Babylon Berlin (Seasons 1–4)

Babylon Berlin (2017) is a German crime drama series you can watch online on iFILM, co-directed by Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten and Achim von Borries, based on Volker Kutscher's novels. The setting is late-1920s Berlin: a city of jazz clubs and political violence, Weimar decadence and street-corner fascism. Detective Gereon Rath transfers from Cologne carrying a private mission he keeps off the books.

His unlikely partner is Charlotte Ritter, a police stenographer who moonlights in the city's underworld just to survive. Together they move through drug networks, political conspiracies and the layers of a society that has no idea how little time it has left. Russian exiles, corrupt officials and ideologues of every stripe crowd the margins of every episode.

Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries carry the series through increasingly intricate plots, and the production design is precise enough to feel like a document rather than a set. What makes Babylon Berlin stick is the creeping dread underneath the glamour — you watch a world dress up for its own funeral. Stream all seasons of Babylon Berlin online on iFILM.