Movie Genres
Poorly Explained Movie Plots
Awards
Poorly Explained Movie Plots X2
Aspects of Film
100

A movie genre categorized by alternate words, scientific themes, and often includes aliens.

What is science fiction?

100

Girl would rather let her boyfriend die than share a piece of wood. Alternatively, everyone takes the ice bucket challenge.

What is Titanic?

100

The Oscars were first held on this day.

When was May 16th, 1929? 

100

Unpopular kids beat up a starving, homeless clown.

What is It?

100

The written-out version of a film or TV show.

What is a script?

200

A movie genre categorized by jokes, looser plots, with scripts often written by comedians to try and entertain the audience.

What are comedies?

200

A bunch of kids nearly die in a closet.

What is Narnia?

200

EGOT is an acronym for this list of awards.

What is an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony?

200

Handsome mercenary with a pet bear intervenes to stop incest between a brother and sister.

What is Star Wars?

200

The music, songs, or instrumentals featured in films or TV shows.

What are soundtracks and scores?

300

A movie genre categorized by the setting and events of the movie taking place in the past, often with the events of the movie being a moment from real life.

What is historical?

300

A group of friends spend a few years returning jewelry.

What is The Lord of the Rings?

300

This movie was the first film to win outstanding picture at the Academy Awards.

What is Wings?

300

Older sister ruins younger sister's chances to appear on television.

What is Hunger Games?

300

The different colors and brightness' featured in the visuals of a film or TV show.

What is lighting?

400

A film genre categorized by non-fiction information, interviews with real life people, and a purpose of education or informing.

What are documentaries?

400

Bullied kid with birth defects proves people are only nice to you when they need something.

What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

400

This movie most recently won Best Picture at the Oscars.

What is One Battle After Another?

400

Man watches his wife die, and only son be disabled after a brutal attack on his front lawn. Years later his son is then kidnapped. He travels many miles in search of his son with help of strangers he meets along the way.

What is Finding Nemo?

400

The way actors and actresses, as well as props and nature are organized within a shot.

What is composition?

500

A movie genre categorized by darker themes, suspense, and a focus on instilling fear in the audience. This genre has also generated many subgenres.

What is horror?

500

A French man steals a loaf of bread and never hears the end of it. 

What is Les Mis?

500

This actor was the first to win the Oscar for best actor.

Who was Emil Jannings?

500

Immigrant adoptee is repatriated to country of birth, experiences culture shock and prejudice.

What is Elf?

500

The style of the visuals in a film or TV show.

What is cinematography?