In the near future, the Japanese government creates an annual battle royale in which a group of ninth-graders are sent to a remote, deserted island and given three days to kill each other until only one remains.

Tom transforms from a homesick boy to a courageous student, learns to confront his fears, and stands up for his friends.

Vanishing: A young man is obsessed with finding his girlfriend who disappeared from a rest stop during their vacation. Chain Reaction: A student working on a fusion energy source is pursued by the government when he finds out too much about the "accidental" death of his professor/mentor.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, revealing the challenges they face growing up in 1930s Scotland. Devoted to her students, Miss Brodie endeavors to fill them with a love of art and culture and as much self-confidence as she possesses. In doing so, she offends the conservative Miss Gaunt, tests the patience of headmistress Miss Mackay,...

Elizabeth helps a mute student who is coping with the death of her father; the burning of Coal Valley's only church is investigated.

A trio of Chinese exchange students, Tzu, Wa, and Chen, arrive in New York City in 1980, eager for what America has to offer. They make friends including a literature teacher named Dexter and his girlfriend Suzanne. But as they try to adjust to the New York City atmosphere, they become disillusioned with America, eventually buying a firearm for self-defense.

A young jewish philosophy student, with little knowledge of the many strict rules of the Hassidic way of life, becomes the nanny for a family that she learns to respect. Her parents are both concentration camp survivors and her father is obsessed with finding the two pieces of luggage he buried in Antwerp at the start of World War II.

A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.

When a French woman with a passion for all things Japanese buys a one-way ticket to Tokyo, she becomes a French tutor and falls in love with her first student.

World War II rages overseas, the prestigious Devon prep school holds a summer session for boys trying to graduate before they are drafted. Among the students are two unlikely new roomates - Gene, a quiet, introspective bookworm; and Finny, a carefree and wildly popular athlete. Charmed by Finny, Gene joins him for a series of exciting escapades. But when Gene's grades decline, he suspects that Finny secretly wants him to fail. Fueled by anger and...