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Pusher (1996)

★ 7.0 · 859 ratings on TMDB

You don't have a chance. Seize it!

Pusher poster★ 7.0

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

DirectorNicolas Winding Refn
CastKim Bodnia, Laura Drasbæk, Levino Jensen, Lisbeth Rasmussen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Winding Refn
GenresAction, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Pusher keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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