Nicolas Winding Refn’s Top10

Unique, brilliant, fantastic! I love this movie!

I was twenty-four years old when I made my first film, Pusher (about the Danish drug underworld), and for it I stole everything I could, both visually and technically, from this film and Cannibal Holocaust.

Vampyr has always reminded me of a mysterious dream I once had when I was very little. The film has always stayed with me. I watch it before I make every film, and yet it still remains a mystery to me.

The Night of the Hunter is a perfect example of the strength of cinema, in which an image can say a thousand words, whereas in literature a word cannot show a thousand images.

This film is a great mixture of sex and violence.

Flesh for Frankenstein is the only film I’ve ever wished that I had made.

In its perfect combination of directing, writing, cinematography, music, sound, and acting, this film is pure cinema.

I saw this film with my mother when I was very young. It’s the only movie aside from It’s a Wonderful Life during which I’ve cried because I was happy.