Genres of FilmsBy Sophia Bouguerrache

Thriller

• Definition: A novel, play, or film with an

exciting plot, typically involving crime or

espionage.

Mystery

• Definition: A novel, play, or film dealing with a

puzzling crime, especially a murder.

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.

Western

• Definitions: Westerns are the major defining genre of the

American film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early

days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the

borderline between civilization and the wilderness).