Drama is the king of cinema. It’s the genre that is most often mixed with others. The main part of the story is usually about problems and conflict and the plot includes very important events and changes in the lives of the character or it might revolve around small everyday stuff. Drama is supposed to make you feel as many emotions as possible with an aftertaste. To make the effect even more powerful, true stories are often used.

Subgenres:

Melodrama — highlights the emotional elements, focuses on the characters’ feelings (Titanic).
Tragedy — characters experience terrible, sad events that lead to an inevitable drama (Romeo + Juliet).
Teen drama — focuses on the lives of teenagers, how they interact in groups, and about the general problems of this age (Euphoria).
Philosophical drama — an exploration of the human condition, existence, and life itself (Boyhood).
Medical drama — focuses on the work of hospitals, relationships between doctors, between staff, and patients (House).
Legal drama — talks about the problems of criminal justice, it’s more about the relationships between the people at legal firms or courts, but not about crimes (The Firm).
Political drama — focuses on the features and difficulties of everything that happens in politics. It might be a local story or even an international one (House of Cards).
Anthropological drama — focuses on the drama derived from human behavior and society at large, or it might be about a certain culture (City of God).
Religious drama — shows situations where religion plays a key part (The Passion of the Christ).
Docudrama — takes real-life accounts and recreates them in a way that attempts to accurately represent events while also realizing the dramatic potential of those events (127 Hours).

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