Yardie

A young Jamaican has his carefree childhood cut short after the murder of his older brother. Falling in with the wrong crowd, he begins working for a drug lord, smuggling cocaine. After being sent to London, he sees the man who killed his brother and sets off on a path of vengeance in this retro patois thriller., A young Jamaican man with a traumatic past is sent to London by a Kingston Don, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart and child. But after crossing paths with the man that killed his brother, he finds himself on a quest for justice that brings him face to face with a brutal London gangster., Based on the 1992 novel Yardie by Victor Headley, the narrative begins with D (Antwayne Eccleston), a young Jamaican living in 1970s Kingston, Jamaica whose life is sent into disarray after the murder of his older brother and DJ, Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). Ten years on, D (now played by Aml Ameen) is working for the larger-than-life character of drug lord King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Sent to Hackney, London to smuggle cocaine, D finds his brother’s killer and narrows in on revenge, though violent local gangster Rico (Stephen Graham) has other ideas. Directed by Idris Elba.