Denzel Washington — Actor (51)
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The Mighty Quinn (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mighty Quinn
director: Carl Schenkel actor: Denzel Washington / James Fox …
other title: Jamaica Cop / Big Bad Man …
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
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Power (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Power
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Richard Gere / Denzel Washington …
other title: Power - Potere / Os Donos do Poder …
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
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Carbon Copy (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Carbon Copy
director: Michael Schultz actor: Denzel Washington / George Segal …
other title: Il pollo si mangia con le mani / A Cara do Pai …
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
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License to Kill (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
License to Kill
director: Jud Taylor actor: James Farentino / Penny Fuller …
other title: Diritto alla vita / L'Amour brisé …
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
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A Soldier's Story (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Soldier's Story
director: Norman Jewison actor: Howard Rollins / Adolph Caesar …
other title: Storia di un soldato / A História do Soldado …
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) [Movie]
Devil in a Blue Dress
director: Carl Franklin actor: Denzel Washington / Tom Sizemore …
other title: Il diavolo in blu / Djævel i blåt …
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
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Mo' Better Blues (1990) [Movie]
Mo' Better Blues
director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Spike Lee …
other title: Cuanto más, mejor
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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Cry Freedom (1987) [Movie]
Cry Freedom
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Kevin Kline / Denzel Washington …
other title: Grido di libertà / Grita Liberdade …
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
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Crimson Tide (1995) [Movie]
Crimson Tide
director: Tony Scott actor: Denzel Washington / Gene Hackman …
other title: Allarme rosso / Fjenden i Dybet …
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
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Crimson Tide (1995) [Movie]
Crimson Tide
director: Tony Scott actor: Denzel Washington / Gene Hackman …
other title: Allarme rosso / Fjenden i Dybet …
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
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Virtuosity (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Virtuosity
director: Brett Leonard actor: Denzel Washington / Russell Crowe …
other title: Virtuality / Assassino Virtual …
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.
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Lynch/Oz (2023) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lynch/Oz
director: Alexandre O. Philippe actor: Amy Nicholson / Rodney Ascher …
other title: Lynch & Oz
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
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Glory (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Glory
director: Edward Zwick actor: Matthew Broderick / Denzel Washington …
other title: Glory - Uomini di gloria / Ærens Mark …
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Chasing Trane (2017) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
Chasing Trane
director: John Scheinfeld actor: Denzel Washington / Antonia Andrews …
An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.
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Out of Time (2003) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Out of Time
director: Carl Franklin actor: Denzel Washington / Eva Mendes …
other title: Out of Time - Tempo Limite / Out of Time - Sein Gegner ist die Zeit …
Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.