Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
JCVD
TITLE DETAILS

JCVD

2008-06-04 · 96 min · ★ 6.6

Drama · Action · Comedy · Crime

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Mabrouk El Mechri
Production companies
Gaumont, Samsa Film, Artémis Productions, Bankable, La SOFICA Cofinova 4, CinéCinéma, Film Fund Luxembourg, Cofinova 4, Canal+, RTBF
Countries
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Status
Released
Budget
USD 6,000,000
Revenue
USD 2,342,211

Top Cast

Jean-Claude Van DammeJean-Claude Van DammeJ.C.V.D.
François DamiensFrançois DamiensBruges
Zinedine SoualemZinedine SoualemMan wearing Beret
Karim BelkhadraKarim BelkhadraWatchman
Jean-François WolffJean-François WolffThirty-year-old
Anne PaulicevichAnne PaulicevichTeller
John FlandersJohn FlandersEx-wife's Lawyer
Janine HorsburghJanine HorsburghJCVD's Assistant
Mourade ZeguendiMourade ZeguendiVideo Club Client
Valérie BodsonValérie BodsonWidow at Film Budapest
Hervé SogneHervé SogneLieutenant Smith
Rock ChenAsian Director
Huifang WangAsian Translator
Renata KamaraLos Angeles Court Judge
Vincent LecuyerVincent LecuyerVideo Club Seller
Jenny De ChezJCVD's Taxi Driver
Patrick SteltzerPatrick SteltzerPoliceman 1
Bernard EylenboschBernard EylenboschTelecom Technician
Pascal LefebvreGuard 2
Jacky LambertJacky LambertGuard 3

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Streaming

Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Free

Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome

With ads

The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home Free, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, YouTube Free, Plex, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Tubi TV, Amazon MX Player

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Silverton Siege
★ 6.3
Silverton Siege2022Drama · Action · Crime

After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.

Inside Man: Most Wanted
★ 6.3
Inside Man: Most Wanted2019Action · Crime

An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour seige at the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Stander
★ 6.2
Stander2003Drama · Action · Crime

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Rampage: Capital Punishment
★ 6.0
Rampage: Capital Punishment2014Action · Crime

A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.

Thick as Thieves
★ 6.0
Thick as Thieves1999Drama · Action · Comedy · Crime

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.

Hostage
★ 6.4
Hostage2005Action · Crime

When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

Ad Vitam
★ 6.2
Ad Vitam2025Drama · Action · Crime

When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.

Killing Zoe
★ 6.2
Killing Zoe1993Drama · Action · Crime

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

Black Caesar
★ 5.9
Black Caesar1973Drama · Action · Crime

Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.

Breaking
★ 6.5
Breaking2022Drama · Crime

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

The Enforcer
★ 7.0
The Enforcer2022Drama · Action · Crime

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Witness Protection
★ 6.3
Witness Protection1999Drama · Crime

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing prosecution for a number of serious crimes, Batton is offered a deal by the FBI in which he will be given immunity in exchange for testifying against his former partners. However, Batton will have to join the Federal Witness Protection Program, which means that he, his wife, and his children will never again see their friends and family.

The Protector
★ 5.9
The Protector1985Action · Crime

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

Dobermann
★ 6.5
Dobermann1997Action · Crime

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.

In Bruges
★ 7.5
In Bruges2008Drama · Comedy · Crime

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Flic Story
★ 6.4
Flic Story1975Drama · Crime

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Breaking In
★ 5.9
Breaking In2018Action · Crime

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.

Flypaper
★ 6.4
Flypaper2011Comedy · Crime

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Black Lotus
★ 6.5
Black Lotus2023Action · Crime

An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.

High Sierra
★ 7.1
High Sierra1941Drama · Action · Crime

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Similar titles

The Ref
★ 6.6
The Ref1994Drama · Comedy · Crime

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

Fair Game
★ 5.2
Fair Game1995Action

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
★ 4.6
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money1999Action · Crime

A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.

Don't Say a Word
★ 6.3
Don't Say a Word2001Crime

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.

Proof of Life
★ 6.2
Proof of Life2000Drama · Action

When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured by anti-government forces, the rebels learn his identity and demand $5 million for his safe return. However, his US employer is on the verge of insolvency and will not provide the ransom. Peter's wife Alice is forced to deal with the matter on her own and she retains the services of freelance professional hostage negotiator Terry Thorne.

Bunker Heights
Not rated
Bunker Heights2026Comedy · Crime

Citizens of a troubled city must navigate through an unforeseen crisis that threatens every walk of life.

Flight of the Red Balloon
★ 6.2
Flight of the Red Balloon2008Drama

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

The Olsen Gang in a Fix
★ 6.6
The Olsen Gang in a Fix1969Comedy · Crime

A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.

Justified Force
★ 8.0
Justified Force2019Drama · Action · Crime

A retired cop and his new partner must put their differences aside while investigating a drug ring.

Toy Story 3
★ 7.8
Toy Story 32010Comedy

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

Suicide Kings
★ 6.6
Suicide Kings1997Drama · Action · Comedy · Crime

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

Bringing Down the House
★ 6.0
Bringing Down the House2003Drama · Comedy

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

The Chase
★ 5.8
The Chase1994Action · Comedy · Crime

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.

The Crying Game
★ 6.8
The Crying Game1992Drama · Crime

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.

Game Over, Man!
★ 5.5
Game Over, Man!2018Action · Comedy

Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.

The Long Kiss Goodnight
★ 6.6
The Long Kiss Goodnight1996Action · Crime

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

PAPER PLATES
Not rated
PAPER PLATES2024Drama · Comedy · Crime

Four robbers are stranded in a village credit union after immediately botching a would-be series of bank heists in rural midwest America.

Strawberries in the Supermarket
★ 6.8
Strawberries in the Supermarket2003Action · Comedy

Ex-soldier Marko storms into a supermarket and takes all the cashiers hostage because one of them insulted his grandmother. One of the cashiers is Jagoda, a self-conscious country girl in her late 20s or early 30s who thinks that she passed her "expiration date" long ago. A surreal situation jazzed with comedy stunts helps Marko and Jagoda find their places in the world.

Street Fighter
★ 4.7
Street Fighter1994Action

Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Swordfish
★ 6.3
Swordfish2001Action · Crime

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.