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.