Every Denzel Washington Movie Ranked Worst To Best

13. Mississippi Masala (1991)

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The Samuel Goldwyn Company

In this gorgeous and moving romantic drama, Washington stars a carpet cleaner who falls in love with an Indian-American woman (Sarita Choudhury) after she moves to Mississippi from Uganda.

Acting as a powerful exploration of cultural conflict and love, Mississippi Masala is intoxicatingly sexy and bittersweet, following the young couple as they come to grips with their romance's effect on their vastly different families.

Something of a forgotten gem within Washington's back catalogue, this is a movie you simply have to hunt down. He's rarely been this electrifying before or since.

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