Los Angeles-based Turkish actress Cemre Paksoy, familiar to audiences at home from the series "The Affair" and Netflix's "As the Crow Flies", is making an international breakthrough as the lead in the erotic thriller "Night Nurse". The film marks the directorial debut of Georgia Bernstein, Paksoy's close friend from their first day of college, and premiered in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival in January before a US theatrical release via Independent Film Company (formerly IFC Films) on 10 July.

Paksoy plays Eleni Sadik, a nurse hired to care for an enigmatic elderly patient (Bruce McKenzie) in a luxury Midwest retirement community, who draws her into a series of phone scams as their relationship turns intimate. The cast also includes Mimi Rogers as Dr Mann. Bernstein wrote the role specifically for Paksoy and helped push through her artist visa during pre-production, refusing to consider anyone else. Paksoy describes the film as a fresh take on the genre, rooted in desire and desperation rather than consummation, and cites Catherine Breillat's films and Isabelle Huppert's performance in Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher" as key references.