Categorizing films by genre is a notoriously tricky but at the same time very useful undertaking. So you might object to a certain film being classified as belonging to a certain genre – and a film can also belong to more than one genre – but then please do feel free to argue your case.
| Cine negro | Crime films and thrillers from the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Comedy | They'll make you laugh… maybe. |
| Historical adventure | Swashbucklers, pirate films and mythological adventures. |
| Horror | Assorted vampires, monsters and psychopaths. |
| Science fiction | Films set in the future, in space or in weird versions of the present… |
| Thrillers | Contemporary thrillers |
| War films | From the pro-fascist propaganda about the Spanish Civil War to Rambo rip-offs set in Vietnam. |