Bad Banks (Seasons 1–2)

Bad Banks (2018) is a German financial crime series you can watch online on iFILM. Director Christian Schwochow follows Jana Liekam — fired from Crédit International, then recruited into Deutsche Invest in Frankfurt by Gabriel Fenger, the kind of boss whose reputation arrives before he does. The tagline is "Are you ready to pay?" Jana finds out what that means in practice.

Paula Beer plays Jana with enough composure to make her compromises feel like calculation rather than desperation. The series is sharp on the mechanics of finance: the pressure to perform, the entitlement, the way institutions protect people with power and expose everyone else. When Jana realizes her former boss Kristel Leblanc has been logging her every move, the plot shifts from ambition story to something darker. Two seasons, co-produced with Luxembourg. Stream Bad Banks on iFILM.