Wednesday

The Book of Eli (2010)

It is a post-apocalyptic world and a mysterious man, Eli (Denzel Washington) is on a journey to the West Coast of the United States. He eventually comes into contact with Carnegie (Gary Oldman), the leader of a ramshackle town. Carnegie is looking for a certain book and is obsessed with getting his hands on it.

When Carnegie discovers that Eli is in possession of the book, he attempts to get it from Eli by force but he proves too tough for Carnegie and his men to handle. After a gunfight in which most of Carnegie's men are killed, Eli continues on his journey accompanied by Solara (Mila Kunis).

But Carnegie is still determined to get the book of Eli and he decides to track them down and get it from them, no matter what it costs.

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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

Ryder (John Travolta) leads a group of armed men, board a New York subway train and takes everyone in a coach hostage. Their demands : 10 million dollars within sixty minutes or a passenger will be killed every minute after that.

MTA dispatcher Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) becomes the unwitting negotiator. When Ryder demonstrates his seriousness by killing some of the hostages, the money has to be delivered to him as he demands and Garber must do whatever he can to end the situation, but it seems the hijackers have a perfect escape plan.

The Great Debaters (2007)

This movie is based on a true story about the struggles of a debate coach, Melvin Tolson ,(Denzel Washington) of a black college to place his debate team on an equal footing with the white school's.

These attempts put him in direct confrontation with some influential white people including the local sheriff. The black debate team managed to scale this hurdle by sheer tenacity. They won debate after debate until they eventually came face to face with the Harvard Debate team on their own grounds, Harvard University.

American Gangster (2007)

Ellsworth Johnson (Clarence Williams) is a gangster that runs much of Harlem. He dies of a heart attack, but not before imparting much of his discipline, intelligence and wisdom into his driver, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) who decides to take control of the drug trade.

Lucas begins to bring heroin in from Asia, selling the drugs at half the price and double the quality of that of his competitors. He quietly became a powerful person in the underground criminal community and even controls the local mafia family.

Police detective Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe) is given the task -together with very honest cops like himself- to get to the root of the new drug causing so much havoc in the community. He is given a mandate to get to the supplier. But it is difficult to get Frank Lucas, in fact detective Roberts does not even know of his existence. This is because Lucas keeps an extremely low profile, dresses normally and makes no mistakes.
But a series of events and mistakes bring the police closer and closer to getting their hands on him.

Deja Vu (2006)

The Mardi Gras in New Orleans, it is Fat Tuesday and a ferry carrying several hundred US Navy Sailors and their families explodes and sinks. More than 500 people are killed. Agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)  is part of the investigation.

He learns that the burnt body of a woman, Claire Kucheva (Paula Patton) was pulled out of the river before the time of the explosion.


He is convinced that the body of Kucheva holds the key to apprehending the person responsible for the bombing. He is soon introduced to a new program which enables them to look into the past in great detail and they use it to get the identity of the bomber. The bomber is arrested and he admits to the bombing.

Soon Agent Carlin discovers that the program can  physically take a human being from the present into the past and then he get's an Idea and attempts to save the lives of the ferry victims together with the life of Claire Kucheva, if Possible.

Inside Man (2006)

A group of armed robbers led by the mysterious Dalton Russel (Clive Owen) takes a bank and it's occupants hostage. They are all dressed in painter's uniform with face masks. The police arrive at the scene and Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and his partner Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are in charge.

Detective Frazier feels that something is not right about the stand-off and not everything about it is what it seems. He is convinced that this is not a normal bank robbery.

Meanwhile, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), founder of the bank has a dark secret inside the bank that nobody must know about and attempts to bring it out while the stand-off is still on, without anybody's knowledge.
The police decide to storm the bank and bring the situation to an end, but the robbers have a devastatingly simple plan of escape- and a score to settle.

Tuesday

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) rescued all but two members of his unit. This action made him a war hero and launched him into politics.

Several years later all the other surviving members of the platoon feel that although they remember that Shaw rescued them, they cannot remember him actually doing it. Sergeant Shaw is now a successful politician and he's been nominated as the Vice President of the United States.
Major Bennet Marco (Denzel Washington) was the commander of the unit and he begins investigating the case on his own.

Soon it is revealed that the desert incident never actually happened and that all the members of the unit had been brainwashed. The culprit: A large multinational corporation of powerful men around the globe. Their objective: To put a candidate who is under their hypnotic control into the White House.
Bennet Marco tries all he can to stop the corporation from achieving their aim, but he is totally unaware that he too had been brainwashed and that he has his own role to play in the plan of the corporation's conspiracy.

Man on Fire (2004)

John Creasy (Denzel Washington), a former CIA counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism operative but is now uninterested and disillusioned with life as a result of all the deaths and destruction he had witnessed and all the things he had done in the past.

He gets a job as a bodyguard in Mexico, and is in charge of protecting  Lupita Ramos, the little child of a rich Mexican businessman. He gets to like Lupita because the little girl gave him a reason to live again.
 Lupita is kidnapped and Creasy is seriously injured while trying to protect her.

She is subsequently "killed"  when the money intended for the kidnappers was snatched by unknown persons.
 Bereaved and seeking vengeance, John Creasy is out to kill every single person responsible for the kidnap and killing of Lupita Ramos. But this might involve a bunch of very powerful corrupt Mexican police officers and even going a head on confrontation against organized crime.
But John Creasy does not give a damn, he is on fire.

Out of Time (2003)

Mathias Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the police chief of Banyan Keys, a small town outside of Miami. He still loves his wife and fellow police officer, Alex Diaz-Whitlock (Eva Mendez), but now she wants a divorce..
 Chief Whitlock is having an affair with another woman, Ann Merai Harrison (Sanaa Lathan), and when he learns that she has terminal cancer and does not have long to live, he tries to save her by foolishly giving to her $450,000 cash kept at the police station by the DEA.

When Ann and her husband are killed in a fire, all evidence points to Chief Whitlock. Now he must try to retrieve the money, clear his name and save his career, and he must do all these before any one knows what he had done.

Antwone Fisher (2002)

A young hot-headed naval officer, Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is always getting into trouble at the Naval Station. He is assigned to Dr Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington) for psychological evaluation.

Antwone refuses to open up at first, but he eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood  in which he was physically, sexually and psychologically abused. He is forced to confront his past and then he begins a quest to find the family he never knew.

Sunday

John Q (2002)

John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington) is in an ordeal. His son, Michael has an enlarged heart and is dying at the hospital. John needs to get $75,000 to enable his son's name to be on the recipient’s list.

But he doesn't have enough money and tries to use his health insurance, but it does not cover him well enough, he sells his things and even and even the community donated money for him. But still not nearly enough.

The hospital gets tired and decides to discharge his son. He is being condemned to die. But he must not die, a father's love would not allow that, and so the father decides to use an extreme method to try and get his son a new heart.
He takes the hospital hostage. But how will it end? He needs to get his son a new heart, and the SWAT need to do their job which is to get him out of the way.

Training Day (2001)

This movie details a single day in the life of a young young LAPD rookie cop.
Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) is a highly decorated LAPD narcotics officer and Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), a young and inexperienced cop is assigned to him for evaluation.

Jake quickly discovers that the highly decorated and well respected Alonzo Harris is not the clean and honest cop that he expected him to be and that he does not give a damn about ethics in the course of his duty as a police officer. It is clear that the two of them have divergent views about how to enforce the law.

When it became obvious that Alonzo is engaged in activities that are much dirtier and deadlier than law enforcement, officer Hoyt must sooner than he expected choose to either stand up for the principles that made him to join the force, or go against them. All within twenty four hours.

The Hurricane (1999)

This is a story about former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (Denzel Washington) now convicted murderer  and his attempts to get justice as he fights, with the help of a Canadian family, to get his conviction quashed.

The movie is an embellished form of the true story of Rubin Carter whose real life story is similar to that of the character who bears his name in the movie. Rubin Carter manages to get his conviction set aside by the courts after he had spent twenty years in prison for crimes he did not know anything about.

The Bone Collector (1999)

Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is a bedridden quadriplegic and ex-forensic expert. Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is a New York patrol cop with a knack for crime solving.

A serial killer is on the loose. He poses as a taxi driver, abducts his victims and then kills them in the most horrific ways. No two killings are done in the same way.
Together, the bedridden Rhyme and the beautiful Donaghy must team together to stop this manic killer on the prowl. But this is no ordinary killer, this is a killer who kills his victims in a logical sequence, and he seems to know forensics equally as well as the police. And they need to get him before he gets them.

The Siege (1998)

In response to American Government policy and actions in the Middle East, terrorists have infiltrated New York and they are determined to launch havoc by launching a series of suicide bomb attacks on public targets.

FBI Agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) and his Lebanese- American partner Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) have the task of stopping them.

But the situation gets out of hand as series upon series of massive bombs rock New York. Obviously, the FBI is not up to the task. And the situation becomes more dangerous when the United States President declares Martial Law and the US Army takes charge of the country. The police state has began.
Hubbard, Haddad and  CIA Agent Elise Kraft must act right, and fast in order to prevent the United States from slipping into the pit of Fascism.

He Got Game (1998)

Denzel Washington plays the role of a convicted felon serving time at Attica State Prison for accidentally killing his own wife during an argument over their 12-year-old son, Jesus ShuttlesworthRay Allen). (

Many years later, Jesus is now an extremely talented basketball player and is the number one prep player in the nation, from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York. He is under extreme pressure from all quarters to decide which college basketball scholarship offer he will accept.

His father is temporarily released by the Governor of the State, who is an alumnus of one of the colleges that Jesus is considering, so that he might direct his son to sign with the Governor’s college.

Fallen (1998)

John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) is a police detective and becomes famous for capturing serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) who is convicted and subsequently executed.

Soon, another serial killer is on the loose who seems to be copycatting the just executed Reese. But this is no copycat. The demon, Azazel, who lives inside of Reese is out on the loose and is jumping from body to body in order to continue killing. And he is coming after Hobbes himself.

Hobbes must seek for help from an unusual source if he hopes to defeat this evil on rampage.

Courage Under Fire (1996)

Captain Karen Emma Walden (Meg Ryan) is a Medevac Huey Commander sent to rescue the crew of a helicopter shot down in Iraq during the First Gulf War. She found the crew under heavy enemy fire, tries to rescue them and then her own helicopter is shot down. The survivors of both Choppers were rescued the next day, but Walden had been killed in action.

Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is assigned the case to determine if she should be the first woman to receive (posthumously) the Medal of Honor For Valor in Combat.

Everything seems straight forward at first, but Serling begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of witnesses. Serling decides to dig a little bit deeper and uncovers details about the incident that both astounds him and also reminds him of the pain and guilt of another event in his past. He must make the story public before the Pentagon and the White House try to cover it up.

Devil in A Blue Dress

Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is a World War Two veteran. He is out of work, looking for a job and desperately needs to pay his mortgage. He is introduced to a man named Dewitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) who is looking for someone to help find a missing white woman, Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals)  who is thought to be hiding somewhere in the Black Community. He offers Rawlins $100 to look for Daphne Monet. Easy is suspicious but takes the money anyway.

He begins the search and is quickly embroiled in the intrigues of the town. He is framed for murder and now has two L.A.P.D police officers on his trail. Easy wants out of the job he's been given but Albright forces him to continue, or else Easy dies.

Soon more trouble comes his way and with the situation getting desperate and complex, Easy Rawlins feels the need to get some outside help.

Saturday

Virtuosity (1995)

Dr Darrel Lindenmeyer is a programmer for the Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Center (LETAC) and the designer of SID 6:7, a sadistic, intelligent and dangerous virtual reality program that is an amalgamation of 200 notorious criminal personalities of the worst kind. It is designed to assist police officers in the tracking of prisoners.

But SID 6:7 has a mind of it's own and manages to enter into an android and then embarks on a killing spree. The most vicious criminal in history is now on the loose.

It is now the job of Lt. Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington), a disgraced but reinstated police officer to track down and stop it before it is too late.

Philadelphia (1993)

Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a senior associate at a law firm in Philadelphia. He is a hardworking, intelligent and very likable person and his future at the firm is very bright and promising.

When Beckett becomes terribly sick and began exhibiting the symptoms of HIV/AIDS, his partners at the law firm fired him without any apparent reason and deprived him of his entitlements.

Beckett decides to sue the firm and sought the help of a personal injury lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) who is homophobic and has a fear of HIV positive people. Miller agrees to stand for him in court.

Together they begin an attempt to fight for justice while at the same time attempting to break down public prejudices and discrimination towards homosexuals and those living with AIDS.

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Two Supreme Court Justices are assassinated. Derby Shaw (Julia Roberts), a Tulane University Law Student, has a theory about these killings. She makes her findings into a paper-The Pelican Brief - and gives it to her Law Professor who in turn gives it to a friend in the F.B.I.

But her professor is killed in a car bomb and then she knows that she is next. She goes into hiding and sought the help of Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington), a reporter, in order to help make her findings public.

Now both of them are marked for death and they must make their findings public -with absolute proof - before it's too late.

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

This is a movie based entirely on the William Shakespeare play of the same name. The Story, the plot and the characters are about the same as the the play.

It is a story about a series of subtly arranged love affairs and an attempt to destroy these love affairs by the villain, Don John, and the ultimate reconciliation of all parties.

Wednesday

Malcolm X (1992)

An autobiographical movie about the life of the real Malcolm X. This movie details the life of Malcolm first as a petty criminal calling himself Detroit Red, then his life in prison where he is exposed to the teachings of Islam and then converted.


The third and longest section of the film details his life out of prison where he becomes a fiery speaker as a member of Nation of Islam preaching the complete separation of blacks from whites.


After a trip to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj Pilgrimage, Malcolm softens his views on separation, publicly criticizes the Nation of Islam and finally breaks away from the organization, with with tragic consequences.
He is eventually assassinated as he was about to deliver a speech, in the presence of his wife and children and in the full glare of the public.

Mississippi Masala (1991)

Mina (Sarita Choudhury) is an Indian-American, the daughter of Indian-Ugandan immigrants chased from Uganda by the murderous regime of Idi Amin Dada.


Demetrius (Denzel Washington) is a local African-American carpet cleaner. Both of them live with their respective families in the state of Mississippi and when Mina and Demetrius falls in love both families erupt in turmoil as ancient traditions comes face to face with the realities of the modern day and the unpredictability of falling in love.

Ricochet (1991)

Nicholas Styles (Denzel Washington) is a rookie officer of the Los Angeles Police Department and also a law student .One day while on patrol with his partner Larry Doyle (Pollack), he blocks the escape of Earl Talbot Blake (John Lithgow) who had just killed several drug dealers and then stolen their drugs. .


Styles arrests Blake in a dramatic and highly publicized stand-off which is captured on camera. Blake is sent to prison and Styles becomes famous as a result of this incident, and then his career skyrockets.


Several years later Styles has had a very famous and eventful career in the police force, is now the Assistant District Attorney and  gradually moving into politics. Blake, who nurses a psychotic ambition for revenge escapes from prison and swoops down on Styles with a plan to to destroy his career and make him to lose everything in his life.


And Blake nearly succeeds in this deadly and elaborate plan and it will take almost a miracle to stop him. 

Tuesday

Mo' Better Blues (1990)


Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is a Black American jazz trumpeter. He makes a series of bad decisions which results ultimately in him jeopardizing both his relationships and his music career.
These decisions proves very costly and Gilliam has to try and make amends before it is too late.


A movie that focuses on themes of friendship, loyalty, honesty, cause-and-effect, love, commitment and salvation.

Heart Condition (1990)

Police Sergeant Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) is an over eating, over smoking and over drinking racist cop.


Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington) is an affable but sleazy black lawyer whom Moony does not like one single bit. As a result of his deals, Stone is killed in a drive by shooting.


After suffering a heart attack Moony wakes up to find out that his new heart once belonged to Stone, the dead black lawyer. He now has a the dead lawyer's ghost as his constant companion, and his murder to solve.


Comedy. One of Denzel Washington's worst movie outing.

Glory (1989)

The American Civil War is raging, the Unions and the Confederates are at war. Captain Robert Gould Shaw (Mathew Broderick) is given command of the first all black regiment of the Army, the 54th Massachusetts.


Hundreds of former slaves troop in, all of them eager to lend a hand in the fight for their freedom. But the men are a rabble and Captain Gould Shaw has a very hard task ahead to make them into an efficient and effective unit capable of winning battles and also able to gain the respects of white soldiers.


But there is a price to pay.


An American historical war drama depicting the true story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. The movie story is full of many embellishments to the real story.

For Queen And Country (1989)

In order to escape the rampant poverty of inner London, Reuben (Denzel Washington) joined the British Army serving in the Parachute Regiment eventually seeing action in Northern Ireland and then participating in the Falklands War where he became a war hero.


He returned to London and back to civilian life six years later to discover that his community is still plagued by the very same things that made him leave. He suffers abuse on him by racist white police and the pressure on him to go into a life of crime was strong and getting stronger.


His struggle to adjust to ordinary civilian life proves very difficult. His girlfriend left him, he is unable to find work, and a new legislation ensures that he lost his British Citizenship.


Reuben began to feel betrayed by the same country he had served with his blood. He becomes a vigilante bent on change instead of becoming a criminal himself.

The Mighty Quinn (1989)


Former U.S Marine and Quantico trained Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is the Chief of Police on a small Caribbean island.


The owner of a popular resort hotel, Donald Peter, is found murdered and decapitated, every one assumes that the killer is Maubee (Robert Townsend) a drug dealer and petty crook. In fact all evidence points to the fact that he is the killer.


But Quinn, the police chief doesn't believe that Maubee is the killer and sets out to prove it. Thus he gets embroilled in the messy politics and power plays on the island.


No one knows where it will end.

Monday

Cry Freedom (1987)


Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is the white editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper and is very critical of the views of Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), a charismatic South African Black Consciousness leader whose front-line role in the struggle for racial equality in South Africa causes him to be ”Banned”.


When Woods meets Biko face to face his perception begins to change and a friendship slowly develops between them. But Biko is killed in police custody.


Attempts by Woods to expose police complicity in the murder of Biko causes him and his family to become targets themselves. Now Woods must do all he can to reveal the truth about Biko’s death to the whole world but at the same time he fights for the safety of himself and his family.


A historical drama that portrays the true story of Steven Biko who was actually killed on 12 September 1977 in the custody of  the white-dominated South African police.

A Soldier's Story (1984)

United States Army Sergeant, Waters (Adolf Caesar) is an abusive light-skinned officer who relishes torturing and abusing the men who serve under him. Because of this he is not short of enemies.


When he is murdered, Captain Davenport (Howard Rollins., Jr) is given the job to fish out the people responsible for the murder. But the murderer could be any of the men.


The movie has very strong themes relating to Racism and Segregation.

Carbon Copy (1981)


Roger Porter (Denzel Washington) turns up at Walters office. Walter's  long-lost black son from a previous affair with a black woman has appeared.


Walter (George Segal) tries to take Roger back but both his wife and his Father-in-Law turns out to be a big problem as he is kicked out by his wife and then loses everything he owns, thanks to his Father-in-Law.


Penniless and now a manual laborer, Walter has to chose between his son and his former exalted position in life.