Movies starring Denzel Washington

Biography: 
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug while appea ...  show all 

Glory (1989)

Friday, February 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

Remember the Titans (2000)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Will Patton | Wood Harris | Ryan Hurst | Donald Faison | Craig Kirkwood | Ethan Suplee | Kip Pardue | Hayden Panettiere | Nicole Ari Parker | Kate Bosworth | Earl Poitier | Ryan Gosling | Burgess Jenkins | Neal Ghant
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970’s during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school.

Crimson Tide (1995)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Gene Hackman | Matt Craven | George Dzundza | Viggo Mortensen | James Gandolfini | Rocky Carroll | Jaime Gomez | Michael Milhoan | Scott Burkholder | Danny Nucci | Lillo Brancato | Eric Bruskotter | Rick Schroder | Steve Zahn
Directors: Tony Scott
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In the near future, Russian rebels have taken over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed by the prospect of a rebel strike, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a nuclear ballistic submarine, to watch over the base and retaliate in case they launch. While on patrol, the submarine is attacked and the radio systems are knocked out. An emergency message received during the battle is only partially recovered. Captain Ramsey believes it to be the order to launch on the rebels, while XO Hunter wants to wait for a confirmation message. The conflict escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama’s nuclear missiles.

Training Day (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Ethan Hawke | Scott Glenn | Tom Berenger | Harris Yulin | Raymond J. Barry | Cliff Curtis | Dr. Dre | Snoop Dogg | Macy Gray | Charlotte Ayanna | Eva Mendes | Nick Chinlund | Jaime Gomez | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. ‘Training Day’ follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris’ methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.

Mo’ Better Blues (1990)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Wesley Snipes | Giancarlo Esposito | Robin Harris | Joie Lee | Bill Nunn | John Turturro | Dick Anthony Williams | Cynda Williams | Nicholas Turturro | Jeff 'Tain' Watts | Samuel L. Jackson | Leonard L. Thomas | Charles Q. Murphy
Directors: Spike Lee
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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.

The Siege (1998)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Annette Bening | Bruce Willis | Tony Shalhoub | Sami Bouajila | Ahmed Ben Larby | Mosleh Mohamed | Lianna Pai | Mark Valley | Jack Gwaltney | David Proval | Lance Reddick | Jeremy Knaster | William Hill | Aasif Mandvi
Directors: Edward Zwick
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.

The Bone Collector (1999)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Angelina Jolie | Queen Latifah | Michael Rooker | Mike McGlone | Luis Guzmán | Leland Orser | John Benjamin Hickey | Bobby Cannavale | Ed O'Neill | Richard Zeman | Olivia Birkelund | Gary Swanson | James Bulleit | Frank Fontaine
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Wright | Pablo Schreiber | Anthony Mackie | Dorian Missick | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Teddy Dunn | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Tim Artz | Denzel Washington | Robyn Hitchcock | Liev Schreiber | Antoine Taylor | Joseph Alessi | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Bill Irwin
Directors: Jonathan Demme
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Inside Man (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Clive Owen | Jodie Foster
Directors: Spike Lee
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“Inside Man” is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.

Fallen (1998)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | John Goodman | Donald Sutherland | Embeth Davidtz | James Gandolfini | Elias Koteas | Gabriel Casseus | Michael J. Pagan | Robert Joy | Frank Medrano | Ronn Munro | Cynthia Hayden | Ray Xifo | Tony Michael Donnelly | Tara Carnes
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azazel is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel.