Best Thriller Screenplays
| Script Name | |
|---|---|
| 1 |
The ScreecherDecebal Cornea direct descendant of Radu the Handsome the younger brother of Vlad III Dracula, unkown to him, is racing against him to catch The Screecher before he does preventing him to build his army of bloodsuckers. Script Excerpt |
| 2 |
ISTANBUL CROSSINGA gay Syrian refugee in Istanbul, while juggling dangerous smuggling operations for both the CIA and Islamic State, falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures. Script Excerpt |
| 3 |
The Coventry DeceptionAfter a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil. Script Excerpt |
| 4 |
Maeta's StoryIn the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and her 7 year old son go into hiding with the help of her brother, a WW1 veteran who struggles with PTSD. * "Recommend" by Dave Trottier Script Excerpt |
| 5 |
The Puzzle BoxA nuclear attack on Israel hurls the world towards war as different characters fight to find those responsible and avert disaster, among them being a captured CIA operative, an ailing NSA deputy director, and a U.S. president confronting threats from global powers who hope to use the crisis to their advantage. Script Excerpt |
| 6 |
VisionsA teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer. |
| 7 |
The 49th DayA young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won multiple grand prizes and was selected for The 2016 BloodList.) Script Excerpt |
| 8 |
FULL CONTACTis a high-octane Action Thriller about a fearsome Super Bowl-obsessed linebacker who struggles to defeat his sworn enemy, an unhinged, soul-snatching psychopath hellbent on taking everything & everyone he cherishes in his life. ================================================== * Multi-award winning screenplay... 'Cape Fear' meets 'Jerry Maguire' |
| 9 |
THE BANNERThough haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent. |
| 10 |
IL COLTELLOAfter the murder of his family, a hearing-impaired enforcer lies low in Lake Como plotting his revenge, which threatens his friendships with the innocent locals. Script Excerpt |
| 11 |
Misguided IllusionsIn the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality. When the two collide not even a serial killer can decide. |
| 12 |
COOPER'S PROMISEA gay army deserter adrift in a war-torn African country vows to save a girl trafficked into prostitution to redeem himself for an earlier promise he could not keep. |
| 13 |
TRAUMATIZEDThe sole survivor of a serial killer, tortured by visions of her ordeal, decides to conduct her own investigation only to realize that her former captor, whom she thought dead, might still be alive and after her. |
| 14 |
THE FOURTH COURIERWhen a series of grisly murders in Warsaw is linked to the disappearance of a Russian physicist with a portable atomic bomb, an FBI agent is sent to help the investigation, and the race is on to find the bomb before it ends up in the wrong hands. |
| 15 |
JENNA'S GONEAn untried deputy and a hunting guide find their lifelong friendship turning lethal as they track after the kidnappers of the waitress they both love, each suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance. Script Excerpt |
| 16 |
FIRE ON THE ISLANDWhen an arsonist threatens a Greek island village, the gay FBI agent stationed in Athens arrives to investigate, finds himself immersed in a community rife with conflict, falls in love with his chief suspect, and has only seconds to save the village after miscalculating the plan of attack. |
| 17 |
LIKE PULLING TEETHIn 1910 New York City a dentist accidently finds himself now a private investigator and eavesdrops on one of the greatest country-changing secret meetings, becoming a dangerous loose end. Script Excerpt |
| 18 |
Head GamesA desperate woman with the ability to make people believe they're seeing things that aren't there uses her ability on the people she believes are responsible for her sister’s murder. Script Excerpt |
| 19 |
Between the Salt and the SkyIt’s 1942, and a small Portuguese fishing village is on the edge of a war that seems far away. An out-of-work fisherman with nothing to live for meets an unlikely ally with a dangerous secret and nothing to lose. Two Jewish girls arrive, and it changes everything. Script Excerpt |
| 20 |
A VISION OF ANGELSA suicide bomb plot for Easter Sunday in Jerusalem sets off a chain of events that weaves together the lives of an American journalist, Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Arab-Christian grocer. GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION |
| 21 |
UnhingedThis Hitchcock inspired anthology delivers suspense, gore, and laughs. |
| 22 |
ESCALATOR!A spoof of disaster movies done in the vein of Airplane finds a fire chief must juggle battling a fire in the mall, romancing the architect, and handling the press as he recruits his retired ace rescuer, attempting to save a hundred people trapped on the Castle Mall’s four story express ESCALATOR! Script Excerpt |
| 23 |
Untouchable!A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators to hide. Script Excerpt |
| 24 |
The StormA small-town sheriff dealing with personal problems investigates the murder and kidnapping of several girls where there’s no lack of suspects. Script Excerpt |
| 25 |
Perfect ContritionA traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys. Script Excerpt |
| 26 |
Murder in Emergency!A dedicated nurse's fight to save her hospital from closure, escalates to war, on discovery patients are being murdered. Script Excerpt |
| 27 |
AutonomousTrapped in her tech mogul grandfather’s fortress-style home, a teenage hacker must outsmart a psychotic A.I. prototype that’s intent on re-programming her. |
| 28 |
NORTH 40A Special Ops soldier, whose grief over the loss of a son has torn his family apart, takes them on a vacation hoping to relive happier times, when a perilous situation forces them to pull together to survive. Ordinary People meets Straw Dogs in this Hitchcockian thriller. |
| 29 |
A LITTLE FAVORA washed-out fighter pilot, now a fast draw for a wild west show, is asked to do a little favor: fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out the two discarded doomsday bombs before seven next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming. Script Excerpt |
| 30 |
SETTLING THE BOOKSLured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape. Script Excerpt |
| 31 |
Memories of YouAfter his wife's death, a distraught man undergoes a radical procedure to be injected with her memories only to learn surprising things about her past even as he is targeted by the corrupt company his wife was investigating. Script Excerpt |
| 32 |
The AWNINGTroubled commuters take shelter from a sudden downpour on a Chinatown street corner, only to be tormented by the elderly man in their midst selling unique umbrellas and dispensing cryptic wisdom. Script Excerpt |
| 33 |
LOTUS OPERANDIThis one is pure Fun! It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists. Oh, and did I mention she’s the Lead in a Broadway Musical? This is very musical, but there’s a lot of action! This one is getting a lot of attention right now! The main Characters reside in New York, they are part of an international terrorist group. They include cyber terrorists in New York, arms dealers from Pakistan, and a weapons and explosives ring in China. The saavy CIA Agents discover evidence that they are planning duo attacks on the subways in New York and London on the 4th of July. That’s where the story begins, but believe it or not, it’s really a love story! |
| 34 |
The Benefactor!Their camouflage pitted by a ruthless philanthropist's interest-free loans, criminals are projected to the kill. Script Excerpt |
| 35 |
Desert QuarryTwo mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them. Script Excerpt |
| 36 |
Sovereign CitizenA single mother joins the doomsday cult of armed, anti-government sovereign citizens that kidnapped her son and makes a desperate bid to win his freedom. Script Excerpt |
| 37 |
Price of OilThe brutal mob murder of an American diplomat in 1920s Tehran sets off a firestorm of political espionage and a British woman's pursuit to free a wrongfully accused Persian teen. Script Excerpt |
| 38 |
The Demon of Hope StreetA homeless vet discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next. Script Excerpt |
| 39 |
MoneyA poor man, haunted by ghosts of war and without health insurance, struggles to raise money for the medical bills of a critically ill daughter. But a chance meeting with a soldier from his past turned holdup man gives the family hope when the man offers cash in exchange for refuge from the gang he stole from, unintentionally putting them all in the gang’s crosshairs. Script Excerpt |
| 40 |
The SurrogateA pregnant teenager is abducted by a deranged man who wants her baby for himself and his disabled wife. Script Excerpt |
| 41 |
Last WomanA brilliant female scientist who was brutally attacked in college develops an electromagnetic device that transports her to a safe parallel universe. Think - Everything, Everywhere, All at Once with the 2020 version of The Invisible Man with Elizabeth Moss Script Excerpt |
| 42 |
FamilySeeking a fresh start, a newly married couple and their teenage daughter move to a small town, but the daughter begins to suspect that her stepfather is hiding something sinister. Script Excerpt |
| 43 |
Comanche CarlAn officer in the Dublin Garda avenges his son’s murder at the hands of a drug dealer with two legendary tomahawks once used by his great grandfather, a fierce Comanche warrior, then lays his badge on the dealer’s body and walks off into the night to become the underworld’s most feared assassin against their own. Script Excerpt |
| 44 |
THE ORGANIC SVENGALIA young woman haunted by lost memories falls in love with a mysterious, scientific-minded music professor, whose secret experiments help her recall her devastating past - but also start stealing memories of the present. Script Excerpt |
| 45 |
Ayden: The ExceptionalA brilliant geneticist who believes superhumans exist in our modern society makes the ultimate discovery after he is led to a man with exceptional abilities. Script Excerpt |
| 46 |
A Cry From the GraveA young woman's sorority initiation becomes a dangerous obsession to find a killer. Script Excerpt |
| 47 |
T&T PowerA tenacious female detective used to working alone teams up with a wise-cracking out of shape meter maid to track down a kidnapped child held for ransom. Script Excerpt |
| 48 |
RAGZI & THE DANSEUSEWhen a mysterious private jet crash lands at JFK, a Manhattan detective accepts a routine job as a bodyguard to a young Russian celebrity only to find them both swept into a vast and murderous plot with international consequences. |
| 49 |
The Devil Next DoorA criminal defense attorney and his family are terrorized by an accused child molester that he defended. Script Excerpt |
| 50 |
God's WarriorGod chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her, of the formidable opponents which collude to destroy her. |
| 51 |
Destination YesterdayA California businessman discovers, through information provided by a mysterious woman, that his recurring nightmares of a tragic plane crash could be repressed memories of a previous life. |
| 52 |
PAPER TRAILAn Army brat without a home town grows up, leaves his Army M.P. job to become a P.I. working out of his Grandfather’s storefront in Colorado gold country, his first case revealing a small town full of secrets including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new secret that he must forever keep from his fiancée. Script Excerpt |
| 53 |
FOR LIFEEdged on by his incestuous sister-in-law, the president of a leading euthanasia group faces-off with his estranged anti-euthanasia daughter over the fate of his aged mother. Script Excerpt |
| 54 |
WAKEAfter faking his death, a man attends his own wake in order to find perpetrators of a conspiracy that targeted him, but in doing so, he gets far more than he ever could have imagined. Script Excerpt |
| 55 |
SOUTH WIND COMEFleeing for their lives from a ruthless assassin in a drug cartel, a teenager and her father receive unexpected help from a mysterious ancestor returning from a two-century sojourn into the dark night of the soul. |
| 56 |
DuplicitousA father takes his young disabled son to the country to reconnect in an old Victorian, but their stay becomes one of regret after a malevolent presence is awakened. Script Excerpt |
| 57 |
Shadow of DespairA Chicago homicide detective specializing in behavioral psychology and analytics, pursues a serial killer who extracts body parts from his victims. Script Excerpt |
| 58 |
TRAGIC FLAWRevenge is sweet. Infidelity is delicious. Getting away with murder? Just tragic. A jilted wife pays the ultimate price when her only child is caught in a jealous crossfire. |
| 59 |
Med Frenzy - A ConspiracyAn undiagnosable skin ailment affects a large population, but after years of suffering, a female victim discovers the underlying cause and a conspiracy between powerful government and industry entities. She must decide who she can trust to investigate her claim? 9 locations |
| 60 |
CURRENCYIn a race against time to secure funds for his daughter's life-saving transplant, an idealistic cop reluctantly takes on a high-stakes assignment transporting millions in cash to a bank. However, the unexpected obstacle threatening to derail his mission is none other than his rogue partner, entangled in a dangerous plot to hijack the fortune. |
| 61 |
DESCENDANCYAmidst a hostile takeover attempt, a billionaire enlists the aid of a noted genealogist to map his Nigerian ancestry, but when the trail leads to a remote African village, his attempts to help the locals pit him and his estranged son against corrupt security contractors, both abroad and at home. Script Excerpt |
| 62 |
Just wait, I will back.A haunting photograph, an enigmatic woman, and a friend who promise he will be back, intertwine in the life of Giraldo del Rio, the least sane man in the building. |
| 63 |
THE MIRACLE MANA soldier absorbs psychic powers during a mission gone awry and becomes the tool of a shady governmental organization. |
| 64 |
Bad SpiritThe spirit of an evil teen killed while plotting a school massacre returns to take care of unfinished business starting with his family. But first he must get by his twelve year old telekinetic brother who knows he’s back. Script Excerpt |
| 65 |
THE DEEP ENDCharacter-driven psychological horror thriller set in a suburban house, with a disturbed female lead and a shocking twist ending, inspired by Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". Two children seem to be haunted by the ghost of their dead mother's secret lover, as seen through the eyes of a young, troubled woman hired as a nanny while their father leaves town on business. Their suburban house evolves into a nightmare world of psychological evil that seems to emanate from the back-yard pool. Hook: is there a ghost in the house, or is the nanny imagining it and going mad? Script Excerpt |
| 66 |
RED BANDANAA repo man on the run from a Mexican drug gang sets up his twin brother to take the hit for him, only to have a change of heart and try to save his life - The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Usual Suspects in No Country for Old Men in this gritty and fast-paced suspense thriller. |
| 67 |
The PUZZLE MAKERA career driven NSA analyst gifts his autistic daughter an antique jigsaw puzzle, but when she begins to assemble the pieces, it conjures the evil spirit of its creator, a dark entity who plagues their family. Script Excerpt |
| 68 |
Into the SunshineA Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt |
| 69 |
SHEILA'S WEBA psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt |
| 70 |
Marshal Mart DugganThe town selected a brawny, gun-fighting Irishman as Marshal to tame the fast-growing, notoriously wild, and depraved new boom town of Leadville, Colorado, in the 1870s. Script Excerpt |
| 71 |
Sympathy for the DevilA rookie journalist finds herself in the middle of an epic battle between Angels and Demons when she discovers that Hell has infiltrated the White House and that Satan himself has possessed the President. |
| 72 |
Pier 21A biological weapon is sent to United States military bases from Iraq, through a CIA drug connection gone bad but it is intercepted by the FBI before it becomes totally lethal. |
| 73 |
Cast To KillA respected casting director with a wandering eye for the ladies must fight for his life and reputation after being framed for murder by a vengeful psychopath. |
| 74 |
A Risk of ExposureIn 1953, Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.S. With the KGB in close pursuit, she finds an unexpected ally. Script Excerpt |
| 75 |
HOPE AND FAITH -AN OBSESSION OF THE HEART PART TWOThis is the continuing drama-based story of two lovers who were reunited after fifteen years. The story continues with unexpected life changing issues of life and death that each character faces. |
| 76 |
The House CallWhen an idealistic young woman is held captive by psychotic family in the Florida Everglades, she uses her skills as a nurse to outwit the brutal clan and survive. |
| 77 |
NaypolloA scientist kidnapped by the N.S.A. for his expertise in cryonics becomes the pawn of the planet’s Destroyer spoken of in Biblical prophecy. Script Excerpt |
| 78 |
Cold Blooded GoldWestern Ghost Story - Cold Blooded Gold Soldiers are haunted by their last mission to hide a load of gold. Their captain may have returned from the dead to call them together years later to find the gold and save it for the future. The gold is tainted by the war and a group of "buffalo soldiers" help to save the treasure from an evil force determined to use it for nefarious purposes. Gritty and surprising this project has been on the front burner of a couple of production companies. Its time has finally come. |
| 79 |
The Long WarA hoodlum, who tasted “payback” at the hands of two high school classmates he had terrorized, spends the next thirty years looking for the two and his own retribution. Script Excerpt |
| 80 |
A Good SoulA sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film. |
| 81 |
MirroredTwin sisters take it on the lam after a heist from the mob with two enforcers in pursuit in a wild 24 hour ride filled with robbery, murder and deception. |
| 82 |
Autumn BloodBad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt |
| 83 |
The Quality of MercyIn the bleak Texas borderlands, a disfigured hospital janitor with the gift of miraculous healing is hunted by desperate rivals who would kill for his mercy. |
| 84 |
The Third ButtonDuring a hit-and-run investigation, a chance love affair occurs leading to a deadly clash between the investigator and the main suspect. It ends up in an unusual reconciliation while the culprit gets a chance to evade the law. |
| 85 |
SpikeA Native American environmentalist is pitted against his logger brother after a botanist whistleblower is pushed too far in the struggle to maintain the forests of Northwestern Montana. As loggers fight for job security, and as environmentalists fight for their cause, the botanist becomes the victim of both sides, and enacts a dangerous retribution. Script Excerpt |
| 86 |
FOOTPRINTSIn the aftermath of a snowstorm of apocalyptic dimensions, a lonely middle-aged man will have to face the abrupt break-in of a couple in his property in the mountains |
| 87 |
Alien RevelationA woman’s sanity is tested trapped underground in the family’s new shelter with her domineering husband and drug addicted son as aliens invade Earth. Script Excerpt |
| 88 |
The Dressmaker's DaughterAdapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Romania 1940: A Jewish teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers in a field hospital. When her lover shows up with a group of Jewish partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. But her lover dies in the action. She escapes with the partisans and spends the rest of the war sabotaging German supply lines. Script Excerpt |
| 89 |
Taylor's KissesAn unemployed seamstress is referred by a friend for a mysterious job not exactly in her line of work. |
| 90 |
CovenantThink of something that would gnaw at you. Go further, think of something that would make your gut wrench. Now think of something that would make you seethe and your blood boil. To the point that your pupils are fully dilated... To the point of physical violence... To the point of death... Now enter the sinner's booth and empty your weapon on your parish priest with memories of your dead loved one... Bless me Father, you have sinned... See Synopsis for attachments |
| 91 |
The SchoharieA volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt |
| 92 |
At the Sound of the Tone"I think I killed her, "says a mystery voice on her answer machine, forcing a frightened young architect to seek out an Apache policeman with a who has a troubled history of his own. Script Excerpt |
| 93 |
SCOPE CREEPAfter her mentor's suspicious death, a driven project manager inherits the rebuild of a notorious private prison, only to find herself stalked by a mysterious entity hellbent on sabotaging her at every turn. |
| 94 |
The Hood Has EyesTwo spies end up falling through conspiracies finding out Pablo Escobar still alive including Osama bin laden, as they chase after a Pablo Escobar wannabee thinking he's the return of Escobar as Pablo Escobar finds out losing his mind as the two spies work with the CIA to try find where Pablo Gomez end up meeting Pablo Escobar and Osama bin laden. Script Excerpt |
| 95 |
The Law of TalionTechnophobic detective on the brink of retirement partners with a tech-savvy FBI consultant to investigate a murder, their dissimilar styles clashing as they search for a killer not bound by mortal rules. |
| 96 |
The Devil and the DeuceTwo Devils' minions attempt to kill a priest running a refuge for teenagers but instead fight each other over moral qualms and romantic complications. Script Excerpt |
| 97 |
Two psycho'sA couple that both have mental health issues Chris with paranoid schizophrenia as Sandra stuffers from bipolar and torrets syndrome, Sandra manages to escape as they end up being the psychotic version of Bonnie and Clyde from ordinary mental health to leading to two psychopaths. Script Excerpt |
| 98 |
Don's Of all Don'sDon's of all Don's, An Arab American, an African American and a Bangladeshi, 2 lead through the gang life as one's a snitch trying to run the game, the Bangladeshi suhel mia obsessed with Bollywood movies has an obsession with amir Khan started off as off as a builder in the states runs off and turned into a straight Big time pimp as his employer looks for him but it's hard to get to suhel, an Arab making money through out the DVD trade leading to other opportunities in making money as the African American is a big Time baller pushing himself to the limit in every business who succeeds mostly you got see the story in action. Script Excerpt |
| 99 |
FAUSTIANAfter a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made. Script Excerpt |
| 100 |
TARGETS (Part 1)Main Character changes his name and identity to get revenge on his father's murderers. The corruption goes all the way up the political ranks to the governor. Apparently the main character's father who happens to be black was killed by cops who are part of a covert organization of KKK dating back to the founding of America. Main characters father was killed due to being part of an integration process in the south. The movie takes place in Texas and the affiliation with southern corruption plays a huge part in this film. The antagonists are involved in keeping a police department completely unintegrated. The captain is the person responsible for killing the protagonist father and is the target of the main character's motives. The main character incorporates his wife who is is partner in vengeance after she is told. The main character's wife and him go on to take down crime in the city. The main character manages to take down the governor and the captain. He also bonded with the antagonist's son who was killed by his father. The main character is never found out to be the person who killed all the faculties of the KKK organization. |
| 101 |
WaterspoutAn original screenplay, Waterspout is a thriller in a battle by a woman water advocate, her estranged lawyer husband, and their Odawa Indian friend, who overcome their past and to reunite, unravel, reveal, and stop a cartel that plans ( |
| 102 |
WEBINARDuring a pandemic lockdown, a reluctant research assistant must take her father's place for a critical online meeting, but when the CDC Director is murdered on camera, it becomes a web-based whodunit and a race against the clock to save her parents and fellow citizens infected by a deadly variant. Script Excerpt |
| 103 |
The Lunatic"When Kierra returns home for a promising job, she unwittingly becomes the target of a passionate musician who moonlights as a funeral director, determined to make her his muse." |
| 104 |
COURTROOM SKETCHESWhen a reclusive artist is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a notorious ex-president, she gains sudden fame and reinvigorates her dreams, but is soon targeted by a serial killing stalker who draws her into his twisted game of revenge. Script Excerpt |
| 105 |
WatertightThe year is 1935 and a freak accident finds a young woman trapped by old wooden pilings running from the beach out to sea. The tide is coming in and initial rescue attempts by untrained but enthusiastic bystanders are futile. Frustration and hysteria mount when it is learnt that there is no breathing apparatus available and the local emergency services are hampered by restricted weekend working. As both water and tension rise we start to learn more about the lives, attitudes, and aspirations of some of the players in this life and death struggle.UK wri |
| 106 |
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion ParkerBased on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy. |
| 107 |
990Journalist John, desperate in a city crippled by unemployment, joins FortunaCorp's thrilling game for financial redemption. Unaware of the deadly stakes, he must navigate moral dilemmas, trust issues, and a perilous quest for truth, uncovering a conspiracy that could reshape the city's fate forever. |
| 108 |
The lies that keep us aliveAn infamous surgeon's life begins to unravel as his past resurfaces. |
| 109 |
Two Machine GunsWanting to escape her mundane existence and family problems, an intellectually curious but naive high school senior seeks acceptance and asks out a withdrawn loner at the urging of a popular clique, but the independence she achieves comes at a horrible price. |
| 110 |
IT CAME FROM THE SHADOWSDiana's parents had always wanted to own a circus, so when the opportunity arose they took it. But this circus was different, it was ancient and shrouded in secrecy. The performers were all loyal to the true owner who would do anything to get his circus back even if it meant murder. Script Excerpt |
| 111 |
POLLING PLACEWhen a bitter family feud escalates, a rebellious tech exec and his girlfriend head to a remote firehouse during a blizzard to defiantly vote against his father's mayoral bid, only to be trapped by a masked axe-wielding killer. Script Excerpt |
| 112 |
MASSAGE PARLOREager to bond with his white-collar colleagues, a newlywed man accompanies them on a celebratory trip to a seedy spa, but when masked assailants emerge to drug, kidnap, and blackmail them, he must team with a plucky masseuse to thwart the twisted game of their mysterious captors. Script Excerpt |
| 113 |
Airborne MooringThis is a mash-genre female-led thriller-action-comedy story featuring a young stewardess on her first flight who manages to handle her own frustration and keep many critical situations on board under control when an old aircraft operating an international flight survives ditching on the river in a big city. |
| 114 |
The Homing PigeonDuring a flight, a young flight attendant discovers she can see ghosts. The next day, still frustrated, she collects herself and uses her newfound ability to expose the substantial criminal network of drug traffickers operating just under the noses of the local police. |
| 115 |
The Hidden CompromiseAn Algerian student is detained by French police on terrorism charges and agrees to work with them as an informant on other ISIS members, but his act of compromise forces him to face false and outdated beliefs while considering weighty theological questions with powerful implications on world events. |
| 116 |
Josephine (The death Doll)A clever and watchful young nurse of Haitian origin knows some voodoo. She unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of a complicated international crime story, partners with an FBI agent to solve a mysterious murder of her patient, and together they find a way to sort many things out. |
| 117 |
Satanic SantaA Holiday getaway for a couples quickly turns fatal as rituals and truths surface. |
| 118 |
Beneath the EarthWhen seismic activity awakens an army of acid-spewing spiders from the abandoned Kola Superdeep Borehole, American scientists and soldiers must confront the creatures' unrelenting terror, only to discover a deadly secret lab and a monstrous queen lurking below the Earth's surface. |
| 119 |
Forgotten PlansYears after the death of Osama bin Laden, a thumb drive lists future terrorists attacks in the United States to avenge his death. As our intelligence agencies seek to identify the possible targets, the bombers strike. Their final target, the underwater BART tube linking SF to Oakland, CA. |
| 120 |
House on Haunted Hill: ResurrectionFrederick Loren, after serving two decades for the murder of his wife, reopens the notorious mansion for a haunted house party, aiming to expose the psychics he's invited. Unbeknownst to him, the malevolent presence of Inquisitor Torquemada and his relentless henchmen emerges, turning the night into a relentless battle for survival and sanity. Script Excerpt |
| 121 |
HENRY (MULTI FILM SERIES)A young powerful pyrokinetic man, and his grandmother work together to control his abilities; and fight foes that get in the way of their happy family. |
| 122 |
impassIn the 80's,Trevor Carter lives in Bronx-New York.He's been through violence. Affected by the violence he will try to punish it along with everyone he considers culpable. |
| 123 |
Bowl 145 to Stay Alive(6 CHARACTERS AND 1 LOCATION) Four men have been bowling together for fifty years when one of them learns his sister was maimed decades ago by one of the other three - but which one? The accuser holds the alley hostage as he tries to force a confession. |
| 124 |
Kill the CompetitionAndrew Brooks is a recent college grad who's desperate to break into the entertainment industry but struggles to land his first job. Over the course of three critical days, Andrew comes to realize what he must do to obtain his dream job. |
| 125 |
Ayden: Rise of the Divine BeingsAfter the mythical oval, the Heart of Saros detects Ayden 'The Exceptional,' who was hidden among humans as a child by his mother, four divine beings with superhuman abilities from the planet Memnon are ordered to earth by their Lord to execute the vigilante crime fighter. Script Excerpt |
| 126 |
The NITE LOOPSearching for his missing brother, an obsessed drifter must infiltrate a tightly knit band of commuters onboard a mysterious bus route to gain the trust of their charismatic leader and find the truth. Script Excerpt |
| 127 |
CONNECTING FLIGHTA cutthroat tech entrepreneur must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly. Script Excerpt |
| 128 |
The Final AssassinationA family of retired assassins move into a small town to live a normal life, but find their peace threatened by the local gangster family, forcing them to choose between living like cowards, or going back to their old ways, one last time. Script Excerpt |
| 129 |
The FORTUNATE ONEAfter assassins wipe out his family, a gambling addict cop wins the lottery playing numbers from a fortune cookie and uses his newly won millions to become an eccentric vigilante, guided by fortune cookie wisdom. |
| 130 |
Smith Corona BluesA terminally ill Seattle cop is teamed up with a brash young Scotland Yard inspector to probe the murder of an eccentric writer. |
| 131 |
OUT of BODYWhen brutal thieves storm his bank and knock him unconscious, a timid bank manager awakens to discover he's having an out-of-body experience and must use his unique vantage point and newfound powers to thwart the heist and free hostages. Script Excerpt |
| 132 |
Hell SailA wealthy man and head of his own law firm has a company investigator keep tabs on his trophy wife he suspects is involved with one of his young attorneys. But when the investigator gets the goods on the two he blackmails them into a murder plot to collect half of the husband’s insurance policy. Script Excerpt |
| 133 |
ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. |
| 134 |
SCARRED!FROM DARKNESS A LEGEND IS BORN. |
| 135 |
REFLECTIONHEADS YOU LOSE AND TAILS YOU DIE. |
| 136 |
THERE AMONG US.ALL THAT WE KNOW IS AT AN END. |
| 137 |
Accelerated DragonsWhen a homeless former chess champion is recruited to tutor a wealthy businessman, he gets a new lease on life, but after assassins target his new employer, he becomes embroiled in an overseas espionage mission. Script Excerpt |
| 138 |
CAULDRONSquabbling siblings, in search of their long-lost parents, take a house-sitting job in the countryside, only to find they've been lured into a trap by a wicked witch. Script Excerpt |
| 139 |
The SOMMELIERAt his family's secluded vineyard, a restaurateur must outwit a sociopathic wine expert, solve his father's murder, and rescue his fellow guests, after a tasting event turns into a deadly game of revenge. Script Excerpt |
| 140 |
CREATURES of HABITAfter changing therapists, an OCD afflicted mythology professor sheds his repetitive routines, but when monsters emerge from the woods and abduct his friends, he suspects his compulsive behaviors may actually be rituals intended to ward off an ancient supernatural force. Script Excerpt |
| 141 |
Little Red Cap and the Forest MonstersOn a forest hike, her father inadvertently endangers the life of a forest monster’s baby. His eleven years old daughter secretly tries to calm down monsters' fury, not knowing that her father is one of them, a converted monster. |
| 142 |
Duty to WarnLegal thriller miniseries based on the true 1969 stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff and the Supreme Court case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws in America. Pilot, synopsis and bible. Script Excerpt |
| 143 |
Twelve LessTwelve teenagers survive a plane crash, which at first was thought to be caused by a structural flaw. However, one-by-one the surviving teenagers are being killed. It is left to those still alive to find the saboteur before they too perish. Script Excerpt |
| 144 |
I'll Sleep When I'm DeadDetective Owen Murphy is on a mission to clear his name on a murder he didn't commit. But he must do it before he falls asleep... because the next time he does might just be the last time. Script Excerpt |
| 145 |
HARBINGERDetective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of another senior citizen, one of several over the past few months. This investigation will lead her to a place she's never been... and didn't know existed. Script Excerpt |
| 146 |
HOMEBOUNDAn idealistic young nurse is kidnapped by a psychotic family and must lower herself to their depraved level if she has any chance of surviving. |
| 147 |
CAUGHT IN THE ACTFilm noir domestic-crime thriller of love, passion, betrayal and revenge in Bel Air. A devious, corrupt L.A. businessman hires a talented young actor to seduce his beautiful wife as grounds for divorce, but when the actor and the wife fall in love, their arrangement spirals out of control into a double murder conspiracy. Script Excerpt |
| 148 |
THE TESTDebbie sets up seemingly disinterested husband Jim to test his fidelity, but things spin wildly out of control when Jim instead falls into a trap set by a team of dangerous con-artists ready to take him for a ride and everything he's worth. Script Excerpt |
| 149 |
TAKEN AWAYTwo 16 year-olds, one a foul-mouthed cutter, the other a church boy, become unlikely allies when they are snatched from separate states and brought to a remote hideaway by an inexperienced kidnapper and his mother who's fresh out of prison and terminal. Script Excerpt |
| 150 |
PEEPWhen two teen boys peeping in a beautiful neighbor’s bathroom window witness her murder, they are torn by how to deal with this shocking crime, and the choices they make bring their own well-being into jeopardy. Script Excerpt |
| 151 |
Last Train HomeDuring the last, fleeting beats of his pulse, a man seemingly put to death in Florida’s electric chair in 1999 is sent on a journey across time to confront himself as a rebellious teen and change the course of his dire destiny. Script Excerpt |
| 152 |
ARMED:STAYA grieving, young widow and mother will fight through severe depression and panic attacks to protect her family from a somewhat inept intruder who breaks into her home with a gun, a bullet wound, and an oxy addiction. Script Excerpt |
| 153 |
WhirlaboutA man returns home to care for his father who’s riding a downhill early-onset Alzheimer’s spiral, but dark secrets revealed about the family patriarch’s past shock him to the core, dramatically altering the course of the old man's care... as well as the direction of his own life. Script Excerpt |
| 154 |
Twisted FateA new variant of "mad cow" brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to identify the infected and stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in December 2022 by the Champagne Book Group and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt |
| 155 |
SWARMOne afternoon, a beekeeper miraculously transforms into a wasp-like superhero. Then he and swarms of wasps that follow him safeguard a city from crime, especially against three evil men who have created a thieving, destructive, manlike flying drone robot raiding the city. Script Excerpt |
| 156 |
BROKEN SPIDERlogline: A child psychologist is badly injured by one her patients, after a few years in rehabilitation she attempts to reclaim her life, but once again becomes terrified, as the same child now a teenager has returned determined to make her life a living nightmare. |
| 157 |
Spawn of EvilSix boys, sons of Auschwitz Nazi guards, have psychological behavior patterns and are selected for a particular education class; this leads to their post-war behavior of becoming serial killers and rapists of Jewish people and therefore sought by the Jewish hit squad, Nakam. Script Excerpt |
| 158 |
UNDER OLYMPUSA disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island. He discovers an underground medical clinic, a cover for a criminal operation making illegal designer babies for wealthy guests. He's forced to escape the island, protecting the lives of two women and and an unborn child -- his own. Available as both a feature script and a pilot/bible for a limited series. Script Excerpt |
| 159 |
CounterchanceAn FBI agent goes to any length to save his family. Script Excerpt |
| 160 |
IMPERVOSAn eccentric billionaire and his family struggle to escape from their subterranean luxury bunker when they are stalked by monsters that evolved during the Permian extinction and were set loose by the building of the bunker two miles underground. The monsters hunt the fleeing humans using "blindsight." Script Excerpt |
| 161 |
Bring it HomeTop FBI Agent is forced to fight inner demons, while combatting a terrorist organization that has kidnapped his daughter. |
| 162 |
The MuseA married writer going through a midlife crisis becomes infatuated with an uninhibited young woman he meets on the beach, finding inspiration through her as they begin a torrid affair...but he soon finds himself targeted by a killer who has also found her...inspiring. |
| 163 |
WatchAn L.A. homicide detective, who also rents spare rooms in his apartment building to aspiring Hollywood actresses, must prove his innocence when one of them is brutally murdered by someone bent on revenge, exposing the detective's voyeurism fetish. Script Excerpt |
| 164 |
The Teenage Bodyguard - TrueCrime/BiopicTrue Crime/Biopic - A cocktail waitress at the ruthless 1974 Tacoma mafia family's first topless club in town, must, after she witnesses them murder her bouncer friend, rely on a teenaged “bodyguard” to protect her from those seeking her death...including the county's corrupt Sheriff.? TAG - Sex, drugs & rock-n-roll meet sex, guns & mayhem. Producer Robert Mitas attached. 8 International Film Festival wins For more: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TeenageBodyguard/photos https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/the-teenage-bodyguard |
| 165 |
S.O.B.A Texas police dispatcher adverse to guns and violence discovers that his runaway teenage daughter has been kidnapped by human traffickers. He transfers as a cop to El Paso’s vice squad on a relentless mission to find her; his journey into the heart of darkness, the S.O.B. world of “sexually oriented businesses”, and his sinister evolution into a criminal mind and a man of violence. Script Excerpt |
| 166 |
Fair WarningThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt |
| 167 |
The Big CookieBurnt out detective, who is near retirement, in his attempt to solve a crime has to come to grips with a group of quirky social misfits, high jinx, danger and above all love. |
| 168 |
Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
| 169 |
Redwood TombA married, ambitious young assistant D.A. in Santa Cruz falls for a beautiful bohemian artist, unaware that she is also involved with a charismatic killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone and in Half Hour to Kill: https://halfhourtokill.com/home/saturday-night-off-by-linda-boroff. Script Excerpt |
| 170 |
ANGELSKINA brutal serial killer is on the loose pursued by seasoned detective John Harris. When he finds evidence suggesting a killer that might not be even be human, but a fallen angel, a lot more might be at stake - even the end of God, heaven, and the world itself! Script Excerpt |
| 171 |
ACTIVE MEASURES/WET AFFAIRS/DEPT 13When a KGB sleeper agent and ex-WWII U.S. intelligence agent turned New Orleans restaurant owner and family man is reactivated as a KGB spy seventeen years later for a Soviet active measures assignment involving Fidel Castro and JFK, the sleeper agent accepts the assignment, but tries to back out when his son’s lives are threatened; then he realizes the only way to survive is to take active measures on behalf of his family's side. |
| 172 |
La HaciendaAn interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead to renovate a hacienda owned by her parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past. Script Excerpt |
| 173 |
AvianaIn 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in fortified villages amid a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other terrifying life forms. Young soldier, WAGAR, loves LANITRA, the ruler’s daughter. Enemy raptor prince THOTOR is a secret lover of Lanitra’s sister BARI. When Bari betrays the village to Thotor, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt |
| 174 |
The Virgin EffectDaughter of a middle-eastern oil billionaire, drugged and raped at a UCLA frat party, contacts a young Beverly Hills surgeon to restore her physical virginity for her upcoming arranged marriage. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend devise a plot to blackmail the surgeon, threatening to put confidential information and a video of the procedure on the Internet. Script Excerpt |
| 175 |
GrizzlyAging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of millitary sabotage to impress a Dutch hacker chick and reclaim his status as the ruling terror of the Internet. Script Excerpt |
| 176 |
Riviera DriveThree Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. The tensions heightens when his rebellious 17-year-old daughter falls for one of the felons. Script Excerpt |
| 177 |
JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in an old gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises hell in the life of the tour guide, a Stanford student. Script Excerpt |
| 178 |
Sawney BeanAdulterous young husband facing criminal punishment in medieval Scotland flees into the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. Script Excerpt |
| 179 |
Space ReservedSlick, successful young ad executive thoughtlessly appropriates somebody's "reserved" space in a parking garage when bringing his date home and ends up taken hostage by three women bent on revenge for a long-suppressed middle school prank gone bad. Script Excerpt |
| 180 |
Sealed in Lies (adaptation)Adaptation by request of author Kelly Abell's Spy Romance novel, once optioned. Ducking bullets, bombs and real Bastards, deep undercover CIA officer is exposed to a Colombian drug cartel leading him to a plot against the US government. Along with the beautiful wife of a US Senator and his ex-Special Forces mate, they uncover the mystery man behind the plot known only as, The Emperor. Once optioned as a film but it failed to launch. |
| 181 |
SKYHANGERAction thriller set in a European ski resort. An American cat burglar with a recent fear of heights pulls off one last rooftop heist and steals a mysterious package. Crossing the Alps to deliver them to a mysterious banker, he's stalked by a clever female assassin. He evades her, using an innocent ski instructor and her students as a ruse, and boards a cable car. The assassin boards with them, when the lift is derailed in mid-air -- a skyhanger with unexpected twists. Script Excerpt |
| 182 |
WILD CARGOUpdated take on "Key Largo", character-driven underdog actioner for a male star. A maverick ex-convict drifter and habitual thief, alienated from society and prone to violence, bonds with the pacifist woman owner of a Louisiana monkey sanctuary. When animal smugglers invade her wildlife preserve, the ex-con is forced into a confrontation that finally redeems his lost humanity. Script Excerpt |
| 183 |
Unhallowed Be Thy NameA Massachusetts family unknowingly buys a home that was built on the site where witches were executed. Unbeknownst to them, the sentencing judge was an ancestor and payback is truly what they say! |
| 184 |
TapersFire allowed mankind to evolve. Candles gave him light and let him express his deepest passions. Put them together, and they create the perfect tool for murder. |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators to hide.
BRAVE HEARTS
In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
Lured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
All My Trials, Lord
In a drunken stupor a handsome young singer kills a taxi driver while visiting Spalding County, Georgia.
Playmate
In spite of her husband’s attempts to help her, a young female writer suddenly finds herself falling into a severe depression when snippets of painful suppressed childhood memories come out in her writing at the same time as the visit of her religious fanatic mother whose own haunting memories plague her causing both women to lose themselves in the process.
Jesus Called
Three women, one of whom is seeking what lies beyond death, live on a chicken farm in the rural South and attend a funeral for their neighbor who was eaten by a hog.
Tinker's Christmas
A clumsy teenage elf is ridiculed and alienated by other young elves when he fails every assignment until his mechanical skills are discovered after the reindeer develop chicken pox and Santa asks him to modify the train to deliver the toys which he does successfully with the help of an attractive female elf and a monkey.
Private Dancer
After her husband dies leaving all of his estate to another woman, a former middle-aged psychologist with the help of a friend opens a bar where they nurture those in their employ, each of whom faces challenging situations and must dance and sing as they attempt to keep their dreams alive.
Who's There?
A bizarre comedy within which a cynical, middle-aged woman is charged with caring for her eccentric mother and goofy sister who hold daily memorial services for husband/daddy's amputated leg.
The Experiment
Ambition, class prejudice and racism forever alter the lives of a poor white boy bound for delinquency and a young Afro-American athlete headed for stardom.
