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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Winding Refn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Copenhagen Cowboy

After a lifetime of being sold as a human good luck charm, a woman with mysterious supernatural abilities seeks revenge against those who wronged her.

Release Date2023-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Jørgen

Episode Count6

Vote Count105

Pusher

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Release Date1996-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Brian

Vote Count778

Pusher

In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.

Release Date2012-10-12

Charactersd Dutch Bob

Vote Count108

Chinaman

Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity.

Release Date2005-04-01

Charactersd The Doctor

Vote Count35

Gambler

A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher."

Release Date2006-04-20

Charactersd Himself (Jang)

Vote Count8

Jodorowsky's Dune

Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.

Release Date2013-08-30

Charactersd Self

Vote Count706

Vidéo Club

Release Date2018-07-10

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds

A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appearances from visionary artists Guillermo del Toro, Nicholas Winding Refn, Grimes, George Miller, Norman Reedus, Woodkid, CHVRCHES, this visually captivating documentary gives a rare insight into Hideo Kojima’s creative process as he launches his own independent studio.

Release Date2023-06-17

Charactersd Self

Vote Count23

Dario Argento: Panico

This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the director of Suspiria. Using the writing process of his next film as a starting point, Dario Argento Panico immerses us in the mind of the Italian genius, and offers testimonials from other filmmakers who love his work, all key names in today's world of cinema including Gaspar Noé and Guillermo Del Toro.

Release Date2024-10-14

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

A documentary directed by Winding Refn's wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.

Release Date2015-02-27

Charactersd Self

Vote Count54

Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn

Show creator Nicolas Winding Refn and his team detail how they brought the stoic heroine and dark fairy tale version of Copenhagen's netherworld to life.

Release Date2023-01-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

NWR

A documentary about Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Festival in 2011 for Drive. From his childhood to the shooting of his next movie, Only God Forgives, in Thailand, discover the whole career of a truly visionary filmmaker. With Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noé, Peter Peter and Zlatko Buric.

Release Date2012-02-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count14

Ryan Gosling: Hollywood's Demigod

Some celebrate him as a sex symbol and the most interesting actor of our time. Envious people talk about his smooth face, his washboard stomach, and thus explain his fame. It is undisputed that Ryan Gosling is one of the most successful actors of our decade.

Release Date2018-07-15

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count9

Metal Gear Solid: Legacy

A documentary that explores the Metal Gear Solid game series with many interviews with game developers, journalists and famous film-makes such as Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo Del Toro.

Release Date2015-09-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Drive Without a Driver

A documentary on Nicolas Winding Refn and his story on directing Drive.

Release Date2012-12-10

Charactersd Self

Agatha Christie's Marple

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Release Date2004-12-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count129

Too Old to Die Young

Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.

Release Date2019-06-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count171

The Famous Five

There's adventure around every corner with The Famous Five! Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy as they uncover mystery and excitement.

Release Date2023-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count12

Drive

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 Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Release Date2011-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12950

The Neon Demon

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.

Release Date2016-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3787

Valhalla Rising

Scandinavia, 1,000 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 engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

Release Date2009-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1238

Pusher II

Tonny 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.

Release Date2004-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count480

Pusher III

Milo 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 from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

Release Date2005-08-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count393

Bronson

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.

Release Date2009-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2529

Only God Forgives

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.

Release Date2013-05-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2473

Beauty Is Not a Sin

When a young woman attends confession, she admits her fault of resisting temptations, causing the priest to experience a revelation by sharing in her ultimate sin.

Release Date2024-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Bleeder

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

Release Date1999-08-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count189

Dying of the Light

Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.

Release Date2014-12-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count334

Touch of Crude

When a woman moves into a new house she is visited by a mysterious entity, a Black Box, which upon peering through its peephole unlocks multiple universes, each viewed from a different woman's perspective. Short film created for the Prada SS23 women's collection.

Release Date2022-10-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Fear X

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

Release Date2003-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count189

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess

Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms capable of making over 200 films while simultaneously holding the roles of producer, director, author, director of photography and even camera operator. An artisan of cinema as he liked to call himself, capable of working on all film genres. From spaghetti western to post-atomic, decamerotic to glossy eroticism, and blockbuster porn to bloody horror. Guided by the aesthetics of extremes and supported by an undeniable technical ability, Joe D’Amato pushed himself, and the viewer, beyond all limits following with dedication three rigid principles that have become his stylistic code: Amaze, Shock, Scandalize.

Release Date2021-09-05

DepartmentCrew

JobPresenter

Vote Count3

Black's Game

In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.

Release Date2012-03-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count70

Her Private Hell

An edgy, hypnotic and unhinged thriller based on an original story that promises “lots of glitter, sex, and violence.”

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Circus Maximus

Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA". A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world in a kaleidoscopic exploration of human experience and the power of soundscapes.

Release Date2023-07-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

The Avenging Silence

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Pusher

A desperate drug-pusher must avoid police, and find money to pay-off a huge debt.

Release Date2010-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Witchfinder

A fictionalized study of real-life witch hunter Matthew Hopkins and the heinous crimes he committed during the English Civil War in 1645.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Rematch

When we found out Klay Thompson used chess to center himself, we knew we wanted to use the Ingmar Bergman classic to help tell the story of his mental resilience for Kaiser Permanente. It only got better when Nicolas Winding Refn signed up to direct and Michael K. Williams joined on as Failure to Klay’s hero.

Release Date2019-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

What Have You Done to Solange?

Loosely based on the Edgar Wallace mystery novel "The Clue of the New Pin", the film is set at an all-girls school where a killer is on the loose. A gym teacher who has been sleeping with one of his students becomes a suspect and sets out to find the real killer.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn

William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn discuss the production and the reception of Friedkin's movie 'Sorcerer'

Release Date2015-12-02

Vote Count2

Glubsk, Sultens Gud

Jespers aunt dies and leaves him a great sum of money. He then goes to buy a painting from a mysterious man...