Find Short Scripts

All short scripts on our site are registered.

Click the "Make Contact" button to email the writer and request their script. Please include information on your background in your messages.

Additional notes: Any messages to writers must be for the purpose of reading these short scripts for production or hiring consideration and not for soliciting writers for coverage services, contests, etc.

If you're looking for feature-length or TV scripts, register here.

Shrouded by Shadowby  Hutira Gábor
Make Contact
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Lottery Numbersby  Simon Parker
Make Contact
When a charismatic lottery winner exploits his psychic younger brother's mysterious gift for predicting scores and numbers, the boy's refusal to continue sets off a brutal standoffforcing the family to confront the cost of greed, the limits of loyalty, and the unbearable price of knowing too much.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Divorce Storyby  Vanessa Wang
Make Contact
After discovering that her husband has been sexually abusing her minor daughter, a troubled mother struggles to figure out what to do next.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Drowby  Adam Thomas Lumb
Make Contact
A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby  Niagara Ross
Make Contact
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  Anthony Cawood
Make Contact
Two agents travel back in time to alter history, but their mission misfires, unleashing unintended consequences they can't undo.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Make Contact
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Davids and Goliathsby  Spartak Proda
Make Contact
Imagine for one second that tomorrow you wake up 50% heavier. Earth has changed its gravity, and you and I are facing the fate of the dinosaurs. Governments are aware and have created a survival plan for the species with the "Davids and Goliaths" project. An assassin uncovers everything. Secret biogenetic experiments. The Goliaths and the Davids, are at war. The introduction of heavy metals into Earth's core is bringing forth a new order.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cold Moon Highby  Doug J Robbins
Make Contact
The dead walk up to the house, zombies and ghosts.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby  Michael Celender
Make Contact
After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pilotby  Jay Loish
Make Contact
Four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping, and escape plot, saving each other from death. The protagonist[s], and the antagonists[s] are introduced with each character's role clarified while enhancing three sexier feminine characters and the Federal Agent [foil] in an intense office situation before the heist, kidnapping and chase unfold later that day. The audience has invested in a veiled story line.

Genre: Other
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Boko Haram Hospice IIby  Robert Michael Benn
Make Contact
Nigerian Mullah orders son Muhammed to the US to fetch siblings Joseph and Margie and blow up US sites. The siblings run a Lancaster hospice where many patients die. The siblings refuse to return to Nigeria and send Muhammed back & throw out his guns and explosives.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
Make Contact
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert F Godwin III
Make Contact
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball. Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Viewsby  Alan Barkley
Make Contact
A female realtor shows a female client around a view home. But when the two women discover their paths have unhappily crossed before the business meeting descends into physical comic conflict. Single Location

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
Make Contact
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Doorsby  Bar Mandalevy
Make Contact
Traveling through the unfamiliar, a man struggles to hold on to reality as the world around him becomes surreal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubyby  Jason K. Allen
Make Contact
When a lonely old man visits his beloved wife's grave for the first time, he encounters a charming little girl who lifts him out of his doldrums and fills him with hope. (Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feed Geeseby  Steven Burton
Make Contact
A young man jogs and feeds geese as a diversion while he decides to come out as gay to his girlfriend.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Oscarby  Chris Fell
Make Contact
What appears to be a bank job, pulled by a mysterious couple, turns out to force a reckless politician into a life-changing and character-revealing decision.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bleed and Cryby  DJ Robbins
Make Contact
A filmmaker performs a one-man play on a childhood trauma he suffered while showing a home movie from the year and date the childhood trauma occurred.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Violent Natureby  Federica Lonardoni
Make Contact
After his father's death, Jack finds himself into the woods forced to face the ghosts of his past and his relationship with his dad in order to understand his real nature and embrace his authentic self.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicelessby  Janice Foster
Make Contact
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Jackby  Doug J Robbins
Make Contact
A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Superstition's Goldby  Michael Gaun
Make Contact
A romantic history of hidden Treasure in Superstition Mountain with its famous Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.

Genre: Western
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith (The Sanctuary Siege)by  Dewayne C Bricker
Make Contact
During a chaotic hostage standoff, Pastor Jonas stays behind to talk down a wounded veteran demanding proof that God still listens. Their tense exchange strips away ritual and pride, revealing two broken men searching for grace. When SWAT breaches the doors, Jonas shields the gunman and prays aloud for them bothchoosing compassion over fear in the moment that decides their souls.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirabelby  Gregory Gibson
Make Contact
Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Villageby  Adolpho Phillips
Make Contact
Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Next Voiceby  Charles Hall
Make Contact
Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Abuseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Make Contact
It takes for Carl to lose his family to realize his addictions are more important than them, but even after reclaiming his wife and daughter...is he able to stay on the straight and narrow?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
Make Contact
When terrorized by his wife's vengeful spirit, a man must face the consequences of his actions.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ragnar's Vikingsby  Robert Michael Benn
Make Contact
Ragnar conquers Britain. Kiev and Sweden. Lagertha is his beautiful wife. His son lands at Vinland and discovers America.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Eagleby  Mina Faiez
Make Contact
Hani is a young man who lives with his brother Joseph and his neighbor Khalid, but he finds out that his neighbor killed his father , and that his father, Khalid, and father of his girlfriend are members of an old gang whose girlfriend's father fears that he will expose himself, and that he will kill Khalid. But Hani succeeds in helping his brother and the police catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Days of Gloryby  Jason K. Allen
Make Contact
A sidewalk shoeshine man touches the life of a hopeless customer. (1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lemon Aidby  Daniel J. Broderick
Make Contact
Suburban parents learn the hard way that when life gives you lemons, you don't have to pay for them. When it doesn't, you have to buy them, the lemonade stand, a business permit, the credit card machine, and sell a ton of servings simply to break even.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Zoomby  Anthony Cawood
Make Contact
A couple's illicit affair is forced to go virtual due to a pesky global pandemic, and if that wasn't bad enough someone else wants in on the action.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby  Lawrence Riggins
Make Contact
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gone With The Gulf Streamby  Jack Sherry
Make Contact
A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When You Go to Townby  Susan Jordan
Make Contact
A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by  Larry E Coleman
Make Contact
In an attempt to give his thirteen-year-old son dating advice he doesn't want, a stoner dad recounts how he met the kid's mother with way more detail than necessary.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
Titles: 201 - 240 of 1097
<< Previous  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28  Next >>
Top ^
 

POST YOUR SHORT

Sign Up for InkTip