Lists of film topics
This is a list of film-related topics.
National and regional cinemas
- African Cinema
- Cinema of Albania
- Cinema of Argentina
- Cinema of Australia
- Cinema of Brazil
- Cinema of Canada
- Cinema of Chile
- Cinema of China
- See also: Cinema of Hong Kong and Cinema of Taiwan
- Cinema of Colombia
- Cinema of Cuba
- Cinema of the Czech Republic
- Cinema of Czechoslovakia
- Cinema of Finland
- Cinema of France
- Cinema of Germany
- Cinema of Hong Kong
- Cinema of Hungary
- Cinema of India
- Cinema of Indonesia
- Cinema of Iran
- Cinema of Italy
- Cinema of Japan
- Cinema of Korea
- Cinema of Luxembourg
- Cinema of Mexico
- Cinema of Nepal
- Cinema of the Netherlands
- Cinema of New Zealand
- Cinema of Poland
- Cinema of Quebec
- Cinema of Russia and Soviet Union
- Cinema of Slovakia
- Cinema of Singapore
- Cinema of South Africa
- Cinema of Spain
- Cinema of Sweden
- Cinema of Taiwan
- Cinema of Turkey
- Cinema of Yugoslavia
- Cinema of the United Kingdom
- Cinema of the United States
Film-related topics (Alphabetical list)
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
#
1.85:1 ratio -- 2.35:1 ratio -- 3-D film -- 4-point lighting setup -- 16 mm film -- 35 mm film -- 70mm -- 76th Academy Awards -- 180 degree rule --
A
A and B editing -- A roll -- Abberation in optical settings -- Above-the-line -- Academy Award for Technical Achievement -- Academy Awards -- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- Accelerated montage -- Achromatic doublet -- Acousmatic -- Acting -- Actinic light -- Action axis -- Actor -- Actress -- Actuality film -- Adobe Premiere-- Aerial image -- Aerial shot -- Aliasing -- Alliance Atlantis -- Alternate-frame sequencing -- Ambient light -- American Cinema Editors -- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists -- American Film Institute -- American Indian Film Festival -- American National Standards Institute -- American Society of Cinematographers -- American shot -- Anamorphic -- Angle of view -- Angle plus angle -- Angular resolution -- Animation -- Animation camera -- Animator -- Anime -- Answer print -- Anti-aliasing filter -- Apparatus theory -- Aperture -- Arc lamp -- Arriflex -- Art department -- Art director -- Art film -- Art house film -- Artificial light -- ASA -- ASA speed rating -- Aspect ratio (image) -- Assistant director -- Audio engineering -- Audition -- Auteur theory -- Autofocus -- Automatic dialogue replacement -- Available light -- Avid Technology-- Axial cut
B
B roll -- Back light -- Backlot -- Background lighting -- Balloon light -- Barn doors (lighting) -- B-movie -- Below-the-line -- Best boy -- Beta movement -- Billing -- Bird's eye shot -- Black-and-white -- Blaxploitation -- Bleach bypass -- Blocking -- Bluescreen -- Body double -- Body makeup artist -- Bollywood -- Boom operator -- Boom shot -- Boomerang (lighting) -- Bounce board -- Brightness (lighting) -- British Academy of Film and Television Arts -- British Board of Film Classification -- British Independent Film Awards -- British Film Institute -- Broadside (lighting) -- Bronson Canyon -- Butterfly (lighting)
C
Cahiers du cinéma -- Callier effect -- Cameo lighting -- Cameo role -- Cameo shot -- Camera angle -- Camera assistant -- Camera boom -- Camera crane -- Camera crew -- Camera Dolly -- Camera operator -- Camera shot -- Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood -- Candles per square foot -- Cannes Film Festival -- Casting Agent -- Casting -- Casting couch -- Catering -- Century stand -- César Award -- CGI -- Character animation -- Chiaroscuro -- Choker shot -- Chroma key -- Chromatic aberration -- Chronophotography -- Cinelerra-- Cinema -- Cinema 16 -- CineMagic -- Cinemascope -- Cinematic genre -- Cinematographer -- Cinematography -- Cinema vérité -- Cineon -- Cinerama -- Circle of confusion -- Circle-Vision 360 -- Clapperboard -- Clapper loader -- Clock wipe -- Close shot -- Close-up -- Closed captioning -- Closing credits -- Color conversion filter -- Color corrected fluorescent light -- Color correction -- Color gel -- Color grading -- Color rendering index -- Color timer -- Colour-separation overlay -- Compositing -- Composition -- Computer-generated imagery -- Continuity -- Continuity editing -- Continuity clerk -- Cooke Triplet lens -- Costume design -- Costume designer -- Costume supervisor -- Costumer -- Craft service -- Crane shot -- Crashbox -- Creative Artists Agency -- Creative geography -- Cross cutting -- Cross lighting -- Cult film -- Cutaway -- Cut in-- Cut out -- Cutting on action
D
D-20 (Arri) -- Daily Edtior Log -- Daily rushes -- Dance film -- Day for night -- Deadspot (lighting) -- Deep focus -- Depth of field -- Diagetic sound -- Dialogue editor -- Dichroic lenses -- Diffraction -- Diffuser (lighting) -- Digital audio -- Digital audio tape recorder -- Digital audio workstation -- Digital cinema -- Digital cinematography -- Digital compositing -- Digital film -- Digital grading -- Digital image processing -- Digital intermediate -- Digital negative -- Digital projection -- Digital Theatre System -- Digital video -- Digital Visual Interface -- Digital zoom -- Dimmer (lighting) -- Direct broadcast satellite-- Director (film) -- Director's cut -- Directors Guild of America -- Disney, Walt -- Dissolve (film) -- DLP -- DMX (lighting) -- Docudrama -- Documentary film -- Dolby Digital -- Dolly grip -- Dolly shot -- Dolly zoom -- Double-system recording -- Douser (lighting) -- DPX file format -- Drawn on film animation -- Drug movies -- Dubbing -- Dutch camera angle -- DV -- DVD -- Dynamic composition
E
Edit decision list -- Effects light -- Ellipsoidal reflector spot light -- Entertainment law -- Eroticism in film -- Establishing shot -- Executive producer (motion picture) -- Experimental filmmaker -- Exposure latitude -- Expressionism (film) -- Extreme close-up shot -- Extreme long shot -- Eye-level camera angle -- Eyepiece --
F
Fade-in -- Fade-out -- Fast cutting -- Fast motion -- Feminist film theory -- Field of view -- Fill light -- Film -- Film Academy -- Film colorization -- Film crew -- Film critics -- Film criticism -- Film director -- Film editing -- Film editor -- Film festival -- Film format -- Film gate -- Film institutes -- Filmmaking -- Film modification -- Film noir -- Film plane -- Film preservation -- Film production -- Film rating systems -- Film recorder -- Film restoration -- Film scanner -- Film school -- Film score -- Film speed -- Film stock -- Film styles -- Film technique -- Film theory -- Film treatment -- Filming production roles -- Filter (photography) -- Final Cut Pro -- Fine cut -- First National -- Fisheye lens -- Flatbed editor -- Flicker fusion threshold -- F-number -- Focal length -- Focus (optics) -- Focus puller -- Foley artist -- Follow focus -- Follow shot -- Followspot light -- Forced perspective -- Formalist film theory -- Fourth wall -- Frame -- Frame composition -- Frame rate -- Frazier lens -- Freeze frame shot -- Fresnel lens -- F-stop -- Full frame -- Full shot
G
Gaffer -- Genie Award -- Genre film theory -- Genres -- German Expressionism -- Gobo (lighting) -- Go motion -- Godspot effect -- Golden Globe Awards -- Greatest films -- Greenlight -- Grip --
H
Hairy arm -- Hard light -- Head-on shot -- Heart wipe -- High-angle shot -- High camera angle -- High-intensity discharge lamp -- High-key lighting -- History of cinema -- Hollywood -- Hollywood North -- Home video -- Horror film -- Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide lamp -- Hyperfocal distance --
I
IATSE -- IMAX -- In-camera effects -- Independent film -- Insert -- Intellectual montage -- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the U.S. and Canada -- Interlace -- Intermittent mechanism -- Internet Movie Database -- Interruptible foldback -- Intertitle -- Iris-in/ Iris-out -- Italian Neorealism --
J
Jaggies -- Jib arm -- Jump cut -- Juxtaposition (editing) --
K
Key costumer -- Key grip -- Key light -- Keying (graphics) -- Keykode -- Kinetoscope -- Kino-Pravda -- Klieg light -- Kodak Theatre -- Kuleshov Effect --
L
Florence Lawrence -- L cut (split edit) -- LCD shutter glasses -- Lead space -- Lekolite -- Lens -- Lens flare -- Lens hood -- Letterbox -- Light meter -- Light reflector -- Light technician -- Lighting -- Lighting control console -- Lighting design -- Lightworks -- Limato, Ed -- Line producer -- Linear filter -- Linear video editing -- Location -- Long shot -- Long take -- Low camera angle -- Low-key lighting -- Luminaire
M
Machinima -- Magic lantern -- Makeup artist -- Makeup call -- Marxist film theory -- Master shot -- Match cut -- Match moving -- Matrix wipe -- Matte -- Maya -- Medieval film -- Medium shot -- Medium-long shot -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- Microphone -- Microphone boom -- Mid shot -- Mise en scene -- Mixing console -- Mockumentary -- Montage -- Mood lighting -- Motion blur -- Motion capture -- Motion picture -- Motion Picture Association of America -- Motion picture camera -- Motion picture continuity -- Motion picture distribution -- Motion picture editing -- Motion picture lighting -- Motion picture terminology -- Movie projector -- Movie star -- Movie studio -- Movie theater -- Moving light -- Moviola -- MPAA film rating system -- Multicamera setup -- Multiplane camera -- Music editor -- Music supervisor -- Musical film
N
Narrative film -- Narrativity -- National Association of Theatre Owners -- National Film Board of Canada -- National Film Preservation Board -- National Film Registry -- National Museum of Photography, Film and Television -- Negative cutting -- Neo-noir -- Neorealism -- New Queer Cinema -- Newsreel -- Nickelodeon movie theater -- Night for day -- Night for night -- Nitrocellulose -- Noise reduction -- Non-linear editing -- Normal lens --
O
Oblique camera angle -- OpenEXR -- Opening credits -- Optical composition -- Optical effects -- Optical printer -- Optical zoom -- Outtake -- Overlap -- Ovitz, Michael --
P
Pan and scan -- Pan shot -- Panavision -- PAR light -- Paramount Pictures -- Persistence of vision -- Perspective distortion -- Phi phenomenon -- Photographic film -- Photographic lens -- Photometry -- Pinnacle Liquid Edition -- Pinscreen animation -- Pixilation -- Plot development (motion picture) -- Point of view shot -- Pool hall lighting -- Pornographic movie -- Post-production -- PowerAnimator -- Practical effects -- Practical lighting -- Praxinoscope -- Premium Picture Productions -- Pre-production -- Principal photography -- Producer -- Producers Guild of America -- Production assistant -- Production Code -- Production design (motion picture) -- Production designer -- Production sound mixer -- Progressive scan -- Propaganda film -- Prop -- Property master -- Psychoanalytical film theory -- Publicist
R
Rack focus -- Raster image -- Reaction shot -- Recording mixer -- Reflected light -- Refractive index -- Reframing -- Remake -- Rembrandt lighting -- Re-recording mixer -- Retrofocus -- Reversal film -- Reverse-angle shot -- RGB color model -- Rostrum camera -- Rotary disc shutter -- Rotoscoping -- Rough cut -- Rule of thirds -- Rushes -- Rushes log
S
Scene axis -- Scene lighting -- Scoop (lighting) -- Screen Actors Guild -- Screen direction -- Screen test -- Screenplay -- Screenwriter -- Screenwriting -- Screenwriting credit -- Screwball comedy film -- Scrim (lighting) -- Script -- Script breakdown -- Script Supervisor -- Second unit -- Sellmeier equation -- Sequence (film) -- Sequence shot -- Serial -- Set construction -- Set costumer -- Shallow focus -- Shaw Brothers Studio -- Shooting ratio -- Shooting script -- Short film -- Shot (film) -- Shot reverse shot -- Shutter angle -- Shutter speed -- Silent film -- Single camera setup -- Skywalker Sound -- Slit-scan -- Slow cutting -- Slow motion -- SMPTE -- SMPTE time code -- Snoot (lighting) -- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers -- Soft light -- Sound designer -- Sound dissolve -- Sound editor -- Sound effects -- Sound effects editor -- Sound engineer -- Sound mix -- Sound recording -- Sound stage -- Soundtrack -- Soviet movies of the year by ticket sales -- Special effects -- Specular light -- Split screen -- Spotlight (lighting) -- Spydercam -- Stage lighting -- Star wipe -- Stereoscopy -- Stock footage -- Stop motion -- Stop trick -- Strobing effect-- Structuralist film theory -- Stunt work -- Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures -- Subjective camera angle - Subtitle -- Sungun lamp -- Superimpose -- Surround sound -- Suspension of disbelief -- Sync-coding -- Synchronizer -- Sync sound --
T
Talkies -- Talking head -- Technicolor -- Telecine -- Teleconverter -- Television movie -- Tessar formula -- Test screening -- Three-point lighting -- Tight shot -- Tilt -- Time-lapse -- Title sequence -- Top grossing movie -- Top-grossing movies in the United States -- Toronto International Film Festival -- Tracking shot -- Trailer -- Transition focus -- Transitional effect -- Treatment -- Trilogy -- Trucking shot -- Tungsten fresnel light -- Tungsten open face light -- Two-shot --
U
Undercranking -- Universal film leader -- Utilitarian lighting --
V
Valenti, Jack -- Venice Film Festival -- Video -- Video assist -- Viewfinder -- Vignetting -- VistaVision -- Visual effects -- Voice actor
W
Walla -- Walt Disney Company, The -- Wardrobe attendant -- Wardrobe design -- Wardrobe designer -- Wide-angle lens -- Widescreen -- Wipe -- Wire removal -- Wireless microphone -- Work print -- Writers Guild of America --
X
Xenon gas discharge arc lamp -- X-rated --
Z
Zeiss formula -- Zeiss Tessar lens -- Zen filmmaking -- Zoetrope -- Zoom lens -- Zoopraxiscope --
Lists
Film genres and plots
- List of character-based movie franchises
- List of cinematic genres
- List of famous disaster films
- List of fantasy films
- List of films noir
- List of gay-related movies
- List of horror films
- List of Mafia movies
- List of movies with plot twists
- List of films about possessed or sentient inanimate objects
- List of punk movies
- List of racism-related movies
- List of science fiction films
Cast and crew
- List of actors
- List of actresses
- List of actors who played Marines in movies
- List of actors who have played lesbians, bisexuals and gay men
- List of athletes in movies
- List of directors
- List of show business families
- List of soundtrack composers
Companies
- List of Hollywood agencies and management companies
- List of Hollywood movie studios
- List of Motion Picture Production Companies
- List of Motion Picture Production Units
- List of Motion Picture Production Studios
- List of Motion Picture Importers
- List of Motion Picture Releasing Agents
- List of Motion Picture Distributors
- List of Motion Picture Exporters (aka "World Distributors")
- List of Motion Picture Company Parent Companies
- List of Motion Picture post-production services companies
- List of Motion Picture production equipment manufacturers and suppliers
Film details
Film success
- Films that have been considered the greatest ever
- List of highest-grossing films
- List of movies that were financial failures
- List of movies that have won eight or more Academy Awards
- List of movies that have been considered the worst ever
Awards and festivals
Film links
- List of movie trilogies
- List of movie series
- List of movies made into TV shows
- List of Movies with TV Shows and Other Movies In Them
- List of airlines appearing in movies
Geography
- List of Albanian films
- List of British films
- List of movies set in Hong Kong
- List of movies set in Los Angeles
- List of movies set in New York City
- List of movies set in Puerto Rico
Other
- List of movies with sing-along scenes
- List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
- List of 'years in film'
- List of Stephen King films
- List of films by gory death scene
- Lists of movie source material
- List of films using the Wilhelm scream
- List of films by crash scene