Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

This sub-genre depicts military action whereas the war film genre need not portray armed combat.

The success of Tim Burton's Batman ( 1989 ) led to a string of financially successful sequels, and within a single decade, had proven the viability of a new sub-genre of action film ; the comic-book movie.

* Action Comedy-A sub-genre involving action and humor.

The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

* Martial Arts-A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

In the last years developed another sub-genre of romantic action comedy, whic blends a romantic comedy film and an action film.

Shooter games ( also known as ' shoot em up ' games ) are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time.

* Action role-playing game – a loosely-defined sub-genre of role-playing video games that incorporate elements of action or action-adventure games, emphasizing real-time action where the player has direct control over characters, instead of turn-based or menu-based combat.

** Role-playing shooter – a sub-genre, featuring elements of both shooter games and action RPGs.

Action role-playing games ( abbreviated action RPG, action / RPG, or ARPG ) form a loosely defined sub-genre of role-playing video games that incorporate elements of action or action-adventure games, emphasizing real-time action where the player has direct control over characters, instead of turn-based or menu-based combat.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

This sub-genre would be mined by dozens of increasingly violent movies throughout the subsequent decades, and Halloween became a successful independent film.

Space Western could be considered a sub-genre of space opera that transposes themes of the American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers.

Night of the Living Dead ushered in the splatter film sub-genre.

Film historian Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943.

A popular sub-genre war films in the 1950s and 1960s was the prisoner of war film.

This sub-genre began with the film Die Hard and has become popular in Hollywood because of its crowd appeal and the relative simplicity of building sets for such a constrained piece.

A critical and commercial success, the film is credited with reinvigorating the zombie sub-genre.

No matter what sub-genre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces.

Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film and at times the thriller genre.

A related film sub-genre is spy films.

The history of anthropological filmmaking is intertwined with that of non-fiction and documentary filmmaking, although ethnofiction may be considered as a genuine sub-genre of ethnographic film.

" Mark Gatiss has referred to the film as a prime example of a short-lived sub-genre he called " folk horror ", grouping it with Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man.

In January 2006, film critic David Edelstein in New York Magazine credited Roth with creating the horror sub-genre ' torture porn ,' or ' gorno ,' using excessive violence to excite audiences like a sexual act.

He has also written the best-known analysis of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man ; the volume includes recorded interviews with Jarmusch ; the book places the film in the acid western sub-genre.

A new sub-genre of eastern martial arts films exists which emphasize the actors performing their own stunts, deliberately using wide angles and unbroken shots to show each stunt in its entirety.

Wǔxiá ( Traditional Chinese: 武俠, Simplified Chinese: 武侠, Mandarin, Cantonese Pinyin: mów hàb ), literally meaning " martial ( arts ) heroes ", is a sub-genre of the quasi-fantasy and martial arts genre in literature, television and cinema.

Other notable ' 70s slasher films include Bob Clark's Black Christmas ( 1974 ), which was released before Halloween, and was another start of the sub-genre.

An extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering and violent deaths, ( variously referred to as " horror porn ", " torture porn ", Splatterporn, and even " gore-nography ") with films such as The Collector, The Tortured, Saw, and Hostel, and their respective sequels, frequently singled out as examples of emergence of this sub-genre.

* Natural horror – A sub-genre of horror films " featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers.

Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies.

Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

In the 1940s and early 1950s there were several films made about the exploits of Allied agents in occupied Europe, which could probably be considered as a sub-genre.

: A developing sub-genre, with roots in films such as Billy the Kid vs. Dracula ( 1966 ), which depicts the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid fighting against the notorious vampire.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

He revitalised the sub-genre of female-led kung fu films, producing cop films such as Yes, Madam aka Police Assassins ( both 1985 ), which introduced stars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock.

" Future noir films often intermingle elements of the gothic thriller genre, such as Minority Report, which makes references to occult practices, and Alien, with its tagline ‘ In space, no one can hear you scream ’, and a space vessel, Nostromo, “ that hark back to images of the haunted house in the gothic horror tradition .” Bin Aziz states that films such as James Cameron ’ s The Terminator are a sub-genre of ‘ techno noir ’ that create "... an atmospheric feast of noir darkness and a double-edged world that is not what it seems.

Inspired by the success of Spartacus, there were a number of Italian peplums that heavily emphasized the gladiatorial arena in their plots, with it becoming almost a peplum sub-genre in itself ; One group of supermen known as " The Ten Gladiators " appeared in a trilogy, all three films starring Dan Vadis in the lead role.

This latter sub-genre of unwitting participants began in the 1940s with Allen Funt's Candid Microphone theatrical short films.

* Stefano Vanzina ( aka Steno ) ( 1915 – 1988 ), Italian movie director, famous for kickstarting the sub-genre Poliziotteschi films