Drama is a film genre that focuses on developing realistic characters dealing with emotional themes like alcoholism, drug addiction, prejudice, poverty, and corruption. These themes create conflict between characters and society. Unlike action films, drama films rely more on character development than fast pacing or physical conflict. Examples of acclaimed dramatic films include Citizen Kane, The Godfather, E.T., Forrest Gump, and The Shawshank Redemption. Dramatic films can be further classified into sub-genres like crime drama, historical drama, romance, comedy-drama, melodrama, tragedy, and docudrama.

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2. Drama The genre drama is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as:- alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption These are the dramatic themes that put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomenon.

3. Drama This film genre can be contrasted with an action film which relies on fast-paced action and physical conflict. All film genres can include dramatic elements, but typically, films considered drama films focus mainly on the drama of the main issue. Such as:- Citizen Kane (1941), The Godfather (1972), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Forrest Gump (1994) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

4. Sub-Genres Dramatic films include a very large spectrum of film genres. Because of the large number of drama films these genres have been classified into sub-genres For example:- Crime drama and Legal drama Historical drama Romance Comedy-drama Melodrama Tragedy Docudrama