Modern story ideas

1. Story of a man from boyhood as he finds he has a talent for conflict. As a boy leading his friends in a series of fights against older bullies. As man men leading his troops in the army in a series of conflicts. As an old man leading a revolution against a regime in a series of conflicts
2. 4 love stories as 2 couple break years into a marriage each having children and each gets together from one of the people from the other separation
3. Story of men and women living in modern age New York having flash backs of the different cults each grew up in as it affects their relationships as grownups after finally getting out
4. Story of a special school where the brightest children are sent to be taught by the smartest teachers in the world. There are only 10 spots at a time. The teaching is broadcasted to the entire world as a reality show
5. Story of a man told in flashback starting his wife dying as an old woman. As he is devastated with grief he remember the worst tragedies in his life and how he managed to go on living after each
6. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer the rich of the biggest city in the world Isolate themselves in a small part of the city and build a wall to keep the rest out. The poor sneak in steal their children and ransom them to the rich. Protagonist of the story is a former detective who is hired by the rich to negotiate the return of their children and get the back by any means necessary
7. Story of a treaty to unify all the countries in the world into one union. The man leading the move dealing with the obstacles in the way
8. 3 stories of homeless children growing up into adulthood. One becomes a president. One becomes a criminal and one becomes a whore
9. Story of a therapist who helps people unlock repressed pasts by talking about their dreams
10. Story of a researcher who finds out the if he sacrifices 100 people he can find the cure to cancer and his dilemma with it
11. Story of a researcher managing to bring a person back from Alzheimer using advanced mind exercises
12. Story of 3 suicidal people who failed to take their own life. They are sent into a community led by a man who tried to take his own life several times and failed and found purpose in helping others come back from the despair
13. Around the world the belief in money is suddenly lost. And people have to find a way to deal with the chaos
14. Story of a doctor who invents the cure for blindness. He loses his data of the miracle cure and only has 10 potions. People come to him from all over the world and he has to choose which to give sight to
15. Story of a man becoming a cop in the pursuit of his ideals of justice. As he witnesses the corruption and injustice of the system he at times sides with the criminals. Eventually he takes the place of the head of a criminal organization and turns the gang into the peacekeeper of the community. Protecting it from the cops
16. Story of a boy thrown to streets as his parents are gunned down climbing to the top of the mob
17. Story follows a detective in a city where homeless children are payed with food to carry out horrible crimes
18. Story of the richest man in the world buying an island and starting his own country
19. 7 sisters grow up in house with a handsome neighbor older man. The story follows the youngest and the discovery each of her older sisters in turn fell in love with the man and he broke her heart
20. Story of 3 people trying to cope with impending death. One with their own. One with that of their lover. One with that of their child
21. Story of a new dominant religion forming in the world. And how the old religions deal with their followers abandoning them
22. 2 stories both of a man and a woman deserted on an island. One fall in love. The other grow to hate one another and each tries to kill the other to not run out of food
23. Story of a boy forced by older gang member to choose which to shoot amongst captured rivals of the other gang. Story tell the future to follow depending of his choice which boy to shoot. All leading to the same end. The electric chair looking back on his choice
24. Story of a boy growing up into a psychologist. Showing the social experiments he did as a child and the one he still make with the people closest to him as an adult
25. Story of a writer a musician and a painter stretching throughout their careers. Their heights and lows.
26. Story of a boy whose family was murdered an the killer walked away due to the justice system growing up to be a judge and finding himself forced to let killers go
27. A small town is isolated from the rest of the world due to heavy snow. 3 murders are committed on different circumstances and the people have no patience for justice to be served. Mayor of the town is appointed judge and must decide the sentence and fate of the accused in each of the 3 cases less people take the law into their own hands
28. Story of a man’s relationship with women throughout his life. Each time he makes a mistake that ends the relationship. Learning from it he doesn’t make it in the next one. At last finding a woman and managing to hold onto her
29. Story of a detective whose wife is killed. The most famous writer in the world write a story about it and gets too many of the details right. The detective goes though the previous works of the writer chasing his theory the stories were written before the acts
30. Stories of 3 politicians starting as idealist and being grinded down to playing the game of politics saying only that which will keep them in office
31. Stories of 3 scientists struggling with ethical questions as they are on the verge of breakthroughs in their fields
32. A law is passed making the United States follow a communist ideology. Former capitalist struggle with the new equality of wage and lifestyle
33. A law is passed in the United States bringing back the days of the Wild West in modern times. All are allowed to carry guns and duels on the street are made legal. Story of a younger boy with the fastest hand in the west
34. A terrorist planted explosives around the world of escalating capacity and makes escalating ridiculous demands of countries less he pulls the trigger. In his arsenal are also nuclear bombs and bombs capable of wiping out an entire world and the last bomb capable of wiping out all life on earth
35. The world is divided the Homo sapiens Neanderthals and other verities of men evolutions. Dominance of the Homo sapiens and extinctions of the rest occurring in modern times rather than millions of years ago
36. A comedian’s wife dies and he loses his ability to laugh. He goes back into the world ln search for the humor in life
37. 3 men fall in love with the same woman who asks them for escalating deeds in competition of one another
38. 3 friends fall in love with the same girl in high school who asks them for escalating deeds in competition of one another
39. Story of a series of meeting of psychiatrist and a schizophrenic patient of his. As he prescribes him experimental drugs in attempt to alleviate his disorder
40. Story of a psychiatrist and the cases in his career that made him famous
41. All of money goes digital. Due to a loop hole in the code all of it is wiped out and the world is left to figure out what to do
42. A happiness drug is invented and people are forced to choose between happiness and ambition
43. A city is built in the middle of the ocean. Where all criminals are sent. Story if of a new felon and his climb from being a fresh fish to the top of the food chain
44. New models of global warming show extinction a year away. And countries are forced into quick decisive actions
45. Story of a man to own all the oil in the world to force the world to rely on alternative sources of energy
46. A third world war erupts as Russia invades Poland
47. A boy finds his empathy allow him to always know what people are feeling. He grows up to be detective
48. Two boys grow up as best friends. They are very good at getting secrets out of the other kids and adults too. Both get a secret from another kid each betrayed the other and they stop talking. The dominate their high school as rivals using the secrets they know about the other kids to get them to do what they want
49. A man with split personality disorder. Each taking control for years at a time. Each time waking up to see what the other has been up to
50. A group f of lawyers get to get together to offer a new constitution for the United States
51. A therapist fins a technique to make his patient to implant memories into people. He struggles how to best help his patients
52. Only one rich country remains in the world. They rest live in poverty. Story is of the choices made in that country as to the others. Which to arm against the other. Which to help. Which to give medicine to
53. Story of an inventor inventing devices starting at childhood and into adulthood
54. Prison ship crashes on an island. All the adults die the children survive. Some of the prisoners survive but are in cages. Kids divide into groups each led by the wisdom of the evil prisoner from inside the cage
55. Two enemy countries each captures several prisoner soldiers of the others. As negotiation develop for the exchange each in turn gathers a group of psychologists to make experiments on its prisoners. New of the experiments broadcasted all of the world. And each escalates as payback
56. A man gets out of prison and seeks out the family of the man he shared a cell with. The man died in his cell, but not before telling the man all of his secrets. The prisoner extorts the various members of the family as they try to gauge what it is they know about them and what are the secrets of the others
57. Story of two identical twins as they grow up and how they trade places in difficult times in their life. Like one taking a beating for the other.one going to jail for the other. One going to a psych ward for the other. One going along with the gang of the committing a murder the other doesn’t have it in him to commit
58. Story of two friends who kill people in the life of the others they deem harmful to them never telling them
59. A man brain injury whose memory works with several malfunctions develop methods to function in the world and becomes a memory champion
60. 4 men are found wounded after a bar fight. All with serious injuries. Dying. Going in and out of consciousness. All need a heart transplant. A man has to decide who to give it to. Who was the victim. And question the men when they come into consciousness and the other people in the bar trying to retrace the events of the evening
61. Stories of 3 parents and children of different ages struggling and parents trying to find a way to help their child
62. Girl boy love story and how they keep breaking up throughout the years and sabotaging the relationships of the other to make them single again
63. A man has two children. One he raises one he gives away. The story shows his relationship with the son he raises and how he helps the other one throughout his life never telling him he is his father
64. Story follows 3 brother who are separated after their parents die each adopted by a family of a different amount of wealth and story shows how that wealth affects who they become
65. Story of a child growing up with a disorder by which at the end of every day there is a 50 50 chance he will forget that day. How he writes it all in a diary to keep track and how he uses the odds to do regretful and shameful thing he hopes he won’t remember
66. A man locked away for a crime he didn’t not commit. Invents a world of fictional character he comminutes with in his solitude helping his to solve the riddle of his incrimination
67. A therapist taking advantage of the disorder of his patients to use them as tools. It starts small. Using a patient to steal something. And it escalates. All the way up to murder
68. A woman joins a cult. The cult follows the writing of a sacred book. A digital book. She comes to suspect the leader of the cult is changing the content to suit his agenda
69. Story of a kid moving to a new high school where there are social classes divided into levels. Kids you points online and that determines what level you are in. in turn your popularity. What parties you are invited to. Immunity from bullies.
70. A boy’s parents get divorced and his time is split between living with his mother in the upper class and his father in the ghetto. Developing both personas to deal with his environment. Story shows ho in his adult years both sides of him come bursting out at times
71. A therapist who through hypnosis embodies emotions or impulses of his patients as personas. Like separating the impulse to murder separating it to a hallucination of an imaginary separate personality. He then teaches them to put those impulses in a cage. Therapist comes to discover he is a person. And he put his real self in cage many years before following a traumatic event
72. A boy with a disorder. If he writes something down he can’t remember it. He writes the memories he doesn’t trust himself with and gives the notebook to his friend. Who reads them out to him at the appropriate moment
73. 3 friends trust each other as boys each with a terrible secret and each shows up along the others life claiming a price for keeping the secret
74. A man with genius subconscious that gives ingenious solutions to situations.
75. A man with several personalities inside him each with a talent. They have a room in which they discuss issues. Possibly they battle for control.
76. A story about a prison for people with exceptional talents. From all around the world people who have to serve one life sentence or two. The story is about how they function together and the prison. Perhaps some are insane.
77. A story structure in which there are several protagonist. Each time the book follows one of them. It tells one protagonist tale and then it tell how another protagonist is connected to all the hidden in it. The characters keep on intertwining.
78. The story switches between the perspectives of two individuals who see things that aren’t really there. Each time the perspective switches so that we discover exactly what the other was imagining and what was real.
79. People on death row. Possibly in different times in history. In different countries with different procedures of waiting and methods of execution for different levels of crimes
80. Several people different faiths- losing,gaining,regaining.
81. A series comprised of stories of villains and heroes. Which is the protagonist of the episode is each time to be discovered. Possibly a theme is that he switches to the other side each time.
82. A story about politics problem solving. Each episode can have a different problem.
83. A long series of a person born with skills of problem solving and creativity but without the other intelligent skills. Such as speed of thought or will power and the showing of his maturing as he problem solves everything.
84. A story of a person who gradually gets smarter or dumber. Told split to two. From half point forward and from half point backwards. Cleverness in writing actions that are dumb and scale of dumbness. Such as missing the obvious in a situation. There is merging of the part that is told backwards how it got there. In the past things can be revealed that create a gap to be later closed by the future in a merge
85. A story about a man using intelligence and self-rules and clever methods to deal with his fictional mental illness. Possibly a clever mental illness from the subconscious or with an alternate personality that can think behind it that adapts and changes and is clever in its deceptions. Possibly protagonist would try and foresee adaptations and apply methods in advance and such. Possibly all this while fighting to function in modern world instead of obvious solution of mental asylum
86. A personas stories of a genius with the personas being of different drug states. As the different cravings and such seem to create completely different personalities and goals.
87. The richest man in the world. Sees the world is on the verge of world war that will kill billions and will destroy his world and so he takes the responsibility on himself to save the world.
88. A story about a guy who tries to make other people happy in the world. At first he does inefficiently. His methods progress and his philosophy evolves. Philosophy advances with each lesson learned by an appropriate event protagonist experiences. Possibly start with him as a child and first lesson. He later starts thinking of it mathematically like killing one person who is any way dying to save another who will probably live more years. Deciding who should live according to who will probably be happier if he does.
89. A person with photographic memory and a disorder by which his memory generate fake memories. He goes into the finer details of events to discover what really happened
90. Different revenge stories
91. First person view story of a man from childhood absorbing and analyzing his world with all of his thoughts heard out loud to viewer
92. Psychopath kidnaps people and conducts social games.
93. Two brothers or friends fooling psychiatrists to get extremely expensive drugs. Either for profit or for someone who actually needs the drugs.
94. A movie in which a story is told in parts each time by a different narrator. The twist of the movie is that the narrator switched several times during the telling of the story. The brilliance is that each time a narrator switched the story was significantly influenced by his perspective. Switch can be done by showing at the beginning an old man. His voice sore from years of smoking cigarettes. And then in the end showing the other kid also grew up to be an old man with a voice sore of cigarettes
95. Story follows a Jew posing as a Nazi who has to make evil decision to keep his disguise. Saving as many as he can while sacrificing others
96. Story of the finding of people never before exposed to the outside world. On an island in the middle of the ocean. Finding they are not clutching to their ways and cultures but instead eager to learn and hungry for knowledge. There are a million of them and they form their own country. They become technologically superior to other countries and the story shows how other countries who are harmed by their existence try to claim they are somehow lesser people
97. Story follows a boy to manhood as he learns the art of war and becomes a tactician in the army leading his country to great victories and in such giving it the confidence to invade other countries and expand its territory
98. 3 love stories told of the same couple. They all start the same but end differently. Showing no matter the love the circumstances of life set the course of relationships. Such as the couple losing a child. Or the man being sent to war or prison or the man failing in life becoming miserable and so dooms the relationship
99. Story of United States president having to make a decision where to push the nuclear lunch button and start world war 3. That is the opening scene. Story then tells of 3 times in his life when he had to make an impossible decision and what he chose
100. Man has an accident and end up I a coma. Story happens inside his own mind as he tries to find a way out. Navigating through situations occupied by people from his past