
Winston Stona
Actor · 1939 – 2022 · Kingston, Jamaica
Winston Stona was a Jamaican actor and businessman. He had roles in Cool Runnings (1993), The Harder They Come (1972), The Lunatic (1991), and One Love (2003). He was the co-founder of Busha Browne Company.
Movies6
Movie7.0ComedyAdventureWhen a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Cool Runnings
1993 · 2.4K votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaIvanhoe 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 manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
The Harder They Come
1972 · 129 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceKassa 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 the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.
One Love
2003 · 17 votes
Movie5.6DramaWhen 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 strange alternative reality that turns many of her previously held assumptions upside down.
No Place Like Home
2006 · 5 votes
Movie8.1ComedyA Jamaican comedy, the story of a village madman, Aloysious, who has the amazing ability to talk to anything, including trees, cows and cricket balls.
The Lunatic
1991 · 8 votes
Movie5.0DramaAn unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.
Ten Bob in Winter
1963 · 2 votes