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The Lost Pianistby Frank J Dellipoala

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A haunted pianist must survive a night of terror when genetically enhanced predatorstriggered by the frequencies of his musicescape into a locked-down concert hall, forcing him to confront the childhood monsters he can no longer outrun.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sundays with Ethelby Jason K. Allen

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An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Last Nightby Durgesh Devda

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One argument. One reckless decision. One irreversible night. When a young couple's confrontation takes a terrifying turn, hidden truths emerge, blurring the line between guilt, responsibility, and fate, and forcing them to confront consequences they cannot escape.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Between The Treesby Shariq Ali khan

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Bullied at school and burdened by low expectations at home, 13-year-old Basheer believes a mysterious pink guava has unlocked his hidden intelligence after his grades suddenly improve. When the tree bearing the fruit is cut down, his newfound confidence collapses, sending him on an emotional quest to find another. Through his search, Basheer slowly confronts the power of belief, self-worth, and the fragile hopes that shape a child's journey to growing up.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Once Blue Now Dead Redby Darryl N. Layne

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Mankind has always wondered what happened to our sister planet Mars or as it once was called "Seti". Dak, Band, and Mika environmental scientists is facing a severe environmental crisis. They work tirelessly to save Seti with help from AI android "Guardian". With time running out for Seti, they build a spaceship to migrate to a blue planet we now call Earth. Their desperate attempt lead to a desperate surprising end leading into part two "Spores ".

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Chillby Bari K. Willerford

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Five people isolated at the Arctic Circle. Three scientists, a meteorologist and a chopper pilot all have to contend with a monster outside the compound wanting to get in, another monster already inside.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Double Takeby Marjory E. Leposky

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A stalker is following unaware couple.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Flashes of Youby Lamar D. Vine

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45-year-old Quan, trapped in a stagnant marriage, visits Bangkok to help her daughter Cindy start university. A vintage Polaroid purchase from enigmatic writer Jake unleashes suppressed memories of her teenage romance with Johnnie, leading to an intense affair filled with sensual encounters, emotional confessions, and self-discovery. As Quan navigates guilt, passion, and fleeting joy, the story weaves themes of longing, infidelity, and reinvention, culminating in her quiet empowerment and anticipation of future escapes.

Genre: Romance
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

What It's All Aboutby John Worsley

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When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne

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After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Old Fashionedby Jose Villanueva

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A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Lathroby Aliki Sakallerou-Kokkinou

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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Group Chatby Dwayne Craig Bricker

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After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Winter Meetingby Michael G Holmes

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Four baseball executives brainstorm increasingly absurd ways to make Major League Baseball more exciting for a new generation, only to have the simplest solution come from the maintenance man changing a light bulb.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Violent Natureby Federica Lonardoni

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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

The California Lifeby Arianna Zufelt

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When a young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, a rookie detective must race against time to find her before she becomes his next victim. When the rookie detective finally finds the young girl. He called her parents that he has her in the police station safe and sound and ready to go home now. 20 years later the girl moved to California and got a job. And she lived her life there.

Genre: Animation
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Deliveryby Dwayne Bricker

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Homesick in her cramped apartment, Lena orders no-contact deliveryjust soup and comfort food. When the app says her driver has "arrived," a safety alert claims he's "concerned for her wellbeing" and needs her to respond. Outside her door, the driver's polite voice turns invasive as he cites her heart rate, moods, and habits pulled from apps and devices, exposing an obsession that won't end when this order is marked "completed."

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Western Approachesby Barry Staff

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Wanting to get rat-arsed after an unavoidable job offer, an English 'cowboy' on a bicycle needs to outwit a zero-hours-contract barmaid foiling his plan.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Haunted Pizzaby Doug J Robbins

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Ginger orders a pizza, and all Hell breaks loose. She winds up getting possessed.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Strategic Ambiguity 101by John Boal

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Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Abortionby Doug J Robbins

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Kathy heads into the clinic for an abortion and meets a woman named Mary and her adorable two-year-old son, Dylan, and rethinks whether or not she actually wants an abortion.

Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Still Waterby John Waring

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A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Hankby Baerbel Morsch

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Days before retirement, a veteran detective takes on one last cold case a 32-year-old unsolved murder with a dying witness who finally wants to talk.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Mad Womenby Anthony Truscello

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Three marketing students pull off a risky guerrilla museum stunt to go viral, only to learn that the biggest danger isn't the law, it's the algorithm.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Fishing in Heavenby Art D'Alessandro

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When 8 year-old Alex's Grandpa, her best friend and fishing buddy, dies suddenly, she has a hard time dealing with the loss and life itself. But in a dream she finds herself fishing with him again in a beautiful, almost magical place, only to waken with a whole new way of seeing things.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty

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Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

United We Fallby Elliot Stanton

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The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Boxing Dayby Doug J Robbins

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A crazed killer, Mrs. Claus, hunts down a mother and son on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Northwoodby John Alexander Fraser

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The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Mirrors of Betrayalby Melissa Diane Hudson

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A determined mother uncovers disturbing secrets about her daughter's new husband, igniting a dangerous game of deception and betrayal that threatens to destroy their family and reveals that evil never truly dies.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sheby Lamar D. Vine

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After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Next Voiceby Charles Hall

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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

The Horned Toadby Loren Davis

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When five advanced AI language models gather to dissect a western screenplay, their debate is upended by the silent presence of a horned toad lizard on the windowsill, forcing them to confront the limits of consciousness, meaning, and their own existence as the world outside quietly decays.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Cleopatra's Revengeby Robert M. Tartell

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A snake's loose in Mike Turner's new home and his wife Pam is really freaking out!

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Fingerby Brian Jackson

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After a severed finger appears on a grimy coffee table, three mismatched roommates spiral into suspicion that ends in a fatal misfireonly for an interrogation to reveal the cruelest joke of all.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Princess Samby Rebecca Ayers

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When Sam, a burned-out waitress, becomes convinced by her sick grannie that they are really British royals, Sam channels Princess Diana which inspires her to a higher purpose at Sloppy's Bar-B-Q.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Automaticby Gladman

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Trapped inside a futuristic reset pod with seconds left on the countdown, a haunted man must choose whether to erase his memories for peaceor keep the truth that's been trying to break him free.

Genre: Sci-Fi
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Something Borrowedby Frazer Lee

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Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Elevatorby Antwon Taylor

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When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Blood Feudby Doug J Robbins

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A wrestler must choose between his family and the ring.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles