Three decades ago, Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn made his directorial debut with Pusher , a grimy crime thriller about a street-level drug dealer (Kim Bodnia) who finds himself owing money to a Serbian mobster. Like the Safdie Brothers’ anxiety-inducing one-two punch of Good Time and Uncut Gems , Pusher excels at making the viewer squirm with every ill-fated decision that sinks its protagonist into a deeper hole. ( Pusher II and Pusher 3 follow that highly stressful format with different lead characters, including Mads Mikkelsen’s tragicomic Tonny.) Raw, kinetic, and shot with non-professional actors in many supporting roles, Pusher announced a major talent, even if his gritty and grounded debut didn’t make huge waves outside of Refn’s home country. “The whole concept of Pusher was filming reality, and as much as I could get access to that, the more exciting it was,” Refn tells Polygon. The world eventually caught up.…