Rastafarian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant rastafarian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, humorous, cult classic and black comedy films and TV shows about / with rastafarian, reggae, marijuana, police, murder, friendship, couples, society, gangster and jamaican plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Jamaica and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rastafarian: Countryman (1982), Babylon (1980), Rockers (1978), The Harder They Come (1972), No Place Like Home (2006), Yardie (2018), One Love (2003), Bob Marley: One Love (2024), Brooklyn Babylon (2001), EuroTrip (2004).

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 6.6
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Countryman (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in ...
Style: social, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: jungle, reggae, jamaican, pagan, wanderlust, shaman, stoner, airplane, swamp, politics, caribbean sea, nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, africa
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 7.3
 2K
Babylon (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Plot: jamaican, reggae, black, racism, religion, blaxploitation, racial issues, rock and roll, african, stoner, nightclub, multiculturalism ...
Place: london, britain, africa, caribbean
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 7.5
 2K
Rockers (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston plans to make some extra money selling and distributing records. He buys a motorcycle to carry them to the sound systems around the island.
Style: tense, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric
Plot: jamaican, blaxploitation, rastafarian, motorcycle, stoner, african, stoned, punk, rock, wanderlust, rock and roll, friends ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: jamaica, africa, caribbean
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The Harder They Come (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a ...
Style: cult classic, road movie, tense, exciting, rough ...
Plot: reggae, music, blaxploitation, marijuana, poverty, culture clash, folk hero, crime gone awry, visceral, music business, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: jamaica, west indies, caribbean, africa
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No Place Like Home (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Susan, a film producer from NYC, goes to Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial, she finds herself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, drifting further and further away from the world she knows and into the life of the island, a ...
Style: captivating, road movie
Plot: lifestyle, relationships, island, male female relationship, life, jamaican, reggae, rastafarian, ocean, beach resort, cannabis, waterfall ...
Place: caribbean, jamaica, new york
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 5.8
 3K
Yardie (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, powerful ...
Plot: organized crime, rastafarian, murder, father daughter relationship, car chase, family relations, danger, couples, black, urban, drug, gangsta ...
Time: year 1983, year 1973, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: england, caribbean, united kingdom, east end london, london ...
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Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 250 min.
Story: Ailing, egotistical and sexually perverted rock-star Bobby Barzell (who sold his soul for wealth and rock and roll stardom) awaits a liver transplant from a psychotic fugitive of the law; as a vengeful, demonic alien tries to collect a past debt.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, horror comedy, neo noir ...
Plot: father son relationship, male female relationship, violence, police, revenge, murder, surrealism, runaway, fugitive, nudity, past, oral sex ...
Place: minneapolis minnesota
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 6.1
 471
One Love (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile ...
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: jamaican, reggae, love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, unfulfillment, contests and competitions, ambition, clergy, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa
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Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
Plot: musician, based on real people, reggae, rastafarian, cannabis, biopic, singer, concert, love, singing, culture, life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972, year 1976
Place: jamaica, london
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Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, culture clash, social decay, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, street life, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 6.6
 222K
EuroTrip (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
Style: teen sex comedy, road movie, sex comedy, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, boys' night ...
Plot: travel, youth, vacation, sexual humor, obsessive quest, marijuana, nothing goes right, culture clash, nudity, comedy of errors, road trip, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, italy, germany, ohio ...
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 7.7
 186
Rastamouse (2011)
Genre: Animation
Country: UK
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Rastamouse is a British animated stop motion children's TV series created by Genevieve Webster and Michael De Souza and produced by Three Stones Media/The Rastamouse Company for CBeebies. The show follows crime-busting mouse reggae band Da Easy ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, controversial
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: music band, reggae, mouse, puppet, friendship, heroes, partner, partners against crime, optimism, hopes, who done it, music ...
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 3.9
 4K
Shank (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely ...
Style: captivating, tense, rough, independent film, controversial ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: social decay, profanity, society, dystopian future, uninhibited rivalry, life is a bitch, youth, urban, gang, revenge, gay, ghetto ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: england, britain, london, europe
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Who's That Girl (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Style: humorous, colorful, retro, cult classic, detective ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cougar, class differences, shoplifting, impulsiveness, interrupted wedding, reckless driving, framed for murder, fiance fiancee relationship, convict, yuppie, love, screwball ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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Third World Cop (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Loose cannon cop Capone returns to his home town of Kingston to join a group of officers fighting organised crime in the area. On his first day he uncovers gun smuggling operation that may be connected with lead criminal Oney. However his old crew, ...
Style: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: reggae, black, jamaican, cop, friendship, drug dealer, friends, police detective, right hand man, fish out of water, rivalry, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: jamaica, africa
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 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
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The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir ...
Plot: whodunit, murder, childhood friend, police investigation, partners against crime, investigation, justice, crime gone awry, resort hotel, cia agent, frame up, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, future
Place: jamaica, caribbean, nicaragua, west indies
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 6.8
 57K
Frantic (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: espionage, kidnapping, missing wife, missing person, spy, hotel, investigation, chase, hotel room, illuminati, murder, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, eastern europe
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 7.5
 165K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, hilarious, feel good, laugh out loud, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, prostitute, switching roles, fish out of water, beggar, wrongful arrest, social satire, wager, rags to riches, poverty, investor, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Club Paradise (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nude beach, public nudity, satire, island, jungle, beach, resort, teen angst, coming of age, reggae, marijuana, firefighter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, fictional island, west indies, caribbean
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 5.7
 84K
Fool's Gold (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, treasure hunter, adventurer, beautiful scenery, yacht, ocean, golddigger, obsessive quest, rivalry, underwater, escapades ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: bahamas, florida, usa, key west florida, chicago ...
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 5.5
 2K
Johnny Was (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...
Style: serious, rough, sincere, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: gangster, danger, drug abuse, haunted by the past, rivalry, criminal heroes, drug dealing, starting over, murder, greed, ira, anglo irish relations ...
Place: ireland, england, london, europe, belfast
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Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, History, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a partially ...
Style: sitcom, parody, surreal, dark comedy, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: robin hood, archer, medieval, myth, legend, dwarf, taxes, village, female protagonist, evil king, king of england, forest ...
Time: 12th century, 13th century
Place: england
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Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Style: emotional, romantic, talky, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, loneliness, multiple storylines, love story, character study, complex characters, lifestyle, couple relations, looking for love, dishonesty, singleness, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, seattle, harlem, australia ...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style: psychotronic, retro, thinking, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock and roll, rock, feminist, satire, coming of age, rock music, girl gang, feminism, counterculture, strong female character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
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 4.2
 1K
Cyborg Cop (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, police shootout, killer robot, mad scientist, heroes, chaos, danger, journalism, manhunt, police ...
Time: 90s
Place: denver colorado, caribbean
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 7.1
 20K
Thursday (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell ...
Style: neo noir, witty, dark comedy, intense, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dark humor, hitman, drug dealing, drug dealer, female rapist, woman rapes man, danger, blood, death of pregnant woman, violent, cons and scams, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, los angeles
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style: political, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
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