http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_films#By_genre

Independent short, for sure.

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stop motion ftw

Animation is a medium, not a genre!

What movies would fall under the category "disaster"?

Don't miss out on potential zings here folks.

But seriously, what is that exactly?

Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm, that sort of thing. Disaster movies were big in the seventies, and resurrected again in the nineties by Titanic, Sunlight, Dante's Peak, etc.

Do you want a serious serious answer, or 'Gigli, ROFL' type answers?

Serious answer - stuff like Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure... possibly even the recent 9/11 films might count. Films about disaster scenarios. It is that simple.

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"American Comedy
British Comedy"

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Disaster movies usually feature a group of people (instead of a single protagonist) trying to escape the effects of a (natural or caused by man) disaster. In most of these films, this group is supposed to be represent the society in miniature size, with elderly people, kids, ethnic minorities, sometimes even pets. Often the group consists of people who did not know each other before the disaster, and one theme in the movies is how they learn to work as a team to avoid death.

Also, often in these movies the group has one or two egotist members, who just try to save their own hide without helping the rest of the group. Uusually these people then get killed, to prove a lesson on altruism and solidarity. So disaster movies are very much about collectivity.

emil.y--mostly wanted serious answers, welcoming both. Thanks guys! I should have guessed the obvious there.

I suppose that would include a lot of zombie flicks as well.

Also, have I been misreading "Tuomas" as "Toumas", or are those two different posters?

No, there's just me.

Why is "conspiracy thriller" different from "thriller"?

"American Comedy
British Comedy"

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Made me wonder, too. So what then would the simplified category of "comedy" include? Just everything else non American or British, I suppose?

Tuomas--ah, so I just can't read. :D

I've always liked the vague, can't be bothered-ness of the 'drama' category. It's, you know, a film about people doing stuff.

Adventure. Closely followed by stop-motion. A stop-motion adventure film would be heaven for me. Are there any?

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Pirates

You know what all pirate movies are rated, right?

genre connections:

Avant-garde Biographical Blaxploitation Children Comedy
Crime Disaster Documentary
Epic Exploitation Fantasy
Independent short Musical Pirates

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