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The Equalizer 3 (2023)
The Equalizer 3 is an upcoming American vigilante action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is the sequel to the 2018 film The Equalizer 2, which was based on the TV series of the same name. The film stars Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Sonia Ammar and Remo Girone. Washington and Fanning reuniting on-screen for the first time since 2004's Man o...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Joy Bryant
The Little Things (2021)
The Little Things is a 2021 American neo-noir psychological crime thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by John Lee Hancock and co-produced by Mark Johnson. Set in early 1990s Los Angeles, the film follows two detectives who investigate a string of murders, which lead them to a strange loner who may be the culprit.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Joanne Woodward•Christopher Plummer•Robert Duvall•George Segal•Julie Christie•Gene Hackman
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a 2021 American historical thriller film written, directed and produced by Joel Coen, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. It is the first film directed by one of the Coen brothers without the other's involvement. The film stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, ...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Jon Voight•Tom Waits•Scott Glenn•Jodie Foster•Christopher Walken•Malcolm McDowell•John Lithgow
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2 is a 2018 American vigilante action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is the sequel to the 2014 film The Equalizer, which was based on the TV series of the same name. The film stars Denzel Washington in the lead role, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, Bill Pullman, and Orson Bean in his final film role. It follows retired ...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Frances McDormand•Bruce Willis•Richard Gere•John Travolta
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a 2017 American legal drama film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell and follows the life of a civil rights advocate and defense lawyer (Washington) who finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a personal crisis and the necessity for extreme action.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Meryl Streep•Susan Saint James•Shirley Jo Finney
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, itself an adaptation of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Ga...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Chloë Grace Moretz•Giancarlo Giannini•Armand Assante•Albert Hall•Tom Hanks•Mickey Rourke•Sam Shepard•Howard Rollins
Fences (2016)
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film starring, produced and directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 play of the same name. In addition to Washington, the film also stars Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sidney.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Kate Capshaw•Michael Keaton•Kevin Kline•Jennifer Beals•Ray Liotta•Matthew Broderick
The Equalizer (2014)
The Equalizer is a 2014 American vigilante action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, loosely based on the 1980s TV series of the same title. Written by Richard Wenk, it stars Denzel Washington in the lead role, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo. The film focuses on a former U.S. Marine turned DIA intelligen...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Frances McDormand•Bruce Willis•Bob Hoskins•Željko Ivanek•Willem Dafoe
2 Guns (2013)
2 Guns is a 2013 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. It is based on the comic book series of the same name created by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco, published in 2007 by Boom! Studios. The film was released in the United States on August 2, 2013, and was met with...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Morgan Freeman•Val Kilmer•Ethan Hawke•Josh Brolin•Leland Orser•John Goodman
Safe House (2012)
Safe House is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by David Guggenheim, and starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. The film follows Matt Weston (Reynolds), a CIA officer on a low-level posting in Cape Town, South Africa, who is in charge of a safe house where the CIA is interrogating Tobin Frost (Washingt...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Viggo Mortensen•Meg Ryan•Keanu Reeves•Forest Whitaker•Tom Waits•Robert Patrick•Michael Rooker•Robert Townsend•Al Franken
Flight (2012)
Flight is a 2012 American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by John Gatins and produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Steve Starkey, Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. Loosely inspired by the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, the film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who mirac...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Wesley Snipes•Denzel Whitaker•Bruce Willis•Radha Mitchell•Lou Diamond Phillips•Robert Sean Leonard•Will Patton
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic neo-Western action film directed by the Hughes Brothers, written by Gary Whitta, and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, and Jennifer Beals. The story revolves around Eli, a nomad in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks to deliver his copy of a mysterious book to a sa...
Starring: Cary Elwes•Pedro Pascal•Annette Bening•Rubén Blades•Julia Roberts•Spike Lee•Melissa Leo•Gary Oldman•Chloe Webb•Bill Nunn
Unstoppable (2010)
Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it. It was the last film Tony Scott directed before his death in 2012.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Andre Braugher•Tom Sizemore•Bruno Ganz•Ed O'Neill•Tony Goldwyn•Jon Polito•Tony Shalhoub•Gina Ravera•Angela Bassett
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a 2009 American action thriller film directed by Tony Scott. It is the third film adaptation of the John Godey novel of the same name. The film is about a train dispatcher, who is pressed into the role of negotiator after a criminal hijacks a subway car of passengers. The film was released on June 12, 2009. It grossed $1...
Starring: Kenneth Branagh•Pedro Pascal•Michael Hyatt•Nora Arnezeder•Michael Gambon•Kevin Dunn•Milla Jovovich•Ted Levine•Whitney Houston•Antonio Banderas
American Gangster (2007)
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before...
Starring: Matt Damon•Pedro Pascal•Terry Kinney•Kate Beckinsale•James B. Sikking•Carla Gugino•Chiwetel Ejiofor•Brian Haley•Jared Leto•Mykelti Williamson
The Great Debaters (2007)
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington. It is based on an article written about the Wiley College debate team by Tony Scherman for the spring 1997 issue of American Legacy.
Starring: Sean Nelson•Pedro Pascal•Mark Wahlberg•Courtney B. Vance•Angelina Jolie•Rosario Dawson•Jeff Wincott•Russell Crowe•Clarence Williams III•Marc Anthony
Inside Man (2006)
Inside Man is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Russell Gewirtz. It centers on an elaborate bank heist on Wall Street over a 24-hour period. The film stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD's hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates the heist, and J...
Starring: James Marsden•Clive Owen•Pedro Pascal•Bruce Greenwood•Liam Cunningham•Brendan Gleeson
Déjà Vu (2006)
Déjà Vu is a 2006 American science fiction action film directed by Tony Scott, written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film stars Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg and Bruce Greenwood. It involves an ATF agent who travels back in time in an attempt to prevent a domesti...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Ray Allen•Radha Mitchell•Elden Henson•Viola Davis•Vera Farmiga•Jim Caviezel•Leland Orser•Chris Bauer
Man on Fire (2004)
Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, and based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. The novel had previously been adapted into a feature film in 1987. In this film, Denzel Washington portrays John Creasy, a despondent, alcoholic former CIA SAD/SOG officer turned bod...
Starring: Luis Guzmán•Pedro Pascal•Adam Goldberg•Ryan Reynolds•Dakota Fanning•Eva Mendes•Derek Luke•Joy Bryant•Malcolm David Kelley•Marton Csokas
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name and a reworking of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier, Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representat...
Starring: Jordan Gelber•Stephen McKinley Henderson•Ethan Suplee•Roberto Sosa•Pedro Pascal•Lew Temple•Harry Melling•Ray Stevenson•Elle Fanning•Chiwetel Ejiofor
Out of Time (2003)
Out of Time is a 2003 American mystery thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and starring Denzel Washington. The two had previously worked together for the 1995 film Devil in a Blue Dress.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Michael Rispoli
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Antwone Fisher is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington in his film directing debut. Washington stars in the film as the psychiatrist Jerome Davenport, alongside Hollywood newcomer Derek Luke, who plays the title role, and former model Joy Bryant, as Fisher's girlfriend. Its film marked Luke's film debut...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Andy Umberger•Kevin Chapman•Adrian Martinez
John Q (2002)
John Q. is a 2002 American thriller drama film starring Denzel Washington, with co-stars Robert Duvall, Kimberly Elise, Anne Heche, James Woods, and Ray Liotta, lastly directed by Nick Cassavetes. The film tells the story of John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and who finds out he is unable to r...
Starring: Russell Hornsby•David Harbour•Pedro Pascal•Aisha Hinds•Paula Patton
Training Day (2001)
Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers over a 24-hour period in the gang-ridden neighborhoods of Westlake, Echo Park, and South Central Los Angeles. It also features Scott Glenn, Eva...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Chloë Grace Moretz
Remember the Titans (2000)
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Brian Geraghty
The Bone Collector (1999)
The Bone Collector is a 1999 American crime thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The film is based on the 1997 crime novel of the same name written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the tetraplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. The film received mixed reviews, but earned $151.5 million against a budget o...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Kelly Reilly•Erika Alexander•Haley Bennett•Nate Parker•Frank L. Ridley
The Hurricane (1999)
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter's...
Starring: Pedro Pascal
Fallen (1998)
Fallen is a 1998 American supernatural thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, produced by Charles Roven and Dawn Steel, from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan. Denzel Washington plays a Philadelphia police detective who is investigating occult murders committed by an apparent copycat killer. John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Ga...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Denzel Whitaker•Chris Pratt•Nora Arnezeder
He Got Game (1998)
He Got Game is a 1998 American sports drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen. The film revolves around Jake Shuttlesworth, father of the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth. Jake, in prison for killing his wife, is released on parole for a week by the state'...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Michael Hyatt•Natalie Morales•Fares Fares
The Siege (1998)
The Siege is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made several attacks in New York City. The film stars Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, and Bruce Willis.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Allie DeBerry•Shelley Hennig•Lee Byung-hun
Courage Under Fire (1996)
Courage Under Fire is a 1996 American war film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. It is the second collaboration between Washington and director Zwick. The film was released in the United States on July 12, 1996, to positive reviews and grossed $100 million worldwide.
Starring: Corey Hawkins•Pedro Pascal•Martin Sensmeier•Jovan Adepo•Saniyya Sidney
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
The Preacher's Wife is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall and starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Courtney B. Vance. It is a remake of the 1947 film The Bishop's Wife, which in turn was based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert Nathan.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Ashton Sanders•Alex Hassell
Crimson Tide (1995)
Crimson Tide is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in Russia, in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan.
Starring: Kathryn Hunter•Pedro Pascal•Jason Robards•Nora Arnezeder
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Carl Franklin, based on Walter Mosley's 1990 novel of the same name and features Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle. Set in the summer of 1948, the film follows World War II veteran Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins who, desperate in n...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Adolph Caesar•Annette Bening•Wesley Snipes•George Segal•Joanne Woodward
Virtuosity (1995)
Virtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Brett Leonard and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Howard W. Koch Jr. served as an executive producer for the film. The film was released in the United States on August 4, 1995. Virtuosity had an estimated budget of $30 million and grossed $37 million worldwide.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Julie Christie•Jared Leto
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Kenneth Branagh, who adapted the play for the screen and directed it, also stars in the film, which features Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut.
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Cicely Tyson•John Lithgow•Lindsay Wagner•William Atherton•Richard Gere•Susan Saint James
The Pelican Brief (1993)
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on the 1992 novel by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham. The film, which features music composed by James Horner, was the last film that feat...
Starring: Robert Townsend•Mary Steenburgen•Sean Nelson•Pedro Pascal•Viggo Mortensen•Albert Hall•Tom Hanks•Howard Rollins
Philadelphia (1993)
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Filmed and set in its namesake city, it tells the story of gay man Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who asks lawyer Joe Miller (Washington) to help him sue his employers, who fired him after discovering he has AID...
Starring: Kate Capshaw•Michael Keaton•Pedro Pascal•Kevin Kline•Matthew Broderick•Bob Hoskins
Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X is a 1992 American epic biographical drama film about the African-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, as well as Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., and Delroy Lindo. Lee has a supporting role, while Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, the ...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Adolph Caesar•Spike Lee•Viggo Mortensen•Keanu Reeves
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores interracial romance between African Americans and Indian Americans.
Starring: Pedro Pascal
Ricochet (1991)
Ricochet is a 1991 American action crime thriller film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, written by Steven E. de Souza, and starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, and Lindsay Wagner. The film details a struggle between a Los Angeles district attorney (Washington) and a vengeful criminal (Lithgow) whom he arrested when he was a c...
Starring: Robert Townsend•Wesley Snipes•Pedro Pascal
Heart Condition (1990)
Heart Condition is a 1990 American comedy film starring Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington and Chloe Webb. Denzel Washington stars as Napoleon Stone, a lawyer, and Bob Hoskins stars as Jack Moony, a police officer. The two rivals compete in the same work force area in their community to help bring down drug rate. Their goal would be to find the mysteri...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Robert Sean Leonard•Cary Elwes
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 American musical comedy-drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also wrote, produced, and directed. It follows a period in the life of fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career. The film focu...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Julia Roberts•Spike Lee•Chloe Webb
Glory (1989)
Glory is a 1989 American historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War. It stars Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's commanding officer, and Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan F...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Bill Nunn•Kelly Lynch•Andre Braugher•Tom Sizemore
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 American mystery comedy thriller film starring Denzel Washington in the title role, alongside Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The screenplay by Hampton Fancher is based on A. H. Z. Carr's 1971 novel Finding Maubee. In the film, Washington plays Xavier Quinn, a police chief wh...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Tony Goldwyn
Cry Freedom (1987)
Cry Freedom is a 1987 epic apartheid drama film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid-era South Africa. The screenplay was written by John Briley based on a pair of books by journalist Donald Woods. The film centres on the real-life events involving South African activist Steve Biko and his friend Donald Woods, ...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Angela Bassett
Power (1986)
Power is a 1986 American political drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Gere. The original screenplay by David Himmelstein focuses on political corruption and how power affects both those who wield it and the people they try to control.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh•Kathryn Hunter•Emma Thompson•Pedro Pascal•Delroy Lindo
A Soldier's Story (1984)
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. Fuller had said Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd inspired the play. It is a story about racism in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and train...
Starring: Pedro Pascal•Antonio Banderas•Kate Beckinsale
Carbon Copy (1981)
Carbon Copy is a 1981 comedy-drama film directed by Michael Schultz, produced by RKO Pictures and Hemdale Film Corporation, and released by Avco Embassy Pictures. The film stars George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden and Denzel Washington in his film acting debut. It was the first feature film produced by RKO after a break of many years.
Starring: James B. Sikking•Cicely Tyson•Pedro Pascal