The 15 Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies and Where to Watch Them

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Bodybuilder, actor, governor, author, and producer - Arnold Schwarzenegger has had quite a career. If you’re looking to watch The Governator’s best movies, check out our guide below.

Arnold Schwarzenegger began his bodybuilding career in the early ‘60s and went pro by the end of the decade. Soon after, he was transitioning into film. His first major role was in 1976’s Stay Hungry, and he even ended up winning a Golden Globe for the role. But Schwarzenegger became an international sensation with the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. In the movie, Schwarzenegger plays the iconic Conan, a young slave in a fantasy realm who decides to get revenge against his captor.

Throughout the ‘80s, Schwarzenegger continued starring in mega-hit blockbusters, including portraying the famed robotic killing machine in The Terminator. He also starred in films like Commando and Predator, where he fought off an alien hunter in the jungles of Central America.

Both The Terminator and Predator became massive hits and in 1991, Schwarzenegger returned as the T-800 Terminator in James Cameron’s epic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This time around, the T-800 robot isn’t sent to kill, and instead, he’s tasked with saving John Connor. T2 didn’t just go on to be considered better than the first, it’s also seen as one of the best action movies of the whole decade.

On top of his career as an action star, Schwarzenegger has also starred in quite a few notable comedies as well. Throughout the ‘90s, he starred in hits like Kindergarten Cop, Jingle All the Way, and Junior, which earned Schwarzenegger his second Golden Globe nomination.

After a hiatus during the middle half of the 2010s, Schwarzenegger has returned to acting in recent years and has numerous projects in development, like his upcoming Conan sequel, The Legend of Conan. From Red Sonja to True Lies and more, if you want to watch the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, check out our guide below to find out where to stream them.

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  1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    #1

    Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.

  2. Predator

    Predator

    1987

    #2

    A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

  3. True Lies

    True Lies

    1994

    #3

    A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

  4. The Terminator

    The Terminator

    1984

    #4

    In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

  5. Total Recall

    Total Recall

    1990

    #5

    Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.

  6. Junior

    Junior

    1994

    #6

    A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

  7. Stay Hungry

    Stay Hungry

    1976

    #7

    A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.

  8. Kindergarten Cop

    Kindergarten Cop

    1990

    #8

    Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.

  9. Jingle All the Way

    Jingle All the Way

    1996

    #9

    Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

  10. Conan the Barbarian

    Conan the Barbarian

    1982

    #10

    A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.

  11. Commando

    Commando

    1985

    #11

    John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.

  12. Red Sonja

    Red Sonja

    1985

    #12

    The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.

  13. Collateral Damage

    Collateral Damage

    2002

    #13

    Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.

  14. The Expendables 2

    The Expendables 2

    2012

    #14

    Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

  15. Batman & Robin

    Batman & Robin

    1997

    #15

    Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.