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Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [ˈne̝kolɑs ˈve̝nte̝ŋˈʁæfn̩]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011, he directed the action drama film Drive (2011), for which he won the Cannes ... more

Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [ˈne̝kolɑs ˈve̝nte̝ŋˈʁæfn̩]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer.

He directed the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011, he directed the action drama film Drive (2011), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Refn's subsequent films were the stylistically driven action film Only God Forgives (2013) and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016).

In 2019, he directed his first television series, Too Old to Die Young (2019), which premiered on Amazon Prime. After Amazon's Too Old to Die Young, Refn's next project took him to Netflix and saw him returning to his native Copenhagen for the first time since Pusher 3, which was the setting for his magical realism series, Copenhagen Cowboy. In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation.

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Drive
(2011)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston
7.8
93%
78
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Bronson
(2008)
Action, Crime, Drama
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Kelly Adams, Katy Barker
7.1
76%
71
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Pusher
(1996)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Laura Drasbæk, Zlatko Burić, Slavko Labović
7.4
83%
72
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Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Kurt Nielsen, Anne Sørensen, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg
7.4
100%
78
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The Neon Demon
(2016)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Elle Fanning, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks
6.2
57%
51
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Pusher III
(2005)
Action, Crime, Thriller
In this third installment of the 'Pusher' trilogy, we follow Milo, the drug lord from the two first films. He is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10.000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help fr...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Zlatko Burić, Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac, Kurt Nielsen, Kurt Nielsen
7.3
93%
72
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Only God Forgives
(2013)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gordon Brown, Tom Burke, Vithaya Pansringarm
5.7
41%
37
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Valhalla Rising
(2009)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engul...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Mads Mikkelsen, Gary Lewis, Jamie Sives, Ewan Stewart, Alexander Morton
6.0
71%
61
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Bleeder
(1999)
Crime, Drama
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get acquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo can't cope with the pressure of becoming a father, leading to trouble with his pregnant wife and especially her brother.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Zlatko Burić, Liv Corfixen, Levino Jensen
6.8
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Fear X
(2003)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:
John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Eric McIntyre, William Allen Young, Gene Davis
6.0
58%
61
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Gucci Première
(2012)
Perfume commercial for Gucci
Runtime:
1 min
6.5
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The Avenging Silence
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The Avenging Silence
Action, Thriller
A former European spy accepts a confidential mission from a Japanese businessman exiled to France, to take down the head of the most treacherous Yakuza boss in Japan.
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
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The Chapters of Hennessy X.O
(2016)
A visceral re-imagining of Hennessy’s historic how-to guide. A cognac how-to guide for Hennessy in this new campaign for the cognac house's classic drink.
Runtime:
2 min
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