Bronson is a 2008 British fictionalised
biographical film co-written and directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn and starring
Tom Hardy. The film follows the life of notorious prisoner
Michael Gordon Peterson, who was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson would nevertheless become one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous criminals, and is known for having spent almost his entire adult life in
solitary confinement.
Bronson is narrated with humour, blurring the line between
comedy and
horror.