Denzel Washington
41) Safe house
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
While housing ex-CIA agent turned criminal, Tobin Frost, a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa is attacked by mercenaries forcing Frost and the CIA agent in charge to run for their lives.
42) The siege
Description
The United States government abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law
43) Cry Freedom
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Set in South Africa in the mid-1970s, this film tells the story of Stephen Biko, a Black political activist, and Donald Woods, a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
46) Flight
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Training day: a rookie narcotics cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad.
John Q: Police have surrounded the ER where a desperate man holds hostages and demands that the hospital do what his HMO refuses to allow, provide an operation for his critically ill son.
Fallen: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very...
49) The Siege (DVD)
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
The United States government abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia, and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his...
51) Ricochet
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Pursued by a psychotic killer that everyone else thinks is dead, a policeman turns for help to his childhood friend, now a hustler and dealer.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
53) Ricochet
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Rookie cop Nick Styles' arrest of a ruthless psychotic killer, Blake, makes him a deadly enemy. Blake escapes from jail, faking his own death, and starts an intricate plan of revenge involving intimidation, public humiliation and murder. Nick, now the assistant district attorney, is forced to return to the tough streets of his childhood and call on his old friend Odessa, a hustler and drug dealer, for help. Together they set a trap that pits Nick...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
56) John Q
Pub. Date
[2002]
Formats
Description
John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the...
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track the killer, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's...
60) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...