As a real-life martial artist, Jean-Claude Van Damme has always preferred movies with lots of kicks and punches. These are the best ones.

With him, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there was Bruce Lee, but at the end of the 1980s a Belgian won the day.

However, reality quickly diverged from Van Damme’s expectations. Rather than the “tight leotard with half-human, half-animal makeup” he anticipated, he found himself encased in a full rubber ...