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Best Thriller Screenplays
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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 |
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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 |
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FULL CONTACTFULL CONTACT is a high-octane, adrenaline rush Action Thriller about a fearsome Super Bowl-obsessed linebacker who struggles to defeat his sworn enemy, an unhinged locker room psychopath out to destroy everything and everyone he cherishes in his life. ========================================= * Multi-award winning screenplay in the vein of 'Cape Fear' meets 'Any Given Sunday' available upon request once the Writer's Strike ends. |
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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 |
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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. |
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VisionsA teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer. |
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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 |
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The Chosen OnesSeven years after the disappearance of his son, a grieving father partners with the mother of another missing youth to hunt down those responsible—a sadistic backwoods cult operating under the nose of local police. |
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SOUL SURVIVORS, AN OBSESSION OF THE HEART PART ONEWhen a Woman unexpectedly appears after fifteen years, a man must confront the regrets he has always carried of running away from the only true love of his life. |
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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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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. |
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Rational PanicWhen a professor's wife, who suffers a panic disorder, disappears mysteriously during Mardi Gras, the professor obsesses on one of his students who's writing a play with a character eerily similar to his wife and may be in on the disappearance. Winner, Writers on the Storm; Top 16 scripts, Slamdance. Previously optioned to an LA production company. |
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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. |
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JENNA'S GONEWhen the isolated desert bar waitress they both love goes missing, an untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide find their friendship turning lethal as the two track across the desert after the kidnapper -- both suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance. Script Excerpt |
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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. |
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LIKE PULLING TEETHIn 1910 a New York City dentist accidently finds himself with a second job as a private investigator, and when during a simple divorce case he eavesdrops on one of the biggest country-changing secret meetings, he becomes a dangerous loose end. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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. |
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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 |
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A LITTLE FAVORThis week two discarded doomsday weapons that fell into the backside of the sun will explode on Wednesday 7 PM, causing major global warming, unless a blackballed fighter pilot, now a wild west show fast draw, does “a little favor” and retrieves the off-course bombs by then. Script Excerpt |
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SETTLING THE BOOKSA rare book dealer uses the reading of his will to seal heirs who he believes wronged him, in a panic room with no air or escape, unless they decode a mystery hidden in a centuries old book. Script Excerpt |
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Falling from the SkyA troubled teenager, originally known for being the kid who made up a lie about an astronaut falling from the sky after the Columbia Shuttle disaster, witnesses a murder but can't get anyone in his small town to believe him -- except the killer. Finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards |
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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 |
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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! |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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 |
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THE ORGANIC SVENGALIShe wants to connect with her dead parents by attending their alma mater; he’s a young genius coasting as a music history professor who cured himself of cancer, and is looking for a fresh mind now that the cancer has returned; their paths and wills are about to cross. Script Excerpt |
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Code RedA seventeen-year-old high schooler is frustrated by flaws he sees in the educational system and in his peers so he decides to commit a school shooting in order to lash out against them. |
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FINAL STATUSWhen a Mossad agent discovers he has assassinated a Palestinian politician falsely accused of terrorist ties, he risks his job, marriage and ultimately his life to help the man's family. QUARTERFINALIST, NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS WINNER, AMERICAN SCREENWRITERS ASSOCIATION |
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Ayden: The ExceptionalA brilliant young 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 |
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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 |
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The SurrogateA pregnant teenager is abducted by a deranged man who wants her baby for himself and his disabled wife. Script Excerpt |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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PAPER TRAILWhen a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his Grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado; his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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The Devil Next DoorA criminal defense attorney and his family are terrorized by an accused child molester that he defended. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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THE MIRACLE MANA soldier absorbs psychic powers during a mission gone awry and becomes the tool of a shady governmental organization. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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A Cry From the GraveA young woman's sorority initiation becomes a dangerous obsession to find a killer. Script Excerpt |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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I'LL DANCE ON YOUR GRAVEThe 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Last WomanAfter being tortured and raped in college, a young female scientist suffers PTSD. When her company develops a device that transports her to a universe free of people and fears, she discovers that every time she does -- she grows further and further away from her own reality and closer to the man who tormented her. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Terror On The RunHow do you wipe out a terrorist organization while also inspiring Arab Sultans in the Mid-East to join Western nations in a global war against international terrorism? Our heroes do it. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Whiskey ThiefWhen their Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour goes awry, two engaged couples join up with strangers, some unsavory, to seek shelter in the ruins of an abandoned distillery. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Taylor's KissesAn unemployed seamstress is referred by a friend for a mysterious job not exactly in her line of work. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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The lies that keep us aliveAn infamous surgeon's life begins to unravel as his past resurfaces. |
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Angel FaceAfter a foolish prank goes horribly wrong, disfiguring a teen for life, a high school graduation party aboard a secluded houseboat is the perfect place for revenge. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Satanic SantaA Holiday getaway for a couples quickly turns fatal as rituals and truths surface. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Catfish by the ThamesAn adulterous British couple creates a fake film production project to catfish a naive actress to frame the murder of the woman's husband. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Amitié AmoureuseWhile writing an inspiring biography of her Aunt, a novelist discovers her childhood diary and love letters that force her to investigate if she uncovered a romantic love story or a cold case of sexual abuse. Script Excerpt |
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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. |
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IkiryoA young black female detective is teamed up with an old-school Irish male cop as they struggle to solve the murders made by the Ikiryo, a ghost of vengeance, which draws her into the exploits of this mystical phenomenon. Script Excerpt |
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The Scarlet #MeTooA bestselling female author avenges her sexual abuser by reversing the #me-too dynamic to make the abuser feel the degradation and lifelong shame he dished out to others. Script Excerpt |
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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. |
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PORTAL TO HELLPORTAL TO HELL: the existence beyond the mind. a spirit. a ghost. a poltergeist. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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TEN LITTLE GUPPIESTen Silicon Valley yuppies all stand to become billionaires if they can survive a train ride from Quebec to Montreal. But murder is afoot. |
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God's Work: Devil's in the DetailsA poker game between old friends turns deadly when their childhood priest shows up, convinced one of them is possessed, but after an impromptu exorcism escalates, it becomes unclear just who is doing the devil's bidding and who is doing-- God's Work. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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PERIPHERYBaffled by unidentified corpses, including his own doppelganger, a world-weary detective with failing eyesight must utilize unique visions into an alternate universe to stop a serial killing cult leader. |
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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. |
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SLAVE PATROLA runaway slave must evade an evil posse of undead bloodsuckers and rescue his family from the plantation master, a powerful vampire out for revenge. |
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The MOTORMANA desperate group of late-night commuters, stranded in a subway tunnel, are systematically terrorized by an evil entity that knows their darkest secrets. |
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EXITAn alcoholic cop on the edge struggles to maintain his sanity when confronted by the wheelchair bound ex-con he shot and crippled for life years earlier. |
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Under My SkinAn ex-con tattoo artist snags a job inking seductive beauties for a shady businessman, but when the newly illustrated models turn up dead, he must solve the mystery, clear his name, and stay one step ahead of the cop who once put him away. |
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TRANSYLVANIA AIR FLIGHT 1313A cop transporting a thief back to Europe gets more than he bargained for when, once airborne and under a full moon, the prisoner changes into a werewolf, beginning a horrifying rampage at 30,000 feet. |
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God's WorkAn elite unit of Roman Catholic exorcists take on their most challenging target yet, the perfectly possessed president of the United States. |
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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. |
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The Fourth ReichModern-day Nazis steal the remains of Hitler from the Russian Secret Police (FSB) to clone kidnapped females and “resurrect” their former leader while be tracked by a female FBI agent who believes that the ends justify the means. |
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CONSCIENCEA newlywed man discovers that his elderly father-in-law is actually a cunning sociopath planning to kill him before the weekend is over. |
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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 |
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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 |
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ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. |
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SCARRED!FROM DARKNESS A LEGEND IS BORN. |
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REFLECTIONHEADS YOU LOSE AND TAILS YOU DIE. |
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ALONE!ALL THAT WE KNOW IS AT AN END. |
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The HealerA down-on-his-luck trauma ward surgeon is given a limitless power to heal by an enigmatic stranger, but there's one catch: He must kill one person every 30 days in order to maintain it. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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SEANCEA psychic is forced to use his unique skills to locate drug money, but when a slain kingpin's evil spirit possesses him, he must channel this vengeful entity to save his family and his soul. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTIONBank robbers, holed up at a roadside diner, face off against a mysterious customer while the cops surround them, but when hostages begin bursting into flames, they must confront an insidious evil within. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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The Prosecutor's WitnessLog Line, The Prosecutor’s Witness A Probation Attorney recently lost her father/mentor, then when she is diagnosed with cancer, represents an odd client accused of homicide. |
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Duty to WarnLegal thriller 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. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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 |
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Eyes of FuryA go-it-alone animal rights activist hot on the trail of tiger poachers must back up the lead of his multi-talented female partner when their pursuit of the animal trafficking reveals a far darker trade that threatens them both. Inspired by the medieval romance, Erec and Enide. [Received a 'Consider' rating from the reader for the TSL Free Contest.] Script Excerpt |
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In the virtual network of evilSara, at the urging of her friend, joins the portal. Here she meets the sexy but very dangerous son of a mafia leader, involved in human trafficking. |
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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 |
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Kevin's BookKevin lives a miserable life, but things change for the worse when he comes across a mysterious book that seems to know him better than he knows himself. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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On BoardA "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a pastor who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer. Script Excerpt |
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CounterchanceAn FBI agent goes to any length to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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Bring it HomeTop FBI Agent is forced to fight inner demons, while combatting a terrorist organization that has kidnapped his daughter. |
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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. |
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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 |
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The Teenage Bodyguard - TrueCrime/BiopicTrue Crime/Biopic favored by former Michael Douglas, producer Robert Mitas, of a remarkable seventeen-year-old who for a week protects a topless club waitress, witness to a mob murder in 1974. 2023 WINNER several contests not listed on Winningscripts: All Genre Screenplay Contest - Official Selection Brandenberg Int'l Film Festival - Outstanding Achievement Gold Start Movie Awards - Special Mention Thriller Script International Film & Script Festival Lotus for Best Crime Screenplay. Medusa Film Festival - Best Feature Screenwriting New York Screenwriting Awards - Best Feature Screenplay Honorable Mention New York Script Awards - Official Selection Tabriz Cinema Awards - Best Screenplay US Motion Picture Alliance - Best Unproduced Drama Screenplay Tag: Sex, drugs & rock-n-roll meet sex, guns & mayhem. For more: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TeenageBodyguard/photos https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/the-teenage-bodyguard |
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S.O.B.A Texas police dispatcher adverse to guns and violence suspects 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. The series follows a religious man’s journey into the heart of darkness, the world of “sexually oriented businesses”, and his sinister evolution into a criminal mind. Script Excerpt |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sawney BeanAdulterous young husband facing criminal punishment in medieval Scotland flees into the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. 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 determined to avenge a grammar school outrage. Script Excerpt |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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—but who can she trust to investigate her claim? 9 locations |
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Memories of You
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