What is a Film Genre?

A film's genre is a definitive category based on its narrative elements. Filmmakers can
structure their stories to the framework of a genre by including familiar patterns, themes,
motifs, and conventions.
1. Action
Action films traditionally contain dangerous situations and high-stake risks, and many require
the use of physical stunts, fight choreography or disaster sequences.
2. Adventure
Adventure films typically involve a journey, and some may include a pursuit. They might
also have action-oriented scenes like action films, but the travels and conquests of the main
characters primarily define them.
3. Comedy
Comedies are films intended to make the audience laugh through their use of exaggeration of
language, action or characters who add humour to a situation.
4. Drama
Films in the drama genre often include realistic settings and defining conflict between one or
more characters and themselves, others, or forces of nature.
5. Horror
The purpose of horror films is to cause an audience to feel frightened or have a sense of
dread. They usually center their stories on unsettling situations, alarming events or the
audience's fears.
6. Romance
Films in the romance genre typically involve intimate relationships and a journey of the love
between the main characters. The conflicts that occur during the pursuit of intimacy or love
often drive the narrative in these films.
7. Science Fiction
A blend of science and imagination. Some common themes in science fiction films are the
consequences of knowledge, the nature of humanity in existential crisis and interpreting
science-based conspiracies.
8. Fantasy
Fantasies are films directors set in imaginary worlds that have little or no representation of
reality.
9. Historical
There generally are two distinct sections of films in the historical genre, which are accurate
representation and historical fiction.
 10. Crime
Films in the crime genre can portray either side of the criminal justice system. Many crime
movies often entertain the idea of moral uncertainty, which makes identifying the hero and
the villain more complex.