Best Romance Screenplays
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BORDERLINE JUSTICERita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom. |
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SOUL SURVIVORS - AN OBSESSION OF THE HEART PART ONEStruggling with addiction and a failed relationship, Aaron abandons his troubled life for a new beginning. Fifteen years later, he unexpectedly crosses paths with his former love, reigniting old emotions, but his new life threatens to destroy their rekindled connection. |
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Forever YoungDuring a hostage crisis, an enigmatic man calms his fellow hostages by telling them the story of his one true love and the incredible events that came before it, beginning in the 1500s when he drank from the Fountain of Youth. Script Excerpt |
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In the CardsA down to earth, girl next door, piques the interest of a rough around the edges, men's club president. |
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OPEN YOUR EYES, DUDEConfronted with the choice between happy bachelorhood and old job, or marriage with eyes toward the Senate and President, a playboy surgeon has one week to find the right woman. (Previously titled, TRICIARELLA, WHO ARE YOU?) |
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A Whisper From the WavesLong ago there was a love that transcended life itself. A mighty Valkyrie of Odin falls in love with a mortal man, but the jealousy that their passion creates in those around them will ultimately lead to their undoing. |
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LOVE, MYSTERIOUSKolby's the top agent of Cupid, who happens to be a beautiful young woman, but Kolby's on the verge of losing his job, and Cupid's on the verge of dying, if he can't reunite a special pair of reincarnated soul mates before a deadline causes love to disappear from earth. |
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LABYRINTH OF DESTINYDuring the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. |
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GreenmanA rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world. |
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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution and death by age 39. Script Excerpt |
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Russian RomanceOn tour with the visiting Russian Circus During the Cold War, a carefree American jazz pianist romances a beautiful Russian high-wire artiste, but the comic clash of cultures turns serious when the vindictive KGB tour director sends her home in shame, and the American must fly to Russia to bring her back Script Excerpt |
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Jane, The Legend of Mountain CharleyA woman in the 1850's gives up her children to The Sisters of Mercy, changes into men's clothing and spends the next twelve years looking for her husband's killer. She was fifteen years old and this is a true story. Jane is an award-winning script. |
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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. |
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Beyond ForeverReeling from a devastating personal tragedy, a man abandons his successful career, family, and friends to embark on a one-way journey to Mars through an avant-garde space exploration initiative. |
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A Journey With DestinyIn 1906, a young man’s journey by automobile leaves him stranded in a remote mining town about to erupt into a battle royale between company goons and radical labor. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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Faithful Wife and HookerAn outraged, prudish wife avenges her frustrated husband’s "intentional adultery” by disguising as a hooker and blackmailing him for cheating (!), which sets off a series of mutual deceptions that upon discovery ironically amends the couple’s mutual failings and restores their marriage. Think War of the Roses with a happy outcome! |
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WHITE DEVIL OF SHANGHAIRomantic war adventure set against the backdrop of World War II China. Two mismatched fugitives of war, a jaded American newsman and a strong-willed Jewish refugee girl, escape Japanese-occupied Shanghai to reach Free China. They evolve into unlikely heroes among the Chinese, one as a mercenary destroying lives, the other as a Red Cross miracle worker saving lives. Their stormy relationship ultimately brings them together to save Shanghai's Jewish refugees from Nazi extermination. Script Excerpt |
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MR. JOE PRESIDENTJOE GRANT, an honest, tough firefighter who defies death in raging infernos, risks his life running independently for President against the political Parties, assassins and an incensed, almost father-in-law, ex-Governor. |
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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. |
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Private DancerAfter 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. During their Christmas celebration, some of those dreams come to fruition. |
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Shades of SinA woman is caught between two men and their long-standing feud with each other. |
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BELLE AND THE BLOOD BEASTA revisionist horror take on the classic fairy tale for young adults -- equal parts romance, action and gore. Belle, a modern, independent beauty rebelling against the man's world of 17th-century France, is forced to live in an enchanted castle to save her father's life. She becomes the defiant prisoner of the Blood Beast, a lonely nobleman cursed with a monstrous body and a predatory savagery powerful enough to hunt and kill twenty men. Both are transformed by a strange, complex love that's threatened by outside forces led by Victor, a cold-blooded cadet captain so obsessed over Belle that he'll destroy them both. Who the true beast is evolves in dark, twisted ways. A romantic horror-thriller date movie, R-rated for violence, not a Disney family movie. More in the style of "Red Riding Hood", "Gretel and Hansel" and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Script Excerpt |
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Graduate SchoolEight theatre students meet and form bonds at a mid western graduate schoool where sexual predators roam the hallways calling themselves staff and faculty |
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Falling In Love With LoveBart McClelland has a good life; he's got a Medicare card and the latest in collapsible posture canes. And Glynnis, his longtime friend-without-benefits, may at last be paying attention to him! Can he finally persuade her that he owns a pair of testicles? Script Excerpt |
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A Bullet For God's BountyIn a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man. |
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IllicitIn a daring escape from their high-stakes corporate lives and familial responsibilities, two married executives find themselves entangled in a passionate affair at an upscale hotel. As the day unfolds, they are confronted with intense, heart-wrenching decisions, balancing their undeniable chemistry against the looming consequences of their actions, ultimately facing a pivotal choice about the future of their illicit romance before the day's end. |
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AssimilationA fake marriage turns into real love by British bride and Chinese groom. Honeymoon at Mongolian moorland is combined with debates of history, religion, plagiarism and smoking of marijuana. Street signs are bilingual but no one reads Mongolian confuses bride. Award Winner of Best Script Award London 2021; Award Winner of Butterfly International Film Festival France 2022; Award Winner of Phoenix Short Canada 2021 Early 1990s, Chinese university graduate Ruiming encounters first obstacle, passport applying when planning studying overseas. Sophia, a British student expects to stay for another year in China. They decide to get married. Honeymoon starts in Mongolia. They meet a teen who offers a feast arranged by his father. After trapped in nowhere in Gobi Desert, the young couple is rescued by Chinese People’s Liberation Army. |
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Just In Time for ChristmasLance and Heather denied their love for each other since they were kids. Being home for The Christmas put them in the spirit of love and exposes their long-lived façade. |
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Christmas Under the MistletoeLogline: When a beautiful marketing pro learns her boyfriend/boss has betrayed her, she must find a way to trust men again in order to find love at Christmas, while trying to make a million dollars for her new boss. Pitch: Christmas Under the Mistletoe is a family-friendly rom-com with several socially relevant themes that has Christmas everywhere, a little bit of magic, a little bit of music, and an uplifting ending. It keeps production costs low by being set in the present day, being primarily set in one location, having only 10 speaking parts, and no CGI. Script Excerpt |
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Love in PandemicSANTA, the central character is infected with corona virus and this he plots as a weapon in killing his lover RIDDHI'S fiancee RAHUL. |
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MADNESSSTUCK IN A SHARE-HOUSE - two couples struggle to get on with each other’s living standards... |
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We Were Young OnceA highly principled and attractive teenage girl finds neither her principles nor attractiveness sufficient to meet life's challenges. Script Excerpt |
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CRYSTAL CLEARA naïve young woman must take an unusual road trip if she is to unravel her parent’s secret past. Along the way she falls in love but the trips unexpected revelations threaten her new-found relationship. |
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On BoardA "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a priest who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer. Come on board for the cruise of a lifetime. Script Excerpt |
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Once YoungTwo parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence. Script Excerpt |
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BETTING REDA down and out lottery-winning statistician bets it all on love at first sight with a Las Vegas casino pianist when kidnappers snatch her for ransom. |
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LOVE SITETwo aging divorced screen legends reunite for one final film while being stalked by an unknown killer intent on preserving political aspirations. |
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KICKERKarate Kid meets West Side Story. An interracial teen romance is caught between two gangs of skateboarders and BMX racers in a park turf war. An Indonesian kickboxer and the white sister of the skateboard leader fall in love against her brother’s wishes. When the turf war turns violent, he has to rescue her brother from a dangerous drug ring. A martial-arts action drama of teen love, rage and betrayal. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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WrenchedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. He idolizes Sam Bankman-Fried like a rock star. But the company turns out to be a floundering home repair business whose owner faked a requisition to get a financial whiz aboard. About to leave in disgust, the wannabe falls for the receptionist, a runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. He joins the rough team of under-rated outcasts and learns how to repair things, including his mercenary sense of values. Script Excerpt |
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THE OCTOPUS CHARMERA unique tale of nationalism, love, and magic set on the beautiful island of Guam during the WWII Japanese occupation. Good prevails! Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!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.
The March of the 18th
In 1864 the Veteran Reserve Corps was formed to allow disabled Union army men to continue to perform their duty for God and Country.
ELECTRIC
After being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love.
OVERPASS
When a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
L.A. Detective Owen Murphy is on a mission to clear his name on a murder he didn't commit.
HARBINGER
Detective 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.
THE TEST
On an anniversary trip to San Fran Debbie 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.
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
A model whose career is fading gets a much-needed vacation and a new outlook on life when she hides out at a Florida beach house with an “odd couple” of twenty-something brothers who are 100% convinced she's a hooker.
DOWN WITH DAD
A 3-time Man of the Year dad Dave McNabb tries to teach his teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.
TAKEN AWAY
Two 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.
