A5er the success of his debut, NWR wrote, produced, and directed his next film, Bleeder. Highly stylized and focused on introverted reac’ons to outward situa’ons, this film was a marking point for the shaping of NWR’s career. Bleeder premiered at the 1999 Venice Interna’onal Film Festival. NWR’s third feature, Fear X (2003) was his first foray into English language films. Starring John Turturro and co-wriAen by Hubert Selby, Jr, Fear X received its world premiere at Sundance Film festival. The film’s stormy career pushed famed journalist Henrik List to write a biography on NWR, spanning his earlier years from Pusher (1996) to Fear X (2003).
Following Fear X, NWR returned to his na’ve Denmark to write, direct and produce Pusher II (2004) and Pusher III (2005), as a result of his first movie’s growing cult following. The subsequent success of Pusher II and III, along with the first, became the interna’onally renowned Pusher Trilogy, premiering at the Toronto Film Fes’val in 2005 and cemen’ng it as a worldwide phenomenon. In 2008, NWR wrote and directed Bronson, an ultra-violent, surreal, escapist film following the real-life landmarks and self-entrapment of Britain’s most notorious criminal, Michael Peterson, who claims his alter ego is legendary actor Charles Bronson. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
