( Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master, Mortal Kombat, The Karate Kid) Actors typically come from a martial arts background, or are highly trained before production. Martial Arts Movies: Also referred to as ‘Kung Fu movies’, the primary focus of martial arts movies is the physical fight scenes peppered throughout the film. Straight action thrillers include notable titles such as Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Bourne Franchise. Thriller Movies: ‘Thriller’ is a relatively nebulous term that can be used in conjunction with crime, mystery, horror and even sci-fi genres but typically involves a race-against-time or similarly high stakes plot device. ( The Dark Knight Trilogy, Hancock, Superman) The majority of superhero movies – though not all – are derived from comic book source material. Superhero Movies: One of the highest grossing of any movie genre in current times, superhero movies feature one or more characters who have supernatural abilities and do battle with similarly-powered antagonists. The disaster itself can be on a global level ( Armageddon, Knowing, The Day After Tomorrow) or extremely localized, imposing peril on only the central characters. ( James Bond, Salt, Mission: Impossible)ĭisaster Movies: Often with crossovers into sci-fi and thriller genres, disaster films center their story around a disaster, usually natural but it can be artificial. Spy Movies: A hallmark of the genre is that a spy or other undercover professional finds themselves on a secret mission, usually behind enemy lines, and armed with an array of special equipment and gadgets. ( Ben Hur, Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia)
Based in ancient Greek storytelling conventions and one of the oldest genres known to man, the tale usually involves the characters growing or changing in some way along the journey. With a lot in common with the equally broad ‘adventure’ genre, action movies typically follow conventional story telling techniques and plot paths.Įpic Movies: An epic movie is one which sees its protagonist (or multiple protagonists) going to great lengths and over a long period of time in order to achieve a vital objective. The term ‘action movie’ is a rather broad umbrella which applies to a wide range of films, as evidenced by the variety of sub genres described below. If you’re a student at film school or simply a movie aficionado looking for a new genre, you’ll find them all below.
From the fantastical to the terrifying, there is a massive (and growing) number of film genres and many more subgenres nesting within them. As a species, we’ve always been keen storytellers and we’ve never stopped finding and inventing new ways to tell those tales.
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