Heart Condition (1990)
Jan 17, 2001Bigoted White Man Gets a Black Ghost Companion
Light fantasy oddity with Bob Hoskins as a racist slob of a cop who receives a heart transplant and suddenly gets a deceased Denzel Washington as a ghostly companion
Denzel Washington
Ricochet (1991)
Jan 6, 2003Ex-Con's Revenge
This rehashes Cape Fear, remade by Martin Scorsese the same year, with Denzel Washington as an upstanding lawyer whose life is torn apart by vengeful ex-con John Lithgow. A frequently ludicrous script is made worse by Russell Mulcahy's overwrought direction
Crimson Tide (1995)
Nov 22, 2000Submarine Thriller/Impending Nuclear War
Gripping submarine drama from Tony Scott with captain Gene Hackman and second-in-command Denzel Washington fighting over whether to obey orders and fire their nuclear missiles after receiving a possibly faulty alert
Virtuosity (1995)
Jun 20, 2002Android Serial Killer
Director Brett Leonard started the fascination with Virtual Reality off with The Lawnmower Man but shot himself in the foot with this absurd braindead follow-up in which Denzel Washington pursues a madly OTT Russell Crowe as an android serial killer
The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
Jun 7, 1999Angelic Visitation
Remake of The Bishop's Wife with Denzel Washington as an angel come to aid an overworked pastor but falling for his wife Whitney Houston
Fallen (1998)
Feb 1, 2000Cop vs Body-Hopping Demon
A smart and intelligent supernatural thriller with Denzel Washington cast as a detective who sends a serial killer to the execution chamber only to find he now faces a demon that can inhabit any person that it touches
The Bone Collector (1999)
Nov 6, 1999Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller with Denzel Washington as Jeffrey Deaver's quadriplegic profiler Lincoln Rhyme and Anjelina Jolie as a rookie cop who becomes his aide
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Nov 8, 2004Brainwashed Assassin/Political Thriller
Remake of the classic Cold War thriller from Jonathan Demme that has been updated for the era of George W. Bush
Deja Vu (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Time Travel
Tony Scott directed time travel film with Denzel Washington viewing and then entering into events of the past in an effort to stop a terrorist bombing. Action driven as you might expect with Jerry Bruckheimer as producer
The Book of Eli (2010)
Jan 18, 2010Post-Holocaust Action
Denzel Washington as an enigmatic Man With No Name wandering the post-holocaust apocalyptic landscape. This follows the cliches of the genre before it bizarrely morphs into a Biblical allegory partway through