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Genres
of films
Main Film Genres
1. Action Films
2. Adventure Films
3. Comedy Films
4. Crime Films
5. Drama Films
6. Epics Films
7. Horror Films
8. Musicals/Dance Films
9. Sci-Fi Films
10.War Films
11.Westerns Films
Action Films
Action films usually include
high energy, big-budget
physical stunts and chases,
possibly with rescues, battles,
fights, escapes, destructive
crises (floods, explosions,
natural disasters, fires, etc.),
non-stop motion, spectacular
rhythm and pacing, and
adventurous, often two-
dimensional 'good-guy' heroes
(or recently, heroines) battling
'bad guys' - all designed for
pure audience escapism.
Pinoy Action
Films
Adventure Films
Adventure films are
usually exciting
stories, with new
experiences or exotic
locales, very similar to
or often paired with
the action film genre.
Examples of Adventure Films
Comedy Films
• Comedies are light-
hearted plots
consistently and
deliberately designed
to amuse and provoke
laughter (with one-
liners, jokes, etc.) by
exaggerating the
situation, the language,
action, relationships
and characters.
• This section
describes various
forms of comedy
through cinematic
history, including
slapstick, screwball,
spoofs and parodies,
romantic comedies,
black comedy (dark
satirical comedy), and
more.
Crime Films
• Crime (gangster) films
are developed around
the sinister actions of
criminals or mobsters,
particularly bank
robbers, underworld
figures, or ruthless
hoodlums who
operate outside the
law, stealing and
murdering their way
through life.
Crime Films
• Criminal and gangster films are often
categorized as film noir or detective-mystery
films - because of underlying similarities
between these cinematic forms.
Drama Films
Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations,
portraying realistic characters, settings, life
situations, and stories involving intense
character development and interaction.
Usually, they are not focused on special-
effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are
probably the largest film genre, with many
subsets.
Epics Films
Epics include costume dramas, historical
dramas, war films, medieval romps, or
'period pictures' that often cover a large
expanse of time set against a vast,
panoramic backdrop.
Epics often share elements of the elaborate
adventure films genre.
Epics take an historical or imagined event,
mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add
an extravagant setting and lavish costumes,
accompanied by grandeur and spectacle,
dramatic scope, high production values, and
a sweeping musical score.
Examples of Epic Films
Horror Films
Horror films are designed to frighten and to
invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a
terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and
entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic
experience.
Examples of Horror Films
Musicals/Dance Films
Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that
emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance
routines in a significant way (usually with a
musical or dance performance integrated as
part of the film narrative), or they are films that
are centered on combinations of music, dance,
song or choreography.
Examples of Musical/Dance Films
Sci-Fi Films
Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary
and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens,
distant planets, impossible quests, improbable
settings, fantastic places, great dark and
shadowy villains, futuristic technology,
unknown and unknowable forces, and
extraordinary monsters ('things or creatures
from space'), either created by mad scientists
or by nuclear havoc.
Example of Sci-Films
War Films
War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the
horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual
combat fighting (against nations or humankind)
on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary
plot or background for the action of the film.
War films are often paired with other genres,
such as action, adventure, drama, romance,
comedy (black), suspense, and even epics and
westerns, and they often take a denunciatory
approach toward warfare.
Examples of War Films
Westerns Films
Westerns are the major defining genre of the
American film industry - an eulogy to the early
days of the expansive American frontier
They are one of the oldest, most enduring
genres with very recognizable plots, elements,
and characters (six-guns, horses, dusty towns
and trails, cowboys, Indians, etc.).
Examples of Western Films
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Film Genres

  • 2. Main Film Genres 1. Action Films 2. Adventure Films 3. Comedy Films 4. Crime Films 5. Drama Films 6. Epics Films 7. Horror Films 8. Musicals/Dance Films 9. Sci-Fi Films 10.War Films 11.Westerns Films
  • 3. Action Films Action films usually include high energy, big-budget physical stunts and chases, possibly with rescues, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.), non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous, often two- dimensional 'good-guy' heroes (or recently, heroines) battling 'bad guys' - all designed for pure audience escapism.
  • 5. Adventure Films Adventure films are usually exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre.
  • 7. Comedy Films • Comedies are light- hearted plots consistently and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter (with one- liners, jokes, etc.) by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters.
  • 8. • This section describes various forms of comedy through cinematic history, including slapstick, screwball, spoofs and parodies, romantic comedies, black comedy (dark satirical comedy), and more.
  • 9. Crime Films • Crime (gangster) films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or mobsters, particularly bank robbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life.
  • 10. Crime Films • Criminal and gangster films are often categorized as film noir or detective-mystery films - because of underlying similarities between these cinematic forms.
  • 11. Drama Films Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special- effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre, with many subsets.
  • 12.
  • 13. Epics Films Epics include costume dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. Epics often share elements of the elaborate adventure films genre. Epics take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle, dramatic scope, high production values, and a sweeping musical score.
  • 15. Horror Films Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.
  • 17. Musicals/Dance Films Musical/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way (usually with a musical or dance performance integrated as part of the film narrative), or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
  • 19. Sci-Fi Films Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters ('things or creatures from space'), either created by mad scientists or by nuclear havoc.
  • 21. War Films War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy (black), suspense, and even epics and westerns, and they often take a denunciatory approach toward warfare.
  • 23. Westerns Films Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry - an eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier They are one of the oldest, most enduring genres with very recognizable plots, elements, and characters (six-guns, horses, dusty towns and trails, cowboys, Indians, etc.).