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These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities. This list also includes comparably economically disenfranchised and crime adjacent communities in other countries such as the UK and Canada.
Out the Gate is a 2011 Jamaican action film that follows Everton Dennis, played by Everton Dennis as he leave his home in Jamaica to make it big in the United States in music. It stars Paul Campbell , Oliver Samuels , Shelli Boone , and Everton Dennis, was written by Qmillion and Everton Dennis and directed by R. Steven Johnson and Qmillion .
Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Theodoros Bafaloukos.Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger, Robbie Shakespeare, and Jacob Miller.
The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff. [5] [6] The film is most famous for its reggae soundtrack that is said to have "brought reggae to the world".
The filming was done on location in Jamaica and in England. The movie was scheduled to open in June 2010, [11] but was postponed. [12] Meanwhile, a new play, Serious Business, which deals with a corrupt revivalist preacher, played to sell-out Jamaican and West Indian audiences both at home and abroad. [13]
Rodney Basil Price OD (born 12 June 1972), [1] known as Bounty Killer, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. AllMusic describes him as "one of the most aggressive dancehall stars of the '90s, a street-tough rude boy with an unrepentant flair for gun talk". [1] He is considered one of the best dancehall lyricists of all time. [2]
A. O. Scott remarked that "true idiom (of Third World Cop) is the universal language of cop-movie cliche". [7] Los Angeles Times reviewer Kenneth Turan described the plot as "old-fashioned" and a "genial case of gangster meets gangsta on the streets of Jamaica", but added that the film offered "an absorbing glimpse into the poorest, most ...