Loglines & Screenplays by Vladimir Romantsev

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

A retired detective, working his final case, realizes the serial killer he is hunting is his best student — a fellow detective who is a master at covering his tracks. When the old detective learns that his police colleagues refuse to believe another detective is the murderer, he decides to use himself as bait to save the people held captive in his student’s basement.

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

A young archaeologist has found herself in a tunnel where she is rapidly aging. To avoid turning to dust, she must decipher the laws of the temporal anomaly that is stealing her life—and she only has hours to do it.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Western

The greatest gold strike of the Rush is protected by creatures of legend. For a band of prospectors, the dream of fortune just became a fight for survival.

GENRES: Family, Romance

Stories of diverse individuals, united by a single desire – to create a cozy interior and choose comfortable, durable furniture for themselves and their families. The stories and destinies of the main characters become closely intertwined, forming close bonds and giving rise to new stories…

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

An autistic boy insists the snowman in their yard is a demon in disguise. When his mother realizes he's telling the truth, the neighbor children — already transformed by the creature — kill her and hunt the boy. Now, his survival depends on a seasoned detective, whose own daughter is autistic, believing his impossible story.

GENRES: Crime, Thriller / Suspense

Investigating the strange disappearances of famous bloggers, a detective discovers comics by an unknown author that detail the kidnappings and torture of bloggers. Realizing the comics' author is the true kidnapper, the detective heads to a forest bunker where, according to the plot of the comic, the bloggers will be "pranked" by a pack of hungry wild wolves.

GENRES: Military/War, Thriller / Suspense

After being stranded on the Titanic by a scientific experiment, a military engineer finds a door aboard the ship that leads him home. Realizing this world is a dangerous illusion, he must find a way to escape it in order to save his real family, who are now being visited by a phantom — an unknown entity from the Titanic that has become his exact copy...

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

As a result of a secret experiment, a military engineer finds himself aboard the Titanic, which has sailed from the past into the present. However, his time on the ship is gradually turning him into a phantom, and to avoid vanishing forever, he must find a way to get off the ship.

GENRES: Other, Romance

Wishing only to rest on a couch in the middle of a field, a lonely man sets in motion a chain of events that, years later, leads to the rise of an entire city.

GENRES: Action, Crime

A young owner of a security company, determined to avenge her father’s murder, plans to cleanse the city of assassins with her team of bodyguards, unaware that two of them secretly work for criminals and are now hunting her.

GENRES: Action, Thriller / Suspense

After a destitute student refuses the Masons' request, students at his university begin hunting him and his friend, forcing them to rely on the truth and a clear plan to survive.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

During an experimental hypnotherapy session intended to save their marriage, a married couple discovers a shocking truth about their past lives: he was the victim of a horrific crime, and she was his tormentor. When the trauma of the past erupts into the present, their reality turns into a struggle not for love, but for survival.

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Drama

A former detective investigating his journalist daughter's murder uncovers a conspiracy leading to a powerful Hollywood cult. When the cult kidnaps his stuntman son, he's forced to choose: save his last remaining child or expose the truth that got his daughter killed.

GENRES: Action, Thriller / Suspense

An awakened mannequin searches for a way out of an abstract world, battling demons that prevent him from finding a secret exit — one that will grant him freedom and liberate the other mannequins.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

In London, veteran Dick Hallorann discovers a new Entity that is infiltrating the military, intelligence agencies, and government to orchestrate terrorist attacks and wars. To save millions of civilians, Hallorann must convince the military and the government that this Entity is real.

GENRES: Military/War, Thriller / Suspense

Investigating the strange deaths of politicians in the White House, a seasoned detective discovers the culprit is the ghost of a Ukrainian soldier whose heart was transplanted into the U.S. President. The ghost will keep killing until the President reveals the whole truth about the war in Ukraine and the sinister pact between Putin, Zelensky, and Trump.

GENRES: Science Fiction, Thriller / Suspense

A renowned physicist decides to prove to his son that the Earth is not flat but a sphere, and plans to fly across the center of Antarctica. When his plane crashes into a dome, a media frenzy erupts, and secret government agents begin hunting the scientist’s son, who steals a wealthy man’s business jet and heads to Antarctica.

GENRES: Adventure, Science Fiction

A lone hermit accidentally discovers “Second Dune,” a planet teeming with sandworms and spice. But soldiers guarding its secret pursue him, determined to keep the truth hidden — a truth that could ignite a galaxy-wide war.

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

A wife is disillusioned by her husband, obsessed with a young webcam model, and decides to take revenge on her. But her vengeance turns into a tragedy, destroying the lives of others and her own.

GENRES: Drama, Family

A successful businessman and family man begins to feel like a woman trapped in a man's body and develops an attraction to men after a hypnosis session. In a desperate attempt to become himself again, he begs the psychologist for a second session. However, the reverse hypnosis causes his original personality to vanish, allowing a female essence to take full control—one that now wants to get rid of his wife and children.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

Forcibly having endured a student's pitch in an elevator, a famous film producer finds himself inside the world of that story — a nightmare where monsters rule the industry. To survive and return, he must reclaim his former military skills and decode the rules of storytelling.

GENRES: Family, Thriller / Suspense

A seven-year-old girl ventures into the mirror world to find her missing father, only to encounter copies of her parents who hunt her and prevent her from returning home.

GENRES: Mystery

A seven-year-old girl ventures into the mirror world to find her missing father, only to discover a realm of ghosts that steal children’s identities to escape into the real world — leaving the real children trapped forever in the mirror realm.

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Drama

Three young families dream of owning a home but face an economic system in which a house remains an unattainable dream, one that must be paid for with their entire lives.

GENRES: Family, Romance

An unknown screenwriter comes up with a revolutionary advertising concept for a furniture giant — unaware that soon the largest corporations will engage in a fierce battle for his idea, where only the strongest will prevail.

GENRES: Action, Drama

After a séance with a psychic, a young neo-Nazi recalls that in a past life he was a Black slave hunted by wealthy white men who killed his family. Now, when his own family is taken hostage by his neo-Nazi gang, he turns the hunt against them—reliving the past, but this time as the avenger.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

Fourteen years later, Alex Lilly finds a way to break the curse on his parents and classmates, only to discover that an ancient parasitic entity, once inhabiting his Aunt Gladys, has taken hold of them. When his classmates begin to kill themselves and their loved ones, Alex receives unexpected help from a phantom of his Aunt, secretly created by her during her life, who now aids him in saving his classmates.

GENRES: Adventure, Science Fiction

When the Federation begins exterminating the Insects for their resources, a lone soldier defies the system to protect the innocent creatures and save a girl who has telepathically bonded with them, now hunted by the Federation’s mercenaries.

GENRES: Action, Thriller / Suspense

IT specialists fired because of AI kidnap the daughter of their former company's boss, not knowing that she is a realistic android who starts hunting them and their children. 

References: Abigail + M3GAN

GENRES: Action, Drama

A pregnant wife takes revenge on her husband’s sexy webcam mistress, not realizing she is an AI assistant created by a hacker to gather dirt on wealthy men. When the truth is revealed, the couple must join forces to save themselves and their unborn child from armed hackers.

GENRES: Drama, Romance

A young woman, who lost her best friend in a street robbery, decides to avenge her. But after killing the culprit, she faces a bitter truth — he had a big family who needed him more than she needed revenge.

GENRES: Action, Crime

The ghost of a murdered gang leader possesses the body of a failed office worker and drags him into a war with the city’s biggest crime syndicate, to avenge his betrayers and save his family held hostage.

GENRES: Action, Science Fiction

A research vessel carrying scientists and androids arrives on an unknown planet, where the crew discovers abandoned Engineer laboratories destroyed by mysterious creatures. Now these creatures hunt the crew as well, forcing them to embark on a deadly journey to reach the escape ship.

GENRES: Art House, Drama

Orson, an office worker enjoying the solitude of his cozy office, hears cries for help coming from behind a wall. He discovers a secret door and steps into an endless dark corridor to rescue a girl trapped inside. As his office crumbles around him, he realizes this voice saved him—and now he must save the girl, who has been in a coma for three years and faces imminent euthanasia.

GENRES: Action, Crime

After moving to a new city, a former security company owner helps a pregnant widow and pits hitmen against each other, unaware that she’s being hunted by the wife of a killer her bodyguard once took down.

GENRES: Crime, Drama

A renowned doctor takes revenge on a detective-rapist by planting his DNA at a crime scene. But the vengeance turns into a nightmare when the detective kidnaps his wife, forcing the doctor to frame himself in order to save her.

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

A cancer-stricken detective uncovers a secret laboratory where living humans are used to grow organs for the elite, and realizes that it is just one of many such farms controlled by the government and corporations, who now have him in their crosshairs.

GENRES: Drama, Mystery

A teacher makes a deal with a lake entity, sacrificing other children to save her own daughter—but in doing so, she turns the girl into a monster ready to devour her own mother.

GENRES: Action, Science Fiction

After receiving a promotion, an engineer learns from his own copy that he’s not headed for a new position, but for eternal slavery on a human farm. Together, they must steal the evidence and destroy the farm while the corporation hunts them down.

GENRES: Animation, Science Fiction

A team of scientists arrives on a lifeless planet — only to encounter their own doppelgangers, who subject them to cruel experiments that transform the scientists into monsters.

GENRES: Horror, Mystery

A lonely night janitor tells stories to mannequins in a shopping mall, unaware they come alive, listen — and turn his tales into deadly reality.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

A young journalist searches for her spy father at a secret American base in North Korea, unaware that he is being turned into a monster through brutal experiments.

GENRES: Crime, Thriller / Suspense

Investigating a series of murdered screenwriters after the Hollywood strike, a detective follows the trail of a failed director, unaware that the real killer has been beside him all along—writing the next murders in his red notebook.

GENRES: Drama, Science Fiction

A Soviet engineer from a parallel world must find artifacts from myth to stop the Inorganic Beings that destroyed his reality — and the deadly double they’ve sent to kill him

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

A female archaeologist discovers from an ancient book that all humans are sleeping monsters sharing a collective dream. Desperate to wake herself and her daughter, she realizes her daughter is no longer human—and now wants to devour her.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

A young psychiatrist discovers that he exists in all of his patients’ stories — and one of them turns into a nightmare, where he is trapped in the hospital and hunted by monsters from his childhood fears.