Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

2010 film by Yukihiko Tsutsumi

一所西班牙普通学校，接连九名教师意外身亡，这里一时间人心惶惶，学校关门在即。适值此时，四处碰壁的青年教师莫德斯托（劳尔·阿雷瓦罗 Raúl Arévalo 饰）来此应聘，他拥有能看到鬼魂的能力，可是根本没人相信他说的话，他被医生诊断患有精神病和妄想症，学生们谩骂嘲笑，校长气愤烦恼，致使莫德斯托在每一所学校都待不长。来到新学校的第一天，奥德斯托就意外发现5名盘桓在学校内的学生的鬼魂。 他们20年前因违反校规而关禁闭，结果死于意外的火灾。5个鬼魂多年来热和捣蛋，吓坏了老师和学生。在美丽女同事的请求下，奥德斯托决定正视眼前的一切，帮助这5个孩子超生……

2013 film by Peter Chan

2006 film by Nick Hurran

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

2014 South Korean film by Hwang Dong-hyuk

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

这是一部动人心弦的、平缓舒雅的、略带感伤的恋爱小说。小说主人公渡边以第一人称展开他同两个女孩间的爱情纠葛。渡边的第一个恋人直子原是他高中要好同学木月的女友，后来木月自杀了。一年后渡边同直子不期而遇并开始交往。此时的直子已变得娴静腼腆，美丽晶莹的眸子里不时掠过一丝难以捕捉的阴翳。两人只是日复一日地在落叶飘零的东京街头漫无目标地或前或后或并肩行走不止。直子20岁生日的晚上两人发生了性关系，不料第二天直子便不知去向。几个月后直子来信说她住进一家远在深山里的精神疗养院。渡边前去探望时发现直子开始带有成熟女性的丰腴与娇美。晚间两人虽同处一室，但渡边约束了自己，分手前表示永远等待直子。返校不久，由于一次偶然相遇，渡边开始与低年级的绿子交往。绿子同内向的直子截然相反，“简直就像迎着春天的晨光蹦跳到世界上来的一头小鹿”。这期间，渡边内心十分苦闷彷徨。一方面念念不忘直子缠绵的病情与柔情，一方面又难以抗拒绿子大胆的表白和迷人的活力。不久传来直子自杀的噩耗，渡边失魂魄地四处徒步旅行。最后，在直子同房病友玲子的鼓励下，开始摸索此后的人生。

意义广泛的无事可做可概括为一种状态，这种状态就是从东到西，从学校到学校外，从朋友到情人，从食堂到商场……的晃晃悠悠的状态。 “你一直在寻找那个能让你心碎的姑娘，她代表一种生活，也许，你会找到她，她就是你马上要走的一段路，就是你要经历的生活，走吧，别回头，一直向前冲吧！”不幸的是，这首歌再也不能安慰我了。