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Frederick Lau has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Close to the Horizon.
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Boy Meets Girl
2014
Comedy · Drama

Up for Love
2016
Comedy · Romance

Dum Laga Ke Haisha
2015
Comedy · Drama

The English Teacher
2013
Comedy · Drama

Aloha
2015
Drama · Comedy

Blind Date
2015
Comedy · Romance

Lion's Heart
2013
Comedy · Romance

Cousins
2019
Comedy · Romance

Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
Dir. Tim Trachte · With Luna Wedler, Jannik Schümann, Luise Befort
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Dir. Sebastian Schipper · With Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
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

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.
Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau

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

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
Dir. Cüneyt Kaya · With David Kross, Frederick Lau, Janina Uhse
Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the deceased boyfriend of Clara, who continues to send text messages in order to cope with the loss. When Mark's girlfriend discovers the texts, she is understandably upset. Along with his best friend David, Mark sets out to find the mysterious writer.
Dir. Karoline Herfurth · With Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Frederick Lau
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
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

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.
Dir. Philip Koch · With Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee, Frederick Lau

Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass.
Dir. Sergej Moya · With Saralisa Volm, Clemens Schick, Jan-Gregor Kremp
The Yildiz brothers - Celal, Sami and Mesut - still live under one roof - despite their differences. The family bridal shop is doing really badly and they each yearn for a different life: Heartthrob Celal pines for his ex-girlfriend Anna and risks every last cent of their family inheritance for his dream of a mobile phone shop. Sami is searching for true love but ruins every blind date with his anger mis-management. And Mesut, the youngest of the three, tries to combine a cool music career with his strict adherence to the Koran. So when a sweet little baby comes careering into their lives, nothing is as it was before. The three young Turkish bachelors are given a crash course in responsibility.
Dir. Sinan Akkuş · With Kostja Ullmann, Alexander Beyer, Frederick Lau

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Dir. Julie Delpy · With Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt
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