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Trajan's Dilemmaby Jonathan Fear
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pair of Silk Stockingsby John Porter
A silent fantasy based on Kate Chopin's short story (published in 1897, now in the public domain) about a mother who takes care of her children and herself, too.
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by Bill Rutkoski
A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffledMondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won't let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.
Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Dreamby Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Justifiable Beatingby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Love will make you believe your enemy truly loves you. That's the bitter truth Monica has to swallow dealing with her husband Craig.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On Time Delayby Melvin Taylor
Overly rude airline passenger can't board flight only to find a strange carrier for a flight he will never forget.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby Nik Forster
A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Adversityby Elliot Stanton
The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty
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
Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dallianceby Bernard Mersier
When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennis 2.0by Peter Donald Skagen
In his garage, a retired robotics engineer builds a conscious robot he calls Dennis, then has to fight to save both their lives when a lovely enforcer from an 'agency' arrives to erase them.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lila Monroeby Lucy Versallies
A missing persons case takes a sinister turn when a detective realizes the victim's family has been lying about the timelinemasking a disturbing secret that keeps the girl closer than anyone suspects.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How Do You Get to Margie's House?by John Porter
With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The First & Only Kissby Michael Avishai
After a long-anticipated date fizzles, a shy college student finds unexpected connection on a crowded dance floor, proving that sometimes chemistry matters more than compatibility.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's My Lifeby John Porter
A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.
Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Jackby Doug J Robbins
A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
CHBby Jesus Gonzalez
After losing her job as a software programmer, a middle-aged woman reinvents herself as a Customs Broker in Miami, navigating the challenges of a new career while facing financial pressures.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the 8 Ballby John Porter
A young man must either make a billiard shot or lose his beautiful young wife to an evil old man.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby Michael Celender
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
Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Restaurant: A Visual Comedyby Jackie
When his pizza takes too long to arrive, a young man makes his way into the restaurant kitchen to make it himself, only to have things backfire.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You Can Never Go Backby Lamar D. Vine
A lonely divorced introvert rekindles a forbidden affair with his unhappily married first love after 25 years apart, embarking on steamy weekend getaways filled with nostalgia and desire, but as their passionate escapes unravel into betrayal, deceit, and profound heartbreak, he must confront the painful illusion of second chances to ultimately forge a path of solitary freedom, nomadic travel, and self-reinvention abroad as a writer.
Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby J. J. Hillard
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby Doug J Robbins
Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Detective and the Priestby Jan Clinton Chilson
The Lead Detective of a police department, at the directions of the Chief, is assigned a priest, in assist in successfully solving crimes.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If Only I Didn't Have to Look at Your Faceby Jason K. Allen
A shallow young man decides to break up with his beautiful, kindhearted girlfriend because of her occasional unattractive facial expression. (1 location, 3 actors.)
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not the Brightest Guy in the Worldby John Porter
A hard-working, middled-aged plumber admits that he's not the brightest guy in the world, then struggles to understand why his middle-aged lady is happy one minute, sad the next, and mad the next
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby Paolo Galli
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
Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Doorby Carlos Alex Ceni
While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall In Loveby M SHAHZAIN USMAN SHAMSI
A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
King Sizeby Paul Weidknecht
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Preyby John Porter
Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Satan's Shrinkby Daniel J. Broderick
Satan needs a consult; it's just not as much fun anymore.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Remember, Remember the 5th of Decemberby Anthony Cawood
A young boy's Christmas nightmares take on a life of their own.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Woodby Jason K. Allen
A lonely man falls in love with a tree. But can they live happily ever after? (No dialogue, silent comedy. One location. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond Avalonby Edward Ybarra
Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Abuseby Bernard Antoine Mersier
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
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Maggieby RJ Daniels
A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Boxby William Walkerley
Tien shows up a Darius' apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strategic Ambiguity 101by John Boal
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
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Birthrightby Michael Hutchinson
The reborn prodigy of a dark dictator embraces their malevolent Bloodline in a Godless world of magic, beast, and tyranny. None have been worthy to lay claim to the Crimson Throne, until now.
Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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