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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
Troubloomby Darlene Anthony
Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Cupid'sby DJ Robbins
Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.
Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tapeby Bari K. Willerford
A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What If God Was One Of Us?by Adam Rocke
God assumes the guise of a homeless man to check in on humanity.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby Elliot Stanton
Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby Michael J Volpe
After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby Ian Patrick Williams
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Switchby Charles Hall
Tragedy strikes a group of young friends when the high school misfit introduces them to a risky new game called Switch.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ethan Watkinsby Peter
Ethan Watkins has fallen for Patty Hobbs, but two things stand in the way to true love: 1. Terry Hobbs, Patty's abusive husband. 2. plus the overriding fact that Ethan is dead, but little things like this won't stand in Ethan's way.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby Andrew Chisholm
Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man's mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stayby Sean Nash
Unable to cope with the prospect of his two sons watching him succumb to cancer as his wife did, a young surfer paddles out alone at night to suicide. As he sinks beneath the waves his connection with his late beloved becomes more focused, allowing him to re-evaluate not only the gifts inherent in her passing, but the importance of his boys sharing similar gifts from himself.
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cellby Bill Wyza
An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tears of Aphroditeby Peter J Bartels
As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You're Mineby DJ Robbins
An OnlyFans model encounters an obsessed fan who is currently stalking her.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 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
Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Furry Family Reunion [Extended Family Edition]by Amy
When a loyal Furry breaks Fandom protocol, he finds it impossible to rise in the ranks at FurCon, especially with his extended family in tow. More information here:
https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/furry-family-reunion-extended-family-edition
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chucklesby Doug J Robbins
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Moore 2by Doug J Robbins
This takes off where the original ends. Jeff is dead, and Clayton is now after Nick.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby Dewayne C Bricker
When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Listening Roomby Dewayne
A hospice nurse cleaning out a dead patient's house brings home an old baby monitor that suddenly begins speaking with the woman's voice. When the voice warns her that her abusive ex is outside and urges her to fight back, Mara must decide whether the dead woman is protecting heror preparing her to become the next voice on the monitor.
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Renewalby Darryl N. Layne
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby Elliot Stanton
A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime & Punishment 2121by Jim Norman
By 2121, the entire judicial system has been scrapped in favor of an AI controlled system. Punishment is unique, including the requirement of serving the sentence in the past. In this case, the Wild West.
Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
My Empty Lifeby Brandon Rhiness
Two cynical, broke teenagers embark on a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes to buy a used car, only to lose their ultimate prize to their own incompetence within minutes of achieving it.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Not for Saleby Davide Staffiero
During a business dinner at a luxury hotel, a man who will turn out to be an android dealer negotiates with a wealthy hotelier determined to replace his entire staff.
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Traphouseby Melissa Diane Hudson
Fueled by a bad breakup, two best friends create a Podcast where scorned women compete to tell the worst man-hating story, until a shocking confession derails their man-hating mission and challenges their definition of love.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Openingby Jon McDonald
At an erotic art opening, the patrons react, amusingly, to the sexy art. The Ice Queen gallery owner, Laura, ignored by her flirting husband, is approached by one of her young and sexy artists. He offers her the gift of exotic perfume, making clear he is seeking more. She evades him, but the perfume and the art open her up to new possibilities.
Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby Wendy Toliver
A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.
Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Horned Toadby Loren Davis
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eagle 12by Lamar D. Vine
In 1991 Panama, still reeling from U.S. invasion, a young Army MP investigator has one explosive weekend to crack a volatile case that spirals from routine call to career-threatening conspiracy, forcing him to navigate military politics, personal loyalty, and the razor-thin line between justice and chaos.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Over Darkby Alicia Renee Norman
After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby John Klawitter
Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sanctuary Rowby Lamar D. Vine
In the gritty underbelly of 1983 Las Vegas, a rebellious teen battles addiction, underground rock scenes, and haunting family secrets in a desperate quest for identity, forcing him to break free from destructive cycles and forge a path of raw self-redemption.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby Elliot Stanton
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other's company significantly more than seemed possible.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadows Among Usby Christine Lara
A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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