Lionheart
Directed by Sheldon Lettich
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights. From TMDB
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Lionheart is a 1990 action film, directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page and Lisa Pelikan.
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60 of 73 · most liked firstThe 11th century keep of the castle of Loches (Indre-et-Loire, France). Photo by [Lieven Smits](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loches_dungeon,_aerial_view_from_West.jpg) The photo shows only the smallest, central part of the castle. Actually, it is huge. The outer walls of the entire fortified area is 1,1 kilometers (0.7 miles) long. Photos like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Loches_castle_hill%2C_aerial_view_from_North.jpg) and…
neutral · AI labelView post →Theatre of Blood (1973).  IT'S CURTAINS FOR HIS CRITICS! Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor, is enraged that his latest play did not win him any prestigious acting awards from critics. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Lionheart is rescued by a group of drug-addicted hobos. He then sets out to murder all of his critics, each with a different style of death taken from a Shakespeare play.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #89 "Lionheart" (Sheldon Lettich/1990) More fun JCVD mayhem. A great time, check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →I don't know why everyone suddenly forgot, he's an MP with a constituency If we give shit to Nigel Farage about not holding surgeries, the same should apply to the King of the North, who sounds increasingly like Richard the Lionheart. The real one, not Sean Connery from that movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Grew up on Kickboxer 3, Tango & Cash, Lionheart, T2, not your average kid's movie list. What’s yours? ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →A non-definitive list of Fictional Depictions of Richard the Lionheart as Gay. Each depiction Reviewed by me, NOT focused on historical accuracy (that's for a different post...) List of Novels, Film/TV/drama, YT video, and 1 published comic #medieval angevinyaoiz.neocities.org/history/gay-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ja Nus Hons Pris by Richard the Lionheart (c. 1192)- medieval gittern performance by Edward Foster. > While in prison, Richard wrote the musical piece Ja nus hons pris or Ja nuls om pres ("No man who is imprisoned"), which is addressed to his half-sister Marie. He wrote the song, in French and Occitan versions, to express his feelings of abandonment by his people and his sister.
neutral · AI labelView post →Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) in THEATRE OF BLOOD. Those critics had it coming. It's just pity Lionheart didn't top the last one, the unbearably smug Peregrine Devlin (Ian Hendry).
neutral · AI labelView post →It might be my favorite MJW movie. It’s a great updated riff on the HARD TIMES / LIONHEART template.
neutral · AI labelView post →THEATRE OF BLOOD. Edward Lionheart was one killing away from ridding the world of a bunch of absolute arsehole "critics". So close...but he failed on the last, and worst one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Should you watch Lionheart? #movie #clip #podcast #heart #wholesome
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot use sugar in anything without saying “this is shu-gar” like Jean-Claude Van Damme in the beginning of LIONHEART, a movie I saw once 30 years ago and didn’t really like
negative · AI labelView post →Oh heck yeah I'd love to see Bluestar, Lionheart and Tigerclaw in your style, this is straight out of a film we never had
neutral · AI labelView post →I did Duncan..... btw best performance Movie wise (imo) Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →I just remembered another fantastic book/series. The Tripods! And the prequel is really, really prescient. It would be great if a remake film or TV series of both The Tripods and The Brothers Lionheart could be made. With all those spare dragons kicking about you'd think it'd be quite easy 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm kidding around again today on my movie music show. I'll play tracks from films that feature young people, including ET, Lionheart, Mary Poppins, Bugsy Malone, Something Wicked This Way Comes and many more. Tune in here at 4pm (Saturday): southernsound.org.uk
neutral · AI labelView post →Wonderful film...Shakespeare, unwittingly, aiding & a betting Lionheart on his quest for vengeance against the critics...
neutral · AI labelView post →More vintage postcards with Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon. Together they starred in the 1935 Cecil B. DeMille film The Crusades. Henry played Richard the Lionheart, with Loretta as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre. One of Wilcoxon's last films was 'Caddyshack' in 1980 playing the Bishop.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the fact that the entire reason the movie #Lionheart exists is because somebody said "hey, let's make Lawrence of Arabia, but with Jean Claude Van Damme." #upallnight @kingsofhorror.bsky.social @badtechno.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Got this movie on a double VHS for with ‘Lionheart’ for Xmas when I was like 10 years old.
neutral · AI labelView post →Husband is watching some shit 1950’s film about Richard the Lionheart Incredible how Hollywood & the Victorians distorted our perception of historical figures Terrible despots & incompetent sadists put on a pedestal
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll take it one step further: imagine movie star Lionheart Chris Jericho
neutral · AI labelView post →Between 1935 and 1938 Ian Hunter was paired in seven films with Kay Francis. One of his standout roles was as King Richard the Lionheart in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.
neutral · AI labelView post →Midweek movie magic? Don't miss Lionheart tonight and The Triangle: Part 1 this Friday. Stream them for FREE on #ElectricNOW!
neutral · AI labelView post →LEGO: The Movie for CCGs? Will we be seeing Doctor Who and Squall Lionheart show up? Will we have a READY PLAYER ONE nostalgia segment with every special set MTG has done? Or will it be a generic fantasy movie with magic users that possess one of the 5 colours and some (gasp) mix them! (bad guy)
neutral · AI labelView post →If I were at home right now I'd be throwing on Mr. Nice Guy. Probably the first film I really noticed him. Though the first movie I probably saw him in is actually Van Damme's Lionheart (which would've been A.W.O.L. on video in Ireland).
neutral · AI labelView post →I suspect most people's thought process was no more complicated than "Richard the Lionheart? Who? Oh, yeah, he was good in that Robin Hood film, wasn't he?"
neutral · AI labelView post →I think HARD TARGET is a close second but the best movie JCVD has ever been in may be UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING it’s just not a JCVD vehicle like LIONHEART & HARD TARGET.
neutral · AI labelView post →Heh, there was a movie I watched with my grandmother when I was little called The Brothers Lionheart, similar to this in that a lot of the plot pivots around child death, and siblings. But also I think it’s better that I watched it with my grandma and not my Mom because my mom would have lost it.
positive · AI labelView post →Who knows. I still look askance at her ever since she blocked me on Twitter for reasons that I realize are too dumb and convoluted to get into (long story short: I told her that the Nigerian movie Lionheart was not very good)
negative · AI labelView post →Watching every movie released in 1987: Lionheart with Eric Stoltz and Gabriel Byrne A reasonably fun action adventure which I might have enjoyed as a kid but is probably too slow for newer generations. 2nd movie of the year for Byrne and a 1st for Dexter Fletcher (what a career he's had).
neutral · AI labelView post →FUN FACT: Mayor Lionheart from the Zootopia films is named after the 1990 Jean Claude Van Damme film because he also sucks
neutral · AI labelView post →(1990 continued) Hard to Kill, Lionheart, Ghost, Misery, Lord of the Flies, Marked For Death, Frankenstein Unbound, Ducktales the movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope your dinghy has a great name like "Colossus" or "Lionheart." If there's enough room for the letters. Also pic #2 is definitely the beginning of a horror movie or at least a thrilling survival story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did we just track the short lived and ill advised “bum fight” phenomenon of a decade ago all the way back to Lionheart. Between that and the weird back ally homeless drunks this movie is chocked full of social commentary.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want Jean-Claude Van Damme in a good underground fighting film there's always Lionheart.
positive · AI labelView post →Were the two of them in Lionheart? Or maybe it was Bloodsport. Anyway, we liked the movie that the two of them did together.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, he thinks he's Richard the Lionheart. Oh. No, he doesn't, he's never read any history. Was it a movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Film 015 for '26 ▶️ On his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is taken prisoner in Germany. Robin Hood formulates a plan to rescue Richard but he is captured himself: #NowWatching "The Men of Sherwood Forest" (1954) #Film #PhysicalMedia #4KUltraHD
neutral · AI labelView post →The Jean Claude Van Damme movie I know as Absent Without Leave, also known as Lionheart, is only a good film. As movies of the genre and time go, it's solidly decent. But marón, the score! That music during the finale when he's running up the road sends me every time, it's glorious
neutral · AI labelView post →Same, Astrid Lindgren's books are amazing and should be far more widely read in the Anglosphere. I think the film translates really well from the book. Same with the brothers Lionheart and Mio, my Mio
positive · AI labelView post →Lionheart: Extended Cut 4K UHD + Blu-ray is up for pre-order at Amazon amzn.to/42qCQsK #ad 1/20/26 release date • Director Approved 2025 4K Scan & Restoration (2160p - 16-Bit Scan of the Original Camera Negative) of the extended “A.W.O.L. Cut” of the movie presented in 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio in HDR
neutral · AI labelView post →These were the concerts where Goldsmith conducted his theme for The Russia House prior to the film opening the next month. Goldsmith also suggested that in the age of recycling, his theme for Lionheart should be used for graduation ceremonies!
neutral · AI labelView post →One character that seems to be really forgotten compared to others from the same movie is Mayor Lionheart! And it's a shame because the few art of him that exist proves he's a great candidate
neutral · AI labelView post →Not necessarily my favourite but he was so unsettling in Green Room, an already unsettling and relatable film. He was also Sejanus in I, Claudius. He played Scrooge, too. He was a king for Brooks' men in tights as Richard "Lionheart". I'm going to miss him so much. Oof.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lionheart, or AWOL as I know it on VHS, is not an amazing film (bit of is pretty good) but the theme by John Scott absolutely slaps and elevates an otherwise kinda disposable click into something I still listen to 30 years on
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Lionheart (1987) a film about the Children's Crusade!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Sunday movie marathon features a certain Muscles from Brussels, with a triple play of Hard Target, Sudden Death and Lionheart. It's Van Damme-azing!
positive · AI labelView post →Releases on (Amazon)(Canada) Jul 28, 2026 (Lionheart 4K Blu-ray) C$67.43 Genre: (Action) IMDb Rating: 6.8 Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lionheart_...
neutral · AI labelView post →Releases on (Amazon)(US) Jul 28, 2026 (Lionheart 4K Blu-ray) $40.67 ($49.95) (19% Off) Genre: (Action) IMDb Rating: 6.8 Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lionheart_...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a very uneven movie overall, but Richard Harris’s Lionheart in Robin and Marian got the closest I’ve seen to actually capturing the piece of shit he was
negative · AI labelView post →We are six minutes into Lionheart and it is the sweatiest movie I think I’ve ever watched. I hope it gets less moist, but with Van Damme that is like wishing on rainbows.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #90s #PrimeVideo #Lionheart 8 Forgotten ‘90s Movies That Deserve to Be Rediscovered on Prime Video http://dlvr.it/TSp1yW
neutral · AI labelView post →pedigree supremacy. Pawbert's hybristophilia cult based of the fandom obsession of him. More self insert fursona characters which the film is solely about guest of honour's cult of personality and fantasy larping role-play. Both Bellwether, Lionheart and Lynxley crime family has
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of Lionheart (1990) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/edh105
positive · AI labelView post →Obviously it's RAN but I've got a real soft spot for Theater of Blood in a totally non ironic way "Lionheart! ... Alive and triumphant. And you thought me slain? Lionheart is immortal! He can never be destroyed, never!" bsky.app/profile/garg...
neutral · AI labelView post →26. Lionheart after seeing enough of his work, you get to understand that van damme is an unexciting fighter. very mid movie
negative · AI labelView post →I was recently watching him in Lionheart, a film which also features Brian Coburn, who's another Netto Blessed.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the mythical land where nothing was ever lost I wonder what Lionheart would’ve done with Mission To The Unknown. Specifically for the movie edits. Would they have just tacked it on to Galaxy 4? Imagine the shock of that, watching a regular 4 parter and then you got 20 minutes of Daleks at the end
neutral · AI labelView post →#11 Lionheart I'm sorry to say... the fight scenes are pretty bad. Definitely a product of it's time (this movie is released in 1990). Though there's a certain charm in this movie that not a lot of modern martial arts movies have.
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