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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Movie genre

Hi.

Would you tell me different types of movie?

I can think of the following. I would be grateful if you could add any more to the list with its explanation.

In addition, that would be kind of you to tell if the follwoing genres are correct.

Thanks

1. Action 2. Animation/cartoon 3. Comedy 4. horror/scary 4. musical 5. romance 6. science fiction/fantasy

7. western 8 thriller 9. Tragedy
  

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http://www.imdb.com/genre/actionhttp://www.imdb.com/genre/adventure
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Thank you very much John.

What is your definition of drama. To me drama is a serious movie, so many genres may fall into category of drama.

Am I right?

Furthermore, what is the difference between fantasy and science fiction?

It is furher requested to explain Film-Noir, Game show, reality TV, Talk Show and Sport? Are they movie genres?

Don't we have a ge
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You're welcome Hrsanei,

If you click on the links in my answer above, you should be redirected to the IMDb website where you can explore the latest examples of each of their genres.

While film-noir is definitely a genre, I'm not so sure Talk Show is.

Sport, in my opinion, is also a genre (think about all those baseball and US football movies recently) and Reality TV was
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Thank you very much John.
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I would consider the following to be genres: Action, comedy, drama, horror.

All of the others I would call a "sub-genre", because, as an example, a sci-fi movie also fits one of the above categories.

Sci-fi is usually defined as containing things that could happen in the future. Fantasy contains elements that don't have any basis in science. Minority Report is sci-fi, H
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Thank you very much Vorpar.

What is the difference between documentary and reality TV? they seem similar to eachother.

Thanks for your time

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