1. Primary Film Genres

2. Film Genres- Drama
Dramas are serious, plot-driven films, portraying realistic characters, settings, and life situations.

3. Film Genres- Comedy
Comedies are light-hearted plots deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter.

4. Film Genres- Action
Action films usually include physical stunts and chases, possibly with rescues, battles, fights, escapes, races against time and crises featuring non-stop motion, break-neck rhythm and pacing.

5. Film Genres- Adventure
Adventure films are exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the Action film genre.

6. Film Genres- Horror
Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale.

7. Film Genres- Sci-Fi
Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, quests, fantastic places, new technology, and extraordinary monsters.

8. Film Genres- Animated
Animated films are most widely-known as cartoons.

9. Film Genres- Crime
Crime films feature the sinister actions of criminals, mobsters, bank robbers, underworld figures, and ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life.

10. Film Genres- Fantasy
Fantasy films deal with fairy tale adventures, or plots from the dark ages.

11. Film Genres- Suspense
Suspense films that keep a secret from the audience.

12. Film Genres- Documentary
Documentaries offer a report on a subject or issue, through narration, interviews, film clips, re-enactments, etc.

13. Film Genres- Musicals
Musicals/dance films are cinematic forms that emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way.

14. Film Genres- Family
Family films contain subject mater suitable for all ages

15. Film Genres- Westerns
Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier.

16. Film Genres- War
War films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background action for the of the film.

17. Primary Film Genres Primary film genres include the following: Drama
Comedy
Action
Adventure
Horror
Science Fiction
Animated
Crime
Fantasy
Suspense
Documentary
Musicals
Family
Westerns
War

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