When shy and introspective Mary arrives as a new freshman student at an all-girls boarding school, she shares a dorm room with two seniors, Paulie and Victoria (nicknamed Tori). In contrast to the timid Mary, Paulie is full of life. For example, at Mary's very first day at the school during a quiet afternoon party on the campus thrown by the staff as a welcome back gathering, Paulie turns the events into a loud music-blasting dance party and spikes the punch with hard liquor. In an effort to break Mary out of her shell, Paulie and Tori involve her in their activities, such as running in the morning. When Mary's roommates learn that her mother recently died, Paulie nicknames her "Mary Brave".
Persona begins with images of camera equipment and projectors lighting up and projecting dozens of brief cinematic glimpses, including a crucifixion, an erect penis, a tarantula spider, clips from a comedic silent-film reel first seen in Bergman's Prison (depicting a man trapped in a room, being chased by Death and Satan), and the slaughter of a lamb. The last, and longest, glimpse features a boy who wakes up in a hospital next to several corpses, reading Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ("Vår Tids Hjälte" in the film), and caressing a blurry, transient image that shifts between Elisabet and/or Alma's faces.
Sarah (Asia Argento) becomes involved with a series of men who treat her and Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett) poorly, and she uses them as an excuse to abandon her son. She disappears to Atlantic City with her boyfriend, Emerson (Jeremy Renner), and then abandons him; Emerson returns to their home and rapes Jeremiah. After a trip to hospital, Jeremiah's grandmother (Ornella Muti) takes him to a West Virginian radical Christian cult led by his grandfather (Peter Fonda). After he has been three years with the cult, Sarah returns to reclaim the 11-year-old Jeremiah (Dylan and Cole Sprouse).
Wild Tiger I Have Known est une forme de journal intime du jeune Logan, un garçon de treize ans, entre séquences réalistes, auto-commentaires en voix-off et épisodes oniriques. Logan est amoureux de Rodeo, un garçon plus âgé que lui mais Rodeo ne répond pas à ses avances.
Cathy Taylor et Jim Mills, deux adolescents, voient leur amour contrarié par l'attitude du père de Cathy. Ils continuent cependant à se voir à son insu mais bientôt Cathy tombe enceinte. Ils décident ensemble qu'il vaudrait mieux qu'elle avorte, mais ils n'ont pas l'argent pour payer le médecin...
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century. When Thomas Törless (Mathieu Carrière) arrives at the academy, he learns how Anselm von Basini (Marian Seidowsky) has been caught stealing by fellow student Reiting (Fred Dietz), and is obliged to become Reiting's "slave," bowing to Reiting's sadistic rituals. Törless follows their relationship with intellectual interest but without emotional involvement.
A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct – one confessing to be his mistress. Doucet faces trial and hard labor if convicted.
À Paris, Paul, 16 ans, vit avec sa mère, qui est divorcée et ne s'intéresse pas à lui. Il rencontre Philippe, marié et sans enfant, un imprimeur quadragénaire qui ne trouve pas non plus l'affection qu'il attendait auprès de son épouse. Philippe et Paul partagent mutuellement la tendresse et la compréhension qui leur font défaut. Paul se sent des dispositions artistiques et Philippe l'encourage dans cette voie. Lors de leur séjour à Deauville, Paul se lie avec un groupe de jeunes de son âge et plus particulièrement avec Marie-Laure, une des filles de la bande, dont il tombe rapidement amoureux. Mais ce flirt n'était qu'un amusement pour cette dernière et Paul trouve l'épaule compréhensive de Philippe pour se consoler. Grâce au soutien de celui-ci, Paul suit des cours d'art dramatique où il obtient d'excellents résultats jusqu'au jour où Philippe a un terrible accident de voiture.
Laurent Chevalier is a nearly 15-year-old boy living in Dijon in 1954, who loves jazz, always receives the highest grades in his class and who opposes the First Indochina War. He has an unloving father who's a gynecologist and an affectionate Italian mother, Clara, as well as two older brothers, Thomas and Marc. One night, Thomas and Marc take Laurent to a brothel, where Laurent loses his virginity to a prostitute before they are disrupted by his drunken brothers. Upset, he leaves on a scouting trip, where he catches scarlet fever and is left with a heart murmur.
Août en Bretagne, nouveaux clients et habitués se retrouvent dans un hôtel. Les hommes planifient les infidélités, leurs épouses aussi. Amours adolescentes et jeux d'enfants. Lucien drague Aline et Euloge, la serveuse Yveline.
The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Despite her age, Suzanne engages in a number of affairs in reaction to her miserable situation at home.
Klaus, a former Nazi German doctor who practiced horrific experiments with children during World War II, has continued with his sick attraction for torturing and killing young boys during his exile in a remote village in Catalonia. His latest victim is a child he has tortured and later kills with a blow to the head, taking photographs of the crime. This sadistic act has been witnessed by Angelo, another of Klaus' victims, who has spied him from a window, later stealing the tortured incriminating writings and photographs of the doctor's crimes. Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping from a tower, but he survives. As a result of his failed attempt he is now unable to breathe on his own and is immobile, confined permanently in an iron lung to survive.
Enfance : le film parle au début de la vie de famille flamande mais après il parle du petit Jan en ville de province et le Jan adolescent à l'encontre d'aventures sexuelles : il est témoin à l'école des tracasseries de son premier amour sale culotte. Sa tante Marta l'emmène voir le western Johnny Guitare (1954) avec Joan Crawford qui restera pour lui l'emblème de la femme parfaite. Johnny Guitare est une allusion à François Truffaut. Il ne sera tenté ni par le nationalisme flamand, ni par l'homosexualité: ceci est expliqué dans la scène au camping dans les champs de Dixmude avec le petit film de Laurel et Hardy Cavale en série. Là il refusera les attouchements d'un copain plus âgé, avec la tour d'Yser à l'arrière plan qui fait figure de symbole du Flamingantisme. Il fait sa première conquête amoureuse lors d'un bal de village pendant lequel Will Tura chante : Ik ben zo eenzaam zonder jou (Je me sens si seul sans toi).
Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra), a 14-year old girl attending a boarding school in France, comes back to her home in the Landes forest for the summer of 1963. She flashes back to her time at school, where she frequently masturbated out of boredom. Her father (Bruno Balp) hires a young man named Jim (Hiram Keller), with whom Alice immediately becomes infatuated. Alice has a graphic sexual fantasy in which Jim ties her to the ground with barbed wire, and attempts to insert an earthworm into her vagina. When the earthworm will not fit, Jim tears it into small pieces and puts them in Alice's pubic hair.
The film opens with Sebastian Valmont (Robin Dunne) conversing with his soon-to-be ex-principal and the principal's insistence on having Sebastian's permanent record relayed to his new school, thereby hampering his chance for a new start at Manchester prep. Following his arrival in New York, Sebastian discovers the wealth of his new family; meeting Kathryn Merteuil (Amy Adams) for the first time and bettering her with piano and vocabulary. This leads to a confrontation between Kathryn and Sebastian whereby she states that she has a comfortable lifestyle and that he "better not interfere".