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Post Post #75 (ISO) » Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:16 pm

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Post Post #76 (ISO) » Sat Dec 24, 2016 6:01 pm

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Star Trek
- Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)
Very action-y. Not a thinker's Trek movie.

Youth Culture
- Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)
Nicely captured slice of time. Lots of great performances.

Action Combat
- Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)
After I saw 'Jack Abramoff' as a producer I dug more into the history of this movie. The whole thing is just surreal.

Costume Adventures
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)
Oof. This felt much heavier on the social commentary than Time Bandits or Brazil (okay, maybe not Bazil). Maybe I'm just older.

Christmas Films
- It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)
Really well directed, but features some occasionally really choppy editing. Still, glad I finally got around to seeing it.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
Costume Horror
Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
Modern Western
Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Post Post #77 (ISO) » Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:50 pm

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Parenthood Comedies
- The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)
Aw man, the scene where future Uncle Fester is in the wagon is amazingly heart-breaking.

Comedy Thrillers
- The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)
Couple of good comedic moments, but pretty formulaic kid's movie.

Issue Western
- Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)
Man, look at that young pre-Die Hard Alan Rickman being all Alan Rickman-y. Awesome.

Fairy-tale Musicals
- Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)
The voice-less horse steals the show.

Undercover
- 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)
Was actually pleasantly surprised. Had some funny moment.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
Costume Horror
Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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School Days
- Election (Alexander Payne-1999)
- I enjoyed this. It ramped up towards craziness but then ratcheted right down.

Euro-Western
- The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)
- A Danish western in 2014. Weird, but a solid story of Western revenge.

Backstage Musicals
- The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)
- Campy and silly. It passed the time.

African-American
- Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)
- Good. But it's hard to forget that you're watching a play adaptation.

Wolves, Werewolves
- An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)
- Man, Landis is such a rollercoaster director. This was an up for sure though.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
Costume Horror
Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Post Post #79 (ISO) » Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:57 pm

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Modern Western
- The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)
- Great existential western where the battle of civility versus savagery is waged in the Aussie outback.

Horror Comedies
- Gremlins (John Landis-1984)
- If your expectation level is low, you're good to go.

Absurd
- Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)
- I know it's bad, but I love watching Jon Lovitz vamp.

Classic Horror
- The Tingler (William Castle-1959)
- Silly, campy old horror.

Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)
- An amazing epic-level character study.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
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Post Post #80 (ISO) » Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:20 am

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Have you ever seen
The life of David Gale
? Alot of people dislike it but I think I just might be a Spacey fan boy.
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Post Post #81 (ISO) » Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:58 pm

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In post 80, Nero Cain wrote:Have you ever seen
The life of David Gale
? Alot of people dislike it but I think I just might be a Spacey fan boy.
Yes! I've seen it! Oh, that damn dumb ending. I've never seen a movie's ending so completely kill the point of a movie.

Totally separate from the story, Spacey (and everyone else) did a fine acting job and there bear no responsibility for me disliking the movie. (Unless Spacey produced it or something).
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Post Post #82 (ISO) » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:23 pm

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My english professor suggested it my freshman year and I remember liking it. I had wanted to start suggesting some good movies for you to watch but I think I may have low standards. I'm entertained by most anything lol. I don't totally feel like the odd ending totally ruins the movie. I think it was likely meant to be a twist ending or....and this is kinda what I think...like it was meant to be a conversation starter on whether or not assisted suicide is murder.
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Post Post #83 (ISO) » Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:31 pm

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In post 82, Nero Cain wrote:My english professor suggested it my freshman year and I remember liking it. I had wanted to start suggesting some good movies for you to watch but I think I may have low standards. I'm entertained by most anything lol. I don't totally feel like the odd ending totally ruins the movie. I think it was likely meant to be a twist ending or....and this is kinda what I think...like it was meant to be a conversation starter on whether or not assisted suicide is murder.
From what I remember, the twist ending was just too much of a twist. Like, it undercut the message. Plus it undercut the enormous amount of emotional resonance it was able to create in a flash.

I mean, we get a long tense sequence of Winslet trying to rush to get the evidence to a judge to prevent the execution of David Gale because he's actually innocent. She's scrambling, hitting obstacles, finally just flat running to make the save. And fails. Crushing disappointment and guilt because she was unable to prevent a death. Deep, impactful, well filmed stuff.

Then the movie goes "lol, no. he was a hypocrite. Okay bye movie over." And it just made me angry. Making an audience feel sympathy then tell you that the character doesn't deserve it is basically, well, trolling the audience. That's why it got such negative reviews.

But please don't ever hesitate to suggest anything. I don't watch TV commercials or trailers, so even major movies fly under my radar.
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Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)
- Not as cringe-worthy as I expected.

Docu-dramas
- The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)
- I was impressed by Matt Damon, he really showcased a bizarre but believable character

Costume Horror
- Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)
- They actually did a decent job with a silly concept.

British Humor
- Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)
- Not bad, but not really memorable.

Juvenile Delinquency
- Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)
- The ending was a little forced, but otherwise well written. The "kids" out-act the teacher for sure.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Post Post #85 (ISO) » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:04 am

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In post 84, Kublai Khan wrote:British Humor - Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)
- Not bad, but not really memorable.
If I remember correctly, this one had more for adults than a lot of "animated" movies do.
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Post Post #86 (ISO) » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:16 am

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Flushed Away seems like an odd choice for British Humour

Although to be fair presuming you're trying to watch a movie you haven't seen before for each category I'm not surprised if you've watched basically every other British comedy film
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In post 86, Davsto wrote:Flushed Away seems like an odd choice for British Humour

Although to be fair presuming you're trying to watch a movie you haven't seen before for each category I'm not surprised if you've watched basically every other British comedy film
Heh. In that situation, I had watched it with my kids and then found a category that it fits into. I already regularly watch British comedies (like, say, Baron Munchhausen not too long ago), so I didn't feel like I'm depriving myself by crossing off that spot with Flushed Away.
In post 85, PeregrineV wrote:
In post 84, Kublai Khan wrote:British Humor - Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)
- Not bad, but not really memorable.
If I remember correctly, this one had more for adults than a lot of "animated" movies do.
Not particularly, I don't think. I mean, there are references that will sail over the heads of children for grown-up's benefit, but it's a standard family film fare.
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Teen (or Youth) Films
- Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)
- Very good and underrated

Space Opera
- Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)
- I have mixed feelings about this, but overall I liked it.

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)
- Melodramatic and manipulative.

Indian History
- Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)
- Oh wow. Way too long.

Private-Eye
- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)
- A nice, tight story.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Historical Spectacles
- The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)
- Might have been good if it didn't center around an American.

Psychological Drama
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)
- Jeremy Irons gives a great performance, but it feels like it just kinda peters out at the end.

Tragedy
- Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)
- I can't put my finger on it, but something is missing that would otherwise make this a classic.

Sword and Sandal
- The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)
- This was "holding arrow in armpit" bad, but it clearly influenced Frank Miller.

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)
- The singing was fine, but the story of the opera wasn't really compelling. Not my favorite genre.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
Super-Heroes
Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}

War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Post Post #90 (ISO) » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:02 pm

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Super-Heroes
- Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo - 2016)
- Crowded with cameos to the point where I didn't care about the Captain America/Iron Man feud. I would rather watch a Black Panther solo flick.

Straight Action/ Conflict
- Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander - 2008)
-
Not enough cameos
. Okay for what it is I guess.

Mountain
- Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)
- Thoroughly silly concept. By the end I just wanted more screen time for evil John Lithgow.

Stand-Up
- Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)
- Really good. I laughed pretty hard and regularly.

Jungle and Safari Epics
- Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)
- Definitely one of those magical movies where it should be crap (low budget, bad dialogue, etc.), but ends up being really good.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander - 2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo - 2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}

War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Post Post #91 (ISO) » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:36 pm

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Quest
- Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)
- Couple of good songs. Fine family entertainment.

Nostalgia
- Sing Street (John Carney-2016)
- Really enjoyed the subtle touches and the charm of this movie.

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)
- Some stuff of pointless, but it's an alright CGI-fest.

Ethnofiction
- Colossal Youth [aka Juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)
- Good, but felt too aimless. And that one speech just got repeated too many times.

Road Movie
- Im Lauf der Zeit [aka Kings of the Road] (Wim Wenders-1976)
- I can't say I fully understood why the characters did the things they did, but I enjoyed being along for the ride. Thanks Empire.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander - 2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo - 2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka Juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}

War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
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In post 93, PJ. wrote:A few repeats in the genre list
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Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)
- Oh man. I really liked this. Such a dark comedy with a strong amount of whimsy.

Comic Criminals
- Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)
- Eh.. A bit of a surrealness for it's own sake. There's a couple of memorable scenes and characters, but the story doesn't hold it together.

Monsters
- The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)
- For a low budget, it's decent.

Stage Musicals
- West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)
- One of those movies that you can't help to have already seen through cultural osmosis. Spectacular dancing.

Classic Comedies
- Modern Times - (Charles Chaplin-1936)
- Really impressive sequences, but could have used a better through line. Still, I really enjoyed it.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy - 2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander - 2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo - 2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
- {Modern Times - (Charles Chaplin-1936)}

Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
- {Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)}

Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- {Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)}

Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}

War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
- {The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)}

Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
- {West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)}

Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Anti-War
- Idi i smotri (aka Come and See) (E. Klimov-1985)
- Definitely set a bar for most fucked-up war atrocities on film. I'd be hard-pressed to think of something that tops it.

Space Adventures
- Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau-2005)
- Yeah, it is a Jumanji clone. But I think it's actually better than the original.

Beach Party Films
- Catalina Caper (Lee Sholem-1967)
- Bad.

Mondo Film
- Addio Zio Tom [aka Goodbye Uncle Tom] (1971)
- I feel like there is just paragraphs I probably need to write about this just to sort out my thoughts. Exploitation is such a tangle.

Supernatural drama
- {Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki [aka Wolf Children] (Mamoru Hosoda-2012)
- Eh.. Really it just made me annoyed at furries. Some good parts, but it really dragged.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Action/Adventure Drama
Animal
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday
Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
Girls With Guns
Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Samurai
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
- {Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau-2005)}

Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy-2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander-2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo-2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison

Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
- {Modern Times - (Charles Chaplin-1936)}

Clown
Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
- {Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)}

Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- {Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)}

Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
Post-Noir
Procedurals
Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
Mondo Film
- {Addio Zio Tom [aka Goodbye Uncle Tom] (1971)}

Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
Adult
African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
Love
Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie
Musical Drama
Newspaper
Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
Police Drama
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Reunion
Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama
- {Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki [aka Wolf Children] (Mamoru Hosoda-2012)}

Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
Urban Drama
War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû (aka Millennium Actress) (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}

War or Westerns (Epic)

Horror

B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore
Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
Monsters
- {The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)}

Natural Horror
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories
Sci-Fi Horror
Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies

Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
Beach Party Films
- {Catalina Caper (Lee Sholem-1967)}

Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
- {West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)}

Western Musicals

Science Fiction

Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Cyber Punk
Disaster
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Natural Horror
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
- {Idi i smotri (aka Come and See) (E. Klimov-1985)

Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Korean War
Military
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
War Adventure
War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II

Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Musical Western
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof Westerns
Traditional
Occasionally intellectually honest

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Other Dimensions
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer-2013)
Reunion
- Le passé {aka The Past} (Asghar Farhadi-2013)
Prostitution
- Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis-1995)
Euro-Spy Films
- Europa (Lars von Trier-1991)
Fairy Tales
- Enchanted - (Kevin Lima-2007)
Period Film
- Atonement (Joe Wright-2007)
Sex Horror
- It Follows (David Robert Mitchell-2014)
Adventure Drama
- The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen-2000)
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
- Frankenstein (James Whale-1931)
Demonic Possession
- The Conjuring (James Wan-2013)
Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
- Conan the Barbarian (John Milius-1982)
Atomic Age
- The Time Travelers (Ib Melchior-1964)
Conceptual Comedy
- Mystery Team (Dan Eckman-2009)
Adult
- The Room (Tommy Wiseau-2003)
True Crime
- Black Mass (Scott Cooper-2015)
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
- {L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo [aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage] (Dario Argento-1970)
Espionage
- Ek Tha Tiger (Kabir Khan-2012)
Broadway Show Musicals
- Rent (Chris Columbus-2005)
Disaster or Doomsday
- Avalanche (Corey Allen-1978)
Surfing or Surf Films
- The Endless Summer {Bruce Brown-1966)
Farce
- National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis-1983)
'Period Pictures'
- Natvris khe [aka The Wishing Tree] (Tengiz Abuladze-1977)
Western Comedies
- Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks-1974)
Rape and Revenge Films
- Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da [aka I Saw the Devil] (Jee-woon Kim-2010)
Romantic Comedies
- The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges-1941)
Dramatic Musicals
- Dreamgirls (Bill Condon - 2006)
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
- El monstruo de la Montaña Hueca [aka The Beast of Hollow Mountain] (Ismael Rodríguez & Edward Nassour-1956)
Anarchic Comedies
- The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey & Joseph Santley-1929)
Anime
- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011 - Kazuya Murata)
Outer Space
- The Martian (Ridley Scott-2015)
Escape
- Le trou (Jacques Becker-1960)
Diary Films
- The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens-1959)
Animal
- Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow-2015)
'Spaghetti' Westerns
- For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone-1965)
Ethnographic Film
- Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty-1922)
Love
- Singles (Cameron Crowe-1992)
Folk Musicals
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen-2013)
Psychological Horror
- Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson-1962)
Urban Drama
- Tangerine (Sean Baker-2015)
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
- Bamboozled (Spike Lee-2000)
Musical Drama
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle-2016)
Dracula
- Dracula (Terence Fisher-1958)
Pre-historic
- Eegah (Arch Hall Sr.-1962)
Satire
- Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore-1995)
Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
- The Trojan Women (Mihalis Kakogiannis-1971)
Message Movie
- Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks-1991)
Lost Worlds
- The Land That Time Forgot (Kevin Connor-1974)
Police/Detective
- Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest-1984)
Roman Empire
- Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick-1960)
True Crime Drama
- Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes-2006)
Sophisticated Comedies
- Manhattan (Woody Allen-1979)
Cattle Drive
- Red River (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson-1948)
Hip-Hop Films
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry-2005)
Religious
- Xi you xiang mo pian [aka Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons] (Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok-2013)
Biblical
- Noah (Darren Aronofsky-2014)
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
- He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk-2015)
Disease/Disability
- Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines-1986)
Speculative
- Okja (Bong Joon Ho-2017)
Law and Order
- Exiled (Jean de Segonzac-1998)
Punk Sci-Fi (i.e. Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.)
- Suchîmubôi [aka Steamboy] (Katsuhiro Ôtomo-2004)
Tech-Noir
- Helix (Eric Petey-2015)
Futuristic
- Looper (Rian Johnson-2012)
Exploration
- The Black Hole (Gary Nelson-1979)
Desert Epics
- Sahara (Breck Eisner-2005)
B-Movie Horror
- Ein Toter hing im Netz [aka Body in the Web or Horrors of Spider Island] (Jaime Nolan-1960)
Childhood Dramas
- Fievres [aka Fevers] (Hicham Ayouch-2015)
Occult
- Witchfinder General [aka The Conqueror Worm] (Michael Reeves-1968)
Hong Kong
- Wu Du [aka Five Deadly Venoms] (Cheh Chang-1978)
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
- Kimi no na wa. [aka Your Name] (Makoto Shinkai-2016)
Parody
- Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks-1974)
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
- Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer-1964)
Ballet
- The Red Shoes (Michael Powell-1948)
Girls With Guns
- La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson-1990)
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
- The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme-2004)
Satanic Stories
- Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden-2015)
Psychological Westerns
- Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt-2010)
Crime Films
- Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes-2002)
Zombies
- Busanhaeng [aka Train to Busan] (Sang-ho Yeon-2016)
Science-Fiction Westerns
- Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld-1999)
Women in Prison
- The Big Bird Cage (Jack Hill-1972)
Natural Horror
- Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall-1990)
Mythic Fables or Mythology
- Morozko [aka Jack Frost] (Aleksandr Rou-1965)
Musical Comedies
- Rock Dog (Ash Brannon-2016)
Confined Space Action
- Cube (Vincenzo Natali-1997)
Sci-Fi Horror
- Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego-2011)
Vice Films
- Spiklenci slasti (Jan Svankmajer-1996)
Vietnam War
- Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone-1989)
Hard-boiled Detective
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston-1941)
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer-2014)
Military
- G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott-1997)
Clown
- Quick Change (Howard Franklin, Bill Murray-1990)
Greek Myth
- Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier-2010)
H.P. Lovecraftian
- Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon-1995)
Spoof Westerns
- Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein-1965)
End of World
- This is the End (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogan-2013)
Fantasy Adventure
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren-2017)
Sports Dramas or Biopics
- Fighting (Dito Montiel-2009)
Survival Horror
- Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante-2013)
War Romance
- Letyat zhuravli [aka The Cranes of Flying] (Mikhail Kalatozov-1957)
War Adventure
- The African Queen (John Huston-1951)
Police Drama
- Cop Land (James Mangold-1997)
Macabre
- I Am Not a Serial Killer (Billy O'Brien-2016)
Indian War or Indian Westerns
- The Daughter of Dawn (Norbert Myles-1920)
Romantic Westerns
- The Electric Horseman (Sidney Pollack-1979)
Erotic Drama
- La vie d'Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche-2013)
Reincarnation
- The Fountain (Darren Aronovsky-2006)
Screwball Comedies
- A Night At the Opera (Sam Pope-1935)
Americana
- Nebraska (Alexander Payne-2013)
Newspaper
- State of Play (Kevin Macdonald-2009)
Sea Adventures
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir-2003)
Korean War
- Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Je-kyu Kang-2004)
Gore
- Gantz: O (Yasushi Kawamura, Keiichi Saitô-2016)
Sadistic Horror
- Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman-2005)
Treasure Hunts
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal-2013)
Man-Made Horrors
- The Village (M. Night Shyamalan-2004)
World War II
- Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood-2006)
Feminist
- Oleanna (David Mamet-1994)
Parallel (or Alternate) Universe
- Cube²: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekula-2002)
Dance
- Flashdance (Adrian Lyne-1983)
Victim
- The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute-2006)
Galactic Empire
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas-2002)
Outlaws
- The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawkes-1943)
Biker
- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper-1969)
Life Story Literary Adaptation
- Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh-2013)
Mafia Comedies
- Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker-1976)
Procedurals
- Bullitt (Peter Yates-1968)
Supernatural
- Chronicle (Josh Trank-2012)
Haunted House, other Hauntings
- The Haunting (Robert Wise-1963)

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Animal
- {Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow-2015)}

Biker
- {Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper-1969)}

Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
- {Cube (Vincenzo Natali-1997)}

Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
- {Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes-2002)}

Desert Epics
- {Sahara (Breck Eisner-2005)}

Disaster or Doomsday
- {Avalanche (Corey Allen-1978)}

Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
- {Le trou (Jacques Becker-1960)}

Exploitation (i.e. Nunspoitation, Naziploitation)
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
- {Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren-2017)}

Girls With Guns
- {La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson-1990)}

Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
- {Wu Du [aka Five Deadly Venoms] (Cheh Chang-1978)}

James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
- {Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer-1964)}

Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
- {Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da [aka I Saw the Devil] {Jee-woon Kim-2010})

Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
- {X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer-2014)}

Samurai
Sea Adventures
- {Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir-2003)}

Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
- {Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau-2005)}

Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy-2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander-2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo-2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
- {The Endless Summer {Bruce Brown-1966)}

Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
- {Conan the Barbarian (John Milius-1982)}

(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
- {The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme-2004)}

Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
- {Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal-2013)}

Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison
- {The Big Bird Cage (Jack Hill-1972)}


Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
- {The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey & Joseph Santley-1929)}

Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
- {Modern Times (Charles Chaplin-1936)}

Clown
- {Quick Change (Howard Franklin, Bill Murray-1990)}

Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
- {Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)}

Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
- {Mystery Team (Dan Eckman-2009)}

Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
- {National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis-1983)}

Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
- {Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker-1976)}

"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
- {Rock Dog (Ash Brannon-2016)}

Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
- {Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
- {The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Satire
- {Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore-1995)}

School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
- {A Night At the Opera (Sam Pope-1935)}

Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
- {Manhattan (Woody Allen-1979)}

Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
- {Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
- {Ek Tha Tiger (Kabir Khan-2012)}

Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Gangs
Hard-boiled Detective
- {The Maltese Falcon (John Huston-1941)}

Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
- {Exiled (Jean de Segonzac-1998)}

Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- {Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)}

Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
- {Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest-1984)}

Post-Noir
Procedurals
- {Bullitt (Peter Yates-1968)}

Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
- {Black Mass (Scott Cooper-2015)}

Vice Films
- {Spiklenci slasti (Jan Svankmajer-1996)}

Victim
- {The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute-2006)}

Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
- {Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty-1922)}

Mondo Film
- {Addio Zio Tom [aka Goodbye Uncle Tom] (1971)}

Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
- {The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen-2000)}

Adult
- {The Room (Tommy Wiseau-2003)}

African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
- {Nebraska (Alexander Payne-2013)}

Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
- {Kimi no na wa. [aka Your Name] (Makoto Shinkai-2016)}

Childhood Dramas
- {Fievres [aka Fevers] (Hicham Ayouch-2015)}

Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
- {Flashdance (Adrian Lyne-1983)}

Diary Films
- {The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens-1959)}

Disease/Disability
- {Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines-1986)}

Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
- {La vie d'Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche-2013)}

Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
- {Europa (Lars von Trier-1991)}

"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
- {Oleanna (David Mamet-1994)}

Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
- {Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh-2013)}

Love
- {Singles (Cameron Crowe-1992)}

Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
- {The Trojan Women (Mihalis Kakogiannis-1971)}

Message Movie
- {Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks-1991)}

Musical Drama
- {La La Land (Damien Chazelle-2016)}

Newspaper
- {State of Play (Kevin Macdonald-2009)}

Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
- {Atonement (Joe Wright-2007)}

Police Drama
- {Cop Land (James Mangold-1997)}

POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
- {Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis-1995)}

Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
- {Bamboozled (Spike Lee-2000)}

Reunion
- {Le passé {aka The Past} (Asghar Farhadi-2013)}

Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
- {Fighting (Dito Montiel-2009)}

Supernatural drama
- {Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki [aka Wolf Children] (Mamoru Hosoda-2012)}

Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
- {Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes-2006)}

Urban Drama
- {Tangerine (Sean Baker-2015)}

War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Alternate History (What if...?)
Biblical
- {Noah (Darren Aronofsky-2014)}

Dark Ages
Greek Myth
- {Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier-2010)}

Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
- {Natvris khe [aka The Wishing Tree] (Tengiz Abuladze-1977)}

Religious
- {Xi you xiang mo pian [aka Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons] (Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok-2013)}

Roman Empire
- {Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick-1960)}

Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû [aka Millennium Actress] (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}


Horror

B-Movie Horror
- {Ein Toter hing im Netz [aka Body in the Web or Horrors of Spider Island] (Jaime Nolan-1960)}

Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
- {He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk-2015)}

Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
- {The Conjuring (James Wan-2013)}

Dracula
- {Dracula (Terence Fisher-1958)}

Erotic
"Found Footage"
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
- {Frankenstein (James Whale-1931)}

Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
- {L'uccekki dalle piume di cristallo [aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage] (Dario Argento-1970)}

Gore
- {Gantz 0 (Yasushi Kawamura, Keiichi Saitô-2016)}

Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
- {The Haunting (Robert Wise-1963)}

H.P. Lovecraftian
- {Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon-1995)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
- {I Am Not a Serial Killer (Billy O'Brien-2016)}

Man-Made Horrors
- {The Village (M. Night Shyamalan-2004)}

Monsters
- {The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)}

Natural Horror
- {Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall-1990)}

Occult
- {Witchfinder General [aka The Conqueror Worm] (Michael Reeves-1968)}

Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Paranormal
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
- {Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson-1962)}

Reincarnation
- {The Fountain (Darren Aronovsky-2006)}

Sadistic Horror
- {Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman-2005)}

Satanic Stories
- {Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden-2015)}

Sci-Fi Horror
- {Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego-2011)}

Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
- {It Follows (David Robert Mitchell-2014)}

Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Survival Horror
- {Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante-2013)}

Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies
- {Busanhaeng [aka Train to Busan] (Sang-ho Yeon-2016)}


Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
- {The Red Shoes (Michael Powell-1948)}

Beach Party Films
- {Catalina Caper (Lee Sholem-1967)}

Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
- {Rent (Chris Columbus-2005)}

Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
- {Dreamgirls (Bill Condon-2006)}

Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
- {Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen-2013)}

Hip-Hop Films
- {Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry-2005)}

Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
- {West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)}

Western Musicals

Science Fiction

AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
- {Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011 - Kazuya Murata)}

Atomic Age
- {The Time Travellers (Ib Melchior-1964)}

Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
- {This is the End (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogan-2013)}

Exploration
- {The Black Hole (Gary Nelson-1979)}

Fairy Tales
- {Enchanted - (Kevin Lima-2007)}

Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

"First Contact"
Futuristic
- {Looper (Rian Johnson-2012)}

Galactic Empire
- {Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas-2002)}

Lost Worlds
- {The Land That Time Forgot (Kevin Connor-1974)}

Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Militaristic
Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Mythic Fables or Mythology
- {Morozko [aka Jack Frost] (Aleksandr Rou-1965)}

Near Future
Other Dimensions
- {Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer-2013)}

Outer Space
- {The Martian (Ridley Scott-2015)}

Parallel (or Alternate) Universe
- {Cube²: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekula-2002)}

Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
- {Eegah (Arch Hall Sr.-1962)}

Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Pulp
Punk Sci-Fi (i.e. Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.)
- {Suchîmubôi [aka Steamboy] (Katsuhiro Ôtomo-2004)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Speculative
- {Okja (Bong Joon Ho-2017)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
- {Chronicle (Josh Trank-2012)}

Tech-Noir
- {Helix-Eric Petey-2015}

Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
- {Idi i smotri (aka Come and See) (E. Klimov-1985)

Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Historical
Korean War
- {Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Je-kyu Kang-2004)}

Military
- {G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott-1997)}

Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
- {Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone-1989)}

War Adventure
- {The African Queen (John Huston-1951)}

War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
- {Letyat zhuravli [aka The Cranes of Flying] (Mikhail Kalatozov-1957)}

World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II
- {Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood-2006)}


Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
- {Red River (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson-1948)}

Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
- {El monstruo de la Montaña Hueca [aka The Beast of Hollow Mountain] (Ismael Rodríguez & Edward Nassour-1956)}

Indian War or Indian Westerns
- {The Daughter of Dawn (Norbert Myles-1920)}

Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Marshall Western
Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Outlaws
- {The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawkes-1943)}

Psychological Westerns
- {Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt-2010)}

Revenge Western
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
- {The Electric Horseman (Sidney Pollack-1979)}

Science-Fiction Westerns
- {Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld-1999)}

Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
- {For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone-1965)}

Spoof Westerns
- {Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein-1965)}

Traditional
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Post Post #98 (ISO) » Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:05 pm

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Post-Noir
- The Nice Guys (Shane Black-2016)
- I enjoyed this. Gave me an impression of Big Lebowski but all the characters were much less memorable. Though I imagine it'll leave me with as little of an impression that
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
did.

Traditional
- Dodge City (Michael Curtiz-1939)
- It's really silly casting to have Englishmen Errol Flynn in a western playing a Texan. But okay.

Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
- The Aviator (Martin Scorsese-2004)
- All the ingredients are there for a fantastic Scorsese film, but it just didn't cook properly.

Creature Films
- Gorgo (Eugène Lourié-1961)
- A British Godzilla movie.

Period Action Films
- The Vikings (Richard Fleischer-1958)
- Same as with Aviator. Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas in a period action movie should be amazing (like, well, Spartacus), but wasn't. Though I think the rinky-dink boats and fight scenes hurt it.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Animal
- {Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow-2015)}

Biker
- {Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper-1969)}

Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
- {Cube (Vincenzo Natali-1997)}

Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
- {Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes-2002)}

Desert Epics
- {Sahara (Breck Eisner-2005)}

Disaster or Doomsday
- {Avalanche (Corey Allen-1978)}

Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
- {Le trou (Jacques Becker-1960)}

Exploitation (i.e. Nunspoitation, Naziploitation)
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
- {Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren-2017)}

Girls With Guns
- {La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson-1990)}

Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
- {Wu Du [aka Five Deadly Venoms] (Cheh Chang-1978)}

James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
- {The Vikings (Richard Fleischer-1958)}

Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
- {Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer-1964)}

Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
- {Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da [aka I Saw the Devil] {Jee-woon Kim-2010})

Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
- {X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer-2014)}

Samurai
Sea Adventures
- {Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir-2003)}

Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
- {Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau-2005)}

Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy-2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander-2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo-2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
- {The Endless Summer {Bruce Brown-1966)}

Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
- {Conan the Barbarian (John Milius-1982)}

(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
- {The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme-2004)}

Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
- {Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal-2013)}

Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison
- {The Big Bird Cage (Jack Hill-1972)}


Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
- {The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey & Joseph Santley-1929)}

Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
- {Modern Times (Charles Chaplin-1936)}

Clown
- {Quick Change (Howard Franklin, Bill Murray-1990)}

Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
- {Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)}

Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
- {Mystery Team (Dan Eckman-2009)}

Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
- {National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis-1983)}

Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
- {Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker-1976)}

"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
- {Rock Dog (Ash Brannon-2016)}

Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
- {Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
- {The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Satire
- {Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore-1995)}

School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
- {A Night At the Opera (Sam Pope-1935)}

Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
- {Manhattan (Woody Allen-1979)}

Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
- {Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
- {Ek Tha Tiger (Kabir Khan-2012)}

Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Gangs
Hard-boiled Detective
- {The Maltese Falcon (John Huston-1941)}

Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
- {Exiled (Jean de Segonzac-1998)}

Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- {Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)}

Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
- {Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest-1984)}

Post-Noir
- {The Nice Guys (Shane Black-2016)}

Procedurals
- {Bullitt (Peter Yates-1968)}

Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
- {Black Mass (Scott Cooper-2015)}

Vice Films
- {Spiklenci slasti (Jan Svankmajer-1996)}

Victim
- {The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute-2006)}

Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
- {Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty-1922)}

Mondo Film
- {Addio Zio Tom [aka Goodbye Uncle Tom] (1971)}

Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
- {The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen-2000)}

Adult
- {The Room (Tommy Wiseau-2003)}

African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
- {Nebraska (Alexander Payne-2013)}

Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
- {Kimi no na wa. [aka Your Name] (Makoto Shinkai-2016)}

Childhood Dramas
- {Fievres [aka Fevers] (Hicham Ayouch-2015)}

Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
- {Flashdance (Adrian Lyne-1983)}

Diary Films
- {The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens-1959)}

Disease/Disability
- {Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines-1986)}

Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
- {La vie d'Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche-2013)}

Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
- {Europa (Lars von Trier-1991)}

"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
- {Oleanna (David Mamet-1994)}

Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
- {Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh-2013)}

Love
- {Singles (Cameron Crowe-1992)}

Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
- {The Trojan Women (Mihalis Kakogiannis-1971)}

Message Movie
- {Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks-1991)}

Musical Drama
- {La La Land (Damien Chazelle-2016)}

Newspaper
- {State of Play (Kevin Macdonald-2009)}

Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
- {Atonement (Joe Wright-2007)}

Police Drama
- {Cop Land (James Mangold-1997)}

POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
- {Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis-1995)}

Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
- {Bamboozled (Spike Lee-2000)}

Reunion
- {Le passé {aka The Past} (Asghar Farhadi-2013)}

Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
- {Fighting (Dito Montiel-2009)}

Supernatural drama
- {Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki [aka Wolf Children] (Mamoru Hosoda-2012)}

Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
- {Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes-2006)}

Urban Drama
- {Tangerine (Sean Baker-2015)}

War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Alternate History (What if...?)
Biblical
- {Noah (Darren Aronofsky-2014)}

Dark Ages
Greek Myth
- {Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier-2010)}

Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
- {The Aviator (Martin Scorsese-2004)}

Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
- {Natvris khe [aka The Wishing Tree] (Tengiz Abuladze-1977)}

Religious
- {Xi you xiang mo pian [aka Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons] (Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok-2013)}

Roman Empire
- {Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick-1960)}

Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû [aka Millennium Actress] (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}


Horror

B-Movie Horror
- {Ein Toter hing im Netz [aka Body in the Web or Horrors of Spider Island] (Jaime Nolan-1960)}

Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
- {He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk-2015)}

Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
- {The Conjuring (James Wan-2013)}

Dracula
- {Dracula (Terence Fisher-1958)}

Erotic
"Found Footage"
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
- {Frankenstein (James Whale-1931)}

Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
- {L'uccekki dalle piume di cristallo [aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage] (Dario Argento-1970)}

Gore
- {Gantz 0 (Yasushi Kawamura, Keiichi Saitô-2016)}

Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
- {The Haunting (Robert Wise-1963)}

H.P. Lovecraftian
- {Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon-1995)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
- {I Am Not a Serial Killer (Billy O'Brien-2016)}

Man-Made Horrors
- {The Village (M. Night Shyamalan-2004)}

Monsters
- {The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)}

Natural Horror
- {Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall-1990)}

Occult
- {Witchfinder General [aka The Conqueror Worm] (Michael Reeves-1968)}

Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Paranormal
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
- {Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson-1962)}

Reincarnation
- {The Fountain (Darren Aronovsky-2006)}

Sadistic Horror
- {Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman-2005)}

Satanic Stories
- {Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden-2015)}

Sci-Fi Horror
- {Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego-2011)}

Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
- {It Follows (David Robert Mitchell-2014)}

Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Survival Horror
- {Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante-2013)}

Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies
- {Busanhaeng [aka Train to Busan] (Sang-ho Yeon-2016)}


Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
- {The Red Shoes (Michael Powell-1948)}

Beach Party Films
- {Catalina Caper (Lee Sholem-1967)}

Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
- {Rent (Chris Columbus-2005)}

Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
- {Dreamgirls (Bill Condon-2006)}

Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
- {Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen-2013)}

Hip-Hop Films
- {Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry-2005)}

Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
- {West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)}

Western Musicals

Science Fiction

AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
- {Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011 - Kazuya Murata)}

Atomic Age
- {The Time Travellers (Ib Melchior-1964)}

Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
- {Gorgo (Eugène Lourié-1961)}

Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
- {This is the End (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogan-2013)}

Exploration
- {The Black Hole (Gary Nelson-1979)}

Fairy Tales
- {Enchanted - (Kevin Lima-2007)}

Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

"First Contact"
Futuristic
- {Looper (Rian Johnson-2012)}

Galactic Empire
- {Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas-2002)}

Lost Worlds
- {The Land That Time Forgot (Kevin Connor-1974)}

Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Militaristic
Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Mythic Fables or Mythology
- {Morozko [aka Jack Frost] (Aleksandr Rou-1965)}

Near Future
Other Dimensions
- {Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer-2013)}

Outer Space
- {The Martian (Ridley Scott-2015)}

Parallel (or Alternate) Universe
- {Cube²: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekula-2002)}

Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
- {Eegah (Arch Hall Sr.-1962)}

Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Pulp
Punk Sci-Fi (i.e. Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.)
- {Suchîmubôi [aka Steamboy] (Katsuhiro Ôtomo-2004)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Speculative
- {Okja (Bong Joon Ho-2017)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
- {Chronicle (Josh Trank-2012)}

Tech-Noir
- {Helix-Eric Petey-2015}

Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
- {Idi i smotri (aka Come and See) (E. Klimov-1985)

Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Historical
Korean War
- {Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Je-kyu Kang-2004)}

Military
- {G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott-1997)}

Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
- {Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone-1989)}

War Adventure
- {The African Queen (John Huston-1951)}

War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
- {Letyat zhuravli [aka The Cranes of Flying] (Mikhail Kalatozov-1957)}

World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II
- {Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood-2006)}


Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
- {Red River (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson-1948)}

Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
- {El monstruo de la Montaña Hueca [aka The Beast of Hollow Mountain] (Ismael Rodríguez & Edward Nassour-1956)}

Indian War or Indian Westerns
- {The Daughter of Dawn (Norbert Myles-1920)}

Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Marshall Western
Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Outlaws
- {The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawkes-1943)}

Psychological Westerns
- {Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt-2010)}

Revenge Western
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
- {The Electric Horseman (Sidney Pollack-1979)}

Science-Fiction Westerns
- {Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld-1999)}

Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
- {For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone-1965)}

Spoof Westerns
- {Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein-1965)}

Traditional
- {Dodge City (Michael Curtiz-1939)}
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Post Post #99 (ISO) » Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:04 pm

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Hagiographies
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer-1928)
- Oh man. If I had all the time in the world, I'd be re-watching this and looking to really break it down so many ways. So much interesting shot composition.

Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
- Lost Continent (Sam Newfield-1951)
- Bad. There's a 20 minute climbing sequence. No joke.

Classic Sci-Fi
- Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull-1972)
- Preachy, then dull. Weird that this inspired so many things I love (MST3K, BSG, Red Dwarf, & Star Wars)

'Dumb' Comedies
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (Paris Barclay-1996)
- Silly Wayans parody of 90's urban dramas.

Resistance
- Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini-1945)
- Intense and dreary. Incredible that this WWII film was released when it was. Great Nazi speech near the end really sums up the feeling.

Spoiler: List of genres
Action and Adventure

Action or Adventure Comedy
- {Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips-2004)}

Animal
- {Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow-2015)}

Biker
- {Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper-1969)}

Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
- {Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams-2015)}

Buddy
- {Zootopia (Byron Howard/Rich Moore-2016)}

Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
- {X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood-2009)}

Confined Space Action
- {Cube (Vincenzo Natali-1997)}

Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller)
- {The International (Tom Tykwer-2009)}

Cop Action
- {Shootout at Lokhandwala (Apoorva Lakhia-2007)}

Costume Adventures
- {The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam-1988)}

Crime Films
- {Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes-2002)}

Desert Epics
- {Sahara (Breck Eisner-2005)}

Disaster or Doomsday
- {Avalanche (Corey Allen-1978)}

Epic Adventure Films
- {The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson-2014)}

Erotic Thrillers
Escape
- {Le trou (Jacques Becker-1960)}

Exploitation (i.e. Nunspoitation, Naziploitation)
Family-oriented Adventure
- {Ice Age (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha-2002)}

Fantasy Adventure
- {Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren-2017)}

Girls With Guns
- {La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson-1990)}

Guy Films
- {Jûbê ninpûchô [aka Ninja Scroll] (Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Kevin Seymour-1993)}

Heist - Caper Films
- {Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn-1967)}

Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
- {The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick-2003)}

Hong Kong
- {Wu Du [aka Five Deadly Venoms] (Cheh Chang-1978)}

James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
- {Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog-1972)}

Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
- {Robin Hood (Ridley Scott-2010)}

Martial Arts Action
- {Kung Fu Panda 3 (Jennifer Yuh/Alessandro Carloni-2015)}

Man or Woman-In-Peril
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
- {Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin-1993)}

Period Action Films
- {The Vikings (Richard Fleischer-1958)}

Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
- {Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer-1964)}

Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller
- {Circle (Aaron Hann/Mario Miscione-2015)}

Quest
- {Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements-2016)}

Rape and Revenge Films
- {Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da [aka I Saw the Devil] {Jee-woon Kim-2010})

Road
Romantic Adventures
- {Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis-1984)}

Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
- {X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer-2014)}

Samurai
Sea Adventures
- {Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir-2003)}

Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
- {Lost Continent (Sam Newfield-1951)}

Serialized films
- {Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski/Bruce W. Timm-1993)}

Space Adventures
- {Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau-2005)}

Spy
- {The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy-2012)}

Straight Action/ Conflict
- {Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander-2008)}

Super-Heroes
- {Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo-2016)}

Surfing or Surf Films
- {The Endless Summer {Bruce Brown-1966)}

Survival
- {The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel/Ernest B. Schoedsack-1932)}

Swashbuckler
- {Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski-2006)}

Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
- {Conan the Barbarian (John Milius-1982)}

(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
- {The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme-2004)}

Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
- {Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal-2013)}

Undercover
- {21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller-2014)}

Women in Prison
- {The Big Bird Cage (Jack Hill-1972)}


Comedy

Absurd
- {Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman-1992)}

Action Comedies
- {Spy (Paul Feig-2015)}

Anarchic Comedies
- {The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey & Joseph Santley-1929)}

Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
- {Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage-1997)}

British Humor
- {Flushed Away (David Bowers, Sam Fell-2006)}

Classic Comedies
- {Modern Times (Charles Chaplin-1936)}

Clown
- {Quick Change (Howard Franklin, Bill Murray-1990)}

Comedy Thrillers
- {The Secret Lives of Pets (Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney-2016)}

Comic Criminals
- {Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen-2008)}

Coming of Age
- {The Breakfast Club (John Hughes-1985)}

Conceptual
- {Mystery Team (Dan Eckman-2009)}

Crime/Caper Comedies
- {Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud-2013)}

'Dumb' Comedies
- {Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (Paris Barclay-1996)}

Fairy Tale
- {Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Frank Nissen-2005)}

Family Comedies
- {Shaun the Sheep (Mark Burton-2015)}

Farce
- {National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis-1983)}

Fish-out-of-water Comedies
- {Kindergarden Cop (Ivan Reitman-1990)}

Gross-out Comedies
- {Superbad (Greg Mottola-2007)}

Horror Comedies
- {Gremlins (John Landis-1984)}

Lampoon
- {Animal House (John Landis-1978)}

Mafia Comedies
- {Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker-1976)}

"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies
- {Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill-2002)}

Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
- {Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles-2006)}

Musical Comedies
- {Rock Dog (Ash Brannon-2016)}

Parenthood Comedies
- {The Kid (Charlie Chaplin-1921)}

Parody
- {Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Political Comedies
Populist
- {Babe (Chris Noonan-1995)}

Pre-Teen Comedies
- {Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante-2003)}

Re-Marriage Comedies
- {Something Wild (Jonathan Demme-1986)}

Romantic Comedies
- {The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Satire
- {Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore-1995)}

School Days
- {Election (Alexander Payne-1999)}

Screwball Comedies
- {A Night At the Opera (Sam Pope-1935)}

Sex Comedies
- {American Pie (Paul Weitz/Chris Weitz-1999)}

Slacker
Slapstick
- {Jeuk Sing (aka Kung Fu Mahjong) (Jing Wong/Siu-hung Chung-2005)}

Social-Class Comedies
- {Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges-1941)}

Sophisticated Comedies
- {Manhattan (Woody Allen-1979)}

Spoofs
- {Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach-1997)}

Sports Comedies
- {Flåklypa Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino-1975)}

Stand-Up
- {Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin? (Lance Bangs-2017)}

Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies
- {The Frighteners (Peter Jackson-1996)}

Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
- {Meatballs (Ivan Reitman-1979)}

Urban Comedies
- {Coming to America (John Landis-1988)}

War Comedies
- {Catch-22 (Mike Nichols-1970)}

Western Comedies
- {Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks-1974)}

Zombie Comedies
- {Stag Night of the Dead (Neil Jones-2010)}


Crime & Gangster

'Bad Girl' Movies
- {Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine-2012)}

Buddy Cop
- {Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner-1992)}

Caper Stories
- {Revolver (Guy Ritchie-2005)}

Cops & Robbers
Courtroom Drama
Crime Comedy or Drama
- {I Love You Philip Morris (Glenn Ficarra/John Requa-2009)}

Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
- {Ek Tha Tiger (Kabir Khan-2012)}

Femme Fatales
Film Noir
- {Touch of Evil (Orson Welles-1958)}

Gangs
Hard-boiled Detective
- {The Maltese Falcon (John Huston-1941)}

Heist
- {The Italian Job (Peter Collinson-1969)}

Juvenile Delinquency
- {Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks-1955)}

Law and Order
- {Exiled (Jean de Segonzac-1998)}

Lovers on the Run Road Films
- {Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa/Koji Morimoto-2004)}

Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films
- {Sonachine (aka Sonatine) (Takeshi Kitano-1993)}

Mysteries
- {Salinui chueok (aka Memories of Murder) (Joon Ho Bong-2003)}

Neo-Noir
Outlaw Biker Films
- {The Wild One (Laslo Benedek-1953)}

Police/Detective
- {Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest-1984)}

Post-Noir
- {The Nice Guys (Shane Black-2016)}

Procedurals
- {Bullitt (Peter Yates-1968)}

Prison
- {Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn-2008)}

Private-Eye
- {The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks-1946)}

Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
- {The Judge (David Dobkin-2014)}

True Crime
- {Black Mass (Scott Cooper-2015)}

Vice Films
- {Spiklenci slasti (Jan Svankmajer-1996)}

Victim
- {The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute-2006)}

Who-dun-its
- {Mafia: Survival Game (Sarik Andreasyan-2016)}


Documentary

Animated Documentary
- {Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman-2008)}

Docufiction
- {Waking Life (Richard Linklater-2001)}

Ethnofiction
- {Colossal Youth [aka juventude Em Marcha] (Pedro Costa-2006)}

Ethnographic Film
- {Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty-1922)}

Mondo Film
- {Addio Zio Tom [aka Goodbye Uncle Tom] (1971)}

Nature Documentary
- {The Blue Planet (2001)}

Pseudo-Documentary
Reality Film
- {Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine-2002)}

Semi-documentary
Travel Documentary

Drama

Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
- {United 93 (Paul Greengrass-2006)}

Addiction and/or Alcoholism
- {Candy (Neil Armfield-2006)}

Adventure Drama
- {The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen-2000)}

Adult
- {The Room (Tommy Wiseau-2003)}

African-American
- {Fences (Denzel Washington-2016)}

Americana
- {Nebraska (Alexander Payne-2013)}

Autobiographies/Biographies
- {My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan-1989)}

Biopics (Biographical)
- {Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson-2010)}

British Empire
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
- {Kimi no na wa. [aka Your Name] (Makoto Shinkai-2016)}

Childhood Dramas
- {Fievres [aka Fevers] (Hicham Ayouch-2015)}

Christmas Films
- {It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra-1946)}

Coming-of-Age
- {Mimi wo sumaseba {aka Whisper of the Heart} (Yoshifumi Kondo-1995)}

Costume Dramas
- {A Room with a View (James Ivory-1985)}

Courtroom or Crime Dramas
- {Common (David Blair-2014)}

Dance
- {Flashdance (Adrian Lyne-1983)}

Diary Films
- {The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens-1959)}

Disease/Disability
- {Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines-1986)}

Docu-dramas
- {The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh-2009)}

Ensemble
- {Crimes and Misdermeaners (Woody Allen-1989)}

Erotic Drama
- {La vie d'Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche-2013)}

Ethnic Family Saga
- {Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon/Shogo Furuya-2003)}

Euro-Spy Films
- {Europa (Lars von Trier-1991)}

"Fallen" Women
- {The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan-2002)}

Fantasy Drama
- {Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore-2014)}

Feminist
- {Oleanna (David Mamet-1994)}

Film a Clef
Gay and Lesbian
- {Any Day Now (Travis Fine-2012)}

Generation Gap
Heavenly Drama
- {Kaguyahime no monogatari (aka The Tale of Princess Kagushi) (Isao Takahata-2013)}

High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust
Hood Films
Inspirational
- {Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir-1989)}

Investigative Reporting
- {Spotlight (Tom McCarthy-2015)}

Legal/Courtroom
Life Story Literary Adaptation
- {Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh-2013)}

Love
- {Singles (Cameron Crowe-1992)}

Marital Drama
- {Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen-1980)}

Medical
- {Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac-1998)}

Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
- {The Trojan Women (Mihalis Kakogiannis-1971)}

Message Movie
- {Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks-1991)}

Musical Drama
- {La La Land (Damien Chazelle-2016)}

Newspaper
- {State of Play (Kevin Macdonald-2009)}

Nostalgia
- {Sing Street (John Carney-2016)}

Odd Couple
Period Film
- {Atonement (Joe Wright-2007)}

Police Drama
- {Cop Land (James Mangold-1997)}

POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
- {Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard-2008)}

Propaganda
- {Animal Farm (Joy Batchelor/John Halas-1954)}

Prostitution
- {Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis-1995)}

Psychological Drama
- {Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg-1988)}

Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
- {Bamboozled (Spike Lee-2000)}

Reunion
- {Le passé {aka The Past} (Asghar Farhadi-2013)}

Road Movie
- {Im Lauf der Zeit (aka Kings of the Road) (Wim Wenders-1976)}

Romantic Dramas
- {An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey-1957)}

Rural Drama
- {Mud (Jeff Nichols-2012)}

Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Slice of Life
- {Raining Stones (Ken Loach-1993)}

Soap Opera
- {El Callejón de los Milagros [aka Midaq Alley] (Jorge Fons-1995)}

Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
- {Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi-1972)}

Small-town Life
- {Bernie (Richard Linklater-2011)}

Sports Dramas or Biopics
- {Fighting (Dito Montiel-2009)}

Supernatural drama
- {Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki [aka Wolf Children] (Mamoru Hosoda-2012)}

Teen (or Youth) Films
- {Cooley High (Michael Schultz-1975)}

Tragedy
- {Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu-2006)}

True Crime Drama
- {Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes-2006)}

Urban Drama
- {Tangerine (Sean Baker-2015)}

War-Military Dramas
- {Bao gio cho den thang muoi {aka When the Tenth Month Comes} (1984-Nhat Minh Dang)}

Women's Friendship
- {Bridesmaids (Paul Feig-2011)}

Youth Culture
- {Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe-2000)}


Epics/Historical

Alternate History (What if...?)
Biblical
- {Noah (Darren Aronofsky-2014)}

Dark Ages
Greek Myth
- {Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier-2010)}

Hagiographies
- {The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer-1928)}

Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics)
- {The Aviator (Martin Scorsese-2004)}

Indian History
- {Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker-2008)}

Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
- {Natvris khe [aka The Wishing Tree] (Tengiz Abuladze-1977)}

Religious
- {Xi you xiang mo pian [aka Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons] (Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok-2013)}

Roman Empire
- {Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick-1960)}

Romantic Epic
- {Sennen joyû [aka Millennium Actress] (Satoshi Kon-2001)}

Sword and Sandal
- {The 300 Spartans (Rudolph Mate-1962)}


Horror

B-Movie Horror
- {Ein Toter hing im Netz [aka Body in the Web or Horrors of Spider Island] (Jaime Nolan-1960)}

Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
- {He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk-2015)}

Classic Horror
- {The Tingler (William Castle-1959)}

Costume Horror
- {Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Burr Steers-2016)}

Creature Features
- {Alien³ (David Fincher-1992)}

Demonic Possession
- {The Conjuring (James Wan-2013)}

Dracula
- {Dracula (Terence Fisher-1958)}

Erotic
"Found Footage"
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
- {Frankenstein (James Whale-1931)}

Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
- {L'uccekki dalle piume di cristallo [aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage] (Dario Argento-1970)}

Gore
- {Gantz 0 (Yasushi Kawamura, Keiichi Saitô-2016)}

Gothic
- {Gothic (Ken Russell-1986)}

Halloween
- {Halloween (John Carpenter-1978)}

Haunted House, other Hauntings
- {The Haunting (Robert Wise-1963)}

H.P. Lovecraftian
- {Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon-1995)}

Home Invasion
- {You're Next (Adam Wingard-2011)}

Horror Comedy
- {Død snø [aka Dead Snow] (Tommy Wirkola-2009)}

Macabre
- {I Am Not a Serial Killer (Billy O'Brien-2016)}

Man-Made Horrors
- {The Village (M. Night Shyamalan-2004)}

Monsters
- {The Monster (Bryan Bertino-2016)}

Natural Horror
- {Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall-1990)}

Occult
- {Witchfinder General [aka The Conqueror Worm] (Michael Reeves-1968)}

Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation')
- {What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich-1962)}

Paranormal
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
- {Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson-1962)}

Reincarnation
- {The Fountain (Darren Aronovsky-2006)}

Sadistic Horror
- {Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman-2005)}

Satanic Stories
- {Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden-2015)}

Sci-Fi Horror
- {Apollo 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego-2011)}

Serial Killers
- {Disturbia (D.J. Caruso-2007)}

Sex Horror
- {It Follows (David Robert Mitchell-2014)}

Slashers or "Splatter" Films
- {Black Christmas (Bob Clark-1974)}

Survival Horror
- {Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante-2013)}

Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
- {Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel-2009)}

Terror
- {The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper-1974)}

Vampires
- {Stake Land (Jim Mickle-2010)}

Witchcraft
- {Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [aka Witching & Bitching] (Álex de la Iglesia-2013)}

Wolves, Werewolves
- {An American Werewolf in London (John Landis-1981)}

Zombies
- {Busanhaeng [aka Train to Busan] (Sang-ho Yeon-2016)}


Musicals/Dance

Animated
- {Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Kazuhisa Takenouchi-2003)}

Backstage Musicals
- {The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli-1953)}

Ballet
- {The Red Shoes (Michael Powell-1948)}

Beach Party Films
- {Catalina Caper (Lee Sholem-1967)}

Musical Biographies
- {The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi-2010)}

Broadway Show Musicals
- {Rent (Chris Columbus-2005)}

Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
- {Happy Feet (George Miller, Warren Coleman-2006)}

Dramatic Musicals
- {Dreamgirls (Bill Condon-2006)}

Fairy-tale Musicals
- {Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard-2010)}

Fantasy Musical
- {Yellow Submarine (George Dunning-1968)}

Film-Opera
- {La traviata (Franco Zeffirelli-1982)}

Folk Musicals
- {Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen-2013)}

Hip-Hop Films
- {Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry-2005)}

Operettas
- {The Student Prince (Richard Thorpe-1954)}

Rock-umentary
- {Heima (Dean DeBlois-2007)}

Romantic Musicals
- {White Christmas (Michael Curtiz-1954)}

Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
- {West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins-1961)}

Western Musicals

Science Fiction

AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Alien Invasion
- {Robot Monster (Phil Tucker-1953)}

Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
- {Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman-1993)}

Anime
- {Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011 - Kazuya Murata)}

Atomic Age
- {The Time Travellers (Ib Melchior-1964)}

Classic Sci-Fi
- {Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull-1972)}

Creature Films
- {Gorgo (Eugène Lourié-1961)}

Dystopia
- {The Double (Richard Ayoade-2013)}

End of World
- {This is the End (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogan-2013)}

Exploration
- {The Black Hole (Gary Nelson-1979)}

Fairy Tales
- {Enchanted - (Kevin Lima-2007)}

Fantasy Films
- {The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson-2005)}

50's Sci-Fi
- {The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise-1951)}

"First Contact"
Futuristic
- {Looper (Rian Johnson-2012)}

Galactic Empire
- {Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas-2002)}

Lost Worlds
- {The Land That Time Forgot (Kevin Connor-1974)}

Mad Scientists
- {Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon-1985)}

Militaristic
Monsters and Mutants
- {The Slime People (Robert Hutton-1963)}

Mythic Fables or Mythology
- {Morozko [aka Jack Frost] (Aleksandr Rou-1965)}

Near Future
Other Dimensions
- {Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer-2013)}

Outer Space
- {The Martian (Ridley Scott-2015)}

Parallel (or Alternate) Universe
- {Cube²: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekula-2002)}

Post-Apocalyptic
- {The Omega Man (Boris Sagal-1971)}

Pre-historic
- {Eegah (Arch Hall Sr.-1962)}

Psychological Sci-Fi
- {Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky-1972)}

Pulp
Punk Sci-Fi (i.e. Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.)
- {Suchîmubôi [aka Steamboy] (Katsuhiro Ôtomo-2004)}

Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Thrillers
- {The Giver (Phillip Noyce-2014)}

Space Opera
- {Interstellar (Christopher Nolan-2014)}

Speculative
- {Okja (Bong Joon Ho-2017)}

Star Trek
- {Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin-2016)}

Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
- {X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner-2006)}

Supernatural
- {Chronicle (Josh Trank-2012)}

Tech-Noir
- {Helix-Eric Petey-2015}

Time or Space Travel
- {Toki o kakeru shôjo [aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time] (Mamoru Hosoda-2006)}

Virtual Reality
- {eXistenZ (David Cronenberg-1999)}


War

Action Combat
- {Red Scorpion (Joseph Ziro-1988)}

Aerial Combat, Aviation
- {Good Kill (Andrew Niccol-2014)}

Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict
- {Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson-2015)}

Anti-War
- {Idi i smotri (aka Come and See) (E. Klimov-1985)

Civil War
Combat
- {Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman-2014)}

Gulf War
Historical
Korean War
- {Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Je-kyu Kang-2004)}

Military
- {G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott-1997)}

Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
- {The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean-1957)}

Resistance
- {Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini-1945)}

Revolutionary War
War-Spy
Submarine
- {Run Silent Run Deep (Robert Wise-1958)}

Vietnam War
- {Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone-1989)}

War Adventure
- {The African Queen (John Huston-1951)}

War Epic
- {The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence-2015)}

War Romance
- {Letyat zhuravli [aka The Cranes of Flying] (Mikhail Kalatozov-1957)}

World War I
- {Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick-1957)}

World War II
- {Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood-2006)}


Westerns

B-Western
- {Outlaws of Boulder Pass (Sam Newfield-1942)}

Biographies
Cattle Drive
- {Red River (Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson-1948)}

Cavalry
Comedy Westerns
- {Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom [aka The Good The Bad The Weird] (Kim Jee-Woon-2008)}

Epic Westerns
Euro-Westerns
- {The Salvation (Kristian Levring-2014)}

Frontier
- {The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford-1962)}

Gunfighters
Historical
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
- {El monstruo de la Montaña Hueca [aka The Beast of Hollow Mountain] (Ismael Rodríguez & Edward Nassour-1956)}

Indian War or Indian Westerns
- {The Daughter of Dawn (Norbert Myles-1920)}

Issue Western
- {Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer-1990)}

Marshall Western
Modern Western
- {The Proposition (John Hillcoat-2005)}

Outlaws
- {The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawkes-1943)}

Psychological Westerns
- {Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt-2010)}

Revenge Western
Revisionist
Road-Trail Journeys
- {Stagecoach (John Ford-1939)}

Romantic Westerns
- {The Electric Horseman (Sidney Pollack-1979)}

Science-Fiction Westerns
- {Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld-1999)}

Shoot-outs
- {Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné-2013)}

Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns
- {For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone-1965)}

Spoof Westerns
- {Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein-1965)}

Traditional
- {Dodge City (Michael Curtiz-1939)}
Occasionally intellectually honest

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