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  • Brooks landed Drive role after pinning Refn up against a wall - 3 February 2012
    -Veteran actor Albert Brooks won his role as a crime boss in action thriller Drive after scaring director Nicolas Winding Refn by pinning him up against a wall.-The star is better known for his comedy work, voicing characters in films like Finding Nemo and on longrunning cart


  • Mulligan moved in with Refn during Drive shoot - 19 September 2011
    -Carey Mulligan had nowhere to live while she was shooting Drive in Los Angeles so she moved in with the film's director, Nicolas Winding Refn.-The Oscar-nominee plays a woman who falls in love with a Hollywood stunt performer moonlighting as a getaway driver, played by Ryan


  • Hendricks ready to jump aboard Refn's Wonder Woman - 16 September 2011
    -Christina Hendricks is keen to lasso the role of Wonder Woman after director Nicolas Winding Refn named her his ideal actress for the superhero part.-Refn, who worked with the Mad Men beauty on new film Drive, has been picked to helm a big screen adaptation of the hit TV ser

Nicolas Winding Refn - what members say


  • Fear X
  • Fear X review by from Derbyshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Superb Compelling Psycholigical thriller. 23 November 2004
    ...pport from James Remar (The Warriors) & Debroah Unger. Superb direction from Nicolas Winding Refn which I believe is his first English language film. Showing wonderful techniqu...   Read customer review
  • Valhalla Rising
  • Valhalla Rising review by Skallagrim from London
    Rated - 4.5 stars Death has dominion over this nauseating Nordic blood bath of a movie. 3 May 2010
    ...Just as last year's Bronson was a huge step forward for Danish director, Nicolas Winding Refn, from his Pusher trilogy, so too is Valhalla Rising a definitive progression in the f...   Read customer review
  • Drive
  • Drive review by Robinski from
    Rated - 4.5 stars Far Beyond Driven 27 May 2012
    ...Jaw-dropping piece of cinema from Nicolas Winding Refn, there isn't a weak link in the chain from the top-billed performances of Gosling and Mulligan down to the knuckle-dragging h...   Read customer review

Nicolas Winding Refn - filmography


  • Only God Forgives (2013)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Kristin Scott Thomas,  Tom Burke
    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this violent, Thai-set revenge thriller directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian (Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • Valhalla Rising on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Mads Mikkelsen,  Gary Lewis,  Jamie Sives
    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Director Nicolas Winding Refn ('Pusher', 'Bronson') helms this Viking adventure. Mads Mikkelsen stars as One-Eye, a mute warrior with supernatural strength who has been held prisoner for years by the chieftain Barde (Alexander Morton). Along with a boy, Are (Maarten Stevenson), he manages to kill ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 5,163 members
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  • Bronson - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hardy,  Matt King,  Terry Stone
    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Biopic of the notorious inmate Charles Bronson, a man who has spent 34 years in prison, 28 of which have been in solitary confinement, and was labeled "the most violent prisoner" in the UK.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6,601 members
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  • Bronson on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hardy,  Matt King,  Terry Stone
    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Biopic of the notorious inmate Charles Bronson, a man who has spent 34 years in prison, 28 of which have been in solitary confinement, and was labelled "the most violent prisoner" in the UK.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 26,138 members
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  • Valhalla Rising - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Mads Mikkelsen,  Gary Lewis,  Jamie Sives
    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director Nicolas Winding Refn ('Pusher', 'Bronson') helms this Viking adventure. Mads Mikkelsen stars as One-Eye, a mute warrior with supernatural strength who has been held prisoner for years by the chieftain Barde (Alexander Morton). Along with a boy, Are (Maarten Stevenson), he manages to kill ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 2,253 members
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  • Fear X (2003)
    Starring: James Remar,  John Turturro,  William Allen Young
    Director: Nikolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    John Turturro stars in this tense psychological thriller as a security guard working in a shopping mall. Since his wife's murder he has been searching desperately for a clue about who killed her and why. Tension builds as he spend his nights on duty watching CCTV footage and keeping an ever-growing ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 740 members
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  • Bleeder on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Liv Corfixen,  Rikke Louise Andersson,  Kim Bodnia
    Director: Nikolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    'Pusher' director Nikolas Winding Refn returns with another hard-hitting tale of urban malaise. Leo (Kim Bodnia) is not pleased when he discovers that his girlfriend Louise (Rikki Louise Andersson) has become pregnant. He begins spending his evenings with his friend, the video store worker Lenny, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 568 members
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  • Pusher on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Slavko Labovic,  Kim Bodnia,  Mads Mikkelsen
    Director: Nikolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Frank is a small-time pusher who sells heroin together with his friend Tony. The heroin is supplied by an ex-Yugoslav dealer, Milo, and safely kept at his hooker girlfriend Vic's apartment. When a heroin deal goes wrong and Frank is busted by the police, he is released because of a lack of evidence,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,493 members
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  • The Pusher Trilogy (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Slavko Labovic,  Kim Bodnia,  Mads Mikkelsen
    Director: Nikolas Winding Refn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    All three films in the Danish crime trilogy. In 'Pusher' (1996), a small-time drug pusher, Frank (Kim Bodnia) is enjoying his life of crime - especially the money and the life-style. However, when a deal he is working on goes wrong he is left with a bit of a problem. The big boys who he has been ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 734 members
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Nicolas Winding Refn facts

5 most recent films

Only God Forgives - 5.0 stars
Drive - 3.5 stars
Drive - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Valhalla Rising - 2.0 stars
Bronson - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Pusher Trilogy - 3.5 stars
Drive - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Drive - 3.5 stars
Pusher - 3.5 stars
Bronson - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Only God Forgives - 5.0 stars
Valhalla Rising - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Valhalla Rising - 2.0 stars
Fear X - 2.5 stars
Bleeder - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mads Mikkelsen - 9 times - show films
Kim Bodnia - 5 times - show films
Ryan Gosling - 4 times - show films
Jamie Sives - 4 times - show films
Gary Lewis - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Nikolas Winding Refn - 6 times - show films