Soul Kitchen (1:39) Year of Release: 2009

Soul Kitchen is a comedy set in Hamburg, Germany. Zinos, a Greek German, has a dumpy restaurant which caters to the locals. He does have dreams of improving his restaurant but has to deal with some roadblocks first. Zinos has a bad back, a tax collector on his back, a brother who is on a day release program from prison, and a girlfriend who has flown to Shanghai for her job. On top of all this, a former classmate is trying to buy his building and then flip it. I'm a fan of German films and this one doesn't disappoint. Some of the cooking scenes are familiar and found in films like What's Cooking. Soul Kitchen has a lively soundtrack that adds to the sense of fun. I definitely give this film a green light.