Directed by:
Mabrouk El MechriScreenplay:
Vincent RavalecCinematography:
Pierre-Yves BastardComposer:
Gast WaltzingCast:
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zinedine Soualem, François Damiens, Mourade Zeguendi, Anne Paulicevich, Isabelle de Hertogh, Norbert Rutili, Jean-François Wolff (more)Plots(1)
JCVD is an edgy, often funny mix of true life and movie life, around the personage widely known as The Muscles from Brussels. Jean Claude Van Damme brings battle-worn charisma and amazing frankness to the eponymous role of an aging, perpetually derided action star. He also brings the addiction issues, the bitter custody battles, the money problems, the lousy roles in straight-to-DVD movies, and the scrambled zen philosophizing that have made him a national joke in his native Belgium. When he’s taken hostage in a hold-up there, all and sundry assume that he’s the perpetrator, finally gone completely psycho. As the media circus amps up, action guy confronts the meaning of life: can he kick his way out of this mess without a script? (Transmission Films)
(more)Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgium
Best movies:
The Expendables 2: Back For War (2012)
Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Zinedine Soualem
France
Best movies:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Hate (1995)
Roman de Gare (2007)
François Damiens
Belgium
Best movies:
Little Nicholas (2009)
The Bélier Family (2014)
Suzanne (2013)
Mourade Zeguendi
Belgium
Best movies:
JCVD (2008)
Les Barons (2009)
Traitors (2013)
Anne Paulicevich
Best movies:
JCVD (2008)
Tango libre (2012)
Isabelle de Hertogh
Belgium
Best movies:
Come As You Are (2011)
The Brave Judge (2018) (TV movie)
150 Milligrams (2016)
Norbert Rutili
Best movies:
The Promise (1996)
Women (1997)
A Distant Neighborhood (2010)
Jean-François Wolff
Belgium
Best movies:
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
A Distant Neighborhood (2010)
Byron (2003) (TV movie)
Janine Horsburgh
Best movies:
JCVD (2008)
Moonlight (2002)
Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Valérie Bodson
Best movies:
A Distant Neighborhood (2010)
JCVD (2008)
Illégal (2010)
Karim Belkhadra
Best movies:
Hate (1995)
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
JCVD (2008)
Patrick Steltzer
Best movies:
Mother (1991)
Read My Lips (2001)
JCVD (2008)
John Flanders
USA
Best movies:
My Way (2012)
The Connection (2014)
Little Glory (2011)
Bernard Eylenbosch
Best movies:
The Eighth Day (1996)
La Partie d'échecs (1994)
JCVD (2008)
Raphaëlle Lubansu
Best movies:
Juste une question d'amour (2000) (TV movie)
Private Property (2006)
JCVD (2008)
Jérôme Varanfrain
Best movies:
Before the Winter Chill (2013)
JCVD (2008)
Two of Us (2019)
Hervé Sogne
Best movies:
An Affair of Love (1999)
SK1 (2014)
JCVD (2008)
François Beukelaers
Belgium
Best movies:
Zillion (2022)
A Whole Night (1982)
My Way Is the Highway (2007)
Ingrid Heiderscheidt
Best movies:
The African Doctor (2016)
Girl (2018)
Those Who Work (2018)
Alan Delabie
Best movies:
JCVD (2008)
La Chance de ma vie (2011)
Protéger & servir (2010)