35 Best Movie Audio Drama Podcasts

1. The Truth

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THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They're short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected places using only sound. If you're new, some good starting places are: Silvia's Blood, That's Democracy, Moon Graffiti, Tape Delay, or whatever's most recent. Listening with headphones is encouraged! We're a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.MORE Host Jonathan Mitchell
Producer/Network Radiotopia
Email ****@thetruthpodcast.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 5KFacebook 8.1KTwitter 8.6KInstagram 3.2K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Nov 2011 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Dirt - An Audio Drama

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A strange letter. An impossible sender. Secrets hidden in the ground. From STUDIO5705, a scripted fiction podcast set in present-day Washington State about a man's journey to unlock a family mystery—and find things long ago buried. 2 million downloads. Season 4 now underway. Part of the Fable & Folly Network.MORE Host Kris Kaiyala
Producer/Network STUDIO5705
Email ****@dirtaudiodrama.com
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 939Facebook 68Twitter 1.3KInstagram 862 Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. CHAD: A Fallout 76 Story

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Dark humor, rich storytelling, memorable characters and a cinematic soundscape...over 1.5 MILLION listeners agree that this is a story you won't forget! Featured by Bethesda and Forbes Magazine, this podcast tells the story of two Vault Dwellers who emerge from Vault 76 and their eternal struggle against each other that will tear the region apart. Celebrity guest, original voice actors reprising their roles, and an ensemble cast of relatable, compelling and lovable characters will plunge you in the weird and horrifying world of post-apocalyptic Fallout...MORE Host Kenneth Vigue
Producer/Network Kenneth Vigue
Email ****@fallout76podcast.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 313 Avg Length 74 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. DRAMA - an aural experience

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The cool winds are whispering in your ears, join us as we journey into the unknown in this short story scripted audio experience, DRAMA an aural experience, sonically designed for your headphones to create an intimate & cinematic immersive audio experience. Written by New York Times Best Selling Author Jeffrey James Keyes (Killer Chef with James Patterson)...MORE Producer/Network AKS IMMERSIVE
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 16 Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

5. Baron Sordor's Theatre of the Doomed

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Baron Sordor's Theatre of the Doomed is a horror audio drama that takes you back to a golden age when live radio plays ruled the airwaves and Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre convinced an entire nation they were under attack by Martians. Paying homage to 1960s anthology horror classics like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits , this retro horror podcast blends supernatural horror, dark fiction, and cinematic storytelling into a rich, immersive experience...MORE Host Aaron Harvie
Producer/Network Blood, Brains & Aliens
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 176Facebook 482Twitter 3.5KInstagram 83.9K Avg Length 89 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Tales From The Outer Court

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Tales From The Outer Court is an original horror and sci-fi anthology podcast from the mind of Thomas Stoneking. Dark, cinematic short stories steeped in cosmic dread, occult mystery, and strange fantasy. Each episode delivers a complete standalone narrative: cursed places, impossible creatures, forbidden rituals, and realities that pierce the veil. Perfect for fans of science fiction, supernatural and cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and unsettling speculative fiction audio dramas.MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 80 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. The Avengers: Audio Drama

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Spun off from Scyther Audio's 'X-Men: The Audio Drama' series, comes The Avengers! Operating under the same premise of using the comic book history and stories as a template while modernizing the tales, listen as Earth's Mightiest Heroes come together and save the world! MORE Host Mitch McFarland
Producer/Network Mitch McFarland
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 136 Avg Length 55 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. The Guardian

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For a century, Paraxis has been ravaged by war against the alien Xylothians. From the ashes of devastation, one man—armed with a Guardian suit forged from alien tech—may hold the key to what comes next.The Guardian is a cinematic sci-fi audio drama and fiction podcast featuring a full voice cast, immersive sound design, and a gripping story of survival, sacrifice, and the fight to reclaim hope.Perfect for fans of story-driven science fiction, space fantasy, and high-stakes adventure.#sci-fi #audiodrama #postapocalyptic #theguardianpodcast #alienwar #fullcast #scifipodcast #storydriven #a..MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection

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An anthology of pulp fiction stories - horror, crime, sci-fi, thriller - unified by a pulp theme, these stand-alone stories are edgy, dark, twisted, and strange. Each episode features a fully-scripted audio drama story, with original music, stellar actors, and nerve-jangling sound design. New episodes releasing biweekly. From Voyage Media in association with 7 Lamb Productions.MORE Producer/Network Voyage Media
Email ****@voyagemedia.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 241 Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. Doorway To Nightmare

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Explore the terrifying world of your own imagination with our full cast audio productions of mystery, horror, and suspense. An homage to golden age of radio terror where monsters lurk, hiding in the dark, and invading your dreams. Come with us through the Doorway To Nightmare and find out where your mind will take you.Produced by Crimson McKenzie and Winslow Swan with a full cast of voice talents that will enhance your imagination...MORE Hosts Winslow Swan, Crimson McKenzie
Producer/Network Winslow Swan and Crimson McKenzie
Email ****@doorwaytonightmare.com
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Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. The Mantawauk Caves

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Winner: Best Fiction Podcast, iHeart Podcast Awards. On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someone - or something. The investigation that followed revealed town secrets as old as the caves themselves and put a third teenage boy, James Fincher, on death row...MORE Host Dan Bush
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 3.2K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Aurelion: Historical Audio Drama

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Aurelion is a historical audio drama exploring the great turning points of the classical world. Each series tells a sweeping narrative from the age of Classical history, roughly 500 BC to 500 AD, from the rise of Cyrus the Great to the age of Justinian.These stories are presented as fully casted, fictionalized dramatizations based on real historical events. Political rivalries, battlefield decisions, philosophical debates, and personal tragedies are brought to life through cinematic sound design and character-driven storytelling.MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

13. ORRIONA Queer Space Opera Audio Drama

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Welcome aboard the Orriona—where the galaxy is queer-norm, found families are forged in the fire, and hope burns brightest in the darkest corners of the void.ORRIONA is a multi-voice audio drama series that weaves cinematic sci-fi action with deeply personal character journeys. No coming-out angst. No homophobia. Just grand space adventures where queer love and friendship are as natural as starlight.THE STORY SO FAR:When High Priestess Nienna's ceremonial fleet is ambushed by an ancient enemy, her last surviving Warden witnesses a desperate sacrifice that rewrites the timeline itself...MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. The River Knows Podcast

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The River Knows is a five-episode mystery audio drama set along the Upper Ottawa Valley. History, folklore, and the liminal edges of early adolescence come alive in 1975, where the River keeps its secrets… and its boys. theriverknows.substack.comMORE Email ****@cherish.fm
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15. Epic Saga in Sound: Book of Enoch

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Epic Saga in Sound: Book of Enoch is a cinematic audio drama and mythology podcast that brings the ancient Book of Enoch to life through immersive storytelling, music, and film-grade sound design.This scripted fiction podcast explores fallen angels, the Watchers, forbidden knowledge, the Nephilim, and celestial rebellion, reimagined as a dark fantasy audio drama with rich narration, dramatic performances, and atmospheric scoring...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4/5 Avg Length 20 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

16. The Future Season 2

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The Future Anthology is exactly what you think it is and more. Broken Arts brand is highly emotive, thoughtful cinematic audio drama and features emerging writers alongside professional and emerging performers. You'll want to sit back and listen and let yourself drift away into the future.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

17. Alpha 8

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A desperate alien. A struggling mom. One life-changing swap that flips a family upside down. Alpha 8 is an award-winning, family-friendly sci-fi audio drama that blends E.T. , The Princess Diaries , and a Freaky Friday twist into a heartfelt adventure about identity, parenthood, and second chances. When an extraterrestrial being secretly swaps places with a human mother, both worlds spiral into chaos. The alien must learn the meaning of family to save her species from extinction—while the real mom fights to escape, return home, and protect the people she loves. Government secrets, emotional discovery, and domestic comedy collide in this eight-episode cinematic story...MORE Producer/Network Bizzie Media Group
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 40 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

18. The Scavenger

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The Scavenger is a dark, cinematic sci-fi audio drama set 120 years after humanity was abandoned on a ruined Earth. Cities lie frozen. Hollows roam the wastelands. And the truth about the world's collapse has been buried beneath myth, fear, and blood.Before the fall, a secret organization known as Veil Genesis reshaped the world from the shadows. Governments collapsed, history was rewritten, and a final operation known only as Project Blue Beam changed everything. Some believed it was an alien invasion. Others called it mass deception...MORE Estimated listeners
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19. The Parker Legacy - Before the Spider

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Before the Spider-Man we know, there was a story no one ever told. The Parker Legacy Before the Spider' follows Mary Watson and Richard Parker as they navigate the challenges of youth, destiny, and family across two continents. From 1960s New York City to London, witness their hidden gifts, life-altering choices, and the events that shape the legacy behind one of the world's greatest heroes. Immerse yourself in this cinematic audio drama with rich sound design, original music, and unforgettable characters.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

20. The First African Werewolf

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Beneath the vast African skies, Dahabu lives a life of simplicity and strength. But marauders shatter his world, tearing him from his family and homeland. Bound and imprisoned aboard The Sable Marauder , he endures brutal conditions on the harrowing voyage into captivity. One night, under the full moon's light, the ship's ruthless captain strikes — a werewolf who sinks his fangs into Dahabu, sealing his fate. As pain and fury consume him, Dahabu's body twists and transforms. His humanity fractures, replaced by a primal, uncontrollable force. The beast within rises...MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

21. Raven's Ridge

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What if the town you called home was built on a foundation of lies, and everyone you trusted was hiding deadly secrets? You're about to discover the dark truth lurking beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful mountain community. This immersive audio drama plunges you into a world where psychological thriller meets supernatural mystery, and nothing is as it appears. Each week, you'll follow residents of a remote town as they uncover disturbing connections between recent disappearances and the area's haunted past...MORE Email ****@mac.com
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22. Cyber Rebels of AndroidA

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In the aftermath of a fractured world, humanity survives by accepting control.Cities rise where nature has failed. Systems replace freedom. Survival comes at the cost of memory, emotion, and choice. In this carefully maintained balance, most people move forward without questions — until something begins to break.Unexplained lapses of consciousness ripple through the population. People stop mid-motion. Words vanish from their mouths. Time seems to fold in on itself. Authorities dismiss the phenomenon as harmless, temporary, irrelevant...MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 8 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

23. X-Men: The Audio Drama

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X-Men The Audio Drama retells the adventures of the Uncanny X-Men from the very beginning, using the comic book history and stories as a template while retelling and modernizing the tales. Season One told the classic stories of the 'First Class,' Season Two now delves into the 'All New, All Different' era.MORE Host Karl Dutton
Producer/Network Karl Dutton
Email ****@hotmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 877 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

24. The Orphans

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The Orphans is a cinematic sci-fi audio drama about survival in a harsh universe: castaways on a hostile world, A.I.s with unprecedented emotions, strangers who share faces, love and loss in a far-flung future. Each season explores a new vantage point in an ever-expanding and inter-connected galaxy!MORE Producer/Network The Light and Tragic Company
Email ****@lightandtragic.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 413 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

25. Treasure Island

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Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary adventure is reborn as a cinematic audio drama. Treasure Island follows young Jim Hawkins as he's swept into a world of pirates, mutiny, and buried gold. Produced by OutWrd, this is storytelling like you've never heard before; structured like a film, performed with the intimacy of an audiobook, and scored like a motion picture.Want to experience Treasure Island without ads? Subscribe to OutWrd for the ad-free edition, plus early access to our growing slate of cinematic audio dramas. Start listening ad-free today at outwrd.media.MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 65 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

26. The Sonic Theatre

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The Sonic Theatre is a captivating podcast that transforms stories into immersive audio experiences. With top-tier post-production, each episode delivers cinematic soundscapes, vivid characters, and gripping narratives—think movies for your ears. Tune in and let your imagination take center stage.From the co-creator and producer of international charting podcasts Alien Theorists Theorizing.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4/5 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

27. RAMAYANA | A CINEMATIC AUDIO DRAMA | A STORY OF GODS, HEROES AND DESTINY

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🏺 EXPERIENCE the Ramayana - a FASCINATING, MULTILAYERED EPIC like never before - let your imagination free with cinematic narration, 🎧 dramatic sound design 🎧 and an easy to follow narrative.It's not just mythology—it's a masterclass in leadership, love, loyalty, and making impossible choices. Ancient wisdom for a generation raised on podcasts, audiobooks, and cinematic universes...MORE Host Pranay
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28. Codex Universalis

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Codex Universalis: The Time Traveler's Guide to Rebuilding Civilization (1-Student Production) A cinematic audio drama experience exploring humanity's greatest 'what if?' When a quantum physicist's experiment goes catastrophically wrong, they're displaced to ancient Rome 100 CE with nothing but the knowledge in their head. No tools. No resources. No way home. This isn't a story about conquering history. It's about rebuilding everything from striking the first spark to designing digital computers one painstaking innovation at a time...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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29. Hearthfall: A Dark Fantasy Audio Drama

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Honor. Deceit. Ambition. Duty. Cows. Hearthfall is a cinematic, immersive audio drama of hard choices, darker consequences, and unforgettable adventure.
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Apple Rating 4.3/5 Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

30. Pieces of Eight: A Skull and Bones Story

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Pieces of Eight is a cinematic audio drama podcast set in the brutal, blood-soaked world of piracy during the age of empire. Inspired by Ubisoft's Skull and Bones, this original series follows the rise of pirate legends across the Indian Ocean, where ambition, betrayal, and survival collide beneath black sails. Told through immersive sound design, voice acting, and richly written narration, Pieces of Eight brings to life a world where every coin has a cost, and the sea remembers all. For fans of historical and video game fiction, high-stakes adventure, and tales forged in salt and fire...MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

31. The Spoken Reel

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Where imagination isn't just heard it's felt.The Spoken Reel is a cinematic audio fiction podcast delivering original, immersive stories in every episode. Blending literary craft with atmospheric sound, each tale invites you into strange worlds, private lives, and unexpected turns. From psychological thrillers to surreal dramas, these stories don't just entertain — they haunt, provoke, and stay with you. This is fiction that breathes. Stories that echo. Imagination, unspooled.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 6 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

32. Maya: Cosmic Bound

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Maya: Cosmic Bound is a cinematic sci-fi fantasy audio drama. When terminally ill Maya is struck by a mysterious cosmic force, she becomes bound to something ancient—something powerful. As myth and science blur, she must fight to survive a world unraveling around her. Immersive, emotional, and voice-driven, this story explores identity, love, and the fate written in the stars. Follow to stay bound. #SciFiAudioDrama #CosmicFantasy #FemaleProtagonist #AudioSeries #MysticalSciFi#CinematicPodcast #MayaCosmicBound #ScienceMeetsMythMORE Email ****@gmail.com
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33. American Afterlife

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When a 9.2 earthquake devastates the Pacific Northwest, 15-year-old Cielo is left alone in a drowned, lawless Oregon city. Her mother - an undocumented Mexican immigrant - has vanished, likely pulled into the grip of a violent cult known as The Collection of Redeemed Souls . With the streets flooded, food scarce, and danger in every shadow, Cielo begins a relentless quest to find her mother's body - or save her if she's still alive...MORE Estimated listeners
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