70+ FREE Movie & Indie Film Ideas

6 min readOct 3, 2022

Ideas for films, movies, cartoons, television shorts, series and more! Majority of these great ideas come from Reddit, so all direct inspirations will be credited by each user, thank you!

Any of the following ideas can be categorized into its own genres of action, ARG, fantasy, mystery, entertainment, music video, horror, Sci-fi, comedy, experimental, drama, romance, sitcom, thrillers, video-game cutscenes, and many more!

Immortality with psychological horror of redoing everything in your life since birth, since your body resets back to it’s baby form
There’s houses within your own house, but the deeper you go, the more crazier and horrifying the exploration gets
Grand Tour biker sees ghosts on his exhibition
Story-telling space creatures tell tales of grand adventures and true horrors
u/wakenm: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16f7tp/comment/c7vgmnk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Lucid dream test listening to music while you sleep.
VR Knife fight sport tournament
The woman of someone’s dreams coming out to reality
Heroes stopping the apocalypse from an older, old-headed hero
Blind samurai and martial arts specialist takes on the world’s most destructive forces!
Your mom is a secret alien protection hero!
A talking stone man giving ancient warnings to lost kids in the forest
u/heartbreakcity: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/47tc6w/comment/d0fitlp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Grand Tour featuring OC or cartoon crossover-platform characters
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/16f7tp/comment/c7vhot7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Man can talks to inanimate objects that are products for his business; the talking products give advice for his upcoming success
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fqe3nx/comment/flq38n9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Movie Setting: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/v42gno/abandoned_warehouse_i_might_go_in_with_my_nikon/
Android girl nurtures animals away from a mysterious, malicious force: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalArt/comments/v3yhhj/my_android_girl_series/
Old dog teaches wisdom to younger pups
Time travels repair old technology, cars, and machines to improve their future more: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/v3ywpq/1973_mercury_cougar_amongst_many_other_cars_in_an/
Winter romance scene by a frozen lake: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalArt/comments/v3zmcg/thawing_winter_lake_me_procreate/
Mystery in a jar
Accessing the circles of hell via planetary portals
Girl escaping a haunted hotel & library with magic spells
Lesbian telling her fictional life story through a typewriter
Explicit adults workers overthrowing their government
Buildings moving mysteriously overtime
Story of a daughter’s family kingdom fueled by self destruction: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalArt/comments/v45xzg/red/
Life changes as the characters grow up + Longer version of a documentary on YouTube
House is a portal to an alternate dimension, but in this dimension, your house isn’t your home.
A girl whose family members are all immortal who’s sister is a vampire and her mother is a witch. She must deal with the everyday struggles of her life while learning that her father is also immortal.
Ghosts of the future to show you what will happen if you choose the wrong path
House is a portal to an alternate dimension, but in this dimension, your house isn’t your home. It creates magic that goes awry and creates chaos
Life journey and cycle with a talking plant!: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalArt/comments/v44331/little_illustration_i_made_which_do_you_relate_to/
Monsters on a moon exploration
A reality TV show, where a group of reality TV personalities compete in a series of challenges for money, fame, and other prizes, the “it” contestant is secretly an unidentified monstrous humanoid that acts and looks like an average human.
2. A short film about a woman who, after being attacked in a parking garage, goes to a “Hannibal Lecter” style doctor and tells him everything about her life and that the attack was the reason why she had to kill her husband.
3. A horror movie where a guy who recently moved into a new neighborhood finds out that there is a secret organization who is after him.
A POV story where the main character is your neighbor.
A music video where an up and coming pop singer wants to shoot a music video, but the budget is small, so he has to get other people to appear in it for free.
A film where a man tries to get a job at the CIA, but he doesn’t know how to answer the questions they ask.
A music video series starting off as a guy checking his fridge, falling down a lucid trip rabbit hole.
A documentary about an artist who paints a mural on a wall, then things escalate as their message becomes more distorted by the media.
A video game cutscene where the main character fights an extremely powerful boss, but can make the previous bosses his allies and kill the final one.
A horror film about a couple who get trapped in their car while it is raining, then after the rain, they get out and are in a new world.
A lesbian love story that ivolves boxing in a cyberpunk world
A comedy about a man who is trying to figure out why his neighbor is always stealing things from him. The twist is that it’s a cartoon-like character that needs things for his world, from the real world.
A short film where a man who is very depressed over his life decides to commit suicide, but once in the building, it trabsforms into a golden tower, full of multiple rooms and events that makes him forget it all.
Killer landlords
A teacher who is a recovering alcoholic and has decided to quit drinking, and receives a surprise for her students after they find out.
Short film series where it constantly plays of the different themes & variations of anxiety
A girl whose family members are all immortal who’s sister is a vampire and her mother is a witch.
Scary demonic figure haunts you to get you to solve puzzles in an open world
A black market that forces teenagers to do terroristsic threats for cash
The art of tarot cards & incorrect philosophy that creates conspiracy around a small town
A mother must challenge death in order to get her daughter and husband back
An underwater action movie where aquatic characters must defeat a water Satan-type.
A false Christmas tree that lures unsettling creatures to their home for all 25 days.
A drunk driver that has the ability to time travel, turns into a hero, and recruits his dead victim, now alive on his timeline, as his sidekick to cope.
Heroic video game character in a realistic, human world; he suffers from injustice too.
A never-ending war with… jellybeans
A society where anamorphic animals abuse humans in trafficking, however robots have to save the humans instead.
Rise of the robot rebellion, but they have to deal with climate change too.
First person perspective for a parkour, deadly murder investigation
Black and white horror short film with a twist ending that ties into the middle of the story.
Android anime girl series
POV story of you being in a cult. As punishment for not being faithful to your religious faith, you are set to rot on a cross for 90 days until someone rescues you.
Man in a truck that drives and flies through the city, but doesn’t go anywhere.
Flying through the city in a truck
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f5aq3e/how_did_you_find_yourself_in_a_movie_or_tv_show/
Old couple in a fantasy world
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f4f82
1 billion people that are “lower life” are haunted, while the rest of the billions stay alive
What if dinosaurs were world leaders?

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