Film Sub-Genres Types (and Hybrids)
Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 by Tyler Durden in
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Film Sub-Genres Types (and Hybrids)
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  Film Sub-Genres Types (and Hybrids): These are some of the most common and identifiable film sub-genres types (and hybrids), categorized by each major genre. Also view various Main Genres, Sub-Genres, or Other Major Film Categories.If you're interested in the chronological history of film by decade - visit the section on Film History or the multi-part section on Milestones in Film History. |
 and  | Action or Adventure Comedy Action/Adventure Drama Alien Invasion Animal Biker Blaxploitation Blockbusters Buddy Buddy Cops (or Odd Couple) Caper Chase Films or Thrillers Comic-Book Action Confined Space Action Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller) Cop Action Costume Adventures Crime Films Desert Epics Disaster or Doomsday - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenes Epic Adventure Films Erotic Thrillers Escape Espionage Exploitation (i.e., Nunsploitation, Naziploitation, Family-oriented Adventure Fantasy Adventure Futuristic Girls With Guns Guy Films Heist - Caper Films Heroic Bloodshed Films Historical Spectacles Hong Kong James Bond Series Jungle and Safari Epics | Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes Martial Arts Action (or Kung-Fu) Man or Woman-In-Peril Man vs. Nature Mountain Period Action Films Political Conspiracies, Thrillers Poliziotteschi (Italian) Prison Psychological Thriller Quest Rape and Revenge Films Road Romantic Adventures Sci-Fi Action/Adventure Samurai Sea Adventures Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents Serialized films Space Adventures Sports - Action Spy Straight Action/ Conflict Super-Heroes Surfing or Surf Films Survival Swashbuckler Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal") (Action) Suspense-Thrillers Techno-Thrillers Treasure Hunts Undercover Video Game Movies War Adventure Women in Prison |
 | Absurd Action Comedies Anarchic Comedies Animals Black Comedies (Dark Humor) British Humor Buddy Classic Comedies Clown Comedy Thrillers Comic Criminals Coming of Age Conceptual Crime/Caper Comedies 'Dumb' Comedies Fairy Tale Family Comedies Farce Fish-out-of-water Comedies Gross-out Comedies Horror Comedies Lampoon Mafia Comedies "Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies Military Comedies Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary) Musical Comedies | Parenthood Comedies Parody Political Comedies Populist Pre-Teen Comedies Re-Marriage Comedies Road Romantic Comedies (or "Rom-Coms") Satire School Days Screwball Comedies Sex Comedies Slacker Slapstick Social-Class Comedies Sophisticated Comedies Spoofs Sports Comedies Stand-Up Stoner Comedies Supernatural Comedies Teen/Teen Sex Comedies Urban Comedies War Comedies Western Comedies Zombie Comedies |
 | 'Bad Girl' Movies Blaxploitation Buddy Cop Caper Stories Cops & Robbers Courtroom Drama Crime Comedy or Drama Detective/Mysteries Espionage Femme Fatales Film Noir Gangs Hard-boiled Detective Heist Hood Films Juvenile Delinquency Law and Order (or Legal) Lovers on the Run Road Films | Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films Mysteries Neo-Noir Outlaw Biker Films Police/Detective Post-Noir Procedurals Prison Private-Eye Suspense-Thrillers Trial Films True Crime Vice Films Victim Who-dun-its Women's Prison Films |
 | Any genre or sub-genre may be considered a "Cult Film" | |
 | Adaptations, Based upon True Stories Addiction and/or Alcoholism Adventure Drama Adult African-American Americana Autobiographies/Biographies Biopics (Biographical) British Empire Buddy Film "Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films Childhood Dramas Christmas Films Coming-of-Age Costume Dramas Courtroom Dramas Crime Dramas Dance Diary Films Disease/Disability Disaster Docu-dramas Ensemble Erotic Drama Espionage Ethnic Family Saga Euro-Spy Films "Fallen" Women Fantasy Drama Feminist Film a Clef Gay and Lesbian Generation Gap Hagiographies (Religious Figures) Heavenly Drama High School Holiday Film Holocaust Hood Films Inspirational Investigative Reporting Legal/Courtroom Life Story | Literary Adaptation Love Marital Drama Medical 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 Prison Drama Propaganda Prostitution Psychological Drama Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes Religious Resistance Reunion Road Movie Romantic Dramas Rural Drama Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas) Shakespearean Showbiz Dramas Slice of Life Soap Opera Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries Small-town Life Sports Dramas or Biopics Supernatural drama Teen (or Youth) Films Tragedy True Crime Drama Urban Drama War-Military Dramas Women's Friendship Youth Culture |
 | Alternate History (What if...?) Biblical British Empire Dark Ages Greek Myth Hagiographies Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics) Indian History Literary Adaptation | Medieval (Dark Ages) 'Period Pictures' Religious Roman Empire Romantic Epic Sword and Sandal War or Westerns (Epic) |
 | B-Movie Horror Cannibalism or Cannibal Films Classic Horror Costume Horror Creature Features Demons or Demonic Possession Dracula Erotic "Found Footage" Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists Ghosts Giallo (European, Italian specifically) Gore Gothic Haunted House, other Hauntings Halloween Horror Comedy (Humorous) H.P. Lovecraftian Macabre Man-Made Horrors Monsters Natural Horror Occult | Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation') Paranormal Post-Apocalyptic (or Apocalyptic) Horror Psychic Powers Psychological Horror Reincarnation Sadistic Horror Satanic Stories Sci-Fi Horror Serial Killers Sex Horror Slashers or "Splatter" Films Supernatural Horror Survival Horror Teen Terror ("Teen Screams") Terror Vampires Witchcraft Wolves, Werewolves Zombies |
 | Animated Backstage Musicals Ballet Beach Party Films Musical Biographies Broadway Show Musicals Comedy Musicals Concert Films Dance Films Dramatic Musicals Fairy-tale Musicals | Fantasy Musical Film-Opera Folk Musicals Hip-Hop Films Operettas Rock-umentary Romantic Musicals Show-Biz Comedy Stage Musicals Western Musicals |
 | Action or Adventure Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters Anime AI (Artificial Intelligence) Atomic Age Classic Sci-Fi Creature Films Disaster - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenesalso Dystopic or Dystopia End of World Exploration Fairy Tales Fantasy Films 50's Sci-Fi "First Contact" Futuristic (or Future Noir) Galactic Empire Lost WorldsMad Scientists Militaristic Monsters and Mutants Mythic Fables or Mythology Natural Horror | Near Future Other Dimensions Outer Space Parallel (or Alternate) Universe Post-Apocalyptic (or Apocalyptic) Pre-historic Psychological Sci-Fi Pulp Punk Sci-Fi (i.e., Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.) Religious or Theological Robots, Cyborgs and Androids Sci-Fi Comedies Sci-Fi Horror Sci-Fi Thrillers Space Opera Space or Sci-Fi Westerns Speculative Star Trek Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others) Supernatural Tech-Noir Time or Space Travel Virtual Reality |
 | Action Combat Aerial Combat, Aviation Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict Anti-War Civil War Combat Escape Gulf War Historical Korean War Military Military Comedy | Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape Propaganda Resistance Revolutionary War War-Spy Submarine Vietnam War War Adventure War Epic War Romance World War I World War II |
 | Animal B-Western Biographies Cattle Drive Cavalry Comedy Westerns Epic Westerns Euro-Westerns Frontier Gunfighters Historical Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.) Indian War or Indian Westerns Issue Western | Marshal WesternsMilitary Modern Western Musical Western Outlaws Psychological Westerns Revenge Westerns Revisionist Road-Trail Journeys Romantic Westerns Science-Fiction Westerns Shoot-outs Space Westerns 'Spaghetti' Westerns Spoof Westerns Traditional |
