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Laurie "Lol" Crawley (born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire) is an English cinematographer. His works include Ballast, Four Lions, The Crimson Petal and the White, and The Brutalist. In 2013, Crawley shot Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. It has attracted critical attention for its cinematography. Crawley has been inducted into the British Society of Cinematographers. He has been awarded two cinematography awards at film festivals. Also, he has been nominated for a 2014 Film Independent Spirit Award. In 2016, The Playlist profiled Crawley in their Filmmakers on the Rise, stating that "British "P Lol Crawley isn't quite a brand new name — he's been doing some remarkably impressive work in features for nearly a decade now. But of late, he's gone from an extraordinarily impressive cinematographer to staking his claim of being one of the best in the world." Description above from the Wikipedia article Lol Crowley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
November 2, 1974 (age 51)
Birthplace
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Filmography
32 films, 6 shows


DreamQuil
2026 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Set in the not so distant future when poor air quality leads to people living mostly virtual lives. Carol is a dissatisfied career mother, struggling to find connection within her marriage to Gary and her child. With the day to day familiarity of their home and lives feeling increasingly claustrophobic, and worried she could be heading towards divorce, Carol leaps at the chance to get her life back on track by signing up for "DreamQuil", an avant-garde digital wellness retreat. When Carol returns home however, she discovers her family has been living with "Carol 2", a robot the corporation sent designed to help in her absence, and things take a mysterious and sinister turn.


Wicker
2026 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.


DAU
2026 · 3h 15m
country: Germany
Inspired by the physicists who built the Soviet atomic bomb, the film DAU follows a brilliant Greek-born physicist from 1928 through four tumultuous decades in the USSR. Driven to uncover the laws of the universe, the idealistic Dau is drawn into state service to help create one of history’s deadliest weapons. Inside a secret research institute, life is governed by scientific ambition, power, surveillance and privilege. As his autonomy erodes, Dau seeks freedom beyond his marriage through a succession of affairs, gradually losing both himself and his capacity to love. At once an intimate portrait of a man in pursuit of happiness and freedom and a vast fresco of a society founded on violence and ideology, DAU traces the small compromises that shape a life and alter the course of history.


The Brutalist
2024 · 3h 35m
country: United Kingdom
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.


The Humans
2021 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.


Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom
2021 · 51m
country: United States
Witness Bob Dylan in an intimate setting as he performs songs from his extensive body of work.


The Devil All the Time
2020 · 2h 18m
country: United States
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.


The Secret Garden
2020 · 1h 40m
country: France
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.


DAU. Cinema
2020 · 5h 30m
country: Denmark
An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral experiment – involving hundreds of participants from around the world. Combining elements of film, theatre, science, psychology, architecture, visual arts and performance, it has created a complex and absorbing world that has to be lived as much as seen.


Vox Lux
2018 · 1h 54m
country: United States
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.


The Childhood of a Leader
2016 · 1h 56m
country: Belgium
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.


45 Years
2015 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.


Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2013 · 2h 21m
country: France
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.


Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.


On the Ice
2011 · 1h 36m
country: United States
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong.


Here
2011 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must decide where to go from Here


Donkeys
2010 · 1h 18m
country: Denmark
Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
Baby
Baby
2010 · 25m
country: United Kingdom
A young woman is followed home by a stranger.


One Night in Turin
2010 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Before the Premier League and multi-million pound salaries, in England 'football' was a dirty word. The game was in disgrace, the fans, hooligans, the nation, it seemed, were all played out. Then there was Italia '90 - The World Cup - a shot at redemption. But this was no ordinary World Cup and no ordinary time. The manager, Sir Bobby Robson, was under intense media scrutiny, and his team described as 'donkeys'. Yet over six short weeks, through their heroic exploits they united a nation, coming within a heart beat of reaching the World Cup Final. Narrated by Gary Oldman, featuring match action - from Platt's last-gasp winner against Belgium to the silky skills of Gazza and the cool finishing of Lineker - and previously unseen footage, this is the definitive story of England's greatest footballing adventure on foreign soil... so far.


Four Lions
2010 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.


Ballast
2008 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.


Love Letter
2005 · 8m
country: United Kingdom
Love-struck Craig pours his heart out in a note to check out girl Tracey; but does he have the nerve to deliver it?
Run
Run
2005 · 11m
country: United Kingdom
A young woman who works in a newspaper kiosk runs every day. Until now.
The Name Makers
The Name Makers
2003
country: Unknown
A short film by Andri Luup.