What are the styles of movies?

An experimental film generally refers to a film whose shooting style and production method are different from or even opposite to mainstream business and documentaries, or which appears in a new audio-visual grammar or new genre.

In the early days, this kind of films were mainly shot on 16 mm film, and most of them had no traditional narrative plot, and their main performance styles were surrealism and abstraction. After the underground film movement spread to western Europe in the mid-1960s, people seldom used the term "experimental film" and replaced it with "underground film".

2. Surrealism movies

1920 a modern film movement that rose in France mainly arranged images in a strange and illogical way to show various states of the subconscious mind.

3. Indoor drama and movies

Indoor drama film is a kind of film that appeared in Germany in the 1920s, as opposed to expressionist film. "Indoor drama" was originally a term created by German drama director Max Reinhardt, which specifically refers to the stage plays of small theaters, and abides by the unity of time, place and action.

4. Street movies

St. Rett's film is a German film with street as its main action background, which appeared under the influence of indoor drama films. Siegfried Krakow coined this word in From Rigari to Hitler.

5. film noir shooting style

Film noir refers not to a genre, but to a special film style, which mainly belongs to detective films or crime films, and often pays attention to moral corruption. The beginning of film noir in East Asia is the classic film "Crazy Robbery" starring the famous movie star Angie Chiu in 1979. Generally speaking, film noir in the strict sense should be a black-and-white film produced by Hollywood, with the year of 1940-1958. Some people call a few European films or color films film noir. Movies with film noir style after 1960s are called New film noir.