Cry Freedom (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Josette Simon, Zakes Mokae, Garrick Hagon
Director: Richard Attenborough
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
Starring: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Jonathan Scarfe, Sakina Jaffrey
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Roman J. Israel, Esq. / Inner City (2017)
Crime | Drama
Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Shelley Hennig, Carmen Ejogo
Director: Dan Gilroy
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Biography | Drama
Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
Starring: Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington, Salli Richardson, Earl Billings, Kevin Connolly
Director: Denzel Washington
Fences (2016)
Drama
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Henderson
Director: Denzel Washington
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The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Action | Adventure | Western
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matt Bomer, Luke Grimes
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Malcolm X (1992)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X, who emerged from the streets to become a powerful voice for the black rights movement in America. The film follows X from his days as a Harlem pusher, through his conversion to Islam in prison, his pilgrimage to Mecca and finally to his assassination.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
Remember the Titans (2000)
Biography | Drama | Sport
In Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, African-American football coach Herman Boone is hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school football team. Boone faces a cool reception from the team's players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast, a local white coach who was bypassed for the job. As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance and bigotry, they work together to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. Based on a true story.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood
Director: Boaz Yakin
The Book of Eli (2010)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
A lone hero must fight his way across the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America to protect a sacred book that holds the key to saving the future of humanity.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
John Q (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Police have surrounded the ER where a desperate man holds hostages and demands that the hospital do what his HMO refuses to allow provide an operation for his critically ill son. The media storms the scene and with each passing moment, the man called John Q is becoming a hero of sorts. Academy Award winner* Denzel Washington brings remarkable depth to the title role of this issues-driven thriller featuring an elite cast. Is John Q a vigilante? A heroic father? You decide. But when it comes to his son, John Q wont take “no” for an answer.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Kimberly Elise, Daniel E. Smith, Anne Heche
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Lisa Nicole Carson, Tom Sizemore, Terry Kinney
Director: Carl Franklin
The Great Debaters (2007)
Biography | Drama
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams
Director: Denzel Washington
Heart Condition (1990)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy
A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E. Mosley, Alan Rachins, Ja'net DuBois
Director: James D. Parriott
The Equalizer (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Feature film version of the classic television show. A veteran covert operative who, seeking redemption for his dark deeds, quits a CIA-like agency and puts a classified advertisement in the paper that reads simply: "Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer."
Starring: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett, Bill Pullman
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Out of Time (2003)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Suppose everything you knew – everything you trusted – became a lie. For Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington), that nightmare has become a reality. Matt is the chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida. A hardworking man who's good at his job, he's respected by his peers and beloved by his community. But when Banyan Key is shocked by a brutal double homicide, Matt starts his investigation – and his life starts to unravel. As details of the case begin to surface, all the evidence points to Matt as the prime suspect. Now with the investigation in full swing and several people working the case, Matt finds himself in a race against time to solve the murders before others uncover the clues he's finding and he himself falls under suspicion. He has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to clear his name and uncover the horrifying truth.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley, Robert Baker
Director: Carl Franklin
Deja Vu / Déjà Vu (2006)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past?
Starring: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, James Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Elden Henson
Director: Tony Scott
2 Guns / Two Guns (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob — the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
2 Guns / Two Guns (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob — the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
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Virtuosity (1995)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in VR with SID, but they must prove the concept by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears that Barnes might be the only one who can stop him.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Russell Crowe, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe, Louise Fletcher
Director: Brett Leonard
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Drama | Music
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band – The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, John Turturro
Director: Spike Lee
