Pusher

Pusher (1996) is a Danish crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. The feature debut of Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Kim Bodnia and Mads Mikkelsen.

Copenhagen, six days in the life of a small-time dealer. Frank moves heroin on the street and stays afloat until a big sale to some Swedes falls apart in a police raid. The product he took on credit ends up dumped in a lake, and now he owes Milo, a Serbian kingpin, a sum he can't possibly cover. The clock starts. Each day the debt climbs, the phone goes quiet, old partners back away, and the one person close to him, an addict named Vic, is sinking right alongside him.

Refn shot it handheld on the grimy night streets of the city, with no glamour and no cool gangsters, just sweat, fear and rising panic. The film launched the director who would later make Drive, and gave Mads Mikkelsen his first standout role as the tattooed thug Tonny. Stream Pusher (1996) online on iFILM.