This document lists examples of movies categorized by common genres including adventure, action, romance, western, fantasy, film noire, comedy, sci-fi, musical, historical, animation, mystery, horror and thriller. For each genre at least 4 exemplar movie titles are provided.

1. Examples of
GenresBy Polly Pritchard

2. Adventure
The Hobbit
The Hunger
Games
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones

3. Action
The Equalizer
Dark Night
Edge of
Tomorrow
Superman: Man
of Steel

4. Romance
The Notebook
Titanic
Love Actually
Crazy, Stupid
Love

5. Western
Django
Unchained
The Good, The
Bad and the Ugly
True Grit
Once upon a time
in the West

6. Fantasy
Harry Potter
The Hobbit
Stardust
Princess Bride

7. Film Noire
Strangers on a Train
The Maltese Falcon
Sunset Boulevard
 The Big Sleep

8. Comedy
The Campaign
The Hangover
Movie 43
Dumb and
Dumber

9. Sci Fi
Star Wars
Star Trek
Guardians of the
Galaxy
Ender’s Game

10. Musical
God Help the Girl
Les Miserables
The Phantom of
the Opera
Into the woods.

11. Historical
The Other Boleyn
Girl
12 Years a Slave
Schindler’s list
Lincoln

12. Animation
• Beauty and the
Beast
• Frozen
• The Little Mermaid
• Shrek

13. Mystery
Maze Runner
Gone Girl
Before I go to
Sleep
Inception

14. Horror
Woman in Black
Paranormal
Activity
Final Destination
Carrie

15. Thriller
Lucy
Planet of the
Apes
Pulp Fiction
Now You See Me