The Top 25 Music DVDs of All Time

22. The Harder They Come (Xenon)

Ivan (played by reggae singer Jimmy Cliff) comes to the big city and records a single, getting paid twenty dollars. When he turns to the marijuana trade and shoots a couple of cops, he becomes a Jamaican folk hero. The notion of a musical outlaw who's a real criminal has since become more commonplace, but here it's gritty and intense, partially because of the location shooting, in Jamaican shantytowns.

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