3. Action Movies
Action Movies have a lot in common with adventure genre.
They typically follow conventional story telling techniques
and plot paths.
Sub categories are:
1) Spy Movies
2) Epic Movies
3) Disaster Movies
4) Thriller Movies
5) Martial Arts
6) Superhero Movies
7) Video game Movies
4. Spy Movies
Are those movies in which a spy or any other
undercover professional finds themselves on a
secret mission usually behind enemy lines
armed with special equipment. For e.g. the
movie “Spy Kids”, in which a brother and a
sister are spies and carry out special mission,
defeating their enemies.
5. Epic Movies
Epic movies are those which show a
protagonist going to great lengths
over a long period of time in order to
achieve a vital objective. For e.g. the
movie “Hunger Games”, in which
Katiness has to kill all other people in
games to win them.
6. Disaster Movies
These movies involve a cross-over with
thrillers. The story is centered around a
disaster, usually natural but can be artificial.
For e.g. the movie “Into the storm”. A storm is
shown in this movie. The main character are
some news reporters who are trying to capture
footage of the storm.
7. Thriller Movies
Thriller movies typically involve a race
against time or similarly high state
plot device. For example the movie
“Escape Room”, in which some
people have to solve puzzles and get
out of the room before the time runs
out.
8. Martial Art Films
Primarily focused on the physical
fight scenes pepped throughout the
film. For example the movie “Karate
Kid”, in which a kid is practicing for a
karate tournament with the help of
his karate teacher.
9. Superhero Movies
An action movie in which the
protagonist saves the lives of many
innocent people and defeats the
villain. For e.g. in the movie “Wonder
Woman”, Diana defeats the God of
War and thus ends the war.
10. Video Game Movies
Are the movies which are based on a
video game. For e.g. the movie
“Mortal Kombat”, which is a martial art
movie based on the game Mortal
Kombat.
11. Romantic Movies
These are love stories between two
main characters. Types are:
1)Romantic Dramas
2)Rom Coms
3)Romantic Thrillers
4)Chick Flicks
12. Romantic Drama
Typically revolve around two people who date
as they overcome obstacles which prevent
them from finding true love. For e.g. the
movie “Always Goodbye”, in which a woman
must choose between the man she loves or
her illegitimate son's widowed father, whom
she respects and admires.
13. Romantic Comedy
Often shows the leading love interest placed in
bizarre circumstances or being subjected to
gross misunderstandings aimed dramatically
towards female audience. For example the movie
“Happy Bhaag Jayegi”, in which after fleeing an
arranged marriage, a feisty Indian woman finds
herself stranded in Pakistan where the ex-
governor's son helps reunite her with her
boyfriend.
14. Romantic Thriller
The plot is usually set against high obtained
adventure or action. For example the movie
“Wide Sargasso Sea”, in which a young female
landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-
arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property.
All seems to be perfect, love arises, and
happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old
secret regarding her childhood and her mother.
Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect
relationship
15. Chick Flicks
Romantic Movies mainly aimed towards female audience.
For example the movie “Romy and Michele’s High School
reunion” in which Ten years after their high school
graduation, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa
Kudrow) haven't exactly accomplished everything that they
set out to do. Despite their strong friendship, their personal
and professional lives are still lacking. When they hear of
their upcoming high school reunion, they take it as an
opportunity to show their classmates how much they've
changed -- first by trying to reform themselves, then by
creating a lie that eventually spins out of control.
16. Animation
Those movies which are made by a sequence of
drawings or cartoons etc. Types are:
1) Traditional Animation
2) Rotoscoping
3) Puppet Animation
4) Claymation Movies
5) Live Action Animated Movies
6) Cut out animation
17. Traditional Animation
Involves hand drawn individual frames which are
spread together to create an illusion of motion. For
example the movie “Sleeping Beauty”, in which
Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent
curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday.
Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies, she only falls
into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss
from her betrothed, Prince Phillip.
18. Rotoscoping
Is a technique in which illustrator
traces over live action footage to
produce a highly stylized effect. For
example the movie “Snow White and
the seven dwarfs” in which a girl runs
from her evil stepmother and thus
finds dwarfs who keep her safe.
19. Puppet Animation
In these movies puppets are used
as characters. For example the
movie “Scooby-Doo! Adventures:
The Mystery Map”.
20. Claymation Movies
Models are created out of clay or
plasticine molded around a wire
mesh. For example the movie
“Box Trolls”
21. Live Action Animated Movies
Movies that combine live
action and animation for
example “Kung Fu Panda”
22. Cut Out Animation
Rather than using models or drawn frames,
cut out animation uses pieces of materials
and papers to create shapes, characters and
scenes which are then animated with stop
motion. For example the movie “Not Another
Word”
23. Horror Movies
Sub categories of horror movies are:
1) Slasher Movies
2) Splatter Movies
3) Psychological
4) Survival Horror
5) Found footage Movies
6) Paranormal Movies
7) Monster Movies
24. Slasher Movies
Depicts a series of violence, murders or assaults
by an attacker or armed with a knife or razors
such movies typically involve a psychopathic
killer (sometimes wearing a mask) who stalks
and graphically murders a series of adolescent
victims in a typically random, unprovoked
fashion, killing many within a single day e.g.
Halloween, happy death day, the cabin in the
woods, sorority row, scream and many others.
25. Splatter Movies
Emphasizing an gruesome scenes, splatter films
slighter differ from torture films by the fact that they use
graphics and gory scenes within a story that is not
centered on the torture itself. These films, throughout
the use of special effects , tend to display an avert
interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the
theatricality of its mutilation. Deliberately focuses on
graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence e.g. the
movies “The evil dead”, “Blood Feast” and “The final
Destination”.
26. Psychological
Heavily rely on threat of impending doom
or danger rather than culmination of said
factors. Can sometimes be described as
straight thrillers rather than horror movies
in their own right e.g. the movies “Black
Swan” and “The Silence of the Lambs”.
27. Survival Horror
The protagonist must endure and
overcome a potentially fatal threat
which may or may not be featured on
screen e.g. the movie “Anabelle”.
28. Found Footage Movies
Primarily or wholly portrayed with
footage literally taken or later found
by one of the characters in the film.
For example the movie “Blair Witch”
29. Paranormal Movies
A film whose main protagonist is a
supernatural force or entity. Can also
cross-over into fantastical, non-horror sub
genre. For example the movie “The
Conjuring”.
30. Monster Movies
A movie in which the main characters are pitted
against a monstrous being with naturally
explainable origins e.g. the movies “The creature”
and “The black Lagoon”.
31. Comedy Movies
Subcategories of Comedy Movies are:
1)Slapstick
2)Deadpan
3)Screwball
4)Verbal Comedy
5)Black or Dark Comedy
6)Parody
32. Slapstick
Predominant in the earliest silent films the term
was taken from the wooden sticks that the clowns
slap together to promote audience applause This
is primitive and universal comedy with broad
aggressive physical and visual action, including
harmless or painless cruelty and violence,
horseplay and often vulgar side gaps e.g. laurel
and hardy. Examples are “Three stooges”, “Dumb
and Dumber” and “Pink Panther”.
33. Deadpan
This form of comedy wars best
exemplified by the expression less
face of stoic comic hero
BusuterKeaton e.g. “Airplane”, “The
Match factory girl”, ”Drifting clouds”
and “Shadows in paradise”.
34. Screwball
Is a sub-genre of romantic comedy film. The
word denotes lunacy, craziness, eccentricity,
ridiculness and an erratic behavior. It includes
witty dialogues of more sophisticated films
and commonly focuses on a battle of sexes in
which both the protagonist try to outwit or
outmaneuver each other. For example the
movie, “She’s funny that way”.
35. Verbal Comedy
Verbal humor are used liberally
by comedy writers to spice their
work. For example the movie
“ The hangover”.
36. Dark Comedy
Dark Comedy is a comic style that makes
light of subject matter that is generally
considered taboo, particularly subjects that
are normally considered serious or painful to
discuss. For example the movie “ The Cook,
the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover”
37. Parody Films
A parody film is a subgenre of comedy
film that parodies other film genres or films
as pastiches, works created by imitation of the
style of many different films reassembled
together. For example the movie “Fifty shades of
Black”.
