Director: Marvin Kren, Cüneyt Kaya
One coin, four rival crews, and a retired safecracker who thought his heisting days were behind him — Crooks turns a single stolen object into a chain reaction across Europe's underworld.
What is Crooks about?
The plot kicks off when a rare, priceless coin surfaces and immediately becomes the target of several competing gangs scattered across the continent. A safecracker who had walked away from the life is pulled back in, reluctantly partnering with a small-time, overconfident gangster for what both insist will be their final job. From there, Crooks builds a fast-moving heist thriller out of double-crosses, shifting alliances, and a cast of criminals who each want the coin for very different reasons. The German-made series leans into dark comedy alongside its action beats, treating the mismatched partnership between an old professional and a reckless newcomer as the engine driving the whole chase forward.
Cast & crew
Frederick Lau anchors the series opposite Christoph Krutzler, with Svenja Jung, Jonathan Tittel, Erdal Yıldız, Lukas Thomas Watzl, Karl Welunschek, and Nima Yaghobi rounding out the ensemble of gang members, fixers, and rivals circling the coin.
Context & significance
Crooks arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of European heist series built around ensemble crews and interlocking betrayals rather than a single mastermind. Its short, forty-to-fifty-minute episodes and German setting give it a distinct flavor within the crime genre, closer to a caper comedy than a grim procedural, with the coin functioning less as treasure and more as an excuse to watch every character's true motives surface.
Where & how to watch
Crooks is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, letting Persian-speaking viewers follow the heist and its many double-crosses in their preferred language. Browsing this page costs nothing; streaming the series itself requires signing into a K-Time account, and the platform's interface is fully available in Farsi for the diaspora community.