Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Bad Banks (2018)Bad Banks (2018) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Mar 2018An ambitious banker is drawn into high-stakes finance between Luxembourg and Frankfurt, where talent makes her useful to people with competing interests. Paula Beer leads a tense study of career dependence and institutional risk. Start here for a fast, adult workplace thriller in which apparently…0
  2. 2King of Stonks (2022)King of Stonks (2022) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Jul 2022A payment company’s frantic rise turns financial ambition into a satire of inflated promises, status hunger and wilful self-deception. The energy is deliberately excessive, with executives continually trying to keep the story of success ahead of the facts. A good companion to Bad Banks when you…0
  3. 3Faking Hitler (2021)Faking Hitler (2021) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 30 Nov 2021The publication of forged Hitler diaries becomes a story about journalism, fraud and the seduction of a supposed scoop. This fictionalised account of the Stern scandal makes professional vanity as consequential as the forger’s invention. Choose it for uncomfortable historical satire and the…0
  4. 4Charité (2017)Charité (2017) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 Mar 2017Berlin’s famous hospital provides a recurring setting for medical work, ambition and the pressures of different eras. The opening story begins in the nineteenth century, with later seasons moving into other periods and even a speculative future. It is an expansive institutional route into German…0
  5. 5Almania (2021)Almania (2021) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Mar 2021Frank Stimpel takes his confidence in rules and proper procedure into a school where those habits do not automatically make him a good teacher. Phil Laude’s performance thrives on the gap between self-image and the classroom’s response. Pick it for embarrassment comedy about education, belonging…0
  6. 6The Discounters (2021)The Discounters (2021) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Dec 2021A Hamburg discount supermarket becomes a small universe of work avoidance, ambition and exasperating colleagues. The mockumentary approach gives trivial incidents the importance they acquire during a long shift. A lively choice if you want local workplace comedy with loose, abrasive energy and a…0
  7. 7How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019)How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 31 May 2019A teenager’s attempt to impress his ex expands into an online drug business far beyond his ability to manage it. The joke is partly how readily start-up language can make alarming choices sound like ordinary entrepreneurship. Fast, self-aware storytelling makes this the younger comic route through…0
  8. 8Kleo (2022)Kleo (2022) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Aug 2022A former East German operative emerges after the fall of the Wall and pursues the people behind her imprisonment. Jella Haase carries a colourful, violent spy story with an absurdist streak. Choose it for stylised action and the disorientation of a person whose skills survive a political system…0
  9. 9Berlin ER (2025)Berlin ER (2025)First aired 26 Feb 2025Known in Germany as KRANK Berlin, this follows a doctor taking over an overstretched emergency department. The team’s skill is set against inadequate resources, exhaustion and resistance to change, with black humour helping people get through the shift. A strong contemporary workplace choice when…0
  10. 10The Interpreter of Silence (2023)The Interpreter of Silence (2023) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 15 Nov 2023In 1963 Frankfurt, a young Polish-to-German interpreter works at the Auschwitz trials and begins to confront what her own household has left unspoken. Adapted from Annette Hess’s novel, the drama connects translation, testimony and family memory. This is the serious, patient choice here, asking…0