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. 

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.