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Comedy (non-romantic / general)

  • Drop Dead Gorgeous
  • In a World (comedy)
  • Killing Bono
  • Groundhog Day
  • Thank You For Smoking
  • The Angels' Share (Cannes, 2012)
  • The Beaver (dark comedy/drama blend)
  • What We Did on Our Holiday
  • this is the end
  • mrs doubtfire
  • some like it hot
  • Second Act

Rom-Com / Romantic Comedy

  • 2 Days in Paris
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Cuban Fury
  • I Give It A Year
  • I'm So Excited
  • Kissing Cousins
  • la la land (romance + musical/drama)
  • Priceless
  • Russian Dolls
  • Take This Waltz (romance/dramedy)
  • The Big Sick
  • The Last Kiss
  • The Romantics
  • Your Sister's Sister (dramedy/romance)

LGBTQ+ / Queer Cinema & Series (tag-style bucket; overlaps genres above)

  • (These are already placed in genres above, but listed here since your list is very queer-heavy.)
  • Aimee & Jaguar
  • All Over Me
  • Anatomy of a Love Seen
  • Blue is the Warmest Color / La Vie d'Adele
  • Bound
  • Boy Erased
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Carol
  • Christopher and His Kind
  • Cloudburst
  • Desert Hearts
  • Fingersmith
  • For a Lost Soldier
  • Getting go
  • Gia
  • Go Fish
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • La mala educación (Bad Education)
  • Lip Service (series)
  • Loving Annabelle
  • Maurice
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Pariah
  • Queer as Folk (series)
  • Room in Rome
  • Show Me Love
  • South of Nowhere (series)
  • The Crying Game
  • The Danish Girl
  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
  • The L Word (series)
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Tipping the Velvet
  • yuri!!! on ice (anime)

Romance (more “romantic drama” than comedy)

  • 6 Years (2015)
  • After Sex
  • Affinity
  • Total Eclipse
  • Aimee & Jaguar
  • All Over Me
  • Almost Adults
  • Anatomy of a Love Seen
  • Blue is the Warmest Color / La Vie d'Adele
  • Bound (crime + romance)
  • Bright Star
  • Broken English
  • Carol
  • Cloudburst
  • Comet
  • Desert Hearts
  • Entre Nous
  • Everything, Everything (teen romance)
  • Fingersmith (romance + thriller/crime vibes)
  • Five Dances
  • Flirting
  • For a Lost Soldier
  • Getting go
  • Gia
  • Go Fish
  • good morning call (series)
  • Great Expectations
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (music + romance/drama)
  • Hidden Away
  • I Am Love (Io Sono L'amore)
  • I Killed my Mother (J’ai tué ma mère) (family + coming-of-age; also queer romance adjacent)
  • In My Dreams
  • Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen)
  • Lip Service (series)
  • lost in translation
  • Loving Annabelle
  • maquia (often fantasy/drama; also emotional bonds)
  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (romance/drama)
  • Mood Indigo
  • Maurice
  • Me Without You
  • Mes chères études (Student Services)
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Nymphomaniac
  • Room in Rome
  • Show Me Love
  • Sylvia Scarlet (classic romance/comedy blend)
  • To Rome With Love
  • To The Wonder
  • Tipping the Velvet
  • Unmade Beds

Drama (including “serious”/character-driven)

  • 91 days (crime/drama)
  • The Kid
  • A Dangerous Method
  • Children of Men
  • The Lost City
  • Afterschool
  • Agusan Marsh Diaries (doc/drama-ish tone; I’ll place docs separately too)
  • Al hub al mamnoo3
  • All About My Mother
  • american hustle (crime/drama)
  • August: Osage County
  • Avengers Social Club (drama)
  • Behind The Candelabra
  • Better Luck Tomorrow (crime/drama)
  • Beyond the Hills (Cannes, 2012)
  • birdman (drama/dark comedy)
  • Biutiful
  • Boutonniere
  • Boy A (teen angst)
  • Boy Erased (Nov 2018)
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Breaking the Waves
  • breathe in
  • Buenas Noches, Espana
  • Christine (2016)
  • Christopher and His Kind
  • citizen kane
  • Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales...
  • Cosmopolis (Cannes, 2012)
  • Crónicas (crime/drama)
  • dead poet’s society
  • Departures
  • Everything is Illuminated
  • Everything Must Go
  • Fallen Angels
  • fences
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Gangs of New York
  • gangster squad (crime/action-drama)
  • Genova
  • Gerry
  • Ginger & Rosa
  • Good kids
  • Griff the Invisible (drama/romance-ish)
  • Half Nelson
  • Head-On
  • Heavenly Creatures
  • How Sara Got Here Wings
  • In A Better World
  • In Another Country (Cannes, 2012)
  • In This World
  • Inside Llewyn Davis (Cannes, 2013)
  • Intact
  • Jangdo
  • Jesus, You Know
  • Just Like Brothers (2012)
  • La Double vie de Veronique
  • La mala educación (Bad Education)
  • La Prima Cosa Bella (The First Beautiful Thing)
  • La Vie En Rose
  • Last Days
  • Lawless (Cannes, 2012)
  • LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON / Soshite Chichi ni Naru
  • Lincoln
  • Little Birds
  • Little Women
  • louder than bombs
  • Love Crime
  • Lovely & Amazing
  • Mandela: A Long Walk To Freedom
  • March of the Penguins (doc — also nature)
  • Margaret
  • Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (doc)
  • marnie
  • Masculin Feminint
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (dramedy)
  • Middle of Nowhere
  • Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
  • Miral
  • mister lonely
  • Morvern Callar
  • Nebraska
  • Night out
  • No Country for Old Men (crime/drama/thriller)
  • Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Cannes, 2013)
  • Now
  • October Sky (father-son)
  • Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
  • Our Paradise
  • Pacific Miracle Oba: The Last Samurai
  • Pariah
  • Party Monster (crime/drama)
  • Passion
  • Philomena
  • Post Tenebras Lux (Cannes, 2012)
  • prisoners (thriller/drama)
  • puncture (legal/drama)
  • Pureza
  • Reality (Cannes, 2012)
  • Restless
  • Revolucion
  • RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope (doc)
  • selma
  • Sleeping Beauty (often art-film drama)
  • Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
  • Songs from the Second Floor
  • straight outta compton
  • Stranger Inside
  • stutterer
  • Tanner Hall
  • Taste of Cherry
  • Temple Grandin
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  • The Concert
  • The Crying Game
  • the danish girl
  • The First Grader
  • The Girl King
  • the giver
  • The Good Doctor
  • The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza)
  • The Green Mile
  • The Hunt (Jagten)
  • The Iceman (crime/drama)
  • The Idiots
  • The Illusionist (drama/mystery)
  • The Killing Field
  • The Paperboy (Cannes, 2012)
  • The Past (Le Passe)
  • The Revenant (2015) / Life 2015
  • The Skin I Live In (thriller/drama)
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Straight Story
  • The Tree of Life
  • The Trench (1991)
  • Treeless Mountain
  • Tribu
  • Trishna
  • Trois Couleurs: Bleu and Blanc
  • True Grit (western/drama)
  • Uwantme2killhim? (thriller/drama)
  • Violet and Daisy (crime/drama)
  • Virgin
  • Vito (doc)
  • Wasteland (doc)
  • Yi Yi
  • You Haven't Seen Anything Yet (Cannes, 2012)

Horror / Supernatural / Dark Horror

  • 30 days of night
  • A Werewolf Boy (korean) (romance + supernatural)
  • Antichrist
  • Blue Beard (thriller/horror)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (horror-comedy)
  • Busong
  • Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
  • Donkey Punch (horror/thriller)
  • Hanna (more action/thriller, but dark tone)
  • I Saw the Devil
  • I Still See You (ghosts)
  • Jack Frost (often horror-comedy unless you mean the family film—title is ambiguous)
  • Let The Right One In
  • MEG (sharks) (creature feature)
  • The Devil's Backbone
  • The Keeping Hours (Horror)
  • The Night Watch
  • The Tale of Two Sisters
  • The Tunnel
  • The Woman

TV / Series / Anime (if you want them separated cleanly)

  • 91 days
  • akagami no shirayuki-hime
  • Anne with an E
  • Avengers Social Club
  • Barakamon
  • good morning call
  • Lip Service
  • Lost Girl
  • mob psycho 100
  • nijiiro days
  • norn9: norn+nonet
  • okitegami kyoko no biboroku
  • Orphan Black
  • Queer as Folk
  • Riverdale
  • Selfie
  • Skins
  • South of Nowhere
  • The Fosters
  • The L Word
  • Wheel of Time
  • yuri!!! on ice
  • Detective Conan (ep180)
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