You can watch the film here. It is a satirical drama series, so you can find also other episodes on the ARD1 website.
Summary: Melanie meets Günther, a passionate fan of Kickers Offenbach, who is frustrated that the team has been stuck in the regional league for years. Meanwhile, Melanie has another mission: she wants to get her 20-year-old daughter Nele a job at Erik’s laundromat. But Nele isn’t easy to deal with—she was married to an ISIS fighter in Syria and now prefers to do something related to the internet instead. It’s a social satire that pokes fun at modern urban life.
You can watch the film here. Attention: the film is rated 16!
Summary: OtherLife (2017) is a sci-fi thriller centered on Ren Amari, a brilliant researcher who creates a groundbreaking substance that can generate fully immersive experiences inside a person’s mind. These simulations feel incredibly real and can last for what seems like days or even years, although only a few seconds pass in the real world.
While Ren sees the invention as a tool for positive uses—like therapy or personal growth—her business partner pushes for more controversial applications, including using it as a form of punishment where offenders serve long virtual sentences. After a tragic incident tied to the technology, Ren finds herself caught in the consequences of her own creation and is forced into a simulated confinement.
Inside this artificial reality, she struggles to maintain her sense of self and find a way out. As events unfold, the story highlights the ethical dangers of manipulating perception and questions how far technology should go in controlling human experience.
Task for practice:
Scene from 33th to 44th minutes:
Useful phrases (quoted from the movie):
Ich bin nah dran.
Bist du bereit?
Mehr ist nicht nötig.
Ich gebe dich nicht auf.
Ich hole ihn zurück.
Das dürft ihr mir nicht antun.
Lass mich raus.
Have you found these expressions in the scene? Do you understand them? Try to make sentences or short dialogues using the expressions. You can change the expressions a little bit, for example you can change pronouns: Das dürft ihr mir nicht antun --> das darfst du mir nicht antun. Try to memorize and use them in everyday situations.
Example:
-Bist du bereit für deine Prüfung? (Are you ready for your exam?)
-Noch nicht, aber ich bin nah dran. (Means, that I am not completely ready yet, but I'm close to finishing my preparation).
You can watch the film here.
Summary: Friends is an american sitcom. It follows six close friends—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City as they navigate relationships, careers, and everyday life. The show blends humor with emotional moments, focusing on their strong friendships, romantic ups and downs (especially between Ross and Rachel), and personal growth over time.
Task for practice:
Part: Friends 1.01 - Liebe Nein, doch nicht! - 3
Scene from the beginning to 0:39 th minutes:
Useful phrases (quoted from the movie):
Ich glaube, ich kann es nicht.
Ah komm schon!
Los!
Willkommen im Klub, meine süße.
Danke für's (für das) Angebot.
Ist alles in Ordnung?
Try to find these expressions and translate them into your language, try to memorize them. Watch the part to the end and try to find other useful expressions.
You can watch the film here.
Summary: Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy directed by Wolfgang Becker. The film follows Alex Kerner, a young man living in East Berlin who tries to protect his devoted socialist mother, Christiane, after she wakes from a coma around the time the Berlin Wall falls in 1989. Fearing the shock of sudden political change might kill her, Alex recreates the illusion that East Germany still exists inside their apartment. As he goes to increasing lengths to preserve this fantasy—staging fake news broadcasts and hunting for old East German products—the story becomes a humorous yet emotional exploration of family, memory, and the impact of political change on ordinary lives.
You can watch the film trailer here.
Short summary: Russendisko (2012), directed by Oliver Ziegenbalg, is a German comedy-drama based on the novel by Vladimir Kaminer. The film follows three young Russian immigrants — Wladimir, Andrej, and Mischel — who arrive in Berlin in the 1990s shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, searching for freedom and new opportunities. As they explore the vibrant and chaotic life of the reunified city, they experience friendships, romantic entanglements, cultural clashes, and struggles to find their place in a new society. Through humor and nostalgia, Russendisko portrays the hopes, confusion, and energy of a generation caught between cultures.
You can watch the film trailer here.
Short summary: Tschick (2016), directed by Fatih Akin and based on the novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf, is a German coming-of-age road-trip film. It follows Maik, a shy and lonely teenager, and his new, mysterious classmate Tschick, a Russian-German outsider. When they steal a car and set off on an unplanned journey through rural eastern Germany, they encounter a series of strange, funny, and sometimes dangerous situations. Along the way, the boys form a deep friendship and begin to discover who they are, making the film a humorous and touching story about youth, freedom, and self-discovery.