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.

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.