Movies by Denzel Washington
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Safe House (2012)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga …
Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
When men bent on eliminating dangerous criminal Tobin Frost attack the safe house where the CIA has squirreled him away, young operative Matt Weston must find a way to get Frost out alive and…
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The Book of Eli (2010)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis …
Directed by: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Determined to salvage a sacred text in order to protect humanity, Eli (Denzel Washington) goes on a quest across the country in this action-packed sci-fi adventure. Meanwhile, a blind woman…
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Unstoppable (2010)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson …
Directed by: Tony Scott
It's a nail-biting race against time as an unmanned train carrying a load of lethal chemicals speeds out of control, and a conductor and engineer do everything in their power to keep it…
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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán …
Directed by: Tony Scott
When a group of hijackers led by criminal mastermind Ryder (John Travolta) take the passengers aboard a New York subway train hostage and demand a king's ransom, it's up to subway…
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Hollywood on Fire (2009)
Cast: Cory Edwards, Denzel Washington, James Caviezel …
Directed by: Kyle Saylors
Featuring insights from stars such as Denzel Washington, James Caviezel and Jane Russell, this documentary examines how Christian actors, directors and other Hollywood movers and shakers have…
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The Official Inaugural Celebration (2009)
Cast: Barack Obama, Beyoncé Knowles, Tom Hanks …
Celebrating President Barack Obama's historic 2009 inauguration, this program features coverage of the star-studded "We Are One" preinaugural concert, Obama's swearing in and…
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American Gangster (2007)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr. …
Directed by: Ridley Scott
From director Ridley Scott comes this tense crime thriller starring Denzel Washington as true-life Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe as the dogged outcast NYPD cop charged with…
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The Great Debaters (2007)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett …
Directed by: Denzel Washington
At all-black Wiley College in 1935, an activist professor pushes his debate team to a level of excellence that nets them a chance to take on Harvard University -- the reigning national champs…
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Inside Man (2006)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Dispatched to the scene of a bank robbery, detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) must match wits with a cunning thief (Clive Owen) who's always one step ahead of the cops. When a…
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Déjà Vu (2006)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer …
Directed by: Tony Scott
ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) finds himself dogged by feelings of déjà vu -- that powerful but fleeting sense that you've been someplace, or met someone, before --…
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Man on Fire (2004)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning …
Directed by: Tony Scott
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl (Dakota Fanning) in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually…
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2004)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith, Tico Wells …
Directed by: Edward Bell
Some of the best-loved fairy tales of all time are told in this musical animated series with a stellar voice cast that includes such hip performers as Chris Rock, Della Reese, Jimmy Smits,…
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this remake of the 1962 political thriller, Capt. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are taken captive during the first Persian Gulf War and…
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Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem (2004)
Cast: Yolanda Adams, Ashanti, Patti Austin …
Some of the world's best jazz, R & B, hip-hop, rap, gospel and Latin musicians perform classic and modern songs in this 2004 benefit show celebrating the 70th year of Harlem's famed…
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Out of Time (2003)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan …
Directed by: Carl Franklin
Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington), chief of police in the small town of Banyan Key, Fla., is respected by his peers and loved by his community. But when Banyan Key is shocked by a double…
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NBA at 50 (2003)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan …
Celebrate the NBA's 50th anniversary with host Denzel Washington, who takes viewers down the league's memory lane. Along the way, he stops to reminisce over milestones of the sport…
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A Century of Black Cinema (2003)
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg …
This 90-minute documentary recounts the history of blacks in film, from the industry's early days and big-screen classics such as Gone with the Wind (1939) to contemporary fare such as…
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John Q (2002)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche …
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
In director Nick Cassavetes's gripping social drama, blue-collar worker John Q. (Denzel Washington) finds that his meager insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, so…
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Antwone Fisher (2002)
Cast: Derek Luke, Denzel Washington, Joy Bryant …
Directed by: Denzel Washington
A young sailor, Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke), is ordered to see a Navy psychiatrist (Denzel Washington) who aims to help him get a handle on debilitating anger that causes many shipboard…
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Training Day (2001)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Eva Mendes …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Staying on the right side of the law will be more challenging than anything rookie cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) has ever faced -- especially since Hoyt's partner (Denzel Washington) for…
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Remember the Titans (2000)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris …
Directed by: Boaz Yakin
The year is 1971, and the people of Alexandria, Va., are none too pleased when African American Herman Boone is given the nod to head a newly integrated football team. As the season…
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Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (1999)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Denzel Washington …
The recollections of Sidney Poitier -- actor, artist, writer, director and diplomat -- are at the heart of this PBS documentary, which provides an in-depth look at the life and contributions…
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The Bone Collector (1999)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah …
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Rookie cop Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) -- formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a…
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The Hurricane (1999)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Denzel Washington lands a knockout punch as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a prizefighter who -- at the zenith of his boxing career -- finds himself wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and…
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Fallen (1998)
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Assigned to nab a killer before he or she strikes again, tough homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) knows he's on a dangerous assignment -- and one for which he's…
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He Got Game (1998)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Director Spike Lee looks at basketball and how far the sport will look the other way to protect and acquire key players. The plot hinges on a convict father (Denzel Washington) who'll…
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The Siege (1998)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Martial law is imposed in New York when U.S. military zealots abduct a Muslim religious leader and an army general cordons off Queens to form a detention camp. Two FBI agents team with a CIA…
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Courage Under Fire (1996)
Cast: Michael Moriarty, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) heads an investigation of the wartime activities of chopper pilot Capt. Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) to verify that she's posthumously worthy of…
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The Preacher's Wife (1996)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance …
Directed by: Penny Marshall
When God overhears a church preacher (Courtney B. Vance) despairing the potential loss of a youth center, he dispatches an angel (Denzel Washington) to help him out. Trouble is, the preacher…
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Crimson Tide (1995)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini …
Directed by: Tony Scott
Controversy boils over when Soviet rebels point nuclear weapons at the United States, and a message for the nuclear-missile sub USS Alabama gets cut off during transmission. Capt. Frank…
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals …
Directed by: Carl Franklin
In this compelling neo-noir set in 1948 Los Angeles, a stranger asks war veteran "Easy" Rawlins to help him locate a missing woman. But Rawlins gets more than he bargained for and soon…
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Virtuosity (1995)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Russell Crowe …
Directed by: Brett Leonard
Jailed ex-cop Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) gets a chance for redemption when he's freed to hunt down cyberspace escapee -- and virtual serial killer -- Sid 6.7 (Russell Crowe).…
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Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves …
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson star as Benedick and Beatrice, two marriage-phobic rivals in Florence, Italy, in a lively plot involving complications, pranks and peerless wordplay. This…
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
When law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes a brief on her theory about the motive behind the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices, she finds bullets flying in her direction…
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Philadelphia (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this heartfelt drama, Philadelphia attorney Andrew Beckett launches a wrongful termination suit against the hand that feeds him when his law firm finds out about his HIV-positive status --…
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Malcolm X (1992)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Spike Lee …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated drama illuminates the life of black nationalist Malcolm X (Denzel Washington), following him from his early days in prison to his conversion to Islam,…
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Mississippi Masala (1992)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth …
Directed by: Mira Nair
Mira Nair concocts a fascinating picture of Mina (Sarita Choudhury), an Indian woman whose father (Roshan Seth) pines for his native Uganda, where his family lived prosperously until the evil…
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Ricochet (1991)
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T …
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Thanks to his apprehension of a diabolical hit man, rookie patrolman Nick Styles becomes an up-and-coming legal star. But as the sadistic felon stews in jail for seven years, he plots a…
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Spike Lee wrote and directed this story about fictional musician Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington), a trumpeter with an equal talent for music, women and trouble. Bleek is a self-centered man…
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Heart Condition (1990)
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb …
Directed by: James D. Parriott
Bigoted police officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) is taking revenge on a handsome lawyer named Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), who's caught the eye of Jack's hooker girlfriend,…
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Glory (1989)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Loosely based on the letters of Union commander Col. Robert G. Shaw, this Academy Award-winning drama follows the first group of African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War --…
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The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Cast: Denzel Washington, James Fox, Mimi Rogers …
Directed by: Carl Schenkel
While inspecting the murder of a prominent local businessman, Caribbean police chief Xavier Quinn (a criminally charismatic Denzel Washington) discovers that his boyhood pal Maubee (Robert…
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For Queen & Country (1989)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman …
Directed by: Martin Stellman
War is hell for soldiers still in the battle zone -- and for those who have left. Denzel Washington is Reuben James, a British paratrooper who's discharged and returns to London after…
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Cry Freedom (1987)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton …
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
In segregated 1970s South Africa, black nationalist Steven Biko (Denzel Washington) and white newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) are unlikely friends with a common goal -- ending…
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Power (1986)
Cast: Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Media consultant Pete St. John (Richard Gere) can package a politician, create a spin and transform an on-camera gaffe into a moment of glory. Representing a variety of sometimes-corrupt…
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Hard Lessons (1986)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Masur …
Directed by: Eric Laneuville
This drama based on a true story stars Denzel Washington as George McKenna, the tough, determined new principal of a notorious Los Angeles high school. Life is full of hard lessons for…
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A Soldier's Story (1984)
Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Racial tensions flare in this gripping drama set in Louisiana at the end of World War II. When Army attorney Capt. Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) is sent to Fort Neal to investigate the…
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License to Kill (1984)
Cast: James Farentino, Penny Fuller, Don Murray …
Directed by: Jud Taylor
When a young woman (Kristen Vigard) dies in a drunk-driving accident caused by her inebriated friend, Tom Fiske (Don Murray), her father, John (James Farentino), mourns his loss by devoting…
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Carbon Copy (1981)
Cast: George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden …
Directed by: Michael Schultz
White executive Walter Whitney (George Segal) learns unexpectedly that he has a teenage black son, Roger (Denzel Washington). Fearing that his uptight neighbors won't approve, Walter…
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Wilma (1975)
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington, Jason Bernard …
Directed by: Bud Greenspan
This inspirational made-for-television docudrama profiles courageous American track star Wilma Rudolph (Shirley Jo Finney). Overcoming segregation and a debilitating case of polio, the…
As a director:
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The Great Debaters (2007)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett …
Directed by: Denzel Washington
At all-black Wiley College in 1935, an activist professor pushes his debate team to a level of excellence that nets them a chance to take on Harvard University -- the reigning national champs…
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Antwone Fisher (2002)
Cast: Derek Luke, Denzel Washington, Joy Bryant …
Directed by: Denzel Washington
A young sailor, Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke), is ordered to see a Navy psychiatrist (Denzel Washington) who aims to help him get a handle on debilitating anger that causes many shipboard…