The Muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme, has earned his reputation as a major action star through some incredible martial arts movies.

Mad Max may be the ultimate post-apocalyptic action thriller, but this 1989 martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme runs it pretty close.

Here’s a wild Hollywood nugget: Jean-Claude Van ... As for Van Damme? He didn’t miss a beat. A year later, he broke out in Bloodsport (1988), and the rest is action movie history.

Jean-Claude Van Damme called the sex-trafficking allegations ... Impact," "Street Fighter" and "Kickboxer." The 64-year-old movie star has two projects currently in pre-production after starring ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme ... five years ago in Romania. Van Damme rose to fame in the late 1980s with “Bloodsport” and influenced the action genre with subsequent movies including “Timecop ...

A criminal complaint was filed against the actor with the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Sharareh Drury is a writer on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Jean-Claude Van Damme has found himself in the hot seat ... The martial artist claimed his high-stress job, including filming and promoting movies, led him to develop an intense cocaine habit.

Jean-Claude Van ... martial artist, Van Damme found success in Hollywood, with 1988’s “Bloodsport” marking his breakout role. Since then he’s appeared in more than 80 movies and is widely ...

The famous martial arts movie star demanded much more than what Universal was willing to pay for a Timecop trilogy. According to Van Damme, Universal was eager to turn Timecop into a trilogy after ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme made a lot of action movies in the eighties and early nineties. There was Bloodsport, Cyborg, Lionheart, Double Impact, Universal Soldier, and many, many more. Out of all of ...