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Genre
Art house / art cinema Science fiction Dark comedy Film noir / neo-noir War Horror Gangster / mob Spy / espionage Psychological thriller Western Musical Coming-of-age Courtroom / legal Serial-killer Heist show all (15)
Mood
Tense / suspenseful Dread / creeping unease Romantic / yearning Paranoia / conspiracy Surreal / dreamlike Slow-burn / contemplative Bleak / despairing Melancholy / elegiac Existential / alienated Revenge / vengeance Beautiful / painterly Ensemble / overlapping (Altman-esque)
Cinematography
Long take / sustained shot Handheld / vérité Black & white Anamorphic widescreen Chiaroscuro / low-key Desaturated palette Deep focus
Movement
New Hollywood (70s) French New Wave German Expressionism New German Cinema Italian Neorealism
National cinema
Japanese cinema French cinema Korean cinema Italian cinema Russian / Soviet cinema
Character
Assassins & hitmen Thieves & criminals Presidents, kings & rulers Serial killers Priests, nuns & clergy Femme fatale Superheroes & super powers Vigilantes & taking the law into your hands Zombies Vampires & the undead
Structure & technique
Single location / chamber Unreliable narrator Dramatic irony Twist / surprise ending Nonlinear timeline Real-time / single day Frame story / nested
Theme
Family & parenthood Murder & homicide Love & romance Class & inequality Marriage & infidelity Grief & loss Mental illness & psychiatry Drugs & addiction Police & policing Existentialism & the meaning of life Friendship & loyalty War & its aftermath The military & soldiers Religion, faith & doubt Organized crime & the mob Aging & mortality Coming of age Detectives & investigation Identity & doubles Memory & amnesia Politics & government Money & greed Justice & the law Revenge & vengeance Espionage & spies Poverty & hardship Revolution & rebellion Music & musicians Forbidden & doomed love Eroticism & sexuality Suicide & self-destruction Corruption & graft Conspiracy & cover-ups Capitalism & business Siblings & brothers Ambition, fame & the American dream LGBT & queer lives Obsession & voyeurism Doctors & medicine Prostitution & sex work Road trips & journeys Dreams & the subconscious Tyranny & totalitarianism Fugitives & on the run Heists & capers Racism & discrimination World War II Con artists & fraud Filmmaking & show business Pregnancy & motherhood Science & scientists Survival & the wild Kidnapping & hostages Monsters & creatures Child abuse & children in peril Surveillance & social control Sports & competition Writers & literature Gangs & street crime Rape & sexual violence Torture & sadism The occult, witches & the devil Journalism & the press Terrorism Space travel & exploration Nazism & the Holocaust Disaster & catastrophe Art & artists Drug trade & cartels Slavery & colonialism Gambling Immigration & migrants The Cold War Aliens & first contact Adolescence & bullying AI & robots Martial arts & swordplay Nuclear & the atomic age Cyberpunk & virtual reality Plague, virus & contagion Ghosts & hauntings Domestic & spousal abuse Ex-cons & redemption Twins & dual lives Samurai & feudal Japan Time travel & loops The Vietnam War Cults & fanaticism Boxing & the fight game World War I Stalking & menace Possession & exorcism Cannibalism show all (93)
Setting
New York City London & England Los Angeles & California Trains, planes & ships Rural & countryside Prison & incarceration Dystopia & the apocalypse Paris & France School & academia Small-town life Japan Italy Hotels & motels Deserts & badlands The American South Islands Suburbia show all (17)
Film theory — Deleuze concepts
crystalline description dead time fabulation opsigns and sonsigns peaks of present post-continuity sheets of past the action-image the affection-image the any-space-whatever the cinema of the body the cinema of the brain the crisis of the action-image the crystal-image the dream-image the forger the gest the impulse-image the lectosign the mind-game film the movement-image the neuro-image the noosign the perception-image the powers of the false the recollection-image the relation-image the seer the time-image show all (29)