Having a film be a drama is cool and all. Comedies are good for a laugh. An action movie is a reliable choice if you're in the mood for excitement. Horror is scary. Sometimes, being just one of those things isn't enough, though. Sometimes, it's great to experience a movie that defiantly throws its hands in the air and refuses to conform to just one or two genres.

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In celebration of the excellent, acclaimed Everything Everywhere All At Once, it's as good a time as any to look at 10 films that really embrace this lack of conformity. Each takes a unique blend of genres and throws them all together to make something compelling, balanced, and very entertaining, laughing in the face of the kinds of movies that are content to limit themselves genre-wise.

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a perfect title for this action-adventure-comedy-family drama-fantasy-sci-fi hybrid with a wild and imaginative plot about different versions of people from various multiverses coming again to stop a threat that could destroy all of them, and all their worlds.

The less said about the plot the better, as it's best experienced by knowing as little as possible going in. It's truly inspiring how many genres and emotions this instant classic balances, being funny when it wants to be, exciting and fun during its action scenes, and even emotional and moving at certain points within all the craziness.

Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)

Gangs Of Wasseypur

Gangs of Wasseypur is an incredible five-hour-long gangster epic, telling a huge, decades-spanning story over two 2.5-hour long parts. It's a complex tale about the rise and fall of a family's crime empire in India, starting in the 1940s and going all the way to the start of the 21st century.

Without exaggerating, Anurag Kashyap's epic is genuinely on the same level as other big, ambitious, classic gangster epics like The Godfather Parts I & II, Once Upon a Time in America, Goodfellas, and Scarface. It takes influence from those films, but has enough style and flair to still feel completely like its own thing. Over its formidable runtime, it's packed with suspense, action, dark comedy, family drama, and tragedy. The runtime shouldn't be a deterrent either: the five hours fly by, thanks to the relentless pacing and unpredictable story that never lets up.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Miles Moralis Swings Through New York

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is arguably the best Spider-Man movie to date (well, it's this or Spider-Man 2 from 2004, which is still one of the best sequels ever made). Into the Spider-Verse utilizes its animation to tell a wild and imaginative story with the kinds of visuals that would be hard or impossible to pull off in live-action.

It serves as an exciting and action-packed superhero movie, contains strong science-fiction/fantasy elements thanks to its use of multiverses and multiple Spider-Men, isn't afraid to poke fun at and satirize previous Spider-Man films, and also has a huge amount of heart and compelling character drama. It also happens to utilize the vocal talents of Nicolas Cage, and there is a spider-pig named Spider-Ham (John Mulaney). It's one of the very best comic book movies to date, really.

Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)

Phantom of the Paradise

Just how eclectic is this early film from legendary director Brian De Palma? According to IMDb, it's a comedy-drama-fantasy-horror-romance-thriller-musical, and watching it reveals a film that's weird, funny, disturbing, and quite sad, too.

De Palma, throughout his career, showed he could pull off numerous movie genres, but with Phantom of the Paradise, he did a whole bunch of them in just one film. The crazy ride this film provides might not be for everyone, but for those who like genre cocktails, it doesn't get much more explosive than this.

Snowpiercer (2013)

Chris Evans in Snowpiercer

Bong Joon-ho is no stranger to combining genres in fantastic and inventive ways. His Best Picture winner, Parasite, was itself a darkly comedic drama/thriller with satirical and tragic elements.

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Snowpiercer is similarly wide-reaching in its genres, but adds action scenes and science-fiction plot elements to the list, too. The mixing of genres is one thing that makes Bong Joon-ho's films so compelling and unpredictable, and that's exactly what you want from an allegorical social critique that features Chris Evans leading a revolution on a train that stands as an out-there yet insightful metaphor for the world we live in.

Electric Dreams (1984)

Electric Dreams

Electric Dreams has the kind of premise that'll probably turn most people off straight away, but here goes... it's about a guy who's in love with his neighbor, but so is his sentient personal computer, and so um, yeah... it's about a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a computer.

Blending drama, romance, comedy, sci-fi, and a whole heap of great 1980s music with its beyond quirky premise, it's weird that Electric Dreams works at all. But there's nothing else like it, and it captures that whole irresistible 80s tone/aesthetic perfectly, becoming unintentionally nostalgic and bittersweet in the process. And overall, it's hard to think of many sci-fi romantic comedies that are better (or many sci-fi romantic comedies at all, really).

Tropic Thunder (2008)

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Admittedly, there are many genres Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder doesn't dip its toes into, but its own particular mix of genres does stand as unique. In following a disastrous film shoot of the most expensive war movie of all time, it ends up being a comedy, action movie, a satire about filmmaking/the film industry, adventure film, and even becomes its own war movie when the characters find themselves in a real143 -life conflict.

Adding to this are all the fake trailers at the start, shown for a wide range of different movies, which you could argue display a few more different genres, even if only for a moment or two. It's certainly wilder and more ambitious overall than the average 2000s comedy.

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Godzilla_ Final Wars

The Godzilla franchise as a whole is incredibly diverse. There are science-fiction-heavy films in there, others that are more fantastical, some that are goofy, family-friendly fun, and others that are dark, sad, and scary.

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How then would the filmmakers behind Godzilla's 50th-anniversary film encapsulate such a wild series? Maybe by combining every genre and throwing almost all the monsters from the series into one crazy movie, AND making the human storyline itself a riff on The Matrix + Star Wars. On top of that? The unpopular American Godzilla (nicknamed "Zilla") from the infamous 1998 film even makes an appearance, only to be hilariously destroyed by the "true" Japanese Godzilla in an incredibly iconic scene.

The Court Jester (1955)

The Court Jester

The Court Jester is a thoroughly entertaining medieval-comedy-musical-adventure-romance film that stands as something of a cult classic, but probably deserves to be regarded as a full-blown classic. It truly is one of the most fun movies from the 1950s, and thanks to its eclectic mix of genres, along with an iconic Danny Kaye, it holds up well.

A great deal of the humor is very silly, but it's the kind of humor that's proven to stay funny as the decades have gone on, and so it's quite timeless in that way. Maybe the silly tone and relentlessly fast wordplay and slapstick comedy wouldn't be for everyone, but it's hard to deny that the uniqueness of The Court Jester makes it very entertaining.

Time After Time (1979)

Time After Time

Time After Time makes one of the most outrageous premises in mainstream film history work beautifully. It involves HG Wells (yes, the author) traveling through time to catch Jack The Ripper (yes, the serial killer) and stop him from committing murders in 1970s New York City, after the latter steals the former's (working!) time machine.

It's a science-fiction-comedy-thriller-crime-adventure-romance movie, and by the end, maybe viewers will get the feeling it's bitten off a tiny bit more than it can chew. But that so much of it works at all is a writing/filmmaking miracle, and it helps that Malcolm McDowell gives one of his best-ever performances here, as Wells.

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