Nino (Drive)

"FAMILY... What family? The same family that calls me kike to my face"

- Nino Nino is the secondary antagonist of the 2011 American neo-noir crime film Drive, he is portrayed by the american actor Ron Perlman.

Nino is the manager and owner of Nino's Pizza and alongside his best friend and partner in crime Bernie Rose is a jewish mobsters and former film producers, when the auto shop owner and movie stunt director Shannon persuades both of them to purchase a stock car chassis and build it for the Driver to race.

Meanwhile the Driver comes close to Irene and Benicio the family of the recently realesed prisoner Standard, who owing protection money from his time in prison, is beaten up by Albanian gangster Cook, who demands that Standard rob a pawnshop for $40,000 to pay the debt. The driver, concerned for the safety of Irene and Benicio, steals a Ford Mustang and offers to act as the getaway driver for the pawnshop job.

After the job is done the Driver hunts down Cook in a strip club, smashes his fingers with a hammer, and threatens to kill him, force-feeding him the bullet that was given to Benicio; Cook reveals that Nino was behind the robbery. The driver decides to return the million but Nino dismisses the offer and instead sends a hitman to the driver's apartment building, but the Driver kills the hitman in the elevator

In his pizzeria, Nino reveals to Bernie that the money was stashed at the pawn shop by a low level Philadelphia wise guy from the "East Coast mob" and since anyone tied to the robbery could lead the East Coast Mafia to them, they need to kill everyone involved. Bernie warns Nino that nobody steals from the Italian Mob. Nino becomes angered and explains how the Italian Mob has, in part due to his Jewish heritage, continually marginalized and insulted him. At the end, he convinces Bernie to follow his plan. Bernie then proceeds to murder Cook, as he is the sole witness to their agreement. After Shannon refuses to divulge the whereabouts of the driver, Bernie kills him at the auto shop cutting his arm vins with a straight razor from his collection of blades.

The driver, disguising himself with a rubber mask from his stuntman job, follows Nino from the pizzeria to the Pacific Coast Highway and T-bones Nino's car onto a beach, The Driver chases Nino and drives him of the road to later crash his car onto Nino's car, which falls from a hill and in the beach, Nino comes crawling out from the car while the Driver chases him, Nino in terror tries to escape to the sea but the waves are to strong and push him to the Driver, then he drowns Nino in the sea.