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Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso.[1]

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  1. 64 relations: Academy Awards, Alan Igbon, Aswad, Blu-ray, Brinsley Forde, Brixton, Cannes Film Festival, Chris Menges, Critics' Week, Croydon, David Gant, Dennis Bovell, Deptford, Discogs, Drama (film and television), Drummie Zeb, DVD, Evening Standard British Film Awards, Franco Rosso, Gary Whelan, Gavrik Losey, GQ, History of the United Kingdom (1945–present), Hua Hsu, I-Roy, Jah Shaka, Karl Howman, King Sounds, Kino Lorber, Lewisham, List of hood films, London, Los Angeles Times, Lovers Rock (2020 film), Maggie Steed, Mark Monero, Martin Stellman, Mel Smith, Mikey Dread, National Film Finance Corporation, New York Film Festival, NME, Peckham, Premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Quadrophenia (film), Rockers (1978 film), Rotten Tomatoes, Sound clash, Sound system (Jamaican), South London, ... Expand index (14 more) »

  2. 1980s hood films
  3. Films about Rastafari

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alan Igbon

Alan Igbon (29 May 1952 – 9 December 2020) was a British actor, best known for his roles in television series such as The Professionals, Coronation Street and Boys from the Blackstuff.

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Aswad

Aswad are a British reggae group, noted for adding strong R&B and soul influences to the reggae sound.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Brinsley Forde

Brinsley Forde MBE (born 16 October 1953) is a British singer and actor of Guyanese parentage who is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970–71).

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Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Chris Menges

Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director.

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Critics' Week

Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique), until 2008 called International Critics' Week (Semaine internationale de la critique), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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David Gant

David Gant (born 12 November 1942) is a Scottish actor and model.

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Dennis Bovell

Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953Huey, Steve,, Allmusic. Retrieved 27 December 2014.) is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in England.

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Deptford

Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Drummie Zeb

Angus Gaye (24 September 1959 – 2 September 2022), better known as Drummie Zeb, was an English musician.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Evening Standard British Film Awards

The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by London's Evening Standard newspaper.

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Franco Rosso

Franco Rosso (29 August 1941 – 9 December 2016)Bill Douglas Centre,, Babylon, 27 December 2016.

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Gary Whelan

Gary Whelan (born 1953) is an Irish actor, known for his work on British television.

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Gavrik Losey

Gavrik Losey (born 1938) is an American-born participant in various aspects of filmmaking including producer and production manager.

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GQ

GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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History of the United Kingdom (1945–present)

For general overviews of British politics since 1945, see.

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Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu (born 1977) is an American writer and academic, based in New York City.

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I-Roy

Roy Samuel Reid (28 June 1942 – 27 November 1999), better known as I-Roy, was a Jamaican deejay who had a very prolific career during the 1970s.

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Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka (– 12 April 2023), also known as the Zulu Warrior, was a Jamaican reggae/dub sound system operator who operated a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s.

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Karl Howman

Karl Howman (born 13 December 1953) is an English writer, actor and director.

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King Sounds

Roy Livingstone Plummer (born c. 1948), better known as King Sounds, is a Jamaican reggae musician who released several albums from late 1970s onwards.

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Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City.

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Lewisham

Lewisham is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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List of hood films

This is a list of hood films.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lovers Rock (2020 film)

Lovers Rock is a 2020 romance film directed by Steve McQueen and co-written by McQueen and Courttia Newland.

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Maggie Steed

Maggie Steed (born Margaret Baker; 1 December 1946) is an English actress and comedian.

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Mark Monero

Mark Marcel Monero (born 12 May 1968) is a British actor and musician.

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Martin Stellman

Martin Stellman (London, July 28, 1948) is a British screenwriter and director best known for creating and writing The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, and co-writing with Franc Roddam the 1979 British cult classic Quadrophenia.

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Mel Smith

Melvyn Kenneth Smith (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian, actor and filmmaker.

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Mikey Dread

Michael George Campbell (4 June 1954 – 15 March 2008), better known as Mikey Dread, was a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster.

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National Film Finance Corporation

The National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC) was a film funding agency in the United Kingdom in operation from 1949 until 1985.

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New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Peckham

Peckham is a district in south-east London, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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Premiership of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher's term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 4 May 1979 when she accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and ended on 28 November 1990 upon her resignation.

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Quadrophenia (film)

Quadrophenia is a 1979 British drama film, based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name. Babylon (1980 film) and Quadrophenia (film) are British independent films.

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Rockers (1978 film)

Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Theodoros Bafaloukos. Babylon (1980 film) and Rockers (1978 film) are films about Rastafari.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sound clash

A sound clash is a musical competition where crew members from opposing sound systems pit their skills against each other.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames.

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Stefan Kalipha

Stefan Kalipha (born Stephen Siegfried Behrendt, 1940) is a Trinidad-born British actor who has been active since about 1970.

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T-Bone Wilson

T-Bone Wilson is a Guyanese-British actor, dramatist and poet.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. Babylon (1980 film) and the Killing Fields (film) are 1980s British films.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Toasting (Jamaican music)

Toasting (rap in other parts of the Anglo Caribbean) or deejaying is the act of talking, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a deejay.

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Trevor Laird

Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor.

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Vilma Hollingbery

Vilma Jean Napier Brown (21 July 1932 – 11 September 2021), known professionally as Vilma Hollingbery, was a British character actress.

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Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris (born 1975) is an American film critic and podcast host.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Yabby You

Vivian Neville Jackson (14 August 1946 – 12 January 2010), better known as Yabby You (or sometimes Yabby U), was a reggae vocalist and producer, who came to prominence in the early 1970s through his uncompromising self-produced work.

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1981 Toronto International Film Festival

The 6th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1981.

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See also

1980s hood films

Films about Rastafari

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(1980_film)

Also known as Babylon (UK film).

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