Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is the director of the Pusher Trilogy, Fear X, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and Drive, for which he won the best director prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Tokyo Drifter
Seijun Suzuki
1966
83 min
2
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
122 min
3
Vampyr
Carl Th. Dreyer
1932
74 min
4
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton
1955
93 min
5
Videodrome
UnavailableDavid Cronenberg
1983
88 min
6
Flesh for Frankenstein
UnavailablePaul Morrissey
1973
95 min
7
Sweet Smell of Success
UnavailableAlexander Mackendrick
1957
97 min
8
My Life as a Dog
Lasse Hallström
1985
102 min
9
Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau
1946
96 min
10
Branded to Kill
Seijun Suzuki
1967
91 min