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4. Pusher

Nicolas Winding Refn might be best known today for directing ultra-slick thrillers such as Drive and Only God Forgives (the latter of which certainly lacked the substance to match up to its style), but he first broke out as a director with the aesthetically grimy crime thriller Pusher. After a drug deal goes wrong, dealer Frank Kim Bodnia, completely looking the part) has to come up with a pile of cash to avoid a bullet to the head. Refn's camera insistently follows Pusher's antagonists around from start to finish, creating an effect which sucks the viewer into a world of drug dealing, double crossing and brutal violence. Pusher sits on the cinéma vérité end of the action movie spectrum where handheld cameras accentuate a feeling of autheniticity. But Refn isn't afraid to leaden his dark tale with flashes of humour and hint at a layer of humanity beneath all the filth.
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