Denzel Washington's upcoming movie is especially exciting thanks to a hit movie he made eight years ago. Over the years since his acting career was kickstarted after he took a role on television as part of the popular medical drama St. Elsewhere, Denzel Washington movies have taken many different shapes as the versatile actor has taken on a variety of different roles, genres, and artistic collaborators. In addition to frequently working with directors Antoine Fuqua, Tony Scott, and Spike Lee, with whom he has made more than four movies each, he has directed four movies of his own.

Included among the highest-grossing Denzel Washington movies are the 2007 Ridley Scott crime drama American Gangster, the 1993 Jonathan Demme legal drama Philadelphia, and the action movie trilogy The Equalizer, which ran between 2014 and 2023, proving how many different types of movie the actor has helped propel into becoming major theatrical hits. In addition to commercial success,...