Malik Bader
Directing
Biography
Malik Bader is an American director, screenwriter and actor best known for the Chicago heist film Street Thief (2007), crime thriller Cash Only (2015) and the crime drama Killerman (2019) starring Liam Hemsworth and Zlatco Buric. Malik was born and raised in Chicago where he and his brother were prolific in the Chicago house music scene. The brothers began making movies when they were kids, inspired by their criminal surroundings. Bader is a frequent collaborator with the Actor Nickola Shreli.
Known For
A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
Crush
A New York City money launderer desperately searches for answers after waking up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs, and an insane crew of dirty cops violently hunting him down.
Killerman
Kaspar Carr is a professional burglar who lives and works in Chicago. Carr loves his job and is good at it, and two documentary filmmakers are granted access to his private world when he agrees to let them make a film about him.
Street Thief
Elvis Martini is in deep trouble. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant's apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he's accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K - cash only.
Cash Only
Ten year old Bobbi-Jean 'Bobcat' and her older brother Sonny 'Shark' steal a Christmas tree and attempt to create an illusion of the family life they never had.
Pine
A married man tries to lure his wife away from their own dinner party moments before the guests arrive.