Denzel Washington

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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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…
American Gangster (2007): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Hefty gangster flick in the tradition of SCARFACE, SERPICO, et. al., but based on an amazing true story: Washington plays Frank Lucas, the driver to…
Taking Of Pelham 123, The (2009): Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzman; Flashy remake of the 70s heist movie sees John Travolta as the mastermind behind the hijack of a New York subway train, and Denzel Washington as the…
Book Of Eli, The (2010): Dir. Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis…; Post–apocalyptic fable with attitude sees Denzel Washington play a hard–bitten prophet who must fight his way across America in order to…
Unstoppable (2010): Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson…; Grunty thriller with Denzel in pursuit of a runaway train loaded with toxic chemicals that threatens to decimate a town. Pure action cinema that's…
Safe House (2012): Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga…; Efficient thriller with CIA rookie Reynolds in charge of keeping rogue agent Washington alive after their safe house is attacked by mercenaries.…
Flight (2012): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly…; Denzel Washington plays a lauded pilot whose heroic landing of a crippled airliner is called into question when a history of alcoholism and substance…
2 Guns (Two Guns) (2013): Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton…; A slick, serviceable buddy cop romp with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg playing begrudging partners in a high stakes drug deal – neither…
Equalizer, The (2014): Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz; Hiding from his violent past, a man lives a quiet life working at a hardware store. When he is confronted by a new underground crime syndicate. He…
Magnificent Seven, The (2016): Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke…; Denzel Washington headlines this solid remake of the classic western charged with defending a small town from a corrupt industrialist.
Fences (2016): Dir. Denzel Washington
Feat. Denzel Washington, Viola Davis; August Wilson faithfully adapts his Pulitzer Prize–winning stageplay for the screen with Denzel Washington directing and starring as a…
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017): Dir. Dan Gilroy
Feat. Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo; A superbly written dramatic thriller from the director of NIGHTCRAWLER set within the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. Denzel…
Equalizer 2, The (2018): Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders…; Sequel to the 2014 film based on the 1980's TV series of the same name in which Denzel Washington dutifully returns as a retired US Marine and…
Little Things, The (2020): Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto…; Neo noir murder mystery from writer–director John Lee Hancock (THE BLIND SIDE) with Denzel Washington and Rami Malek playing a pair of…

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