Film Genres

 

Action Films
Adventure Films
Comedy Films
Crime & Gangster Films
Drama Films
Epics/Historical Films
Horror Films
Musicals (Dance) Films
Science Fiction Films
War (Anti-War) Films
Westerns

 

Sub - Genres

 

Biographical Films (or "Biopics")
'Chick' Flicks
Detective & Mystery Films
Disaster Films
Fantasy Films
Film Noir
Guy Films
Melodramas, Women's or "Weeper" Films
Road Films
Romance Films
Sports Films
Supernatural Films
Thriller-Suspense Films

 

Minor Film Sub-Genres Types

 

Action Films   Adventure Films

 

Action or Adventure Comedy
Alien Invasion
Animal Action Films
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
Buddy
Buddy Cops
Caper
Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
Conspiracy Thriller
Costume Adventures
Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Espionage
Futuristic
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
Heist - Caper Films
Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Martial Arts
Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Prison
Psychological Thriller
Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
Sci-Fi Action
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
Space Adventures
Spy
Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
Swashbuckler
Sword and Sorcery
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
War
Women in Prison

Comedy Films

Action Comedies
Anarchic Comedies
Animals
Black Comedies
British Humor
Buddy
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
Crime/Caper Comedies
'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
Family Comedies
Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
Horror Comedies
Lampoon
Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
Pre-Teen Comedies
Re-Marriage Comedies
Road
Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
Slacker
Slapstick
Social-Class Comedies
Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
Sports Comedies
Stand-Up
Supernatural Comedies
Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
Urban Comedies
War Comedies
Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies

Crime & Gangster Films

Bad Girl Movies
Blaxploitation
Buddy Cop
Caper Stories
Cops & Robbers
Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
Hood Films
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
Mafia, Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
Police
Procedurals
Prison
Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
Women's Prison Films

Drama Films

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
Adult
African-American
Autobiographies/Biographies
Biopics (Biographical)
British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
Coming-of-Age
Costume Dramas
Crime Dramas
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Espionage
Ethnic Family Saga
Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
Gay and Lesbian
Generation Gap
High School
Holocaust
Hood Films
Investigative Reporting
Legal/Courtroom
Life Story
Literary Adaptation
Love
Medical
Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
Prostitution
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Religious
Romantic Dramas
Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Soap Opera
Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
Small-town Life
Sports Dramas or Biopics
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
War-Military Dramas
Women's Friendship
Youth Culture

Epic/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Historical or Biographical Epics
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire

Horror Films

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Gore
Gothic
Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
Macabre
Monsters
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Satanic Stories
Serial Killers
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror
Terror
Vampires
Witchcraft
Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies

Musicals (Dance) Films

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
Rock-umentary
Romantic Musicals
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction Films

Action Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
50's Sci-Fi
Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
Monsters and Mutants
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
Pre-historic
Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Thrillers
Space Opera
Space or Sci-Fi Westerns
Star Trek
Super-Hero Films
Supernatural
Time or Space Travel
Virtual Reality

War (Anti-War) Films

Action Combat
Aerial Combat, Aviation
Anti-War
Civil War
Historical
Korean
Military
Prisoner of War/Escape
Revolutionary War
Submarine
Vietnam
War Epics
World War I
World War II

Westerns

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Epic Westerns
Frontier
Gunfighters
Historical
Indian War
Military
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Road-Trail Journeys
Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns


 
 

 

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