Film genres

Film genres

Crime
1. Gangster
  1. `Casino´
2. Detective
  1. `Sherlock Holmes´
3. Film noir
  1. `The maltese falcon´
4. Mysteries
  1. `Anatomy of a murder´
5. Serial killer
  1. `Jack the Ripper´
6. Suspense
  1. `Unknown´
7. Thrillers
  1. `Dial M for muder´
8. Courtroom dramas
  1. `The judge´
9. Crime as a central element of their plots
Musicals
1. Broadway
  1. `Chicago´
2. Musical comedy
  1. `Road to Morocco´
3. Concert
  1. `Woodstock´
4. Performance
  1. `The greatest showman´
5. Music biographies
  1. `Bohemian rapsody´
6. Songs sang by the characters interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
Comedy
1. Slapstick
  1. `Horse feathers´
2. Screwball
  1. `Dumb and Dumber´
3. Spoofs
  1. `Harold & Kumar escape from Guantanamo bay´
4. Parodies
  1. `Airplane´
5. Romantic comedy
  1. `When Harry met Sally...´
6. Black comedy
  1. `Harold and Maude´
7. Satirical comedy
  1. `Wag the dog´
8. Humour is its main emphasis
Drama
1. Melodrama
  1. `American Beauty´
2. Romance
  1. `You´ve got mail´
3. Biographical
  1. `Cleopatra´
4. `Adult´
  1. `Debbie does Dallas´
5. Sports
  1. `Rocky´
6. Road
  1. `Thelma Louise´
7. `Guy´
  1. `Die hard´
8. Emotional and relational development of realistic characters
War
1. War dramas
  1. `Schinder´s list´
2. Military operations
  1. `Flags of our fathers´
3. Anti-war
  1. `Dr. Strangelove´
4. POW stories
  1. `Rescue Down´
5. Military training
  1. `Top gun´
6. Concerned with warfare, combat scenes and drama.
Horror
1. Slasher
  1. `Psycho´
2. Science-fiction
  1. `Alien´
3. Supernatural
  1. `War of the worlds´
4. Teen terror
  1. `Halloween´
5. Serial killers
  1. `Naked fear´
6. Satanic
  1. `The exorcist´
7. Monsters
  1. `Dracula´
8. Sense of fear for the audience.
Science fiction
1. Futuristic
  1. Visionary
    1. `Metropolis´
  2. Horrorific
    1. `Cloverfield´
2. Graphic novels
  1. `Ultraviolet´
3. Medical miseries
  1. `Total recall´
4. Devil machines
  1. `Terminator´
5. Mad science
  1. `The fly´
6. Space invaders
  1. `E.T.´
7. Fiction based on science.
Epics
1. Historical dramas
  1. `The mission´
2. Costume dramas
  1. `Little women´
3. War
  1. `Apocalypse Now´
4. Medieval tromps
  1. `Braveheart´
5. Period pictures
  1. `Doctor Zhivago´
6. Adventure
  1. `Romancing the stone´
7. Religious
  1. `The passion of Christ´
8. Focused on a heroic character.
Westerns
1. Epic Western
  1. `Once upon a time in the West´
2. The `singing cowboy´
  1. `In old caliente´
3. The `spaghetti´ Western
  1. `A fistful of dollars´
4. Contemporary Western
  1. `Unforgiven´
5. Revisionist Western
  1. `Little big man´
6. Comedy Western
  1. `Blazing saddles´
7. Post-apocalyptic
  1. `The road warrior´
8. Stories set in the late 19th century in the American Old West.
Adventure
1. Swashbucklers
  1. `Z´
2. Treasure hunts
  1. `National treasure´
3. Disaster
  1. `Titanic´
4. Strange mysteries
  1. `The day the Earth stood still´
5. Serialized
  1. `Indiana Jones´
6. Historical epics
  1. `Braveheart´
7. Expedition
  1. `The mission´
8. Conquests and explorations
Action
1. Martial arts
  1. `Crouching tiger hidden dragon´
2. Espionage
  1. `Patriot games´
3. Spy
  1. `James Bond 007´
4. Political thrillers
  1. `Blood diamond´
5. Races againt time
  1. `Speed´
6. Action sequences (fighting, stunts, car chases or explosions) as a central element in their plots

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