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The Language of Silenceby KS Punithakumar
A lonely mute man falls in love with a woman he has only known through messages. When he finally reveals his silence, tragedy strikes before they can meet, teaching him that true love is heard through the heart, not through words.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby Antwon Taylor
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Visions in the Haunted Ledgerby Vanessa M. Chattman
A burned-out accountant discovers a haunted ledger that tracks deaths before they happen, and each entry is tied to a cursed candle.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A volatile alcoholic father gets his just desserts after abusing his teenage son for the last time.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
For Better or For Worseby Elliot Stanton
As a marriage reaches its painful end, a husband and wife share one final takeaway in the home where they began their life together, forcing them to confront ten years of love, compromise, resentment and memories.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
They All Want The King Deadby NG
Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby Niagara Ross
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
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Perfectly Stillby Dewayne
When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby Iris Mangual
After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chingby Luis Ortiz
After a night she can't remember, a middle-aged influencer wakes to find her phone replaying fragments of the past reflections of herself that don't match what she remembers forcing her to confront the digital double that's been living her life.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby Cephra Stuart
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Macyby Larry E. Coleman
A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Glass Signalby Gladman
After witnessing her own future emergency call, a woman realizes the horrific car crash she described hasn't happened yetforcing her to decide whether the warning she just heard from herself can be trusted.
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Valentine Promiseby Philip Marraccini
Love That Triumphs Over Tragedy. Rena Patel, from India, navigates the pressures of a medical career and the complexities of unspoken love. After a devastating cycling accident leaves his close friend Jenna paralyzed, Rena is torn between his professional duty and his growing personal feelings for Jenna who faces physical loss and heartbreak, Rena must to control his emotional boundaries with his hopes for her recovery.
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tammy In Hellby Apostolos Kouroumalis
Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby Brian Jackson
In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby Bill Freas
After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Violent Natureby Federica Lonardoni
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
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Call Buttonby Vikki Harris
After a car accident, a man is sent to a hospital where pressing the call button could be detrimental to his health.
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rainy Night Killerby Doug J Robbins
The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Berlin (A True Story)by Ron Brawer
On her deathbed, a Holocaust survivor recounts her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and reveals a dark family secret -- encountering shocked disbelief.
Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Beautifulby Dwayne Bricker
A teenage model considered the most beautiful girl in the world is abducted by a meticulous curator who believes he is saving her from a society that consumes beauty. Trapped inside a private gallery built from her public image and stolen private moments, she turns the psychological game against him, dismantling his need for control and reclaiming her identityonly to discover that escaping captivity doesn't mean escaping the image the world refuses to let go.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not Yetby Claudia Hoag McGarry
A couple, preparing to attend his mother's memorial, are bickering and anxious as the viewer or reader slowly understands the subtext they have lost a child.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No. 13by Meysam KaiedanBadi
On a snowy night, two police officers enter a sealed house filled with inward-facing cameras, where one of them discovers what was being kept inside and must decide what should stay buried, and what deserves to get out.
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby Slobodan D. Pesic
A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.
Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Her Faceby Marc Prey
Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Ones to Ownby Iris Mangual
Trapped in a gilded cage of wealth and control, a young wife suffering in silence finds an unlikely ally in his chauffeur and becomes her greatest weapon as she transforms from victim to avengerusing her abuser's greed to destroy him.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life On The Lineby Guy Bardach
A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Revelation/Armageddonby Darryl N. Layne
When a newly elected president is revealed to be the prophesied Beast, his step brother must confront demonic forces, global chaos,and a world torn between faith and fear, racing against time to stop the rise of evil and restore good before all is lost to satin.
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Exit Stage Leftby Elliot Stanton
Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Soonby Bari K. Willerford
Affectionate spoof of coming attraction previews. Movie trailers with a wink and a smile. I can smell the popcorn.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Mooreby Doug J Robbins
Two friends enjoy a camping trip until it's interrupted by the killer Clayton Moore.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Boundsby Adam Rocke
The Women's National Petunia Golf Tour has mediocre players, terrible prize money and a serial killer.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Frank Sinatra's Hatby John McWilliams
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Power Outageby Dwayne Bricker
During a citywide blackout, cautious tenant Maria Soto calls her building's superintendent using a number taped inside her cabinet. A man claiming to be Mr. Alvarez calmly guides her through dark halls, describing what he shouldn't see and a building layout that doesn't match hers. When a neighbor reveals the super died last month, Maria realizes the outage has opened a line to something that still believes it runs the building.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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