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| x Cult |
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Kiss Me Deadly |
A cult film (also known as a cult movie/picture or a cult classic) is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases; however, there have been...
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| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | |||
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| x Drama |
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Pi |
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα, dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: δράω, dráō). The enactment of drama in theatre,...
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| Airport 1975 | |||
| Hamlet | |||
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| x Film noir |
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Miller's Crossing |
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the...
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| Touch of Evil | |||
| Croupier | |||
| Gattaca | |||
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| x Historical drama | Apollo 13 |
The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research...
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| Seven Samurai | |||
| Gladiator | |||
| Russian Ark | |||
| Eklavya: The Royal Guard | |||
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| x Martial arts | Kill and Kill Again |
Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films are characterized by extensive fighting scenes featuring specific martial arts, often following the training and progress of the protagonist in training a specific...
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| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |||
| Marked for Death | |||
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| x Musical |
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An American in Paris |
The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films (e.g.Down Argentine Way) simply...
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| Chicago | |||
| West Side Story | |||
| The Pajama Game | |||
| 42nd Street | |||
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| x Romantic comedy | What Women Want |
Romantic comedy is a hybrid genre of fiction, especially motion pictures, in which a story about romance is presented in a comedic style. Works in this genre are generally considered light-hearted, and are sometimes associated with the vaguely...
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| As Good as It Gets | |||
| Hitch | |||
| Can't Hardly Wait | |||
| She's All That | |||
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| x Screwball comedy | Weekend at Bernie's |
The screwball comedy is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. It has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. It first gained prominence in 1934 with It Happened One Night, and, although many film scholars would agree that its...
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| His Girl Friday | |||
| You, Me and Dupree | |||
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | |||
| x War | Heartbreak Ridge |
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military...
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| Flags of Our Fathers | |||
| Apocalypse Now | |||
| Platoon | |||
| A Bridge Too Far | |||
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| x Zombie |
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse |
A zombie is a creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being...
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| I Am Legend | |||
| Vampires Vs. Zombies | |||
| Shaun of the Dead | |||
| Dawn of the Dead | |||
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| x Spy | Sabotage |
The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, although in many cases (such as James Bond) the overall tone is...
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| The Lady Vanishes | |||
| Johnny English | |||
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | |||
| Spy Hard | |||
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| x Western |
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The Iron Horse |
The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known...
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| Tumbleweeds | |||
| Cimarron | |||
| Dodge City | |||
| Go West | |||
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| x Family | My Neighbor Totoro |
A family film is a film genre that is designed to appeal to a variety of age groups and, thus, families. To attract these diverse audiences, film makers often create works that operate simultaneously on several levels of appeal. Comic songs might...
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| Mei and the Kittenbus | |||
| Night at the Museum | |||
| Parenthood | |||
| Millions | |||
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| x B-movie |
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The Raven |
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture conceived neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as...
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| Cornman: American Vegetable Hero | |||
| The Naked Monster | |||
| Prison-A-Go-Go! | |||
| Anus Magillicutty | |||
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| x Slasher |
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Dressed to Kill |
Slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film genre typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw or scythe. Although the term ...
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| Psycho | |||
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | |||
| Hellraiser | |||
| Scream | |||
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| x Slapstick | Garfield |
Slapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with five main conventions:
Slapstick films include:
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| Home Alone | |||
| Mousehunt | |||
| Problem Child | |||
| Zorro, The Gay Blade | |||
| x Thriller |
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The Conversation |
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more...
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| .45 | |||
| Absolute Power | |||
| The River Wild | |||
| The Silence of the Lambs | |||
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| x Indie |
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The Birth of a Nation |
In the United States, an independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced mostly outside of a major film studio. The term is also refers to art films which differ markedly from most mass marketed films. In addition to being produced by...
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| Blue Velvet | |||
| Dressed to Kill | |||
| Escape from New York | |||
| Heathers | |||
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| x Teen |
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High School Musical |
Teen films (also called teen movie or teenpic) is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst...
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| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | |||
| Pretty in Pink | |||
| John Tucker Must Die | |||
| Superbad | |||
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| x Chick flick |
Chick flick is slang for a film designed to appeal to a female target audience. The term was first used in 1992. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, "chick flick" is typically used only in reference to films that...
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| x Romance film |
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's...
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| Xanadu | |||
| Loverboy | |||
| Titanic | |||
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | |||
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| x Mystery |
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The Conversation |
Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film. It focuses on the efforts of the Detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever...
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| The 4400 | |||
| Gossip | |||
| The Usual Suspects | |||
| Vertigo | |||
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| x Biographical |
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A Beautiful Mind |
A biographical motion picture—often shortened to biopic—is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s...
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| Raging Bull | |||
| The Life of Emile Zola | |||
| The Great Ziegfeld | |||
| Reds | |||
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| x Adventure |
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Tremors |
Adventure films are a genre of film.
The adventure film reached its peak of popularity in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably...
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| Spider-Man 3 | |||
| Sunshine | |||
| War of the Worlds | |||
| Ghost Rider | |||
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| x Road movie | The Getaway |
A road film is a film genre in which the film's plot takes place during a journey.
The genre has its roots in spoken and written tales of epic journeys, such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The road film is a standard plot employed by screenwriters....
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| Eldorado | |||
| The Mexican | |||
| Bondi Tsunami | |||
| The Go-Getter | |||
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| x Educational | Technology of Lewis & Clark |
An educational film is a film or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods.
Many educational films shown in schools are part of long series - for example,...
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| The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming | |||
| Treasures of the British Crown | |||
| Coup D'État: The Week that Changed the World | |||
| x Buddy film | Kangaroo Jack |
A buddy film, according to The Complete Film Dictionary, is "a film that features the friendship of two males as the major relationship". Ira Konigsberg, author of the dictionary, further defines the genre: "Such films extol the virtues of male...
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| Friday | |||
| Toy Story | |||
| Midnight Run | |||
| The Hard Way | |||
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| x Romantic drama | Persuasion |
A romantic drama film is a film that seriously studies the romantic nature of relationships between people. Common themes include the characters making decisions based on a newly-found romantic attraction. The questions, "What am I living for?" or ...
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| Going Shopping | |||
| Far from the Madding Crowd | |||
| Moulin Rouge! | |||
| Linger | |||
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| x Epic | Ben-Hur |
An epic is a genre of film which places emphasis on human drama on a grand scale. They are more ambitious in scope than other genres which helps to differentiate them from similar genres such as the period piece or adventure film. This often entails...
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| Quo Vadis | |||
| Spartacus | |||
| 300 | |||
| Dances with Wolves | |||
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| x Amateur |
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Amateur Film is the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes.
The international organization for amateur film makers is UNICA (Union International du Cinema Non Professionel); in the United...
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| x Children's |
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Rigoletto |
A children's film is a film aimed for children as its audience. As opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences. The film may or may not be about children. In Unshrinking the Kids: Children's...
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| The Goonies | |||
| Cadet Kelly | |||
| Spy Kids | |||
| DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp | |||
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| x Disaster |
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Gray Lady Down |
A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, or an asteroid collision) as its subject. These films typically feature large casts of well-known actors and multiple plotlines,...
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| The Concorde...Airport '79 | |||
| World Trade Center | |||
| Volcano | |||
| The Perfect Storm | |||
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| x Black comedy |
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Lolita |
Black comedy is a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner while retaining their seriousness. Synonyms include dark comedy, black humor, dark humor,...
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| Catch-22 | |||
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | |||
| Happiness | |||
| Prizzi's Honor | |||
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| x Anime |
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Patlabor the Movie |
Anime (アニメ, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronounced [aꜜnime] ( listen) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænəˌmeɪ/ (help·info) or /ˈænəˌmə/ in English) is animation originating in Japan. The world outside Japan regards anime...
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| Akira | |||
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | |||
| Steamboy | |||
| Barefoot Gen | |||
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| x Wuxia | New One-Armed Swordsman |
Wuxia or Wǔxiá (simplified Chinese: 武侠; traditional Chinese: 武俠 Wǔxiá, Mandarin: [ùɕjǎ]; Cantonese Pinyin: Mou5 Hap6: Taiwanese/Hokkien: Bu Kiap) is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists set in ancient China....
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| One-Armed Swordsman | |||
| The Swordsman | |||
| Seven Swords | |||
| Kung Fu Hustle | |||
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| x Superhero |
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Spider-Man 3 |
A superhero film, superhero movie, or superhero motion picture is an action, fantasy or science fiction film that is focused on the actions of one or more superheroes, individuals who usually possess superhuman abilities relative to a normal person....
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| Night-Wolf | |||
| Spider-Man 4 | |||
| The Avengers | |||
| x Erotic Science Fiction | Barbarella | ||
| Flesh Gordon | |||
| x Mockumentary | To Kill a Mockumentary |
Mockumentary (also known as a mock documentary) is a genre of film and television in which fictitious events are presented in a non-fiction or documentary format; the term can also refer to an individual work within the genre. Such works are often...
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| Zelig | |||
| Fear of a Black Hat | |||
| CB4 | |||
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | |||
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| x Parody |
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Airplane! |
A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. The main conventions for this genre are:
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| Best in Show | |||
| Spaceballs | |||
| Scary Movie | |||
| A Mighty Wind | |||
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| x Silent film |
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Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy |
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. In entertainment silent films the acting and dialogue is commuted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with...
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| Great Expectations | |||
| Ramona | |||
| Ramona | |||
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| x Pornographic movie |
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Debbie Does Dallas |
Pornographic films are motion pictures with the purpose of promoting sexual arousal in the viewer, often featuring depictions of sexual activity. They appeared shortly after the creation of the motion picture in the early 1900s. Pornographic films...
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| World's Biggest Gang Bang | |||
| The Opening of Misty Beethoven | |||
| The Devil in Miss Jones | |||
| Flesh Gordon | |||
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| x French New Wave |
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Breathless |
The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement...
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| The 400 Blows | |||
| x sports | The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh |
A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film. For a list of sports films refer to the List of sports films
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| Breaking Away | |||
| The Pride of the Yankees | |||
| Ali | |||
| Fear Strikes Out | |||
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| x Gross-out film | National Lampoon's Animal House |
Gross-out is a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the makers employ humour that is willfully "tasteless" or even downright disgusting, although the latter isn't truly requisite. Typical elements include fast pace, toilet humour, slapstick,...
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| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | |||
| x Social commentary | Damul |
Social commentary is the act of rebelling against an individual, or a group of people by rhetorical means. This is most often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and...
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| x Short film | Meat Love |
Short film is a technical description originally coined in the Indian film industry and used in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short subject. Either term is...
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| La Jetée | |||
| Steamboat Willie | |||
| Developing | |||
| The Battle of San Pietro | |||
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| x Melodrama |
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East Lynne |
The theatrical genre of melodrama uses theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" (from the Greek "melōidía", meaning "song") and "drama" (Classical Greek: δράμα, dráma;...
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| Love Is All That Matters | |||
| A Blind River | |||
| Katalin Varga | |||
| Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | |||
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| x Musical comedy | The Love Parade | ||
| Bye Bye Birdie | |||
| The Life of the Party | |||
| Side Show | |||
| Hi'ya, Chum | |||
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| x Bollywood |
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Bollywood/Hollywood |
Bollywood (Hindi: बॉलीवुड) is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry....
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| Koi... Mil Gaya | |||
| Bunty Aur Babli | |||
| Black | |||
| Pukar | |||
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| x Cyberpunk |
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Ghost in the Shell |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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| Blade Runner | |||
| Tron | |||
| Johnny Mnemonic | |||
| Cyberpunk Educator | |||
| x Religious Film | Ben-Hur | ||
| The Testaments: Of One Fold and One Shepherd | |||
| Late One Night | |||
| x Sword and Sandal |
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Ben-Hur |
Sword and sandal films, or pepla (singular peplum) are a class of Italian-made adventure or fantasy films that have subjects set in Biblical or classical antiquity, often with contrived plots based very loosely on mythology or Greco-Roman history,...
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| Demetrius and the Gladiators | |||
| The Robe | |||
| Alexander the Great | |||
| Colossus and the Headhunters | |||
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| x Steampunk |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian...
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| Steamboy | |||
| Things to Come | |||
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | |||
| The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | |||
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| x Surrealism |
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I ♥ Huckabees |
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many...
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| De Noorderlingen | |||
| Porky in Wackyland | |||
| Un chien andalou | |||
| Last Year at Marienbad | |||
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| x Political fiction |
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Wag the Dog |
Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction that deals with political affairs. Political fiction has often used narrative to provide commentary on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction often "directly criticize an...
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| Advise and Consent | |||
| x Yuri |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena |
Yuri (百合), also known by the wasei-eigo construction Girls Love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media. Yuri can focus either on the sexual or...
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| x Shōjo |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena |
The term Shōjo, shojo, or shoujo manga (少女漫画, shōjo manga) refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 (shōjo), literally: "young girl". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in...
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| x Opera |
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Carmen |
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such...
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| Don Giovanni | |||
| La traviata | |||
| Aida | |||
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| x Family Drama | Terms of Endearment |
Family Drama concerns itself with interpersonal relationships and conflicts amongst the members of family structure within a society. Topics can consist of incest, abuse, status, conflicts between members of a family or the family and society or...
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| Fanny and Alexander | |||
| The Magnificent Ambersons | |||
| Little Women | |||
| Little Women | |||
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| x Coming of age | Ordinary People |
Coming of age is a young person's transition from childhood to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the nature of the transition. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual, as...
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| Breaking Away | |||
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