MAIN FILM GENRES

1.Action films
2.Adventure films
3.Comedy films
4.Crime & Gangster
films
5.Drama films
6.Epics/Historical films
7.Horror films
8.Musical (Dance) films
9.Science Fiction films
10.War (Anti War)
films
ACTION
FILMS
 Action Films
- Action films usually include high energy, possibly
with rescues, battles, fights, destructive crises
(floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires)
- Non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and
adventurous, often two-dimensioanl ,,good-guy
heroes, battling ,,bad guys all designed for pure
audience escapism.

- Includes the Games Bond fantasy series,

martial arts film, and so-called ,,blaxploitation
films.
- A major sub-genre is the disaster film
 Adventure
Films
 Adventure
Adventure movies
films are usually exciting
stories, with new experiences or
exotic locales, very similar to or
often paired with the action film
genre. They can include traditional
swashbucklers, serialized films, and
historical spectacles, seaarches or
expeditions for lost coninents,
,,jungle and ,,desert epics, treasure
hunts, disaster films or searches for
zhe unknown.
Comedy
Films
 Comedy
Comedies are light-hearted plots consistently and
deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter
by exaggerating the situation, the language, action,
relationship and characters. This section describes
various forms of comedy through cinematic history,
including slapstick, screeball, spoofs and parodies,
romantic comedies, black comedy and more.
DRAMA FILMS
 Drama movie
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.
Including melodramas, epics, or romantic genres.
Dramatic biographical films are a major sub-genre as
are ,,adult films.
Science Fiction
films
 Science Fiction 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 techonology,unkown and
unknowable forces and extraordinary monsters,
either created by man scientista or by nuclear
havoc.They are sometimes an offshoot of fantasy
films, or they share some similarities with action-
adventure films. Science fiction often expresses the
potential of techonology to destroy humankind and
easily overlaps with horror films, particularly when
techonology or alien life forms become
malevolent.