History Film / Pusher

* CorruptCop: Milo deals with one in ''3''. The same cop [[spoiler: catches Muhammed for Milo]].

* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Averted. None of the gangsters except Milo does actually have a lot money. Most of the pushers and thugs in Pusher 2 are broke and/or indept. Frank has hardly more money than the average Joe from his deals and is in debt. When we finally see Milo's home, it's average looking villa with a decaying pool.

* RetiredMonster: [[spoiler: Radovan actually did open up the pizza place he was telling Frank about in ''Pusher''. Despite this, it doesn't stop Milo from dragging him back in for OneLastJob.]]

* TheUnfavorite: Tonny, compared to all the affection the Duke lavishes on his other son, Valdermar.

'''Pusher''' is a Danish crime film written and directed by NicolasWindingRefn. At the time of its release, a Danish crime film was quite novel, and its popularity had a great influence on Danish films to follow. In this respect, it was something akin to the ''Film/PulpFiction'' of Denmark. Two sequels, filmed back-to-back, followed almost ten years later to rescue Refn's ailing film company from bankruptcy. Each sequel follows a different character introduced in the first film.

* CallBack: Pusher 3 contains a lot of call backs to Pusher and Pusher 2: Milo using his CatchPhrase "''You're f**king me''" before torturing a victim, the bodybuilder Frank robs returns as Milena's boyfriend, Milo's bad cooking, [[spoiler: Radovan]] has his own restaurant after quiting the gangster life just like he told Frank he wanted too.
** CerebusCallback: [[spoiler: Milo's bad cooking causes the food poisioning that causes the problematic situation to escalate into a crisis, the fate of the Albanian mobsters illustrates what might have been Frank's fate]].

* AwesomeMusic: The ''Pusher theme'' and the two variations used in the sequals respectivly. Each film has it's very own moments:
** In Pusher there is a piano piece played during a silent scene where Frank and Vic walks home and Frank watches tv while Vic injects heroin called ''Into the Sun''. The piece itself is a TearJerker and a sharp contrast to the rest of the music in the film.
** In Pusher II it's ''Sad Disco'' and ''With Blood on My Hands'' which plays over the finale of the film and over the credits.
** The third film has the creepy synth theme that plays during the credits.

'''Pusher''' is a Danish crime film written and directed by NicolasWindingRefn. At the time of its release, a Danish crime film was quite novel, and its popularity had a great influence on Danish films to follow. In this respect, it was something akin to the ''PulpFiction'' of Denmark. Two sequels, filmed back-to-back, followed almost ten years later to rescue Refn's ailing film company from bankruptcy. Each sequel follows a different character introduced in the first film.

* BatterUp: Frank takes a baseball bat to the head of [[spoiler:Tonny, after a cop tells him that Tonny ratted him out. Tonny doesn't show up again until the sequel, with some nasty cranial scars.]]

* InsistentTerminology: Frank's first buyer repeatedly asks to be called "Scorpion", apparently because he thinks it makes him sound tough. It doesn't.

* MistakenForProstitute: One of Vic's problems in ''Pusher''. Frank doesn't really understand it, as she ''is'' a high-class call girl, but Vic insists that there's a difference.

* ButtMonkey: Tonny in ''2'', is shat on by virtually everyone, but ''especially'' his father, the Duke.

* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Milo, to a certain extent, wants Melina to be a good kid, [[spoiler: but she subverts it by ''haggling'' with her father about how much her boyfriend Mike will pay for Dope when he starts dealing for Milo]].

* Grey And Grey Morality: there are no true heroes in the trilogy.

EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Milo, to a certain extent, wants Melina to be a good kid, [[spoiler: but she subverts it by ''haggling'' with her father about how much her boyfriend Mike will pay for Dope when he starts dealing for Milo]].

* EvilChef: Milo. His crime lair is a restaurant and he likes to feed his criminal associates his creations. He's actually a pretty terrible cook.

* ButtMonkey:

* ForeignRemake: A Hindi remake of ''Pusher'' was released in 2010 and an American one in 2012.

* ForeignRemake: A Hindi remake was of ''Pusher'' was released in 2010 and an American one in 2012.

The first film follows Frank, a mid-level Copenhagen drug dealer. After a drug deal gone bad, Frank finds himself deeply in debt to Milo, a local Serbian drug lord. As Frank struggles to find the money, he must also grapple with complications from his would-be girlfriend and the dubious loyalty of his partner, Tonny. The second film picks up with Tonny after he completes a prison sentence and returns to his estranged father's chop shop. Tonny struggles to earn his father's respect in the underworld and be there for his own son. The third film follows a day in the life of Milo, who struggles with preparations for his overbearing daughter's birthday while fighting off Albanian drug dealers and his own lurking addiction.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Tonny in ''Pusher 2''.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
* OffingTheOffspring

* RotatingProtagonist: The trilogy follows a different character in each film. Each protagonist is in all of the previous films and none of the future films.

* ItGotWorse: Each film is a slow decline for the main character.

* ASimplePlan

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: ''Pusher'' ends with Frank stranded in Copenhagen with no friends or resources, while his enemies poise to strike. Dialogue in ''Pusher 2'' suggests that Milo, at least, never caught up with Frank. ''Pusher 3'' ends with Milo smoking silently beside his empty pool, having relapsed and sparked a deadly war with the Albanian gang]].