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.