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Cheers To Temptationby  Maria
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
When a husband's solemn promise to abstain from alcohol clashes with his wife's celebratory mood at a bar, he must navigate a hilarious game of temptation and wit as he tries to conceal his relapse, only to find that his clever wife is one step ahead in this uproarious battle of wills. Low Budget, 1 interior location. Tiny Cast.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Decompositionby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024
Cameron is a cutter on the verge of homicide, accepting his girlfriend will continuously cheat on him.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Soarby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A grieving girl endeavors to fly on a paper aeroplane.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nothingby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2025
Wanting to buy his fathers freedom, an Evil oil baron bullies land owners to hand over everything they own or be killed.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Not?by  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night Skyby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
In a not too distant future, a Mother, daughter, and Grandfather try to survive life on another planet after fleeing a planet Earth that has become uninhabitable.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Boneyardby  M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
After receiving numerous letters from a prison inmate, a renowned children's author agrees to meet him for a conjugal visit.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Promiseby  Anthony Crossen
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023
When a cop learns of his wife's affair with someone close to the family, his only choice to protect his family is outside the law.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Grannyby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A female army veteran takes back gun to avenge her grandson.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Of The Butcherby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
During a bank robbery bandits kill Eliza, a bank employee, while her husband a killer with the nickname "Butcher" executes an order to kill a corrupt politician. After returning he learns about the death of his wife, who did not know anything about his work. Now his task is to find and deal with all cruelty.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sin Eaterby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
A grieving husband hires a sin eater to cleanse the soul of his dear departed wife, a recently executed witch.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Do I Put Up with You?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 09 May 2025
A young woman wonders why she puts up with her extremely flawed boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
WTF?by  Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alone with Himselfby  Anastasiia
Date Posted: 14 May 2024
What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thrill in Manilaby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2025
In 1975, the fight of the century occurs in Manila with Ali's stream of consciousness descriptions.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Z-Townby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
When the letter Z is set to be removed from the alphabet, several brave residents of Z-Town - including Zack, Zebra, Zucchini and Zipper - must prove that Z is essential. (Animation/Web series pilot.)

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Moors: The Freedom Fightersby  Tirrell J. Paxton
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2024
During Medieval Spain, a tyrannical King holds hostage a debutante from a noble family. A Jewish ally flees and evades knights to inform her father of his daughter’s predicament. The Jewish crusader and Count seek military assistance from the Moors in North Africa to liberate the debutante and Spain from oppressive Gothic Rule!

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sundays with Ethelby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2025
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Escortsby  Kami sadraei
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Struggling to pay for his mother’s hospice care, a down on his luck actor gets dragged into the violent criminal underworld of Los Angeles by getting a job driving 2 escorts.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kid From Tomorrowby  Charles Webb
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2024
Why would a 10-year-old girl stalk a nice guy like Harold and try to ruin his life?

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
House for Saleby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicelessby  Janice Foster
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Swapby  Evgeny Kim
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2025
When a man agrees to lend his body for a day so his girlfriend can see her brother again, he discovers too late that the “brother” is an imposter and that his own compassion has cost him his life.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out Of The Rainby  Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
A man takes pity on a woman and her baby sheltering from the rain, but lives to regret it.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Worst of Timesby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
But I never really said, "Let them eat cake." Everything that's happening is not my fault. Too late. The revolution is here. You and your kind are doomed. Marie Antoinette or Melania Trump? You decide.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2025
A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffled—Mondays 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
Clown of Sienna Fallsby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2025
A crazed clown stalks the people of Sienna Falls.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Attachmentby  Susan Adair Harris
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2024
Encountering the savvy young soul of a boy called Tiny brightens the space between life and death for a car crash victim until the parasitic spirit of a dead man marks her for possession.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Christmasby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
Every child deserves to see Santa at least once... even if it means the end of the human race.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elderly Influencerby  Eric Faulkner
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2024
As they both coupe with the tragic loss of loved ones, a social media crazed grandmother is forced to adopt her introverted Gothic, Emo, granddaughter in a high stakes game of virtual versus real life experiences.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crunch Timeby  Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
When two octogenarian corporate honchos discover a 13-billion-dollar shortfall mere hours before the company’s annual Board meeting, the two Old Guys (or Women) must thrust aside their aluminum walkers and mutual hostility, and LEAP into action.

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Trespassingby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman’s drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Eavesdropperby  Charles Webb
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2024
On a late-night train ride, a comic book loving kid overhears a sinister plot.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Living in the Pastby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.

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