Best Biographical Screenplays
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Doors of MiraclesA young woman’s faith is tested, she is filled with the Holy Spirit and transcended through the universe to the Heavens to be returned to Earth with the power to heal, a direct link to God, God speaks and The Holy Spirit intercedes her response. Script Excerpt |
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and The Devil called!The Devil is so confident of being accepted by God`s chosen-one he appears as himself with gifts and, `you will be my bride`, when rejected he sends in his tri-stepped-headed charcoaled alien goons to examine her brain. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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. |
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Murder in Emergency!A dedicated nurse fights to save her beloved hospital from closure until she`s alerted to patients being systematically murdered, then declares war against it. Script Excerpt |
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The Benefactor!A young businesswoman in an attempt to stem the murder/suicides on the land makes interest-free loans to farmers as predator bankers withhold her funds, steal her assets and send in hitmen to eliminate her. Script Excerpt |
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THE GREAT QUESTBased on the true story of the Buddha: The battles of a Prince who rejects riches and power, risking insanity and death, in a quest to find ultimate freedom. |
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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented Payton quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to prostitution. Script Excerpt |
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Surviving Sand IslandTrafficked, shipwrecked and abandoned on a treeless island in 1761, reluctant leader Semiavou leads a female society through 15 years of relentless adversity. Her inner strength rescues them back to colonial Africa until they escape once more to their true community. (True story) |
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The Dumb Ox BellowsA 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit. The extraordinary, true story of Saint Thomas Aquinas.- Script Excerpt |
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Hell Gate to Golden GateAlice Ramsey is on a mission to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, but a vengeful bank president, whose wife becomes a suffragette, isn't about to let that happen. |
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DUEL AND DEATHFamous Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, dies in a duel defending his and his wife's honor. Script Excerpt |
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The Ed Dennehy StoryEd always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary. |
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Young Man AriseThe true story of Brian Warth's journey from convicted murderer to powerful preacher! |
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Not About MoneyA gal of principle gets her career derailed, goes up against a large corporation with a discrimination lawsuit, and ultimately changes the culture for women in business. |
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The Redemption of John ParkerAn embittered former slave risks life and limb as an Underground Railroad “conductor” until, targeted for death by angry slave owners and a sociopathic slave hunter, he must confront and resolve his inner rage or bring tragedy on his family. Based on a true story. |
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ErikssonThe Viking Leif Eriksson, who, to prove himself to his legendary father Erik the Red, embarks on a dangerous voyage to find new lands and inadvertently discovers America. Script Excerpt |
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KASHINOA Japanese American sergeant, fighting to prove his Americanism, is awarded a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, six Purple Hearts... and a court martial. |
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RUNNING FROM DEATHTrials and tribulations of the notorious John Wesley Hardin. An 1800’s Texas gunfighter, who’s wit and gunfighting abilities are ferociously tested while John runs from death himself, who John believes is after him at every step throughout his life. Script Excerpt |
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A Red Madrasa School under MaoKids from cities arrive at production brigade during Cultural Revolution, seeing Red Guards interrogating intellectuals, demolishing Temples, turning Churches into pig farms, forcing Muslim hiding identities and dancer accidentally sitting on Mao’s Littler Red Book is stoned to death, but friendship with local kid sustains and question ‘why Principal carries binoculars at all times’? Someone vows to kill Principal who tortures his father. |
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“BILLYBALL”“BILLYBALL” describes the alcoholic tops-turvy life and death of NY Yankees controversial player/manager Billy Martin. |
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PITTSBURGH PHILBiopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a. Pittsburgh Phil, a notorious mafia hitman in the 1930’s, who rises from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most ruthless killers in Murder Incorporated. His lust for violence sets him on an inevitable collision course with justice. Script Excerpt |
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ODE TO FREEDOMAlexander Pushkin, Russia's most famous poet in the nineteenth century, overcomes internal insecurity to inspire the fight against serfdom and the Tsar. Script Excerpt |
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The VentureTHE VENTURE: -At the peak of hippie counterculture, a drug dealer and an ex-Army clerk embark on an adventure of free love, psychedelic drugs, and transient life with their like-minded friends, eventually leading to the birth of the first counterculture mall. Script Excerpt |
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Color Me CrookedThis is the true story of the meteoric rise and the catastrophic fall of the mayor of the City of Fall River Massachusetts, Jasiel Correia. He was elected at only 21 years old. In less than 6 years, he went from what some called The Boy Wonder to corruption kingpin. He stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from seven people that invested in his bogus smartphone app to fund his lavish lifestyle. He bought a Mercedes Benz for himself and his girlfriend, paid off student loans and credit cards, spent thousands on vacations, restaurants, clothing, dating services and adult entertainment as well as extravagant gifts for his girlfriend. Then he went on to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from area businessmen looking to set up marijuana dispensaries in the city. Correia was arrested twice while Mayor, brought to trial and eventually convicted of 21 Federal corruption charges. This is his story. |
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The Gentleman RankerAfter a thwarted suicide attempt, T.E. Lawrence reinvents himself as a nobody in hopes of saving his sanity, but finds that the world will not leave him alone. |
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL ALIENFictionalized autobiographical dark comedy about a UFO fanatic turned screenwriter on a rollercoaster ride of Hollywood success, failure and a nightmarish marriage that nearly destroys his career. The existential journey of an "alien" stranded on earth, from his teenage years raised by lesbians in the 50's to his adult struggles to survive in the film industry of the 70's through the 90's, to his globetrotting adventures as a miniseries writer from London to Morocco. All based on true events. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Script Excerpt |
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SnooksThe extraordinary true life story of Nate "Snooks" Gulliver, dancer and drummer extraordinaire, who played with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and other greats and was Billie Holliday's childhood sweetheart. Script Excerpt |
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Bass Reeves: Wild West's Biggest Unknown HeroIn this biopic that blends truth with fiction, childhood slave-turned-lawman Bass Reeves arrests his own son and some of the meanest desperados of the Wild West, only to stand trial on murder charges himself as the first black deputy marshal west of the Mississippi. Then, in a modern-day climatic twist, Bass appears in a séance meant to con a mother and her hero-starved daughter. |
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Post Your Script Here!The Cowbird
Marion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted.
Kibou
A tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII.
The Wayward Son
Orphaned after his father and other Chinese are murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
Visions
A teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders.
The Paper Route
On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.
Memories of You
After 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.
Child of the Disappeared
Maria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth.
IN A PICKLE
PETS, PICKLEBALL AND PAST ROMANCE AWAIT FOUR CAREFREE FRIENDS WHO ARE ENJOYING THE RESORT LIFESTYLE OFFERED BY GRANDE WATERS RESORT, A WORLD-CLASS, 55+ ACTIVE COMMUNITY LOCATED IN THE BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA SONORAN DESERT.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.