A comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour.

These films are designed to

make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for
humorous effect.

Drama Films are serious presentations or stories with settings or life situations that portray realistic
characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. A dramatic film shows us
human beings at their best, their worst, and everything in-between.

Used for films that feature a build up of suspense, tension, uncertainty, menace, and anxiety as primary
elements and in which the audience is kept on tenterhooks.

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes. Initially inspired by literature
from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for
more than a century.

In the strictest academic terms, a romance is a narrative genre in literature that involves a mysterious,
adventurous, or spiritual story line where the focus is on a quest that involves bravery and strong values,
not always a love interest.

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of
phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien
worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft,
robots,

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic,
supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

A historical film is a fiction film showing past events or set within a historical period. This extensive genre
shares territory with the biopic, costume drama, heritage film, and epic film.

A motivational film is one that makes the viewer look at something differently. This usually manifests in
a physical reaction — be it through sadness, happiness, anger, drive or something other.

The genre of “religious, inspirational, and spiritual” encompasses a diverse collection of material that
includes both fiction and nonfiction books covering a wide range of religions, from Christianity to
Buddhism to Wiccan.

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of events that
typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document reality, primarily for the
purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

Animated Films are ones in which individual drawings, paintings, or illustrations are photographed frame
by frame (stop-frame cinematography).
Musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative,
sometimes accompanied by dancing. The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical
after the emergence of sound film technology.

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic
locations in an energetic way.