Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (Seasons 1–50)

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (Alarm für Cobra 11, from 1996) is a German highway-cop action series you can watch online on iFILM. Picture an autobahn outside Cologne, a two-man patrol, a squad car wrecked beyond repair most shifts — and the next emergency call coming in before the engine cools.

One man holds it all together: Semir Gerkhan, played by Erdoğan Atalay, who has anchored the show since its very first episode and outlasted a long line of partners. Co-stars arrive, die, transfer out, and Semir keeps tearing down the motorway after car thieves, smugglers and bombers. Each episode is its own case — a chase, a shootout, a spectacular crash, a clean resolution by the end credits. Heavy drama is rare here; the stunts, on the other hand, are real and staged on a huge scale.

Running on RTL for nearly three decades, it became one of the longest-lived action series on German television, famous for demolishing a record number of vehicles on camera. It's the perfect pick when you'd rather switch off your brain and just watch cars somersault to a pounding soundtrack. Stream every season of Alarm for Cobra 11 online on iFILM.