What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

DRAMA – Braveheart

ACTION/ADVENTURE – LOTR (all three top pick varies month to month )

MILITARY – Blackhawk Down

COMEDY – Forrest Gump

ROMANTIC – Romancing the Stone/Risky Business

HORROR – Silence of the Lambs

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars

SPORTS- Field of Dreams

MARTIAL ARTS - Rumble in the Bronx/Enter the Dragon/Crouching Tiger

WESTERN - Tombstone


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Good post

Its a hard one ive got a lot of favourites in these categories lol

DRAMA – The Godfather Trilogy

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Die hard

MILITARY – Full metal jacket

COMEDY – Orgazmo (No Its not a porno lol)

ROMANTIC – Chasing Amy

HORROR – Halloween 2

SCIENCE FICTION - Terminator 2: Judgement day

I went all out lol, below is a list of all the genres found on IMDB


Action - The Matrix

Adventure - Indiana Jones

Animation - South Park

Biography - Raging Bull

Comedy - Jackass

Crime - Godfather

Documentary - This is Spinal Tap

Drama - The man who would be King

Family - E.T

Fantasy - The Lord of the Rings

Film-Noir - Angels with Dirty Faces

History - Schindler's List

Horror - Jaws

Independent - Pulp Fiction

Musical - Grease

Mystery - The Usual Suspects

Romance - It's a Wonderful Life

Sci-Fi - Star wars

Short - Wallace & Gromit

Sport - Jerry Maguire

Thriller - The Silence of the Lambs

TV mini-series - Roots

War - Zulu

Western - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

PS: There not exactly my favorite movies, i just picked one film from each section on ibdm that i liked most.

I, think its imposible for me to pick a favorite movie, i've tried, i just cant do it.

Useless info:

Spinal tap is'nt a documentry, but it's flimed like one. It's about a British heavy metal band, and is funny as funny gets........Some people still belive it is a documentry, including Liam Gallagher.(Oasis)





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I love lists :-)

DRAMA – Crash

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Bourne Trilogy

MILITARY – Heaven and Earth

COMEDY – Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

ROMANTIC – A Good Year

HORROR – Mamma mia

SCIENCE FICTION – The Matrix

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Drama: LA Confidential

Action: Chronicles of Riddick

Military: Dirty Dozen

Comedy: Dodgeball

Romantic: Addicted to Love

Horror: Resident Evil

Sci Fi: Alien

DRAMA – Natural Born Killers

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Kingpin

ROMANTIC – Sweet November

HORROR – (three-way tie) Night of the Living Dead, Hellraiser, and Exorcist 3

SCIENCE FICTION – Event Horizon


Honorable Mention: The Shawshank Redemption, Evil Dead Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy, Silent Hill, Excalibur, Day the Earth Stood Still, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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DRAMA – Point Blank

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Dark Knight

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny

ROMANTIC – Because I Said So

HORROR – The Amityville Horror '05/The Shining/The Exorcist/Poltergeist

SCIENCE FICTION – Any movie in the Alien series/Serenity/The Fifth Element/ A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

DRAMA – Gangs of New York

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Raiders of the Lost Ark

MILITARY – Zulu

COMEDY – Forrest Gump

ROMANTIC – Titannic

HORROR – The Exorcist

SCIENCE FICTION – Blade Runner




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DRAMA – Old Boy

ACTION/ADVENTURE – To live and die in L.A.

MILITARY – Idi i smotri ( Go and See)

COMEDY – Play It Again, Sam

ROMANTIC – The Piano

HORROR – Riget/ Kingdom (The kingdom)

SCIENCE FICTION – 2001: A Space Odyssey

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DRAMA – Apocalypse Now

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Commando

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – Commando

ROMANTIC – Vertigo

HORROR – The Exorcist

SCIENCE FICTION – Aliens

DRAMA – American History X

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord Of The Rings

MILITARY – Apocalypse Now

COMEDY – Dumb and Dumber

ROMANTIC – Last Of The Mohicans

HORROR – The Shining

SCIENCE FICTION – Blade Runner

DRAMA – Pulp Fiction

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Scarface

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Friday

ROMANTIC – Titanic

HORROR – Event horizon

SCIENCE FICTION – Star wars IV - A new Hope



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DRAMA – The Godfather

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Die Hard 3

MILITARY – We Were Soldiers/Stalag 17

COMEDY – Shawn of the Dead

ROMANTIC – Major League

HORROR – American Psycho

SCIENCE FICTION – This Island Earth

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Good call on 'This is Spinal Tap'. I try to throw the words 'smell the glove' into casual conversation as often as possible.

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I would have put down Hitchhikers Guide but it was so different from the book, I just couldn't. But it was an awfully funny movie. And remember to bring your towel and DON'T PANIC

DRAMA – Gladiator

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Matrix

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – Old School

ROMANTIC – When Harry met Sally

HORROR – Blair Witch Project

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars

New genres:

ESPIONAGE - The Good Shepard

CRIME - Zodiac

MUSIC - Where the Light is / John Mayer

SURF - The September Sessions

DRAMA – Pulp Fiction

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Lord of the Rings trilogy

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – Friday

ROMANTIC – The Quiet Man

HORROR – A Shallow Grave

SCIENCE FICTION – The Abyss

SPORTS- Slapshot

MARTIAL ARTS - The Five Deadly Venoms / Big Trouble In Little China

WESTERN - Rio Bravo

this is indeed harder than it looks

these are all awesome in some way.

DRAMA – Im not There

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Bond movies

MILITARY – Band of Brothers (ok, its not a movie but still)

COMEDY – Amelie from Mont Martre

ROMANTIC – Lost in Translation

HORROR – REC

SCIENCE FICTION - hmm.. lets say Battlefield Earth.

DRAMA – ROAD TO PERDITION

ACTION/ADVENTURE – RAMBO (THE LAST ONE)

MILITARY – TEARS OF THE SUN

COMEDY – FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

ROMANTIC – TRUE ROMANCE

HORROR – AUDITION (JAPAN)

SCIENCE FICTION – AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

But all of these are way down on this list after Ken Burns Docs.

Can't believe so many people are picking The Dark Knight - the hype will die eventually and in a few years it will still be a great film but nowhere near best ever. It is all just opinion though and you're entitled to yours!

DRAMA – American History X

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord of the Rings

MILITARY – Aliens

COMEDY – Office Space

ROMANTIC – The Fountain

HORROR – Alien 3

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars (yes I can still forgive Mr. Cash Cow)