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Thriller
• Definition: A novel, play, or film with an
exciting plot, typically involving crime or
espionage.
Action
Definition: When one or more heroes are thrust into a series
of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended
fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases.
Adventure
• Definition: Adventure film is a genre
that revolves around the conquests and
explorations of a protagonist
Animated
• Definition: Animated Films are ones in which
individual drawings, paintings, or illustrations are
photographed frame by frame (stop-frame
cinematography).
Biography
• Definition: A biographical film, or biopic, is a film
that dramatizes the life of an actual person or
people. Such films show the life of a historical
person and the central character's real name is used.
Comedy
• Definition: A play, movie, etc., of light and humorous
character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic
work in which the central motif is the triumph over
adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or
happy conclusion.
Documentary
• Definition: A documentary film is a nonfictional
motion picture intended to document some aspect
of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction
or maintaining a historical record.
Horror
• Definition: Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a
negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing
on the audience's primal fears.
Romance
• Definition: Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres and on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love.
Musicals
• Definition: The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers".
Science Fiction
• Definition: A fiction based on imagined future scientific
or technological advances and major social or
environmental changes, frequently portraying space or
time travel and life on other planets.
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