Drama films are films that mostly deal with real life things that happen to people. such themes are problems with drugs and alcohol, family members dieing, rape and murder, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption. these films sometimes are based through the eyes of a family and the struggles they go though. drama films gives us a fly on the wall look into people lives. we see how they act when things go wrong and when things go right. we see them happy, we see them sad, and we see them when they hit rock bottom.we get to relate with these character and see things about our lives that we have never seen before. in fact we even learn and realize things about ourselves that we did not notice before either. film makers can really use the drama film as an outlet to express ideas and feelings they have about society. they can show it in a way where a family is going through something familiar to the audience. there are many sub genres are crime drama, legal drama, historical drama, war drama, docudrama, comedy-drama, melodrama,romance, and tragedy. crime drama is based on themes involving law and crime and how the legal system deals with it all. historical drama usually has to do with war and drama from the past. Docudrama is similar to a mocumentary in the way that it is filmed like a documentary but uses trained actors. Comedy drama is when there is a nearly equal balance of drama and comedy. Melodrama's are types of drama films that use "heightened emotions" in their films. Romance dramas are dramatic films that have a lot of romantic love themes in them. tragedy dramas are dramas in " character's downfall is caused by a flaw in their character or by a major error in judgment."
