Clicking on the following links or images will take you to the movie collections in different franchises & genres covered in this section:
* Movies based on real-life events or stories of real people
This section contains the lists of movies which are part of film franchises or which belong to different film genres. Note that there is one more specific genre (Thrillers) which has its own section.
In recent years, the most popular film franchises are those featuring super-heroes from DC and Marvel. Although these characters stem from the super-heroes of comic books, their movies don’t always follow the canonical storylines of the comics and are not of consistent quality. Thus, in each case I have included only a subset of the complete list of super-hero movies. The full lists for these film franchises can be found at these sites: DC Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man and X-Men.
Besides the DC and Marvel super-hero movies, I have made lists of my favorite movies in other film franchises: James Bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Mission Impossible and the Pink Panther (the original series starring Peter Sellers). Just as in the case of the super-hero movies, these lists are not intended to be exhaustive, as I included only those movies that in my opinion are worthy of inclusion. (For the complete list of films in any franchise, please click on its name in the first sentence of this paragraph.) Each of these film series occupies a unique place in popular culture and has enduring appeal across many generations of movie-watchers.
Finally, I have made special lists of movies in a few specific genres which I like. Note that these genres sometimes overlap, and a particular movie may be listed in more than one genre. Often the classification of a specific movie may fall in a gray area, and there is some degree of subjectivity in assigning it to one category or the other. Thus, the classification of the movies into different genres should be viewed more loosely than most of the other lists in this website. Overall, I had fun assigning the movies to the different categories and I hope you will enjoy browsing through these lists and comparing your own mental classification with mine!