Official movie genres on Internet Movie Database Quiz

Can you name the official movie genres on Internet Movie Database?

created by Devinel

Enter a movie genre in the box below
Correctly named movie genres will show up below
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Source: IMDb: Genres
Note: The 4 categories that apply only to TV shows on IMDB are listed as bonuses.
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IMDb Movie Genres Quiz

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Created Jan 9, 2011 in Movies
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	jefrunner:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 19:16 GMT		22 points
	Great idea for a quiz. But could you except just "noir" for Film Noir?

	Statto2:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT		7 points
	I'm a little shocked by the low percentages getting war & western correct. Alternatively, I may be showing my age as neither genre seems particularly fashionable in modern Hollywood.

	sweett310:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 20:37 GMT		35 points
	Gah, I put in "Music" and assumed that applied for "Musical".

	TexasHolders:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 20:46 GMT		8 points
	@Statto2: There have been several films that fit into the categories recently. True Grit (western), 3:10 to Yuma (western), and Inglorious Basterds (war) come to mind.

	mendelevium:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT		24 points
	i was hoping "chick flick" would be a category

	lt_columbo:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 21:15 GMT		11 points
	@sweett310 - opposite for me - I managed to get "musical" but not "music". I must have been typing fast...

	jaypunkrawk:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 21:19 GMT		2 points
	How'd I get Crime and Film Noir and not Family and Mystery?!

	chikka2:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 22:04 GMT		1 point
	yeah, I also had the music-for-musical issue , but loved this quiz. @statto2, probably The Hurt Locker would fit in the War category, too. Maybe people were trying for the alphabetical order and didn't get to the W's?

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	b_n:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT		7 points
	Accept "historical" for history

	abbyrose87:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 23:16 GMT		1 point
	what about cult, foreign or independent?

	piola:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT		3 points
	Im pretty sure that Short is an official genre in IMDB. But otherwise really cool quiz. Got all of them.

	cheesetoasted:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 00:24 GMT		2 points
	Did anyone else start trying Sporcle categories out of desperation?

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	local600mommy:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 00:54 GMT		3 points
	can't believe i didn't get "family." i must've tried every incarnation of child/children/kid/youth possible.

	Riley11:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 01:32 GMT		1 point
	Wait, I got "musical" but not "music"? Well, I guess I was typing too fast. I was typing in "musical" and I didn't pause at all for just "music".

	Riley11:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 01:34 GMT		0 points
	@abbyrose87 Foreign and independent are movie genres for awards ceremonies and film festivals. And I don't think cult is an "official" genre.

	Oru:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 01:51 GMT		0 points
	I did the same thing as Riley

	NY_MOB:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 02:15 GMT		1 point
	I type slower so when I attempted to type "Musical" it gave me "Music" and I said "Oh, okay". Then I backspaced over the "al" now lying in the answer box and moved on to other categories.

	jelfire:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 02:16 GMT		11 points
	@The_Snakes: Maybe porn falls under romance...

	midnight_dreary:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 02:38 GMT		15 points
	15/22 - It all seems so obvious once the clocks run out lol.

	drn211:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 02:57 GMT		1 point
	game-show, talk-show, news and reality TV are the bonuses

	BonnieH:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 12:25 GMT		-1 points
	I'm surprised Foreign Language film isn't a category at IMDB.

	koozbane:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 12:27 GMT		0 points
	Isn't it odd, drn211, that IMDB would include those 4 as "movie genres", when they're obviously meant to refer to TV? When I click those links on the IMDB genre listing, I get a mish-mash list of "nothing in particular" movies, and they don't include movies that might actually qualify for that genre. Odd.

	Nobbe:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 13:22 GMT		12 points
	Bonnie: IMDB is an "International" Movie Data Base. Which "Foreign Language" films should it contain? Martianese?

	TAR2:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 14:01 GMT		-1 points
	What? YouTube isn't a genre? :)

	tigerschick:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT		1 point
	b_n - I agree, I typed 'historical' at least 3 times as I was sure it would be there... but I got 'animation' by typing 'animated' which suggests that there is leeway in some answers but not all. Anyway, coming form someone who missed Western, this argument probably doesn't count for much ;o)

	yellowdart5:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 23:38 GMT		8 points
	I'm a little surprised that "Epic" isn't a category.

	Geo1:	Feb 10th, 2011 at 13:42 GMT		1 point
	Soon the genre 3D will be on here.

	bvtujo:	Feb 11th, 2011 at 18:51 GMT		0 points
	22/22, but I wouldn't have gotten music if I hadn't typed in musical

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	hlofa15:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 19:20 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, just maybe except gangster and mafia for crime, and war seems a lot like epic, but they're not the same, so don't change that.

	PotatoSalad:	Aug 29th, 2011 at 14:56 GMT		3 points
	'Adult' should be a category. Adult films are hidden by default on the search results but there is an account setting which can change that. Also, 'Short' could be accepted as a genre.

	Razorblade:	Feb 3rd, 2012 at 08:21 GMT		-1 points
	I sure hope @BonnieH is kidding.

	Blackbelt737:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 04:15 GMT		2 points
	@nobbe and @Razorblade, the site is 'internet movie data base' and if you scroll all the way to the bottom it gives links to it's other foreign language versions (IMDB Germany, IMDB Italy, etc.), so I see no reason why 'foreign films' should not be a genre. US made movies could easily be considered foreign films to non-US IMDB sites...

	Wrhodarmer:	Mar 18th, 2012 at 14:37 GMT		-2 points
	I don't get it

	Brando2004:	Sep 5th, 2012 at 12:50 GMT		2 points
	Gah. I was so concerned with getting the not-so-obvious ones that I missed comedy and horror...

	antoniobroto:	Feb 4th, 2013 at 15:50 GMT		0 points
	how can they forget porn?

	darky159:	Jun 14th, 2013 at 12:06 GMT		1 point
	how did i forget drama..... :O