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Thriller Screenplays for Sale

Browse 6 professional thriller screenplays in the ScriptLix catalog. Each script is evaluated for cast size, location count, VFX needs, and overall producibility before publication. Read free sample pages, compare ratings, and own the full script from $6.99. Reader Access is the only licence sold; production, distribution and exclusive rights are not offered.

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Thriller screenplays in the catalog

  • PAID IN LEAD

    A classical Los Angeles noir built on a modern psychological reveal. Ex LAPD homicide detective Jack Morrison, now sixty two, runs a one man PI shop and takes a case from a beautiful client looking fo

    98 pages
  • THE STERLING METHOD

    Billionaire Howard Sterling is found dead in his sealed study on the seventy second floor of a Manhattan penthouse. One door, locked from the inside. No weapon. No exit. Detective Nora Kaplan seals th

    120 pages
  • FALSE SIGNAL

    Ana Vasic is a UN simultaneous interpreter at a nuclear treaty negotiation in Geneva. She is the only person in the room fluent enough in the Eastern European delegation's language to hear what no one

    96 pages
  • GRAMERCY

    A former CIA operative has spent six years living as a Manhattan architect, one of twelve residents with a key to the city's most exclusive private park. When his handler dies in that park at midnight

    99 pages
  • SOMNAMBULA

    Laura Chen is a pediatric nurse, and for six months she has been losing time in the middle of the night. Her husband David, a loving and attentive software engineer, installs a smart home camera syste

    107 pages
  • STOLEN FACE

    Claire Whitfield has spent eight years building a career, a marriage, and a firm with her name on the door. When a woman she has never met walks into her office with proof of being the original Claire

    106 pages

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PAID IN LEAD

Jack Morrison, sixty two, ex LAPD homicide turned private eye, takes a missing husband case that reopens a 2008 file he thought was closed. What he finds two days later is a body in a pool house, the dry blood of a killing he cannot remember committing, and a notebook full of warnings written in his own handwriting.

98 pages

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THE STERLING METHOD

The killer never left the room. He is the man helping the detective solve the case.

120 pages

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FALSE SIGNAL

ANA VASIC (36), a UN simultaneous interpreter working a nuclear treaty negotiation in Geneva, discovers that the Eastern European delegation she is translating is deliberately mistranslating their own position papers, rendering binding commitments as permissive suggestions in ways none of the other negotiating parties can detect. She brings her findings to her supervisor, files a formal complaint, and watches the institution protect itself in real time. With thirty-six hours remaining, her only options are compliance or a public act with no official standing. She chooses to place the original document in front of the treaty monitor panel during the signing ceremony itself. The signing is halted pending independent review.

96 pages

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GRAMERCY

Daniel Rourke has lived as Manhattan architect David Strand for six years, his CIA past buried under blueprints. When his handler Martin Lees dies in the locked private park below his window, an extraction operative arrives with perfect credentials. As Rourke discovers the method used to kill Lees points to her division, his neighbor is killed as collateral. A climactic confrontation in Gramercy Park reveals Lees already submitted the damning documentation to the Senate six months ago, making every subsequent operation evidence of a cover-up. Rourke boards a train to Chicago with no cover story and his own name written down for the first time in years.

99 pages

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SOMNAMBULA

Laura's husband installed the cameras to prove she was sleepwalking. On the tape, she sees him get out of bed, put on a wig, leave the house, come back, and say the exact sentence she has been waking up to every morning.

107 pages

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STOLEN FACE

A Seattle architect is running her own firm when a stranger arrives with a birth certificate, school records, and eight years of letters proving she is the real Claire Whitfield. Claire's perfect life was borrowed. Now the real owner wants it back.

106 pages