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Elyas M'Barek has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Who Am I.
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Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Dir. Baran bo Odar · With Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
Dir. Dennis Gansel · With Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Dir. Philipp Stölzl · With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.
Dir. Bora Dağtekin · With Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann

A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner · With Elyas M'Barek, Heiner Lauterbach, Alexandra Maria Lara

When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.
Dir. Marc Rothemund · With Philip Noah Schwarz, Elyas M'Barek, Nadine Wrietz

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Dir. Bora Dağtekin · With Wotan Wilke Möhring, Jessica Schwarz, Jella Haase

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.
Dir. Bora Dağtekin · With Elyas M'Barek, Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth

The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical chaos of our time, hope remains that the family finds its stability, confidence and peace again - just like the whole country.
Dir. Simon Verhoeven · With Senta Berger, Heiner Lauterbach, Florian David Fitz
Milo works as a bartender in Berlin and one night gets to know his dream woman Sunny through a series of coincidences. The two meet for a date, but the perfect romantic evening so far.
Dir. Simon Verhoeven · With Elyas M'Barek, Palina Rojinski, Frederick Lau

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris and Metin Öztürk to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.
Dir. Bora Dağtekin · With Josefine Preuß, Elyas M'Barek, Anna Stieblich
A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.
Dir. Bora Dağtekin · With Elyas M'Barek, Jella Haase, Sandra Hüller
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs.
Dir. Anika Decker · With Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Palina Rojinski
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
Dir. Franziska Meyer Price · With Detlev Buck, Christoph Maria Herbst, Elyas M'Barek
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), who after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie Hörbiger), begins a journey to know himself. But how do you overcome the difficulties of a man today? Or rather what is it that makes a man a man?
Dir. Matthias Schweighöfer, Torsten Künstler · With Matthias Schweighöfer, Sibel Kekilli, Elyas M'Barek
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