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The Best Films of All Time - A Primer of Cinematic
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Film Sub-Genres:
They are identifiable sub-classes of the larger film genre, with their own distinctive subject matter, style, formulas, and iconography. Some are them are major sub-genres, such as:
- aviation films
- buddy films
- caper films
- chase films
- espionage films
- "fallen" woman films
- jungle films
- legal films
- martial arts films
- medical films
- military films
- parody films
- police films
- political films
- prison films
- religious films
- slasher films
- swashbucklers
- and more (see below)
MINOR FILM SUB-GENRES
Select an icon or film genre (or sub-genre) category below, read about the development and history of the genre, and view chronological lists of selected, representative greatest films for each one (with links to detailed descriptions of individual films). If you're interested in the chronological history of film by decade - visit the section on Film History.
Iconic symbols represent the different genres or types of films
(A Vast Sampling)Action Films
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Adventure Films
Action or Adventure Comedy
Alien Invasion
Animal Action Films
Biker
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters
Buddy
Buddy Cops
Chase Films or Thrillers
Comic-Book Action
Costume Adventures
Crime Films
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenes also
Epic Adventure Films
Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Espionage
Futuristic
Guy Films
Heist - Caper Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics
Martial Arts
Man vs. Nature
Mountain
Period Action Films
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Prison
Quest
Revenge
Road
Romantic Adventures
Sci-Fi Action
Sea Adventures
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
Serialized films
Space Adventures
Spy
Straight Action/ Conflict
Superheroes
Surfing
Survival
Swashbuckler
Sword and Sorcery
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers
Techno-Thrillers
Treasure Hunts
Undercover
War
Women in PrisonComedy Films
Action Comedies
Animals
Black Comedies (Dark Humor)
British Humor
Buddy
Classic Comedies
Clown
Comedy Thrillers
Comic Criminals
Coming of Age
Crime/Caper Comedies
'Dumb' Comedies
Fairy Tale
Family Comedies
Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies
Gross-out Comedies
Horror Comedies
Lampoon
Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary)
Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies
Parody
Political Comedies
Populist
Pre-Teen Comedies
Road
Romantic Comedies
Satire
School Days
Screwball Comedies
Sex Comedies
Slacker
Slapstick
Social-Class Comedies
Sophisticated Comedies
Spoofs
Sports Comedies
Stand-Up
Supernatural Comedies
Teen/Teen Sex Comedies
Urban Comedies
War Comedies
Western ComediesCrime & Gangster Films
Blaxploitation
Caper
Cops & Robbers
Detective/Mysteries
Espionage
Femme Fatales
Film Noir
Hard-boiled Detective
Heist
Law and Order
Lovers on the Run Road Films
Mafia, Organized Crime, Mob Films
Mysteries
Neo-Noir
Police
Procedurals
Prison
Private-Eye
Suspense-Thrillers
Trial Films
Vice Films
Victim
Who-dun-itsCult Films
Any genre or sub-genre may be considered a "Cult Film" Drama Films
Adaptations, Based upon True Stories
Addiction and/or Alcoholism
Adult
African-American
Autobiographies/Biographies
Biopics (Biographical)
British Empire
Childhood Dramas
Christmas Films
Coming-of-Age
Costume Dramas
Crime Dramas
Diary Films
Disease/Disability
Docu-dramas
Espionage
Ethnic Family Saga
Fallen Women
Gay and Lesbian
Generation Gap
High School
Holocaust
Investigative Reporting
Legal/Courtroom
Life Story
Literary Adaptation
Love
Medical
Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Newspaper
Nostalgia
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas
Prostitution
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes
Religious
Romantic Dramas
Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas)
Shakespearean
Showbiz Dramas
Soap Opera
Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries
Small-town Life
Sports Dramas or Biopics
Teen (or Youth) Films
Tragedy
War-Military Dramas
Women's Friendship
Youth CultureEpic/Historical
Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Historical or Biographical Epics
Indian History
Literary Adaptation
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures'
Religious
Roman EmpireHorror Films
B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism
Classic Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Gore
Gothic
Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
Macabre
Monsters
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror
Reincarnation
Satanic Stories
Serial Killers
Slashers
Supernatural Horror
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams")
Terror
Vampires
Witchcraft
Wolves, Werewolves
ZombiesMusicals (Dance) Films
Ballet
Musical Biographies
Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals
Concert Films
Dance Films
Dramatic Musicals
Fairy-tale Musicals
Folk Musicals
Operettas
Rock-umentary
Romantic Musicals
Stage Musicals
Western MusicalsScience Fiction Films
Action Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Cyber Punk
Disaster - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenes also
Dystopia
End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
50's Sci-Fi
Futuristic
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
Monsters and Mutants
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Post-Apocalyptic
Pre-historic
Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Thrillers
Space Opera
Star Trek
Supermen and Others
Supernatural
Time or Space Travel
Virtual RealityWar (Anti-War) Films
Action Combat
Aerial Combat, Aviation
Anti-War
Civil War
Historical
Korean
Prisoner of War/Escape
Revolutionary War
Submarine
Vietnam
War Epics
World War I
World War IIWesterns
Biographies
Cattle Drive
Epic Westerns
Frontier
Gunfighters
Historical
Indian War
Military
Outlaws
Psychological Westerns
Road-Trail Journeys
Romantic Westerns
Shoot-outs
'Spaghetti' Westerns
Spoof WesternsIn 1999, the Guinness Book of Film selected their Top 100 Films, categorized into a Top 5 for twenty different genres. In the lists of recommended genre films, those that have been selected as the 100 Greatest Films are marked with a
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