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Topics โ€บ Intermediate Vocabulary

Types of Movies โ€“ Film Genres

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action movie ์•ก์…˜ ์˜ํ™” The new action movie is full of car chases.
comedy ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋”” ์˜ํ™” / ํฌ๊ทน We watched a comedy and laughed all night.
romantic comedy ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑ ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋”” This romantic comedy is perfect for date night.
horror movie ๊ณตํฌ ์˜ํ™” I can't sleep after watching a horror movie.
thriller ์Šค๋ฆด๋Ÿฌ ์˜ํ™” The thriller kept me guessing until the end.
science fiction ๊ณต์ƒ ๊ณผํ•™ ์˜ํ™” / SF ์˜ํ™” Science fiction often imagines life on other planets.
fantasy ํŒํƒ€์ง€ ์˜ํ™” The fantasy film features dragons and ancient magic.
animation ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ / ๋งŒํ™” ์˜ํ™” Kids and adults both love that animation.
documentary ๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ / ๊ธฐ๋ก ์˜ํ™” The documentary explores the lives of deep-sea creatures.
drama ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์˜ํ™” The drama tells the story of a struggling family.
western ์„œ๋ถ€ ์˜ํ™” My grandfather still enjoys old westerns on Sundays.
musical ๋ฎค์ง€์ปฌ ์˜ํ™” The musical had wonderful songs and dance numbers.
mystery ๋ฏธ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์˜ํ™” / ์ถ”๋ฆฌ ์˜ํ™” In this mystery, a detective hunts a missing painter.
crime film ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ์˜ํ™” The crime film follows a clever bank robber.
war film ์ „์Ÿ ์˜ํ™” The war film shows the reality of battle.
biopic ์ „๊ธฐ ์˜ํ™” The biopic is about a famous jazz singer.
historical drama ์‹œ๋Œ€๊ทน / ์‚ฌ๊ทน The historical drama is set in the Joseon era.
adventure film ๋ชจํ—˜ ์˜ํ™” The adventure film takes place in the jungle.
disaster movie ์žฌ๋‚œ ์˜ํ™” In the disaster movie, a huge earthquake hits Seoul.
superhero movie ์Šˆํผํžˆ์–ด๋กœ ์˜ํ™” Every summer brings another big superhero movie.
independent film ๋…๋ฆฝ ์˜ํ™” The independent film won awards at small festivals.
silent film ๋ฌด์„ฑ ์˜ํ™” Charlie Chaplin starred in many classic silent films.
blockbuster ๋ธ”๋ก๋ฒ„์Šคํ„ฐ / ์ดˆ๋Œ€์ž‘ The blockbuster earned millions on its opening weekend.
box office ํฅํ–‰ ์ˆ˜์ž… / ๋งคํ‘œ์†Œ The film broke every box office record.
plot ์ค„๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ / ๊ตฌ์„ฑ The plot was too complicated to follow.
subtitles ์ž๋ง‰ I watch English movies with Korean subtitles.
dubbing ๋”๋น™ The dubbing didn't match the actors' lips.
sequel ์†ํŽธ The sequel was even better than the original.
prequel ํ”„๋ฆฌํ€„ / ์ „ํŽธ The prequel explains how the hero grew up.
trailer ์˜ˆ๊ณ ํŽธ The trailer made me want to see the film.
cast ์ถœ์—ฐ์ง„ The movie has an amazing all-star cast.
director ๊ฐ๋… The director spent five years making this film.
screenplay ๊ฐ๋ณธ / ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค She wrote the screenplay for that award-winning film.
scene ์žฅ๋ฉด The opening scene was filmed in Busan.
soundtrack ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œํŠธ๋ž™ / ์˜ํ™” ์Œ์•… I listen to the soundtrack on my way home.
special effects ํŠน์ˆ˜ ํšจ๊ณผ The special effects made the dragons look real.
main character ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต The main character is a shy high school student.
villain ์•…๋‹น / ์•…์—ญ A good villain makes the story more exciting.
supporting role ์กฐ์—ฐ She won an award for her supporting role.
premiere ์‹œ์‚ฌํšŒ / ์ฒซ ๊ฐœ๋ด‰ Fans gathered outside the theater for the premiere.
review ํ‰๋ก  / ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ I always read reviews before choosing a movie.
critic ํ‰๋ก ๊ฐ€ / ๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€ Critics praised the film for its honest story.
rating ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ / ํ‰์  The movie has a rating of nine out of ten.
audience ๊ด€๊ฐ The audience clapped loudly at the ending.
film festival ์˜ํ™”์ œ Her short film was shown at a film festival.
cinematography ์ดฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ• / ์˜ํ™” ์ดฌ์˜์ˆ  The cinematography made every scene look like a painting.
spoiler ์Šคํฌ์ผ๋Ÿฌ No spoilers, please; I haven't seen it yet!
plot twist ๋ฐ˜์ „ The plot twist at the end shocked everyone.
ending ๊ฒฐ๋ง I didn't expect such a sad ending.
remake ๋ฆฌ๋ฉ”์ดํฌ / ์žฌ์ œ์ž‘ The remake is faithful to the 1980s original.
genre ์žฅ๋ฅด Horror is my favorite genre of film.
actor ๋ฐฐ์šฐ / ๋‚จ์ž ๋ฐฐ์šฐ The actor trained for months for the role.
actress ์—ฌ์ž ๋ฐฐ์šฐ The actress plays a brilliant young scientist.
screening ์ƒ์˜ The late-night screening starts at eleven thirty.
masterpiece ๊ฑธ์ž‘ / ๋ช…์ž‘ Many critics call the film a modern masterpiece.
flop ํฅํ–‰ ์‹คํŒจ์ž‘ Despite the huge budget, the movie was a flop.
based on a true story ์‹คํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ The film is based on a true story.