Denzel Washington
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans…
- In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
- Cry Freedom (1987)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline
- Potent political cinema based on the story of black South African activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), whose suspicious death was investigated by…
- For Queen and Country (1988)
- Dir. Martin Stellman
Feat. Denzel Washington, George Baker, Amanda Redman
- Denzel Washington plays a retired paratrooper who struggles to adapt to civilian life after returning home from the Falklands War. Crime drama…
- Glory (1989)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes…
- Time and place is perfectly re–created in this moving account of the plight of Negro soldiers during the American civil war.
- Mighty Quinn, The (1989)
- Dir. Carl Schenkel
Feat. Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers…
- Entertaining Caribbean caper stars Denzel as the chief of police on a tropical island who is suddenly thrust into action when his crooked best friend…
- Mo' Better Blues (1990)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- This male flipside to Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT sees talented musician caught between two women and his passion for jazz. A cinematic feast for the…
- Ricochet (1991)
- Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Lithgow
- High–faluten cop turned D.A. Washington becomes the target of a vengeance mission from a psychopath he incriminated years earlier. Gruesome…
- Mississippi Masala (1992)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury
- A poignant gem about a tabooed romance between a beautiful Indian girl and a black carpet cleaner (Denzel Washington) in the deep South.
- Malcolm X (1993)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Epic bio of the black–American minister and human rights activist from his beginnings as a Harlem crook to his 1965 assassination. Breezes…
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves…
- Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
- First major Hollywood AIDS movie is more concerned with prejudice than the disease itself, and is effective in its aim to educate as much as…
- Pelican Brief, The (1993)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington
- Julia Roberts mugs through this leaden adaptation of John Grisham's novel as a genius law student whose thesis about two top–level…
- Virtuosity (1995)
- Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington
- Russell Crowe plays a computer–generated composite of 200 serial killers who escapes cyberspace and proves a formidable opponent for…
- Crimson Tide (1995)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Viggo Mortensen
- Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington clash ethics as Captain and deputy on a US submarine entering hostile waters of a Russian renegade.
Nuclear war…
- Devil in a Blue Dress (1996)
- Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore
- The director's follow–up to ONE FALSE MOVE is a black man's noir, some fifty years overdue! We're in 40s LA, where reluctant gumshoe Denzel…
- Courage Under Fire (1996)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan
- Conscience–troubled colonel Denzel Washington investigates the death of a fellow officer (Meg Ryan) during 'Desert Storm', but differing…
- Fallen (1998)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland
- SEVEN–style thriller has Detective Denzel Washington stalking a seemingly immortal foe, the demon Azazel, in autumnal Philadelphia. Suffers…
- Siege, The (1998)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening
- In a standoff of virtue versus guts, Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis deal with an Islamic terrorist assault on New York City in the best way they…
- He Got Game (1998)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Those persistent bugbears about race and personal responsibility hold centre–court again for writer–director Spike Lee in this…
- Bone Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
- Denzel Washington's acting skills are put to the test playing a quadriplegic forensics expert helping to track down a particularly grisly serial…
- Hurricane, The (1999)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Deborah Kara Unger…
- Denzel Washington blows up a storm as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a championship boxer unjustly imprisoned in the 1970s for a murder he did not commit.…
- Remember the Titans (2000)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Denzel Washington, Will Patton
- Racial integration law forces an all–white American football team to accept black players and a black coach in 1970s Virginia.
Denzel…
- Training Day (2001)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Snoop Dogg…
- Denzel Washington luxuriates in an Oscar–winning performance as a slimeball LA cop, who casually metes out brutal street–justice at every…
- John Q (2002)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ray Liotta, Robert Duvall…
- Denzel Washington plays a cash–strapped pillar–of–decency who can’t afford his son’s heart–transplant in the mercenary US…
- Antwone Fisher (2002)
- Dir. Denzel Washington
Feat. Denzel Washington, Derek Luke
- From a uniquely autobiographical screenplay by the real Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington takes the helm and stars as a US Navy psychiatrist who…
- Out of Time (2003)
- Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes
- Solidly crafted with a thumbscrew–tightening atmosphere, this thriller is set in the 'Sunshine State' of Florida, with Washington playing a…
- Man on Fire (2004)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell…
- A hard–eyed revenge thriller which sees an alcoholic bodyguard (Washington) losing a 11–yr old girl he's assigned to protect in Mexico…
- Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber…
- Slickly modernised version of the Cold War classic, tailors its twisted fable of political paranoia into a complex speculation on military, political…
- Inside Man (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…
- Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
- Deja Vu (2006)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel
- More flash and bang from blockbuster teamsters Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott, here devising a series of brute action sequences around a…