A film genre is a rough categorization of films into genres, which describe the typical subject matter—what the film is about: Western films are about the American West, love stories are about love, and so on. This is distinct from film styles, which describe filmic conventions which can be applied to any genre (see below). Of course, the more that genres are defined, the more likely that a filmmaker will try to combine, transcend and evade categories, so not every film can be neatly labeled.
Comedy filmFeel free to fill in individual parts of the heading skeleton, the whole thing or anywhere in between. And Add Your Own Nation Also: see A comedy film is a film/movie that seeks to provoke laughter in the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fic
Black comedyBlack comedy also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with "serious" subjects death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. A scene in the play Waiting for Godot is a good example of black comedy: A man takes
Gross-out filmGross-out films form a genre of scatological comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, also known as "toilet" humor. Gross-out films often feature jokes about feces, farting, snot, vomi
Romantic comedy filmRomantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two people meet, banter with each other, but despite an attraction obvious to the audience do not become romantically involved b
Wacky Comedy filmWacky Comedy or Anarchy Comedy is a genre of cinema using nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness humor which often lampoons some form of authority. Jokes and visual gags fly fast and furious, usually in a non sequitur manner that eschews narrative for sheer
Documentary filmA broad category of cinematic expression, traditionally the only characteristic common to all documentary films is that they are meant to be factual. The French used the term to refer to any non-fiction film, including travelogues and instructional videos
MockumentaryMocumentary (a portmanteau of mock documentary is a film and TV genre that includes comedic, often parodic fiction films presented as a documentaries. It is also called docu-comedy . Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries with b-ro
