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Movies Recommendations on the Basis of Genre

I am a huge movie-addict. Here are some of my favourite movies from different genres.

1. Fantasy:

Mirror Mirror (2012)

Snow White’s Retelling

Mild Comedy

Maleficent (2014)

Sleeping Beauty’s Retelling

From the Villain’s Point of View

An Amazing Plot Twist

2. Action:

Suicide Squad (2016)

Supervillain Protagonist

Govt. assembles prisoners to save the world

Variety of characters

3. Horror:

The Babadook (2014)

Unlike any other horror movies

A single mother’s struggle to raise a troubled son

Deals with grief

Crimson Peak (2015)

Start as a simple ghost story

Girl marries a man with secrets

Mind blowing plot twist

Complicated romance

4. Drama:

The Words (2012)

Writer steals the story of another

Heartbreaking

More

Mr. Church (2016)

Black cook joins the family of a little girl and her dying mother

Funny as well as heartbreaking

Best to watch with family

5. Biography:

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Stephen Hawking’s Life from College to his Later Life

Struggles with Paralysis

A heart touching romance

A story of never giving up

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

A man swore to never touch a weapon joins the war as a medic

Religious

Violence of war

Beautiful Boy (2018)

A father’s struggle with his meth-addict son

Shows life is beautiful

Amazing portrayal of Father-son relation

6. Historical Fiction:

The Book Thief (2013)

An orphan lives with her new foster parents who shelters a Jew secretly during the Second World War

Beauty of words

A heartbreaking story

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

The real story that inspired the Great Novel ‘Moby Dick’

Struggles to survive in extreme hard situation

7. Romance:

Anna Karenina (2012)

A woman tries to break from her cold marriage to be with her new found love

A woman’s life being doomed by Society’s Criticism

Explores different kinds of love

Breathe (2017)

After contracting polio, a man confined to bed finds new ways to live his life to the fullest with the support of his wife

A real story

Shows life is worth living

8. Comedy:

Green Book (2018)

A world-class black pianist bonds with a white driver over a trip

Talks about racism

Shazam! (2019)

A teenager finds superpower by turning into an adult

Family drama-comedy

A very sweet foster family

9. Psychological Thriller:

Shutter Island (2010)

A U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a patient from an asylum in an island

Crazy plot twist

The Devil All the Time (2020)

A world full of ignorance, blind faith, sin and delusion

Question of what is right and what is wrong

10. Sci Fi:

Arrival (2016)

A linguist tries to understand the language of aliens

Shows the power of language

11. Animation:

Inside Out (2015)

A young girl’s mind is mostly controlled by Joy other than different emotions

Importance of all emotions

Life from childhood to teenage

Coco (2017)

A boy who is desperate to prove his musical talent finds himself in the land of dead

Emotional

Amazing family relations

Onward (2020)

A journey of two brothers to resurrect their dead father for one single day

Adventurous

A heart warming brothers relation

12. Mystery:

The Limehouse Golem (2017)

A series of murder in the Victorian London

A woman’s struggle to fulfill her dreams

Gripping story

Crooked house (2017)

A detective tries to solve the murder of his former lover’s grandfather

Agatha Christie’s most twisting story

A dark family

A sweet romance

13. Musical:

Les Misérables (2012)

A former prisoner takes an orphan in his care

French Revolution

Heartbreaking stories of multiple characters

The Greatest Showman (2017)

The story of the man who invented circus

Many characters

A story of hard work and success

Sweet romance stories