His short film Lassie (2002), for example, received the rating especially worthwhile from the German Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW).

In this Culture clash - comedy, Akkuş takes on the subject of marriage among and by ethnic Turks in Germany and the associated difficulties.

[3] The film received the audience award Lüdia at the Kinofest Lünen in November 2008 and was released in German cinemas on 1 October 2009.

In 2015, Akkuş' feature film 3 Türken und ein Baby, to which he also wrote the screenplay and in which the German rapper Eko Fresh and the actors Kostja Ullmann and Kida Khodr Ramadan[4] play the leading roles, was released in German cinemas.

starring Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Svenja Jung celebrated its world premiere at the Biberach Film Festival on November 1, 2019.