place, he brutally murders all involved. Upon finding his wife's body, Ben resolves to extract revenge from the killers, and embarks upon a bloodletting of the entire Chinese mob, waging war with the aid of two of his former gang members.

For killing his wife's lover, Kyle LeBlanc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has landed himself in Eastern Europe's most brutal prison, where the warden pits inmates against each other in to-the-death fights for his own profit. There, he must continue his winning streak, realizing that he is close to becoming the sort of unforgiving, violent monster that he despises.

Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up once again with DOUBLE IMPACT director Sheldon Lettich for this tale of adventure and intrigue. Reformed artifact smuggler Rudy (Van Damme) is forced to travel to Jerusalem and come to the aid of his museum curator father (Charlton Heston), who has been kidnapped by a radical religious group. After being framed for murder there, Rudy must enlist the help of a mysterious woman (Sofia Milos) so that he may find a sacred scroll before it falls into the wrong hands, thus starting Holy War.

Belgium's most successful export, brooding action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme, stars in two opposing roles in this highly original sci-fi action film. When a ruthless serial killer nicknamed "the Torch" (Van Damme) proves virtually unstoppable, a cunning detective (played by Michael Rooker) thinks up an unprecedented and controversial plan in order to catch him. Using the Torch's DNA samples, scientists construct a killer clone programmed to obey the FBI's orders. His mission--to catch the very human that is the basis of his own being!

Desperate to flee inner demons, loaner Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damm) rides to the last outpost of an abandoned desert high way prepared to end it all. But when a savage gang steals his prized cycle and leaves him for dead, Eddie's life is saved by a soul mate from his past. Burning with a new reason to live, Eddie sets off on a one-man search and destroy mission against his attackers. Directed by John Avildsen (ROCKY.)

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: THE RETURN continues the story of Luc Deveraux, who has survived his experiences as a Universal Soldier, recovered, and is now working as a technical expert on a government project to revive and improve the Universal Soldier training program. When S.E.T.H., the supercomputer controlling the Soldiers, goes haywire and takes over, Luc is the only one who can battle this elite team of deadly, near-perfect warriors.

Van Damme is a playboy living in Paris in the 1920's. He falls in love with the mistress of a mob boss, and when the boss finds out, joins the French Foreign Legion to hide out. Years later, after honing his fighting skills, he returns to battle the boss and reclaim his true love.

Van Damme is a shady clothing manufacturer, the king of knock-offs, who understandably gets involved in a Russian Mafia plot. It's his ability to discern the real from the fake that will save him!

A counterterrorist agent (Jean Claude Van Damme) on that "one last mission" joins up with a flamboyant, rainbow-haired arms dealer (Dennis Rodman, who else?) in pursuit of a sleazy terrorist. This situation creates a narrative space enclosing gleefully excessive plot excesses (the arrival of an underground order of militaristic monks) and plenty of basketball-related jokes (a free-throw with a human skull). All of this set to a quick-march pace by Hong Action epic actionmaster Tsui Hark.

After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that’s come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme’s previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier film--in which he played brothers with contrasting characters--here he’s a French policeman, Alain Moreau, who takes on the identity of his dead brother, Mikhail. They were separated at birth when their mother, Chantal, played by veteran French film actress Stephane Audran, gave one up for adoption to a Russian diplomat. He grew up to become a member of the new Russian Mafia operating out of the Little Odessa section of New York City. When Mikhail is murdered in France after a wild chase through the streets, Alain goes to New York, where he’s assumed to be Mikhail by everyone from the local Russian crime boss to his brother’s beautiful girlfriend, Alex (Natasha Henstridge). Working with a seemingly unlimited budget for car crashes, Lam stages the action scenes with a kinetic flair and smartly knits them together with the help of sharp editing by Bill Pankow.

A kid from the mean streets of 1920's New York flees the police aboard a ship bound for the orient. Hijacked at sea, he is adopted by a rogueish pirate (Roger Moore) who sells him to a martial arts school on a remote island. There he is prepared to enter a global fighting challenge staged at the mystical, mysterious Lost City of Tibet.

Based on the popular video game, this action-packed adventure pits Colonel Guile, the Allied Nations commando leader, against the diabolical General Bison in a high-kicking, futuristic, martial arts battle for the fate of the Earth. Julia's final performance.

A group of terrorists led by a villainous madman (Powers Boothe) takes over a sports arena during the sold-out Stanley Cup finals, holding the Vice President of the United States hostage and threatening to blow up the stadium if they don't receive $1 billion by the end of the game. A fireman (Jean-Claude Van Damme) whose daughter is kidnapped during the hockey game must conquer his fears and race against time to save his daughter--and thousands of innocent spectators--before the terrorists carry our their deadly threat.

In the year 2004 a corrupt politician is secretly using a time travel device to manipulate history and financial markets and eliminate any who get in his way. When a cop catches on to his scheme he must go back in time and catch him before he and his wife are murdered. Produced by Sam Raimi and based on the comic books by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden.

In his Hollywood debut, Hong Kong directing sensation John Woo styles this action movie about a simple Merchant Marine who seeks to protect a beautiful woman and avenge the death of her father. The killers are the arrangers of "human safaris" that provide sport for the very rich.

Sam (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a fugitive hiding out on the land owned by Cydie (Rosanna Arquette), a farm widow with two children. After romancing the widow and growing closer to the family, Sam decides to defend her from a greedy developer trying to drive her off her land.

Luc is a genetically enhanced supersoldier pitted against his former comrades in arms as he tries to remember his past. Andrew is also a universal soldier who, driven by a hatred born decades before in Vietnam, wages a deadly pursuit against traitorous Luc. But something goes wrong and these war machines begin to revert to their past selves and slip away from their creators.

Identical twin boys are separated at a young age when their parents are brutally murdered by Chinese thugs, and raised in different parts of the world. Twenty-five years later they become united with a great hunger to avenge the deaths of their parents.

Still unable to withstand his defeat from the first time around, Tong Po and his managers turn to drastic measures to goad David Sloan into the ring for a rematch.

Lyon Gaultier deserts the French Foreign Legion in North Africa when he learns that his brother in Los Angeles has been seriously injured. Fleeing from the Legion's Security Forces, Lyon turns to the illegal, bare-knuckle underground fighting circuit to raise the money he needs to help his brother's family.

A detective and master of martial arts poses as an inmate in a penitentiary to find out who is behind a series of brutal cell block murders. If his cover is blown, the "Sandman" will be out to put him to sleep...permanently.

When American kickboxing champ Eric Sloane is crippled in the ring by the dastardly Tong Po, his younger brother Kurt (Jean-Claude Van Damme) vows revenge. But if he is to defeat Po, Kurt must first learn a martial art known as Muay-Thai, so he seeks out the expertise of fight guru Xian Chow. Thanks to Chow's unconventional training methods, Kurt becomes an expert kickboxer. But is he good enough to defeat Tong Po?

The America of the future is a wasteland of anarchy and incurable disease. When a cyborg whose brain contains the formula for a plague cure is captured by cannibalistic pirates, a good-hearted mercenary springs into action to deliver her safely to the Centers for Disease Control.

A CIA agent, disguised as a Japanese marine biologist, must travel to the Mediterranean to recover highly sophisticated laser guidance devices which were lost when the F-111 was shot down. Unfortunately, the Russians have also sent an agent.

Based on a true story, this martial arts adventure takes place behind the Hong Kong walls for the secret competition that settles the World Championship of the sport. While trying to be knocked down inside the ring, government agents try to track the master down outside the ring.

Sent to eliminate a gun running camp in Central America, United States Major Dutch Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his commandos get more than they bargained for when they cross paths with a mysterious assassin. As members of their unit begin to disappear, Dutch, Dillon (Carl Weathers), Blain (Jesse Ventura) conclude that whatever is hunting them is not of this earth. Every attempt at a tactical defense is a defeated for Dutch and company and it is only in the end stretch of their race to safety that their suspicions are confirmed and they encounter the alien nimrod face to face.

A summer box office smash, 1987’s PREDATOR re-ignited an old trend of movies depicting aliens invading earth (it began decades earlier with films like WAR OF THE WORLDS and INVADERS FROM MARS). McTiernan does a miraculous job of directing the "invisible" Predator. Furthermore, the special effects which are both stunning subtle, never boisterous, make PREDATOR a contemporary sci-fi even amongst today’s techno thrillers.

A teenager, tired of bloody noses and getting beaten up by kung-fu students, finds himself an instructor. But, instead of a karate expert from Okinawa, his teacher is the ghost of Bruce Lee.

Action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme (STREET FIGHTER and COYOTE MOON) and martial arts master Bolo Yueng (ENTER THE DRAGON) star in this 1984 high impact drama about an American jewel thief who arranges a job heist Monaco.