Le film commence par une scène de torture. Des collégiennes cachées derrière un masque chirurgical, les bouches fardées, éclatantes d'un rouge vif, torturent à mort une jeune femme.
Child psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is an expert in an experimental treatment for coma patients: a virtual reality device that allows her to enter into the minds of her patients and attempt to coax them into consciousness. When serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) falls into a coma before the FBI can locate his final victim, Agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) persuades Deane to enter Stargher's mind and discover the victim's location. Stargher's victim is imprisoned in a cell in the form of a glass enclosure that is slowly filling with water by means of an automatic timer.
A serial killer calling himself "The Cusp" murders his victims and then revives them, until they beg to die. His first victim, psychic investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago), survives and is bent on revenge. After she is tapped by the FBI, Maya realizes the only way to locate The Cusp is by entering his mind. But if she dies there, she will also die in real life. Also stars (Chris Bruno) as Sheriff Harris.
On Christmas Eve, sometime after a woman is disemboweled in the woods of Christmastown, California by a man dressed as a pirate, a couple drive to a field, which the man, Boom Boom, claims is where Tommy "Oneshoe" McGroo buries his victims, the people who used to bully him. Boom Boom tells his girlfriend, Kitty, that Tommy acquired his nickname when one of his shoes was stolen, and he could not afford another due to his family's poverty. Tommy asked for replacement footwear for Christmas, but instead got an eyepatch with a Christmas tree on it, since he idolized pirates. Driven insane by this, Tommy began murdering his tormentors, though most consider him an urban legend. After telling Tommy's story, Boom Boom goes to urinate, and has his testicles ripped off by Tommy, who then wounds Kitty. Later, Tommy snaps the neck of man having kinky sex with his blindfolded wife, who Tommy then has sex with.
Evelyn is studying lepidopterology under the older Cynthia, who frequently lectures on her studies. Evelyn is romantically involved with Cynthia and works as a maid in her home, where she is subject to strict behavioral expectations and high standards for cleanliness. When Evelyn does not complete tasks to Cynthia's satisfaction, she is punished.
In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town — patient, dependable, and well-liked. Beneath his pleasant facade, however, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. As a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl in the back of a parked car by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to the crime and served prison time to protect Lou. After being released, Mike was hired by the construction firm of Chester Conway (Ned Beatty). Mike died on the job after slipping and falling off a beam through several floors in a building under construction. Lou believes that Conway planned the accident.
Bettie Page is an ambitious, naïve, and devout young Christian woman who longs to leave Nashville, Tennessee following a childhood of sexual abuse, a failed wartime marriage, and a gang rape. In 1949, she departs for New York City, where she enrolls in an acting class. Amateur photographer Jerry Tibbs discovers her walking on the beach at Coney Island and she agrees to model for him. He suggests she restyle her hair with the bangs that would become her trademark.
Le "Torture Club" est une activité extrascolaire officielle de l'école privée Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki n'a aucune idée du club lorsqu'elle s'inscrit et est enlevée par les membres du club et emmenée hors de la salle du club. Là, elle découvre qu'Aoi, une étudiante de la classe supérieure, son idole secrète, est dans le club et décide de le rejoindre, mais...
A tale of perversion and sexual dominance set in a dystopia, the film is about four female prostitutes, all of whom were sterilized, engaging in sadomasochism with johns.
A timid Japanese college student, Ai (愛, lit. "love"), works as a specialty prostitute for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy, mostly perverted, Japanese men in Tokyo. To please her clients, she has to play out elaborate fantasy scenarios involving sexual humiliation and light SM/bondage.
1941. L'Allemagne nazie étend son pouvoir dictatorial à travers l'europe . Pour distraire et réconforter les officiers mobilisés sur le front de l'Europe de l'est, le SS Otto Kramer, proche d'Hitler, décide de mettre en place un réseau de call-girls aryennes. Elles embarqueront dans un train spécial transformé en bordel qui sillonnera l'Europe. À leur tête, Kramer engage sa maîtresse Ingrid Schüler, une chanteuse et danseuse de cabaret en vogue et dotée d'un solide réseau de connaissances dans le parti nazi. Promue capitaine, elle forme aussitôt une équipe spéciale de prostituées, destinées à remonter le moral des soldats du IIIème Reich. Mais la tension est vive à bord du train : Rita, l'une d'entre elles, ne supporte pas la discipline de fer d'Ingrid, femme perfide et autoritaire. Elles n'ont pas d'autre choix que d'assouvir les fantasmes tordus et violents des SS sous peine d'être réprimandées par leur maquerelle. Au fil des années, leur effectif est renforcé d'un groupe de condamnées, coupables d'un complot raté contre Hitler. Parmi elles, Ingrid reconnaît son amie d'enfance Helga dont le père a été exécuté pour trahison. Jusqu'au jour où des partisans polonais envahissent le train pour humilier Ingrid. Elle est sauvée par l'officier allemand Paul Gruhn dont elle tombe amoureuse. Mais ce dernier est séduit par Helga, une autre fille de joie du convoi. Mais Ingrid et ses call-girls, aidés par Gruhn, vont devoir se défendre contre l'attaque des polonais et des Américains qui cherchent à détruire le train.
Akiko (Naomi Tani) is startled to find her estranged husband, Kunisada (Nagatoshi Sakamoto), in a car watching a young, pre-pubescent girl urinate by the side of a road. When Akiko returns home, the girl, Miko, follows crying that "Uncle" has disappeared. Akiko turns the girl over to the police. Later, while she is giving ikebana lessons at home, the police return to ask Akiko for information about Kunisada. It is revealed that he had disappeared three years ago after being arrested for a sexual crime involving a high school girl.
Entre le mari (Richard Bohringer) et sa jeune femme (Laetitia Casta), la différence d'âge est telle qu'elle cherche ailleurs Une histoire d'amour. Le Banquier (Benoît Poelvoorde) l'initie aux armes à feu et au sado-masochisme. Lié par une affaire d'argent, le couple jouit d’un pouvoir autodestructeur dans une passion fatale.