How can I check if country occurs in string with Pandas?

I have a pandas dataframe of movies and tv-series from Netflix, one of the columns is the countries where the show is available. This column contains strings that can have multiple countries in it (e.g.'Germany, Czech Republic').

Now I want to find all shows that is from a specific country. This means that I need to check if the country name appears in the string. I would like to solve it like this:

df.loc[distinct_countries[0] in df['country']]

But pandas doesn't support the in operator. I did try to solve this by iterating over every country and movie but since the dataframe is quite large this solution is not efficient enough. If you know a simpler solution that uses pandas, feel free to help me out.

Thanks in advance!

You are probably looking for .str.contains(). It can also handle regular expressions if you want to check for more than one country.