Top Lists of Movies by Genre
Top lists sorted by genre are presented in this section and includes both old and newer movies. Lists that rank movies will often divide from many people's opinions, but hopefully the reader won't find that as important as the opportunity to discover new movies.
best Action Movies
Adventure
best Comedy Movies
best crime Movies
best Science Fiction Movies
best War Movies
horror Movies
Musical Film
Thrillers
Drama movies
fantasy films
best Western Movies
List of genres
Genres define the movie in order of narrative elements and distinctive features. As discussed below it is common that several genres blends in one movie. Click on the link below to explanations of different genres.
- Action – a genre that in particular focus on scenes with action elements
- Adventure – provides exciting stories that often are set in a absent time
- Comedy – dramas that delivers verbal and/or psychical jokes
- Crime – plot the picturing state of affairs in the criminal world
- Drama – stories about life situations with characters and their relations in focus
- Fantasy – depicting fantasy worlds
- Horror – using shocking effect create a scary atmosphere
- Musical – combining the dialogues with song and dance
- Science Fiction – provides imaginative stories that are set in a future time
- Thriller – focus on the excitement driven by fearful mood
- War – has war as the primary scenery or as the major circumstance in the plot
- Western – depicting the Wild West in America under the 19th century
Sub genres and cross-over
See sub genres