Adam Bousdoukos

Acting

Adam Bousdoukos

Born

1974-01-25 (52)

Place of birth

Hamburg, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Adam Bousdoukos (born 25 January 1974) is a German actor of Greek origin. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1995. Growing up as the son of Greek parents in the Hamburg district of Altona, Bousdoukos played smaller roles in commercials as a teenager and later took classes at the Stage School Hamburg. In 1998, Bousdoukos had a role in Fatih Akin's Short Sharp Shock and, together with the other two leading actors Mehmet Kurtuluş and Aleksandar Jovanovic [de], received the Leopard award at the Locarno Festival in 1998 and the Grimme-Preis in 2001. With the exception of Getürkt, Bousdoukos can be seen in every film by his friend Akın, including Soul Kitchen (2009), where he had the le…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Rhinegold poster
6.5

Xatar’s way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring. From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar Hajabi emigrated to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and has to start right at the bottom. There are opportunities, but far more obstacles. Giwar’s rise from petty criminal to major dealer is swift. Until one shipment goes missing. In order to clear his debts with the cartel, he plans a legendary gold heist. But just as everything goes wrong, another door opens for Giwar thanks to his passion for music …

Rhinegold

2022

Billie poster
NR

Nina and Angie are best friends and struggle through life together. When Angie's teenage daughter Rahel needs €300 for a school trip, they decide to go to the bank where Nina's husband Marc works to ask him for a small loan. But when Marc harshly rejects their request, Angie loses her temper. Things get out of control—and suddenly the friends are stuck in the bank and mistaken for gangsters.

Billie

2026

Skin Deep poster
5.6

At first glance, Leyla and Tristan are a happy couple. When they travel to a mysterious island, a game of identities begins that changes everything – their perception, their sexuality, their entire selves. But not only their relationship threatens to break up. They may even never be who they used to be again…

Skin Deep

2023

Police poster
6.0

Berlin, post-Corona. Anton is getting his life off the ground: apprenticeship, his own place with his girlfriend, no drugs, nothing dodgy. But then Anton gets a “yellow letter” in which he’s accused of a serious breach of the peace and resisting arrest. It all happened two years ago and the images come flooding back: the 1st May demo, his arrest. Anton has to get reinvolved in the life he was hoping to put behind him. The naive, good-natured boy feels burning hatred when he realizes he’s not the culprit, but the victim.

Police

2025

All for Ella poster
5.8

Ella and her friends sign up for a song contest that offers her the chance to make it big in the music business. Her strongest competitor is rapper alfaMK, who already has a fan base and is also outrageously good-looking.

All for Ella

2022

A Summer in Crete poster
5.0

Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.

A Summer in Crete

2023

Mein Vater, der Esel und ich poster
5.8

For single mother Tinka, a village policewoman, a sense of responsibility is paramount - but not for her father Hartmut “Bonanza” Zeller. When the once-successful rock musician drops in on her after years of radio silence, she wants to get rid of him right away.

Mein Vater, der Esel und ich

2023

2010s · 23 titles

The Golden Glove poster
6.9

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

The Golden Glove

2019

In the Fade poster
6.9

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

In the Fade

2017

Chalet Girl poster
6.4

While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.

Chalet Girl

2011

The Cut poster
5.9

In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

The Cut

2014

The Chosen Ones poster
5.1

In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to unsettle her. Petra then realizes that Pistorius is abusing Frank, a 13-year-old. When Frank is told that he has to spend school holidays with Pistorius, he tries to commit suicide. Petra tells Frank's father (the chairman of the school's governing body) but he believes Pistorius instead of his own son. Petra fails to convince people of the man's true nature. 30 years later, Frank goes to Petra, who has long since left the school and has stopped teaching altogether. He has never been able to speak about what happened but now, after the suicide of another pupil, he is no longer willing to remain silent. He wants Petra to bear witness at the school's forthcoming anniversary celebrations.

The Chosen Ones

2014

Vielmachglas poster
5.9

Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her future and her brother is a high-flyer who has already traveled halfway around the world. When a tragic accident plunges her into sheer endless grief, Marleen just wants to get away. Equipped with the bare essentials, she sets off on a journey into the unknown.

Vielmachglas

2018

V8 - Revenge of the Nitros poster
8.1

The V8 team beat the Barracudas and came one step closer to getting to train at the legendary "Castle" where elite children learn racing skills, but Robin's father has caught onto their illegal street racing and disapproves. Their rivals are the Nitros, a group of competitive girl racers, who kidnap Robin and convince him to join their gang. What will the rest of the V8 team do when they have to compete against one of their own? Will Robin's father shut the whole contest down--Dashing the dreams of both teams?

V8 - Revenge of the Nitros

2015

V8 - Start Your Engines poster
6.4

Four very unequal children at the age of 6 until 11 are chosen to become the new soap box racing team to compete at the secret "Castle", where all the world champions of racing have participated, when they were kids. A selective group of boys and one girl have nothing in common but their passion for cars and racing. Their first big challenge is to unite as a team by becoming friends, only then they will have a chance of winning.

V8 - Start Your Engines

2013

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht poster
5.1

The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up on his doorstep and quite credible claims to be his daughter. Moreover, they presented him her baby Paul and asks Basti, fearing further turmoil, not only attention, but also money.

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht

2012

Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein poster
3.9

Jonas has had enough of his excesses and love affairs, which is why he wants to build a solid life as a construction worker in his friend's company. But he hasn't reckoned with strip club owner Victor Varona, who recognizes Jonas' seductive stripper qualities in his sweaty construction work. It comes as it must: Jonas gets into the business and starts swinging his hips at night until he falls in love with his son's soccer coach...

Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein

2018

EneMe poster
8.0

A smoldering father-son conflict in the ranks of organized crime leads to a tragic family drama.

EneMe

2018

Smuggling Hendrix poster
6.4

Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.

Smuggling Hendrix

2019

Hubert und Staller - Unter Wölfen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hubert und Staller - Unter Wölfen

2016

Ein Geschenk der Götter poster
6.5

Out of the blue, actress Anna loses her job at a small municipal theater. Having just been on stage, she now finds herself in the dreariness of the local job center. At the insistence of her theater-enthusiastic caseworker, she takes over the management of an acting course for eight long-term unemployed people who are difficult to place. Despite enormous resistance to the compulsory training program, the frustrated lone fighters increasingly form a close-knit group with whom Anna stages Antigone. Surprisingly, the participants' private dramas become more and more turbulent and Anna also experiences a new beginning that she hadn't expected.

Ein Geschenk der Götter

2014

Highway to Hellas poster
5.5

The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there. Being a German, he wants to investigate thoroughly, but Panos, a mini-mart owner, and the mayor try their utmost to sabotage him—to camouflage a not-so-good reality. After every single trial resulted in nothing because of the islanders’ secret meddling, Jorg’s trip becomes elongated, like The Odyssey’s, forcing him to contemplate the priorities and responsibilities in life again.

Highway to Hellas

2015

A Summer in Cyprus poster
4.5

Moritz goes to Cyprus with his mother Tina to meet his father Aiven for the first time. At first, Aiven tries to evade any contact with Moritz out of fear that he might ruin his marriage, but Aiven's brother Elyas just takes them to his parents' house anyway where they are introduced as Elyas' girlfriend and her son. Will Aiven finally acknowledge his son?

A Summer in Cyprus

2017

Mein Sohn, der Klugscheißer poster
5.9

Schoolboy Jerôme Höffner, a brilliant nerd, is despised and pestered by his 'cool' classmates, except assertive immigrant Said, who protects him. Foppish mother Debbie Höffner's cool latest lover Marco Schmitz teaches his 'stepson' to fight back against bullies, but breaking Jan's nose in self-defense, Jerôme is forced in therapy with a child psychologist, who finds him a genius and recommends a mensa boarding school, but he willfully scores average on tests, fearing Debbie can't cope alone, until her clumsy attempts to offer enrichment privately frustrate him enough to visit, with Said, Dr. Kleybold's IQ school, which proves most tempting.

Mein Sohn, der Klugscheißer

2016

No artwork available
NR

Adam is a slacker without any ambition. Suddenly he wants to participate in a triathlon.

Rude Boys

2018

Super-Dad poster
5.2

Mark's life couldn't be better. He runs a cool beach bar with his partner Peer, is happy with his beautiful girlfriend Greta, has all the freedom - and no children to make his existence hell! But that suddenly changes when Mark is caught up in an old sin of his youth. As a student he donated his seeds and now 99 of his offspring want to get to know him...

Super-Dad

2015

Wednesday 04:45 poster
5.9

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.

Wednesday 04:45

2015

Es war einer von uns poster
7.0

Story of 33-year-old Johanna, who wakes up distraught and disoriented in a park near her apartment the morning after her best friend Leonie's birthday party. Johanna has no memory of the last few hours. She doesn't know what happened, how she got there - a total blank. Obviously, however, she was the victim of an act of violence - the young woman was raped. Johanna presses charges against unknown persons. Her circle of friends, especially Leonie and her fiancé Björn, react with dismay and look after her lovingly. However, when the police find out that Johanna was given knockout drops at Leonie's party and it can therefore be assumed that the perpetrator came from her circle of friends, Johanna's life seems to fall apart at the seams...

Es war einer von uns

2010

Die drei Königskinder poster
7.2

Two royal children are abandoned in the river by their evil grandmother just after their birth. However, a miller and his wife have raised the foundlings as their own beloved children. The wicked old queen discovers that the children are still alive.

Die drei Königskinder

2019

Dimitrios Schulze poster
7.0

Lawyer Dimitrios Schulze works in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim and helps anyone who has problems with the police and justice system. He also supports his mother and sister in the grocery store. While district police officer Sultan Cakmak shows unshakable loyalty to law and order, for Schulze, humanity and feeling are in the foreground. For this reason, he tries by all means to protect his clients from the judge Dr. To protect Eszter Petöfi.

Dimitrios Schulze

2016

2000s · 12 titles

Head-On poster
7.5

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Head-On

2004

Soul Kitchen poster
6.9

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

Soul Kitchen

2009

Kebab Connection poster
6.6

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood - compounded by his father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant - so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?

Kebab Connection

2004

In July poster
7.2

Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.

In July

2000

Der Ärgermacher poster
4.0

How do you get the public's attention? Writer and troublemaker Jochen Anthrazit, known as Jochen A., has been asking himself this question ever since his debut novel "Note 6" was rejected by all publishers. Jochen A. is firmly convinced that this cannot be due to a lack of talent. But the individual can't compete with the disinterest of the masses - or can he? In order to draw attention to himself and his artistic work, Jochen A. commits a series of spectacular and highly media-effective crimes.

Der Ärgermacher

2003

Solino poster
7.0

The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.

Solino

2002

Die Hässliche poster
5.8

He's handsome and poor, she's rich and plump: can that work in the long run? Miriam meets Kai, a student, in a car accident. The chubby daughter from a good family and the handsome have-not fall in love. Her friends are horrified. Will the two make it anyway?

Die Hässliche

2000

Unsre Mutter ist halt anders poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Unsre Mutter ist halt anders

2003

Die Schimmelreiter poster
6.0

In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars. He dreams of a career in Hamburg, for which he works hard. But his superior at the public order office, Sigmar Koch, asks Fuchs to do him a special favor: he has to accommodate his brother Tillmann, a bad-tempered drunk.

Die Schimmelreiter

2009

We Have Forgotten to Return Home poster
5.8

Fatih Akin sets out in search of his family roots and paints a portrait of his Turkish family. In 1965, his father came to Germany from Turkey to try his luck as a guest worker. He actually only wanted to stay for two years, but then he brought his wife to Hamburg and still works today in the chemical cleaning factory where he found a job back then.

We Have Forgotten to Return Home

2001

Wie krieg ich meine Mutter groß? poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wie krieg ich meine Mutter groß?

2004

Dicke Hose - Big Trouble in Little Ottensen poster
8.0

A guy from Altona starts a career as a music manager with seed capital of just 300 Euro.

Dicke Hose - Big Trouble in Little Ottensen

2009

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

DAS! poster
4.7

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

DAS!

1991

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Leipzig Homicide poster
5.9

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

Leipzig Homicide

2001

SOKO Stuttgart poster
6.0

The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.

SOKO Stuttgart

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Nachmittag

2008

No artwork available
NR

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Grimme Award

1964

The Peppercorns poster
6.9

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

The Peppercorns

1999

The Peppercorns poster
6.9

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

The Peppercorns

1999

Through the Night with... poster
7.9

Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

Through the Night with...

2002

Der letzte Bulle poster
7.3

Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.

Der letzte Bulle

2010

Edel & Starck poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Edel & Starck

2002

SOKO Hamburg poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

SOKO Hamburg

2018

SOKO Hamburg poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

SOKO Hamburg

2018

SOKO Potsdam poster
6.0

Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always accompanies with a little naivety and brings you again and again in brenzy situations. Tamara, however, has more mature, adult. The two of the boss Bernhard Henschel (Michael Lott) and the colleagues David Grünbaum (Omar El-Saeidi), Christoph Westermann (Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen), lail-sure Thomas Brandner (Yung No) and legal physician Werner Vense (Bernd Stegemann). Potsdam, Berlin's pretty little sister, confronts the commissars again and again with a wide variety of life effects. However, the team not only determines in Potsdam, but must always be out of the surrounding area. Because the crime does not stop at the city limit.

SOKO Potsdam

2018

Abschnitt 40 poster
6.5

Abschnitt 40 was a German police television series broadcast between May 21 2001 and 2006. It was aired on RTL Television.

Abschnitt 40

2001

Das Duo poster
6.0

Das Duo is a German television series.

Das Duo

2002

German Genius poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

German Genius

2023

The consulate of Julia poster
7.5

In the 1950s, Grigoris and Iulia are very much in love with each other, but they are the children of feuding families. Iulia is forced to marry Giorgikis, a rich and much older man whom she does not love.

The consulate of Julia

2023

No artwork available
NR

Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective novels of Fred Breinersdorfer.

Anwalt Abel

1988

Sibel & Max poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sibel & Max

2015

Crime Stories poster
6.1

A respected small-town physician has brutally killed his wife, thus ending a four-year martyrdom from which he could not escape by any other means...

Crime Stories

2013

Spätzle arrabbiata - oder eine Hand wäscht die andere poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spätzle arrabbiata - oder eine Hand wäscht die andere

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pimp den Pannfisch

2018

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