Minor Film Sub-Genres

Minor Film
Sub-Genres

Minor Film Sub-Genres: These are some of the most common and identifiable minor film sub-genre categories, categorized by each major genre. Also view various Main Genres, Sub-Genres, or Other 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.

Minor Film Sub-Genres
Main Film Genres (represented by icons)	Minor Film Sub-Genre Types (a vast sampling)
Select any of the links below, and read about the development and history of the genre or sub-genre, and view chronological lists of selected, representative greatest films for each one (with links to detailed descriptions of individual films).
and	Action or Adventure Comedy Alien Invasion Animal Action Films Biker Blaxploitation Blockbusters Buddy Buddy Cops Caper Chase Films or Thrillers Comic-Book Action Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller) Costume Adventures Crime Films Desert Epics Disaster or Doomsday - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenes also Epic Adventure Films Erotic Thrillers Escape Espionage Futuristic Girls With Guns Guy Films Heist - Caper Films Heroic Bloodshed Films Historical Spectacles Hong Kong James Bond Series Jungle and Safari Epics Martial Arts Man or Woman-In-Peril Man vs. Nature Mountain Period Action Films Political Conspiracies, Thrillers Prison Psychological Thriller Quest Rape and Revenge Films Road Romantic Adventures Sci-Fi Action Sea Adventures Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents Serialized films Space Adventures 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 War Women in Prison
	Action Comedies Anarchic 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 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 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 Comedies Zombie Comedies
	Bad Girl Movies Blaxploitation Buddy Cop Caper Stories Cops & Robbers Detective/Mysteries Espionage Femme Fatales Film Noir Hard-boiled Detective Heist Hood Films Law and Order Lovers on the Run Road Films Mafia, Organized Crime, Mob Films Mysteries Neo-Noir Outlaw Biker Films Police Procedurals Prison Private-Eye Suspense-Thrillers Trial Films 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 Adult African-American Autobiographies/Biographies Biopics (Biographical) British Empire "Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films Childhood Dramas Christmas Films Coming-of-Age Costume Dramas Crime Dramas Diary Films Disease/Disability Docu-dramas Espionage Ethnic Family Saga Euro-Spy Films "Fallen" Women Gay and Lesbian Generation Gap High School Holocaust Hood Films 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 Culture
	Biblical Dark Ages Greek Myth Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics) Indian History Literary Adaptation Medieval (Dark Ages) 'Period Pictures' Religious Roman Empire
	B-Movie Horror Cannibalism or Cannibal Films Classic Horror Creature Features Demonic Possession Dracula Erotic Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists Ghosts Gore Gothic Haunted House, other Hauntings Halloween Macabre Monsters Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation') Psychic Powers Psychological Horror Reincarnation Satanic Stories Serial Killers Slashers or "Splatter" Films Supernatural Horror Teen Terror ("Teen Screams") Terror Vampires Witchcraft Wolves, Werewolves Zombies
	Ballet Beach Party Films Musical Biographies Broadway Show Musicals Comedy Musicals Concert Films Dance Films Dramatic Musicals Fairy-tale Musicals Folk Musicals Hip-Hop Films Operettas Rock-umentary Romantic Musicals Stage Musicals Western Musicals
	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 Space or Sci-Fi Westerns Star Trek Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others) Supernatural Time or Space Travel Virtual Reality
	Action Combat Aerial Combat, Aviation Anti-War Civil War Historical Korean Military Prisoner of War/Escape Revolutionary War Submarine Vietnam War Epics World War I World War II
	Biographies Cattle Drive Epic Westerns Frontier Gunfighters Historical Indian War Military Outlaws Psychological Westerns Road-Trail Journeys Romantic Westerns Science-Fiction Westerns Shoot-outs Space Westerns 'Spaghetti' Westerns Spoof Westerns