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Action and Adventure
Action or Adventure Comedy - Paul Blart: Mall Cop - Steve Carr - 2009 - 2/10
Action/Adventure Drama - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston - 1948 - 8/10
Animal - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Matt Reeves - 2014 - 6/10
Biker - Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper - 1969 - 6/10
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters - Mad Max - George Miller - 1979 - 5/10
Buddy - Lethal Weapon - Richard Donner - 1987 - 5/10
Caper
Chase Films or Thrillers - Too Much Johnson - Orson Welles - 1938 - 6/10
Comic-Book Action - Atomic Blonde - David Leitch - 2017 - 5/10
Confined Space Action - Die Hard - John McTiernan - 1988 - 4/10
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller) - Unknown - Jaume Collet-Serra - 2011 - 6/10
Cop Action - Breaking News - Johnnie To - 2004 - 7/10
Costume Adventures
Crime Films - Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki - 1966 - 7/10
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday - Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Alexander Witt - 2004 - 5/10
Epic Adventure Films - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog - 1972 - 8/10
Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-Oriented Adventure - The Last Airbender - M. Night Shyamalan - 2010 - 6/10
Fantasy Adventure - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Peter Jackson - 2013 - 6/10
Girls With Guns - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Doug Liman - 2005 - 2/10
Guy Films - Rolling Thunder - John Flynn - 1977 - 5/10
Heist/Caper Films - Baby Driver - Edgar Wright - 2017 - 5/10
Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong - Ashes of Time - Wong Kar-wai - 1994 - 10/10
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics - Embrace of the Serpent - Ciro Guerra - 2015 - 3/10
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
Martial Arts Action - Ip Man - Wilson Yip - 2008 - 5/10
Man or Woman-In-Peril - Blood Father - Jean-François Richet - 2016 - 5/10
Man vs. Nature - The Revenant - Alejandro González Iñárritu - 2015 - 4/10
Mountain
Period Action Films - The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 2015 - 9/10
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller - Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock - 1958 - 10/10
Quest - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter - David Zellner - 2014 - 6/10
Rape and Revenge Films
Road - Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller - 2015 - 6/10
Romantic Adventures - Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard - 1965 - 9/10
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure - Resident Evil - Paul W.S. Anderson - 2002 - 6/10
Samurai - Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa - 1954 - 8/10
Sea Adventures - Moana - John Musker and Ron Clements - 2016 - 6/10
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents - Fando y Lis - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1968 - 3/10
Serialized Films
Space Adventures - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Gareth Edwards - 2016 - 3/10
Spy - Bridge of Spies - Steven Spielberg - 2015 - 8/10
Straight Action/Conflict - Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku - 2000 - 3/10
Super-Heroes - The Wolverine - James Mangold - 2013 - 4/10
Surfing or Surf Films - The Shallows - Jaume Collet-Serra - 2016 - 6/10
Survival - First Blood - Ted Kotcheff - 1982 - 9/10
Swashbuckler
Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers - The Game - David Fincher - 1997 - 5/10
Techno-Thrillers - Blackhat - Michael Mann - 2015 - 6/10
Treasure Hunts - The Treasure - Corneliu Porumboiu - 2015 - 6/10
Undercover
Women in Prison
Comedy
Absurd - A Town Called Panic - Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar - 2009 - 5/10
Action Comedies - Spy - Paul Feig - 2015 - 4/10
Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor) - The Odd Couple - Gene Saks - 1968 - 4/10
British Humor
Classic Comedies - A Night in Casablanca - Archie Mayo - 1946 - 4/10
Clown - The Circus - Charles Chaplin - 1928 - 7/10
Comedy Thrillers
Comic Criminals - Kind Hearts and Coronets - Robert Hamer - 1949 - 6/10
Coming of Age - Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach - 2012 - 7/10
Conceptual - Ferrell Takes the Field - Brian McGinn - 2015 - 2/10
Crime/Caper Comedies - The Nice Guys - Shane Black - 2016 - 4/10
'Dumb' Comedies - Tommy Boy - Peter Segal - 1995 - 3/10
Fairy Tale - The Face You Deserve - Miguel Gomes - 2004 - 6/10
Family Comedies - A Wedding - Robert Altman - 1978 - 7/10
Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies - I Don't Want to Be a Man - Ernst Lubitsch - 1918 - 7/10
Gross-out Comedies
Horror Comedies - What We Do in the Shadows - Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi - 2014 - 6/10
Lampoon - The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin - 1940 - 8/10
Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies - Cute Girl - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1980 - 6/10
Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary) - My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin - 2007 - 8/10
Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies - Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade - 2016 - 8/10
Parody - The Adventure of Iron Pussy - Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasai - 2003 - 3/10
Political Comedies - The Interview - Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen - 2014 - 3/10
Populist - Aloha - Cameron Crowe - 2015 - 7/10
Pre-Teen Comedies - Zero for Conduct - Jean Vigo - 1933 - 8/10
Re-Marriage Comedies - The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey - 1937 - 9/10
Romantic Comedies - Trainwreck - Judd Apatow - 2015 - 7/10
Satire - Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson - 2000 - 7/10
School Days - The Green, Green Grass of Home - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1982 - 6/10
Screwball Comedies - Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks - 1938 - 7/10
Sex Comedies - Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder - 1959 - 7/10
Slacker
Slapstick - Jour de Fête - Jacques Tati - 1949 - 6/10
Social-Class Comedies - Pretty Woman - Garry Marshall - 1990 - 4/10
Sophisticated Comedies - Kicking and Screaming - Noah Baumbach - 1995 - 7/10
Spoofs
Sports Comedies - College - James W. Horne and Buster Keaton - 1927 - 6/10
Stand-Up - Louis C.K. 2017 - Louis C.K. - 2017 - 6/10
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies - My Left Eye Sees Ghosts - Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai - 2002 - 4/10
Teen/Teen Sex Comedies - Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig - 2017 - 6/10
Urban Comedies - Girlfriends - Claudia Weill - 1978 - 8/10
War Comedies - To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch - 1942 - 9/10
Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies - Braindead - Peter Jackson - 1992 - 4/10
Crime & Gangster
'Bad Girl' Movies - Kansas City - Robert Altman - 1996 - 7/10
Buddy Cop - Training Day - Antoine Fuqua - 2001 - 5/10
Caper Stories - Band of Outsiders - Jean-Luc Godard - 1964 - 7/10
Cops & Robbers - Cop Car - Jon Watts - 2015 - 3/10
Courtroom Drama - Court - Chaitanya Tamhane - 2014 - 7/10
Crime Comedy or Drama - The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq - Guillaume Nicloux - 2014 - 6/10
Detective/Mysteries - Mother - Bong Joon-ho - 2009 - 8/10
Espionage - Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock - 1946 - 9/10
Femme Fatales - Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino - 1997 - 7/10
Film Noir - The Hitch-Hiker - Ida Lupino - 1953 - 6/10
Hard-boiled Detective - Laura - Otto Preminger - 1944 - 9/10
Heist - Mauvais Sang - Leos Carax - 1986 - 7/10
Juvenile Delinquency - A Time to Live, a Time to Die - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1985 - 8/10
Law and Order - I Confess - Alfred Hitchcock - 1953 - 8/10
Lovers on the Run Road Films - Wanda - Barbara Loden - 1970 - 7/10
Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films - Election - Johnnie To - 2005 - 6/10
Mysteries - Mr. Holmes - Bill Condon - 2015 - 5/10
Neo-Noir - Badlands - Terrence Malick - 1973 - 8/10
Outlaw Biker Films - The Wild One - László Benedek - 1953 - 5/10
Police/Detective - Infernal Affairs - Andrew Lau and Alan Mak - 2002 - 6/10
Post-Noir - Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville - 1967 - 8/10
Procedurals - High and Low - Akira Kurosawa - 1963 - 9/10
Prison - A Prophet - Jacques Audiard - 2009 - 8/10
Private-Eye - Too Late - Dennis Hauck - 2015 - 2/10
Suspense-Thrillers - Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock - 1951 - 7/10
Trial Films
True Crime - Polytechnique - Denis Villeneuve - 2009 - 3/10
Vice Films - American Psycho - Mary Harron - 2000 - 1/10
Victim - Lights in the Dusk - Aki Kaurismäki - 2006 - 7/10
Who-dun-its - The Haunted Castle - F.W. Murnau - 1921 - 5/10
Documentary
Animated Documentary
Docufiction - A Thousand Suns - Mati Diop - 2013 - 6/10
Ethnofiction - In Vanda's Room - Pedro Costa - 2000 - 7/10
Ethnographic Film - Sans Soleil - Chris Marker - 1983 - 9/10
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary - Dolphins - Greg MacGillivray - 2000 - 3/10
Pseudo-Documentary - Interkosmos - Jim Finn - 2006 - 5/10
Reality Film
Semidocumentary
Travel Documentary - Letter from Siberia - Chris Marker - 1957 - 6/10
Drama
Adaptations, Based upon True Stories - The End of the Tour - James Ponsoldt - 2015 - 4/10
Addiction and/or Alcoholism - Heaven Knows What - Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie - 2014 - 5/10
Adventure Drama - Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks - 1939 - 10/10
Adult - In the Realm of the Senses - Nagisa Oshima - 1976 - 5/10
African-American - Selma - Ava DuVernay - 2014 - 7/10
Americana - The Straight Story - David Lynch - 1999 - 6/10
Autobiographies/Biographies - The Theory of Everything - James Marsh - 2014 - 4/10
Biopics (Biographical) - Vincent & Theo - Robert Altman - 1990 - 4/10
British Empire - Black Narcissus - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - 1947 - 7/10
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas - Inside Out - Pete Docter - 2015 - 8/10
Christmas Films
Coming-of-Age - Julio Begins in July - Silvio Caiozzi - 1979 - 5/10
Costume Dramas - Van Gogh - Maurice Pialat - 1991 - 7/10
Courtroom or Crime Dramas
Dance - Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Guy Maddin - 2002 - 6/10
Diary Films - Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson - 1951 - 8/10
Disease/Disability - Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman - 1961 - 8/10
Docudramas - Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - Todd Haynes - 1987 - 7/10
Ensemble - Grand Hotel - Edmund Goulding - 1932 - 4/10
Erotic Drama - Young Aphrodites - Nikos Koundouros - 1963 - 5/10
Ethnic Family Saga
Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
Fantasy Drama - Careful - Guy Maddin - 1992 - 8/10
Feminist - Ten - Abbas Kiarostami - 2002 - 8/10
Film a Clef - The Son of... - Maurice Pialat - 1995 - 6/10
Gay and Lesbian - Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai - 1997 - 6/10
Generation Gap - While We're Young - Noah Baumbach - 2014 - 6/10
Hagiographies (Religious Figures)
Heavenly Drama - Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders - 1987 - 9/10
High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust - Son of Saul - László Nemes - 2015 - 4/10
Hood Films - Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee - 1989 - 9/10
Inspirational - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Frank Capra - 1939 - 6/10
Investigative Reporting - The Post - Steven Spielberg - 2017 - 6/10
Legal/Courtroom - No End - Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1985 - 8/10
Life Story - The Arbor - Clio Barnard - 2010 - 8/10
Literary Adaptation - Lolita - Stanley Kubrick - 1962 - 5/10
Love - Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai - 1994 - 8/10
Marital Drama - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1974 - 9/10
Medical - Tales from the Gimli Hospital - Guy Maddin - 1988 - 6/10
Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie - Master of the House - Carl Th. Dreyer - 1925 - 8/10
Musical Drama - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy - 1964 - 9/10
Newspaper - Spotlight - Tom McCarthy - 2015 - 6/10
Nostalgia - Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, and George Cukor - 1939 - 5/10
Odd Couple - Les Cousins - Claude Chabrol - 1959 - 6/10
Period Film - Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick - 1978 - 10/10
Police Drama - On Dangerous Ground - Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino - 1951 - 9/10
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas - The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci - 1970 - 7/10
Propaganda
Prostitution - Vivre sa vie - Jean-Luc Godard - 1962 - 8/10
Psychological Drama - Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman - 1957 - 8/10
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes - Almayer's Folly - Chantal Akerman - 2011 - 8/10
Reunion - Munyurangabo - Lee Isaac Chung - 2007 - 6/10
Road Movie - Rain Man - Barry Levinson - 1988 - 5/10
Romantic Dramas - Blissfully Yours - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 2002 - 7/10
Rural Drama - Claire's Knee - Eric Rohmer - 1970 - 7/10
Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas) - Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick - 1999 - 8/10
Shakespearean - Macbeth - Justin Kurzel - 2015 - 3/10
Showbiz Dramas - Clouds of Sils Maria - Olivier Assayas - 2014 - 8/10
Slice of Life - The Exiles - Kent MacKenzie - 1961 - 8/10
Soap Opera
Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries - Ossos - Pedro Costa - 1997 - 8/10
Small-town Life - From What Is Before - Lav Diaz - 2014 - 9/10
Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama - Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 2004 - 8/10
Teen (or Youth) Films - Rebels of the Neon God - Tsai Ming-liang - 1992 - 7/10
Tragedy - A Screaming Man - Mahamat Saleh Haroun - 2010 - 6/10
True Crime Drama - Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn - 1967 - 6/10
Urban Drama - Vive l'Amour - Tsai Ming-liang - 1994 - 7/10
War-Military Dramas - A Man There Was - Victor Sjöström - 1917 - 7/10
Women's Friendship - Two Stage Sisters - Xie Jin - 1964 - 8/10
Youth Culture - A Summer at Grandpa's - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1984 - 8/10
Epics/Historical
Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics) - Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick - 1960 - 6/10
Indian History
Literary Adaptation - Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick - 1975 - 8/10
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures' - Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean - 1962 - 8/10
Religious - Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1966 - 8/10
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic - Titanic - James Cameron - 1997 - 6/10
Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)
Horror
B-Movie Horror - Troll 2 - Drake Floyd - 1990 - 1/10
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper - 1974 - 8/10
Classic Horror - Vampyr - Carl Th. Dreyer - 1932 - 8/10
Costume Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession - The Exorcist - William Friedkin - 1973 - 5/10
Dracula
Erotic - Night of the Hunted - Jean Rollin - 1980 - 4/10
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts - Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 2001 - 8/10
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore - V/H/S - Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence - 2012 - 1/10
Gothic - The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton - 1955 - 9/10
Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
Horror Comedy - Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi - 1987 - 5/10
Macabre
Monsters - Cloverfield - Matt Reeves - 2008 - 4/10
Natural Horror - Birdemic: Shock and Terror - James Nguyen - 2008 - 1/10
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation') - Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1989 - 6/10
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror - Borgman - Alex van Warmerdam - 2013 - 6/10
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories - The Witch - Robert Eggers - 2015 - 7/10
Sci-Fi Horror - The Host - Bong Joon-ho - 2006 - 7/10
Serial Killers - Peeping Tom - Michael Powell - 1960 - 10/10
Sex Horror - Trouble Every Day - Claire Denis - 2001 - 8/10
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
Supernatural Horror - It Follows - David Robert Mitchell - 2014 - 6/10
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams") - The Visit - M. Night Shyamalan - 2015 - 7/10
Terror - Repulsion - Roman Polanski - 1965 - 8/10
Vampires - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - Ana Lily Amirpour - 2014 - 5/10
Witchcraft - Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages - Benjamin Christensen - 1922 - 7/10
Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies - Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero - 1978 - 7/10
Musicals/Dance
Animated
Backstage Musicals
Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies - Jersey Boys - Clint Eastwood - 2014 - 3/10
Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals - La La Land - Damien Chazelle - 2016 - 4/10
Concert Films
Dance Films - Top Hat - Mark Sandrich - 1935 - 7/10
Dramatic Musicals - Pyaasa - Guru Dutt - 1957 - 6/10
Fairy-tale Musicals
Fantasy Musical
Film-Opera
Folk Musicals - I'm Not There. - Todd Haynes - 2007 - 9/10
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
Rock-umentary
Romantic Musicals - Once - John Carney - 2006 - 5/10
Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals
Science Fiction
Action or Adventure Sci-Fi - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - George Miller and George Ogilvie - 1985 - 4/10
Alien Invasion - Native - Daniel Fitzsimmons - 2016
Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters - Attack the Block - Joe Cornish - 2011 - 6/10
Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films - The Fly - David Cronenberg - 1986 - 7/10
Cyber Punk - Videodrome - David Cronenberg - 1983 - 8/10
Disaster
Dystopia - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - George Miller - 1981 - 6/10
End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films - The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1973 - 7/10
'50s Sci-Fi - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Robert Wise - 1951 - 7/10
Futuristic - Embers - Claire Carré - 2015 - 5/10
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists - The App - Isak Borg and Dena Hysell - 2016
Monsters and Mutants - Godzilla - Ishirō Honda - 1954 - 6/10
Natural Horror - Godzilla - Gareth Edwards - 2014 - 4/10
Other Dimensions - Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979 - 8/10
Outer Space - Prometheus - Ridley Scott - 2012 - 4/10
Post-Apocalyptic - Slow Action - Ben Rivers - 2010 - 7/10
Pre-historic - The Good Dinosaur - Peter Sohn - 2015 - 6/10
Psychological Sci-Fi - Total Recall - Paul Verhoeven - 1990 - 6/10
Robots, Cyborgs and Androids - Ex Machina - Alex Garland - 2015 - 6/10
Sci-Fi Comedies - Dark Star - John Carpenter - 1974 - 8/10
Sci-Fi Thrillers - Déjà Vu - Tony Scott - 2006 - 6/10
Space Opera - Dune - David Lynch - 1984 - 5/10
Space or Sci-Fi Westerns
Star Trek
Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural - Astraea - Kristjan Thor - 2015 - 5/10
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel - Predestination - Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig - 2014 - 4/10
Virtual Reality
War
Action Combat - Hacksaw Ridge - Mel Gibson - 2016 - 4/10
Aerial Combat, Aviation
Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict - War Machine - David Michôd - 2017 - 6/10
Anti-War - Tangerines - Zaza Urushadze - 2013 - 6/10
Civil War - White Material - Claire Denis - 2009 - 7/10
Combat - They Were Expendable - John Ford - 1945 - 8/10
Gulf War - Three Kings - David O. Russell - 1999 - 4/10
Korean War
Military - Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1962 - 8/10
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
Resistance - The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo - Jim Finn - 2007 - 6/10
Revolutionary War
War-Spy - Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock - 1940 - 6/10
Submarine
Vietnam War - Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick - 1987 - 7/10
War Adventure - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Peter Jackson - 2014 - 7/10
War Epic
War Romance - Archangel - Guy Maddin - 1990 - 6/10
World War I - The House in the Woods - Maurice Pialat - 1971 - 8/10
World War II - Come and See - Elem Klimov - 1985 - 7/10
Westerns
B-Western - The Stranger Wore a Gun - André De Toth - 1953 - 6/10
Biographies - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill - 1969 - 6/10
Cattle Drive - Red River - Howard Hawks - 1948 - 10/10
Cavalry - Fort Apache - John Ford - 1948 - 9/10
Comedy Westerns - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson - Robert Altman - 1976 - 7/10
Epic Westerns - Cimarron - Wesley Ruggles - 1931 - 5/10
Euro-Westerns
Frontier - Shane - George Stevens - 1953 - 9/10
Gunfighters - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford - 1962 - 9/10
Historical - The Grey Fox - Phillip Borsos - 1982 - 4/10
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns - The Searchers - John Ford - 1956 - 9/10
Issue Western
Modern Western - Hell or High Water - David Mackenzie - 2016 - 5/10
Musical Western
Outlaws - The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino - 2015 - 6/10
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist - Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood - 1992 - 7/10
Road-Trail Journeys
Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs - A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone - 1964 - 5/10
Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns - Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone - 1968 - 8/10
Spoof Westerns - A Fistful of Fingers - Edgar Wright - 1995 - 5/10
Traditional - Rio Bravo - Howard Hawks - 1959 - 9/10
Action or Adventure Comedy - Paul Blart: Mall Cop - Steve Carr - 2009 - 2/10
Action/Adventure Drama - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston - 1948 - 8/10
Animal - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Matt Reeves - 2014 - 6/10
Biker - Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper - 1969 - 6/10
Blaxploitation
Blockbusters - Mad Max - George Miller - 1979 - 5/10
Buddy - Lethal Weapon - Richard Donner - 1987 - 5/10
Caper
Chase Films or Thrillers - Too Much Johnson - Orson Welles - 1938 - 6/10
Comic-Book Action - Atomic Blonde - David Leitch - 2017 - 5/10
Confined Space Action - Die Hard - John McTiernan - 1988 - 4/10
Conspiracy Thriller (aka Paranoid Thriller) - Unknown - Jaume Collet-Serra - 2011 - 6/10
Cop Action - Breaking News - Johnnie To - 2004 - 7/10
Costume Adventures
Crime Films - Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki - 1966 - 7/10
Desert Epics
Disaster or Doomsday - Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Alexander Witt - 2004 - 5/10
Epic Adventure Films - Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog - 1972 - 8/10
Erotic Thrillers
Escape
Family-Oriented Adventure - The Last Airbender - M. Night Shyamalan - 2010 - 6/10
Fantasy Adventure - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Peter Jackson - 2013 - 6/10
Girls With Guns - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Doug Liman - 2005 - 2/10
Guy Films - Rolling Thunder - John Flynn - 1977 - 5/10
Heist/Caper Films - Baby Driver - Edgar Wright - 2017 - 5/10
Heroic Bloodshed Films
Historical Spectacles
Hong Kong - Ashes of Time - Wong Kar-wai - 1994 - 10/10
James Bond Series
Jungle and Safari Epics - Embrace of the Serpent - Ciro Guerra - 2015 - 3/10
Literature/Folklore Adventure Heroes
Martial Arts Action - Ip Man - Wilson Yip - 2008 - 5/10
Man or Woman-In-Peril - Blood Father - Jean-François Richet - 2016 - 5/10
Man vs. Nature - The Revenant - Alejandro González Iñárritu - 2015 - 4/10
Mountain
Period Action Films - The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 2015 - 9/10
Political Conspiracies, Thrillers
Poliziotteschi (Italian)
Psychological Thriller - Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock - 1958 - 10/10
Quest - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter - David Zellner - 2014 - 6/10
Rape and Revenge Films
Road - Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller - 2015 - 6/10
Romantic Adventures - Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard - 1965 - 9/10
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure - Resident Evil - Paul W.S. Anderson - 2002 - 6/10
Samurai - Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa - 1954 - 8/10
Sea Adventures - Moana - John Musker and Ron Clements - 2016 - 6/10
Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents - Fando y Lis - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1968 - 3/10
Serialized Films
Space Adventures - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Gareth Edwards - 2016 - 3/10
Spy - Bridge of Spies - Steven Spielberg - 2015 - 8/10
Straight Action/Conflict - Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku - 2000 - 3/10
Super-Heroes - The Wolverine - James Mangold - 2013 - 4/10
Surfing or Surf Films - The Shallows - Jaume Collet-Serra - 2016 - 6/10
Survival - First Blood - Ted Kotcheff - 1982 - 9/10
Swashbuckler
Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
(Action) Suspense-Thrillers - The Game - David Fincher - 1997 - 5/10
Techno-Thrillers - Blackhat - Michael Mann - 2015 - 6/10
Treasure Hunts - The Treasure - Corneliu Porumboiu - 2015 - 6/10
Undercover
Women in Prison
Comedy
Absurd - A Town Called Panic - Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar - 2009 - 5/10
Action Comedies - Spy - Paul Feig - 2015 - 4/10
Anarchic Comedies
Black Comedies (Dark Humor) - The Odd Couple - Gene Saks - 1968 - 4/10
British Humor
Classic Comedies - A Night in Casablanca - Archie Mayo - 1946 - 4/10
Clown - The Circus - Charles Chaplin - 1928 - 7/10
Comedy Thrillers
Comic Criminals - Kind Hearts and Coronets - Robert Hamer - 1949 - 6/10
Coming of Age - Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach - 2012 - 7/10
Conceptual - Ferrell Takes the Field - Brian McGinn - 2015 - 2/10
Crime/Caper Comedies - The Nice Guys - Shane Black - 2016 - 4/10
'Dumb' Comedies - Tommy Boy - Peter Segal - 1995 - 3/10
Fairy Tale - The Face You Deserve - Miguel Gomes - 2004 - 6/10
Family Comedies - A Wedding - Robert Altman - 1978 - 7/10
Farce
Fish-out-of-water Comedies - I Don't Want to Be a Man - Ernst Lubitsch - 1918 - 7/10
Gross-out Comedies
Horror Comedies - What We Do in the Shadows - Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi - 2014 - 6/10
Lampoon - The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin - 1940 - 8/10
Mafia Comedies
"Meet-Cute" Screwball or Romantic Comedies - Cute Girl - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1980 - 6/10
Military Comedies
Mock-umentary (Fake Documentary) - My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin - 2007 - 8/10
Musical Comedies
Parenthood Comedies - Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade - 2016 - 8/10
Parody - The Adventure of Iron Pussy - Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasai - 2003 - 3/10
Political Comedies - The Interview - Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen - 2014 - 3/10
Populist - Aloha - Cameron Crowe - 2015 - 7/10
Pre-Teen Comedies - Zero for Conduct - Jean Vigo - 1933 - 8/10
Re-Marriage Comedies - The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey - 1937 - 9/10
Romantic Comedies - Trainwreck - Judd Apatow - 2015 - 7/10
Satire - Songs from the Second Floor - Roy Andersson - 2000 - 7/10
School Days - The Green, Green Grass of Home - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1982 - 6/10
Screwball Comedies - Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks - 1938 - 7/10
Sex Comedies - Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder - 1959 - 7/10
Slacker
Slapstick - Jour de Fête - Jacques Tati - 1949 - 6/10
Social-Class Comedies - Pretty Woman - Garry Marshall - 1990 - 4/10
Sophisticated Comedies - Kicking and Screaming - Noah Baumbach - 1995 - 7/10
Spoofs
Sports Comedies - College - James W. Horne and Buster Keaton - 1927 - 6/10
Stand-Up - Louis C.K. 2017 - Louis C.K. - 2017 - 6/10
Stoner Comedies
Supernatural Comedies - My Left Eye Sees Ghosts - Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai - 2002 - 4/10
Teen/Teen Sex Comedies - Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig - 2017 - 6/10
Urban Comedies - Girlfriends - Claudia Weill - 1978 - 8/10
War Comedies - To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch - 1942 - 9/10
Western Comedies
Zombie Comedies - Braindead - Peter Jackson - 1992 - 4/10
Crime & Gangster
'Bad Girl' Movies - Kansas City - Robert Altman - 1996 - 7/10
Buddy Cop - Training Day - Antoine Fuqua - 2001 - 5/10
Caper Stories - Band of Outsiders - Jean-Luc Godard - 1964 - 7/10
Cops & Robbers - Cop Car - Jon Watts - 2015 - 3/10
Courtroom Drama - Court - Chaitanya Tamhane - 2014 - 7/10
Crime Comedy or Drama - The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq - Guillaume Nicloux - 2014 - 6/10
Detective/Mysteries - Mother - Bong Joon-ho - 2009 - 8/10
Espionage - Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock - 1946 - 9/10
Femme Fatales - Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino - 1997 - 7/10
Film Noir - The Hitch-Hiker - Ida Lupino - 1953 - 6/10
Hard-boiled Detective - Laura - Otto Preminger - 1944 - 9/10
Heist - Mauvais Sang - Leos Carax - 1986 - 7/10
Juvenile Delinquency - A Time to Live, a Time to Die - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1985 - 8/10
Law and Order - I Confess - Alfred Hitchcock - 1953 - 8/10
Lovers on the Run Road Films - Wanda - Barbara Loden - 1970 - 7/10
Mafia (Gangster), Organized Crime, Mob Films - Election - Johnnie To - 2005 - 6/10
Mysteries - Mr. Holmes - Bill Condon - 2015 - 5/10
Neo-Noir - Badlands - Terrence Malick - 1973 - 8/10
Outlaw Biker Films - The Wild One - László Benedek - 1953 - 5/10
Police/Detective - Infernal Affairs - Andrew Lau and Alan Mak - 2002 - 6/10
Post-Noir - Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville - 1967 - 8/10
Procedurals - High and Low - Akira Kurosawa - 1963 - 9/10
Prison - A Prophet - Jacques Audiard - 2009 - 8/10
Private-Eye - Too Late - Dennis Hauck - 2015 - 2/10
Suspense-Thrillers - Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock - 1951 - 7/10
Trial Films
True Crime - Polytechnique - Denis Villeneuve - 2009 - 3/10
Vice Films - American Psycho - Mary Harron - 2000 - 1/10
Victim - Lights in the Dusk - Aki Kaurismäki - 2006 - 7/10
Who-dun-its - The Haunted Castle - F.W. Murnau - 1921 - 5/10
Documentary
Animated Documentary
Docufiction - A Thousand Suns - Mati Diop - 2013 - 6/10
Ethnofiction - In Vanda's Room - Pedro Costa - 2000 - 7/10
Ethnographic Film - Sans Soleil - Chris Marker - 1983 - 9/10
Mondo Film
Nature Documentary - Dolphins - Greg MacGillivray - 2000 - 3/10
Pseudo-Documentary - Interkosmos - Jim Finn - 2006 - 5/10
Reality Film
Semidocumentary
Travel Documentary - Letter from Siberia - Chris Marker - 1957 - 6/10
Drama
Adaptations, Based upon True Stories - The End of the Tour - James Ponsoldt - 2015 - 4/10
Addiction and/or Alcoholism - Heaven Knows What - Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie - 2014 - 5/10
Adventure Drama - Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks - 1939 - 10/10
Adult - In the Realm of the Senses - Nagisa Oshima - 1976 - 5/10
African-American - Selma - Ava DuVernay - 2014 - 7/10
Americana - The Straight Story - David Lynch - 1999 - 6/10
Autobiographies/Biographies - The Theory of Everything - James Marsh - 2014 - 4/10
Biopics (Biographical) - Vincent & Theo - Robert Altman - 1990 - 4/10
British Empire - Black Narcissus - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - 1947 - 7/10
"Chick" Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films
Childhood Dramas - Inside Out - Pete Docter - 2015 - 8/10
Christmas Films
Coming-of-Age - Julio Begins in July - Silvio Caiozzi - 1979 - 5/10
Costume Dramas - Van Gogh - Maurice Pialat - 1991 - 7/10
Courtroom or Crime Dramas
Dance - Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Guy Maddin - 2002 - 6/10
Diary Films - Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson - 1951 - 8/10
Disease/Disability - Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman - 1961 - 8/10
Docudramas - Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - Todd Haynes - 1987 - 7/10
Ensemble - Grand Hotel - Edmund Goulding - 1932 - 4/10
Erotic Drama - Young Aphrodites - Nikos Koundouros - 1963 - 5/10
Ethnic Family Saga
Euro-Spy Films
"Fallen" Women
Fantasy Drama - Careful - Guy Maddin - 1992 - 8/10
Feminist - Ten - Abbas Kiarostami - 2002 - 8/10
Film a Clef - The Son of... - Maurice Pialat - 1995 - 6/10
Gay and Lesbian - Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai - 1997 - 6/10
Generation Gap - While We're Young - Noah Baumbach - 2014 - 6/10
Hagiographies (Religious Figures)
Heavenly Drama - Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders - 1987 - 9/10
High School
Holiday Film
Holocaust - Son of Saul - László Nemes - 2015 - 4/10
Hood Films - Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee - 1989 - 9/10
Inspirational - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Frank Capra - 1939 - 6/10
Investigative Reporting - The Post - Steven Spielberg - 2017 - 6/10
Legal/Courtroom - No End - Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1985 - 8/10
Life Story - The Arbor - Clio Barnard - 2010 - 8/10
Literary Adaptation - Lolita - Stanley Kubrick - 1962 - 5/10
Love - Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai - 1994 - 8/10
Marital Drama - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1974 - 9/10
Medical - Tales from the Gimli Hospital - Guy Maddin - 1988 - 6/10
Melodramas ("Women's Pictures," Tearjerkers, or "Weepies")
Message Movie - Master of the House - Carl Th. Dreyer - 1925 - 8/10
Musical Drama - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy - 1964 - 9/10
Newspaper - Spotlight - Tom McCarthy - 2015 - 6/10
Nostalgia - Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, and George Cukor - 1939 - 5/10
Odd Couple - Les Cousins - Claude Chabrol - 1959 - 6/10
Period Film - Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick - 1978 - 10/10
Police Drama - On Dangerous Ground - Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino - 1951 - 9/10
POW Drama
Presidential Politics or Political Dramas - The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci - 1970 - 7/10
Propaganda
Prostitution - Vivre sa vie - Jean-Luc Godard - 1962 - 8/10
Psychological Drama - Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman - 1957 - 8/10
Race Relations, Inter-racial Themes - Almayer's Folly - Chantal Akerman - 2011 - 8/10
Reunion - Munyurangabo - Lee Isaac Chung - 2007 - 6/10
Road Movie - Rain Man - Barry Levinson - 1988 - 5/10
Romantic Dramas - Blissfully Yours - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 2002 - 7/10
Rural Drama - Claire's Knee - Eric Rohmer - 1970 - 7/10
Sexual/Erotic (Steamy Romantic Dramas) - Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick - 1999 - 8/10
Shakespearean - Macbeth - Justin Kurzel - 2015 - 3/10
Showbiz Dramas - Clouds of Sils Maria - Olivier Assayas - 2014 - 8/10
Slice of Life - The Exiles - Kent MacKenzie - 1961 - 8/10
Soap Opera
Social Problem Film, Social Commentaries - Ossos - Pedro Costa - 1997 - 8/10
Small-town Life - From What Is Before - Lav Diaz - 2014 - 9/10
Sports Dramas or Biopics
Supernatural drama - Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 2004 - 8/10
Teen (or Youth) Films - Rebels of the Neon God - Tsai Ming-liang - 1992 - 7/10
Tragedy - A Screaming Man - Mahamat Saleh Haroun - 2010 - 6/10
True Crime Drama - Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn - 1967 - 6/10
Urban Drama - Vive l'Amour - Tsai Ming-liang - 1994 - 7/10
War-Military Dramas - A Man There Was - Victor Sjöström - 1917 - 7/10
Women's Friendship - Two Stage Sisters - Xie Jin - 1964 - 8/10
Youth Culture - A Summer at Grandpa's - Hou Hsiao-hsien - 1984 - 8/10
Epics/Historical
Biblical
Dark Ages
Greek Myth
Hagiographies
Historical or Biographical Epics (Biopics) - Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick - 1960 - 6/10
Indian History
Literary Adaptation - Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick - 1975 - 8/10
Medieval (Dark Ages)
'Period Pictures' - Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean - 1962 - 8/10
Religious - Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1966 - 8/10
Roman Empire
Romantic Epic - Titanic - James Cameron - 1997 - 6/10
Sword and Sandal
War or Westerns (Epic)
Horror
B-Movie Horror - Troll 2 - Drake Floyd - 1990 - 1/10
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper - 1974 - 8/10
Classic Horror - Vampyr - Carl Th. Dreyer - 1932 - 8/10
Costume Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession - The Exorcist - William Friedkin - 1973 - 5/10
Dracula
Erotic - Night of the Hunted - Jean Rollin - 1980 - 4/10
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts - Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 2001 - 8/10
Giallo (European, Italian specifically)
Gore - V/H/S - Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and Radio Silence - 2012 - 1/10
Gothic - The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton - 1955 - 9/10
Haunted House, other Hauntings
Halloween
Horror Comedy - Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi - 1987 - 5/10
Macabre
Monsters - Cloverfield - Matt Reeves - 2008 - 4/10
Natural Horror - Birdemic: Shock and Terror - James Nguyen - 2008 - 1/10
Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation') - Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1989 - 6/10
Psychic Powers
Psychological Horror - Borgman - Alex van Warmerdam - 2013 - 6/10
Reincarnation
Sadistic Horror
Satanic Stories - The Witch - Robert Eggers - 2015 - 7/10
Sci-Fi Horror - The Host - Bong Joon-ho - 2006 - 7/10
Serial Killers - Peeping Tom - Michael Powell - 1960 - 10/10
Sex Horror - Trouble Every Day - Claire Denis - 2001 - 8/10
Slashers or "Splatter" Films
Supernatural Horror - It Follows - David Robert Mitchell - 2014 - 6/10
Teen Terror ("Teen Screams") - The Visit - M. Night Shyamalan - 2015 - 7/10
Terror - Repulsion - Roman Polanski - 1965 - 8/10
Vampires - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - Ana Lily Amirpour - 2014 - 5/10
Witchcraft - Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages - Benjamin Christensen - 1922 - 7/10
Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies - Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero - 1978 - 7/10
Musicals/Dance
Animated
Backstage Musicals
Ballet
Beach Party Films
Musical Biographies - Jersey Boys - Clint Eastwood - 2014 - 3/10
Broadway Show Musicals
Comedy Musicals - La La Land - Damien Chazelle - 2016 - 4/10
Concert Films
Dance Films - Top Hat - Mark Sandrich - 1935 - 7/10
Dramatic Musicals - Pyaasa - Guru Dutt - 1957 - 6/10
Fairy-tale Musicals
Fantasy Musical
Film-Opera
Folk Musicals - I'm Not There. - Todd Haynes - 2007 - 9/10
Hip-Hop Films
Operettas
Rock-umentary
Romantic Musicals - Once - John Carney - 2006 - 5/10
Show-Biz Comedy
Stage Musicals
Western Musicals
Science Fiction
Action or Adventure Sci-Fi - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - George Miller and George Ogilvie - 1985 - 4/10
Alien Invasion - Native - Daniel Fitzsimmons - 2016
Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters - Attack the Block - Joe Cornish - 2011 - 6/10
Anime
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films - The Fly - David Cronenberg - 1986 - 7/10
Cyber Punk - Videodrome - David Cronenberg - 1983 - 8/10
Disaster
Dystopia - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - George Miller - 1981 - 6/10
End of World
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films - The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky - 1973 - 7/10
'50s Sci-Fi - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Robert Wise - 1951 - 7/10
Futuristic - Embers - Claire Carré - 2015 - 5/10
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists - The App - Isak Borg and Dena Hysell - 2016
Monsters and Mutants - Godzilla - Ishirō Honda - 1954 - 6/10
Natural Horror - Godzilla - Gareth Edwards - 2014 - 4/10
Other Dimensions - Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979 - 8/10
Outer Space - Prometheus - Ridley Scott - 2012 - 4/10
Post-Apocalyptic - Slow Action - Ben Rivers - 2010 - 7/10
Pre-historic - The Good Dinosaur - Peter Sohn - 2015 - 6/10
Psychological Sci-Fi - Total Recall - Paul Verhoeven - 1990 - 6/10
Robots, Cyborgs and Androids - Ex Machina - Alex Garland - 2015 - 6/10
Sci-Fi Comedies - Dark Star - John Carpenter - 1974 - 8/10
Sci-Fi Thrillers - Déjà Vu - Tony Scott - 2006 - 6/10
Space Opera - Dune - David Lynch - 1984 - 5/10
Space or Sci-Fi Westerns
Star Trek
Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural - Astraea - Kristjan Thor - 2015 - 5/10
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel - Predestination - Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig - 2014 - 4/10
Virtual Reality
War
Action Combat - Hacksaw Ridge - Mel Gibson - 2016 - 4/10
Aerial Combat, Aviation
Afghanistan-Iraq Conflict - War Machine - David Michôd - 2017 - 6/10
Anti-War - Tangerines - Zaza Urushadze - 2013 - 6/10
Civil War - White Material - Claire Denis - 2009 - 7/10
Combat - They Were Expendable - John Ford - 1945 - 8/10
Gulf War - Three Kings - David O. Russell - 1999 - 4/10
Korean War
Military - Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1962 - 8/10
Military Comedy
Prisoner of War (POW)/Escape
Resistance - The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo - Jim Finn - 2007 - 6/10
Revolutionary War
War-Spy - Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock - 1940 - 6/10
Submarine
Vietnam War - Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick - 1987 - 7/10
War Adventure - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Peter Jackson - 2014 - 7/10
War Epic
War Romance - Archangel - Guy Maddin - 1990 - 6/10
World War I - The House in the Woods - Maurice Pialat - 1971 - 8/10
World War II - Come and See - Elem Klimov - 1985 - 7/10
Westerns
B-Western - The Stranger Wore a Gun - André De Toth - 1953 - 6/10
Biographies - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill - 1969 - 6/10
Cattle Drive - Red River - Howard Hawks - 1948 - 10/10
Cavalry - Fort Apache - John Ford - 1948 - 9/10
Comedy Westerns - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson - Robert Altman - 1976 - 7/10
Epic Westerns - Cimarron - Wesley Ruggles - 1931 - 5/10
Euro-Westerns
Frontier - Shane - George Stevens - 1953 - 9/10
Gunfighters - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford - 1962 - 9/10
Historical - The Grey Fox - Phillip Borsos - 1982 - 4/10
Hybrid Westerns (with horror, noir, road movie, martial arts, etc.)
Indian War or Indian Westerns - The Searchers - John Ford - 1956 - 9/10
Issue Western
Modern Western - Hell or High Water - David Mackenzie - 2016 - 5/10
Musical Western
Outlaws - The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino - 2015 - 6/10
Psychological Westerns
Revisionist - Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood - 1992 - 7/10
Road-Trail Journeys
Romantic Westerns
Science-Fiction Westerns
Shoot-outs - A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone - 1964 - 5/10
Space Westerns
'Spaghetti' Westerns - Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone - 1968 - 8/10
Spoof Westerns - A Fistful of Fingers - Edgar Wright - 1995 - 5/10
Traditional - Rio Bravo - Howard Hawks - 1959 - 9/10
