Primary Genres

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Find Scripts & Screenplays by Genre

Key genres, subgenres, and mood & tone.

If you’re looking to find scripts and screenplays by genre, we can help you track down exactly what you want.

Movie genres are labels that group films by shared storytelling patterns or stylistic choices. A film’s primary genre often hints at what you’ll get, from character types and settings to plot beats and overall tone.

Action, for instance, tends to lean on high-energy set pieces like fights, chases, and dramatic slow-motion shots. Horror is built to provoke tension, often using jump scares and a faster, more visceral pace than dialogue-heavy scenes.

How We “Code” Genres

Netflix uses numeric category IDs. We built a script-friendly version of that idea.

Fans sometimes call them “Netflix secret codes,” but they’re basically internal category IDs that map titles into genres and subgenres. If you plug a code into the URL (netflix.com/browse/genre/CODE), you’ll land on that category page.

We use a similar system on 8FLiX to organize scripts by key genre, subgenre, and even mood/tone.

For example, our Action shelf lives here: https://8flix.com/browse/genre/1/100107.

Keep an eye on the 8FLiX URL when you browse, because we have about 140 unique codes that also cover subgenres, mood, and tone.

The Primary 13

Find scripts & screenplays: here are 13 key genres.

There’s So Much More

How about subgenres? Or mood & tone?

‘Rom-com,’ or ‘romantic comedy,’ is a classic example of a subgenre. ‘Mockumentary’ and ‘parody’ are two other subgenres branching off from the parent genre, ‘comedy.’ Explore our subgenre archive to find individual links to some of the most popular.