3 Movies Starring Adam Bousdoukos

Short Sharp Shock

Short Sharp Shock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-15

Languages:

German, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (3219 Reviews)

Director:

Fatih Akin

Fullplot:

Hamburg, Germany. The small crime scene. Three friends: Gabriel from Turkey and just out of prison, Costa from Greece and together with Gabriel's sister, Bobby from Serbia and together with her best friend. Bobby wants to get more into organized crime and decides to apply for a membership in an Albanian gang. As a test, he has to beat up someone who owes his future boss. He can join. Later, when Bobby has to do a weapon's deal on his own, he tries to get his friends in, too. But Gabriel does not want to go back into crime, he is dreaming of a life at the southern Turkish coast, owning a boat rental shop. Costa, always out of money, joins Bobby for one last time before getting good. But before the deal is on, both women start leaving their men for others. And when the deal is on, it goes terribly wrong.

Soul Kitchen

Soul Kitchen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-12-25

Languages:

German, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, English

Countries:

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (27216 Reviews)

Director:

Fatih Akin

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Fatih Akin (screenplay)

Adam Bousdoukos (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Hamburg, Zinos has a restaurant serving poor-man's fare; he gets by, but his girlfriend has taken a job in Shanghai, he's hurt has back and can't cook, his feckless brother can be on daily parole from jail only if Zinos employs him (though his brother doesn't want to work), a school acquaintance wants to buy the restaurant property, and the tax authority and health inspector are on his case. Zinos hires a temperamental chef and loses all his customers, signs a power of attorney giving his brother full authority at the restaurant, and buys a ticket to Shanghai. Is this a recipe for disaster?

Tetarti 04:45

Tetarti 04:45

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-03-12

Languages:

Greek, German, Romanian

Countries:

Greece, Germany, Israel

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (132 Reviews)

Director:

Alexis Alexiou

Fullplot:

Stelios is the owner of a Jazz Club in Athens. A few years ago, through the help of his former associate Vassos, Stelios received a business loan from the Romanian in order to renovate his club. In 2010, the recession finds Stelios on the brink of bankruptcy unable to repay the loan. The Romanian meets with Stelios and gives him one day to come up with a solution. In a vortex of adultery, drug abuse, violence, guilt and self-deceit, Stelios has a few hours left to save his club, salvage his crumbling marriage, battle the mafia loan-sharks, baptize his employee's kid and show up at school to receive his son's report card as a responsible parent.

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