Co-directing with Tobias Lindholm, Noer made his narrative feature debut with the 2010 prison drama "R", which won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and the Robert Award for Best Danish Film and earned them the Robert Award for Best Director. He subsequently directed "Northwest" and "Key House Mirror", which were released in 2013 and in 2015, respectively. In 2017, his first English-language film, "Papillon", a remake of the 1973 film, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.