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Genre cleanup & consolidation
posted by Travis BellSTAFFMOD on June 10, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Hello everyone,
It's finally time to take a look at the genres we use and make some tweaks. This post might get a little lengthy but I'll try to cover what I know right now.
First, here's a list of the movie genres on TMDb:
TMDb
- Action
- Adventure
- Animation
- Comedy
- Crime
- Documentary
- Drama
- Family
- Fantasy
- Foreign
- History
- Horror
- Music
- Mystery
- Romance
- Science Fiction
- TV movie
- Thriller
- War
- Western
And if we wanted to compare this list to some other sources online...
Rotten Tomatoes
- Action & Adventure
- Adult
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Faith & Spirituality
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Musical & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Romance
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interest
- Sports & Fitness
- Television
- Western
IMDb
- Action
- Adventure
- Animation
- Biography
- Comedy
- Crime
- Documentary
- Drama
- Family
- Fantasy
- Film-Noir
- Game-Show
- History
- Horror
- Music
- Musical
- Mystery
- News
- Reality-TV
- Romance
- Sci-Fi
- Sport
- Talk-Show
- Thriller
- War
- Western
Amazon
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime
- Boxed Sets
- Classics
- Comedy
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Exercise & Fitness
- Faith & Spirituality
- Fantasy
- Foreign Language & International
- Gay & Lesbian
- Holiday & Seasonal
- Horror
- Indie & Art House
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Videos & Concerts
- Science Fiction
- Special Interests
- Sports
Onbviously, one of the things you might notice is that there are actually other genres in use on TMDb, but are not located in the above list. This is part of what we need to look at.
My initial proposal for TMDb's new set of genres is going to be the following:
- Action
- Adventure
- Animation
- Biography
- Comedy
- Crime
- Documentary
- Drama
- Family
- Fantasy
- Film-Noir
- Holiday
- History
- Horror
- Musical
- Music Videos & Concerts
- Mystery
- Romance
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
- War
- Western
Do you guys have anything else you think deserves to be on this list?
Reply by hill89
on August 5, 2022 at 1:32 AM
I still find it crazy that there's no Musical genre. Has there been a good reason given why this hasn't been implemented?
Reply by krom33
on August 5, 2022 at 8:20 PM
I agree with hill89. I refer the issue to the administrators of "TheMovie Database". In Spanish it would be "Musical" genre.