This category is for information on anything about movies, the motion-picture medium, or the film industry, including actors, actresses, filmmakers, and individual films.
Before submitting any sites to the Arts/Movies category, please take the time to browse through the subcategories to make sure your site is included in a category appropriate for the content of your site.
Please submit only sites dealing with movies or the film industry in this category.
Sites that primarily offer items for sale should be listed in Shopping: Entertainment: Television and Movies. Sites that are not in English, should be listed in the appropriate language in World. Sites with explicit adult content, including advertisement or links, will not be accepted here and should be submitted to Adult.
Please read the category description here and in the subcategories for assistance with proper placement of sites.
Sites belonging to or profiling groups and organizations that recognize achievements in cinema. There are different types of awards: those voted on by professional critics and industry awards selected by professionals working in some branch of the film industry.
For festival awards, please see
Arts: Movies: Film Festivals. For awards that include cinema alongside other topics (such as music or television), please see
Arts: Awards.
Please submit only sites dealing with film awards and the presentation programs and ceremonies related to films, such as the Oscars, the Golden Globe Awards, and other events of that nature.
Sites dealing with awards given at film festivals should be submitted to
Arts: Movies: Film Festivals. Sites dealing with awards given to films alongside other topics (such as music or television) should be submitted to
Arts: Awards.
This category is not for people, movies, organizations, or websites which have won awards, but for the award ceremonies or presentations themselves. Please submit sites dealing with individual award recipients to the appropriate subject category for that person, film, website, or organization. If you are not sure where to find the appropriate subject category, please use the
ODP search function.
Sites not in English should be submitted to the appropriate language under
World.
This category contains sites about fictional characters featured in film, as well as links to ODP categories for pages about specific characters (e.g. Legolas portrayed by Orlando Bloom or Austin Powers portrayed by Mike Myers; upper and middle tiers) and links to ODP categories for series or films that feature popular characters (e.g. James Bond or Godzilla; lower tier).
Please submit only sites dealing with multiple characters appearing in film (not television).
Sites about individual characters from a film or series, or multiple characters from a single film or series, should be submitted to the appropriate
Arts: Movies: Titles subcategory for that film or series.
Sites primarily about actors and actresses who portray characters should be submitted to
Arts: Performing Arts: Acting: Actors and Actresses or
Arts: People.
Sites not in English should be submitted to the appropriate language under
World.
This category is for chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards, discussion groups, and message boards with interactive content related to specific titles, genres, cast/crew, cultures, periods of history, or a broad range of motion picture topics.
Sites must have significant existing content -- a minimum of several hundred postings -- to be listed here. Newly-launched new sites should not submit until they have considerable, valid, real on-topic contributions from numerous different people. Sites should focus on broad film themes, or specific titles, genres, history, cultural groups, or other film-specific topics.
This category is for sites devoted to movie related contests.
This category is for links and resources to filmmakers, films, and actors from a specific country, culture or ethnic group.
Sites listed here are resources that provide a comprehensive overview of movies and typically include information with searchability. Sites may also be deeplinks to multi-movie sites that offer a combination of three or more of the following elements: Pictures, plot summaries, cast and crew data, production details, articles, interviews, news, reviews, ratings, downloads, or links.
Please submit resource sites to this category which feature comprehensive information on movies, from old to unreleased. The content should be easily searchable and cross referenced so as to produce reports in numerous formats (for example, by genre or actor).
Please read the Category Description for further information.
See also the descriptions for the Guides and Directories categories.
This category is for movie directories, webrings, and other types of large organized link collections.
Please submit sites to this category which contain movie directories and other types of large organized link collections. The content is generally limited to cast lists and plot summaries, is usually not searchable, and the primary focus is on the presentation of links to other sites.
See also the descriptions for the Guides and Databases categories.
Sites offering film education resources.
This category contains sites about the filmmaking process itself, free resources, and help related to the art of filmmaking. It also contains informational websites about filmmakers, directors and other people involved in filmmaking.
This category is intended for sites which explore and document the art and craft of filmmaking and is not intended for commercial sites. For sites which advertise services related to commercial film, television and video production, please see
Business: Arts and Entertainment: Media Production.
Sites focusing on a specific movie title should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory category of Movies Titles.
Sites dealing with film festivals or the events in general, including narratives and critiques.
Submit sites that deal with a specific film festival to the appropriate alphabetic category. Descriptions for individual film festivals should not contain dates. Only submit to the general category if the site deals with multiple festivals.
This category is for sites that deal with classification or the examination of movies of a specific genre or genres. A 'genre' may be defined as a category characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
Please submit only sites dealing with movie genres in this category. Sites dealing with specific movies should be submitted to
Arts/Movies/Titles.
This category is for sites offering specific information on a large number of movies with the same theme or criteria.
Please submit only sites dealing with information on a large number of movies based on the same theme or specific criterion, such as films based on literary works, or the subject of spirituality in movies. Contents could include cast lists, reviews (on site or external links), plot summaries, ratings, and user comments.
See also the descriptions for the Directories and Databases categories.
Sites devoted to the history of the movies.
Please submit only sites dealing with the history of movies or the film industry. This category is not for sites about period movies. Those should be submitted to
Historical Genres.
This category is for sites devoted to home video movies - these include films available on VHS tapes, VCD, Laserdisc or any other mainstream home video media. Sites about DVD home video can be found in the DVD subcategory.
This is not a shopping category, but online catalogs of titles for sale will be listed provided that no online ordering is available.
Shopping sites will NEVER be listed in this category. Please read below.
Submitting to the wrong category will delay your listing in the ODP.
If a site''s main content is online shopping for home video, submit it to Shopping: Entertainment: Recordings: Video.
Please review the category description before you submit sites. Please do not submit sites under construction.
Informational sites devoted to movie memorabilia.
Sites offering movie-focused multimedia resources.
Please submit only movie multimedia resource sites to this category. Multimedia may be defined as using or encompassing several media forms, such as audio, video, text, or images.
Sites offering multimedia not limited to movies, should be submitted to the appropriate category under Computers: Multimedia.
This category is for movie news services, newspapers, books, magazines and e-zines, articles, interviews, and journals. Please view the subcategories to assist you in correct placement of sites that deal with only one of those specific topics. It is NOT for news or media on the people associated with films (i.e., actors and actresses), just for the movies or the movie industry.
Please submit only sites dealing with movie news and media. Sites that deal with news and information on one specific movie, should be submitted to the appropriate letter or subcategory under
Arts: Movies: Titles.
Please read the Category Description for further information.
Information on associations, collectives or groups whose primary purpose is to advocate, support, disseminate information on, or in some way further the art of filmmaking and movies.
Submissions must be for nonprofit movie / film organizations whose goal is to advocate, support or disseminate information on the art of filmmaking and movies.
Commercial filmmakers should submit to Media Production.
Amateur filmmakers should submit to Amateur Production Companies.
This category is for personal pages covering a collection of movies.
This category is for personal pages about movies, not about you or your career.
Submit fan sites devoted to one movie to the appropriate subcategory of Arts: Movies: Titles.
Sites devoted to movie quotations.
A review is a critical examination of a film, with remarks. Reviews can focus on a variety of angles. Reviews are different from theoretical criticisms, because reviews are the result of the critic's subjective opinion rather than objective evaluation. This category is for sites dedicated to reviewing modern feature films, including Hollywood blockbusters and independent features.
For objective evaluations of films based on their merits in modern film theory, see
Movie Theory and Criticism.
Please submit only sites that deal with movie reviews. Individual film reviews should be submitted in their relevant subcategories in
Movie Titles. Please do not submit sites that are under construcion.
Comprehensive databases that offer showtimes nationally or worldwide.
Regional/local showtime sites should be categorized under the appropriate city/region in the
Regional branch.
Inappropriately submitting a local site here will significantly delay its listing.
Sites offering information, resources, and reviews on movie soundtracks.
This category is for sites with details on at least one feature film already produced, in production or at the planning stage for a specific major studio. The focus of the category is on the films and not on the business activities of the studio.
This category is for sites about the movies of a particular studio, not the business background of the studio. Business sites should be submitted to the categories linked below.
Submitting your site to the wrong category will delay its review.
Sites devoted to various aspects of movie theaters themselves.
Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to film and video. Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address issues of techniques, narrativity, diegesis, cinematic codes, "the image", genre, subjectivity, and authorship. More recent analysis has given rise to psychoanalytic film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory, and theories of documentary, new media, third cinema, and new queer cinema, to name just a few.
Film criticism is, on some level, encapsulated within this rubric, and includes questions about how and why film works, and what effects it has on viewing subjects. These techniques can be applied to individual films, but it is usually aligned with theoretical concepts of the medium.
Notice how this is distinct from film review (or film commentary), which is usually written for a general audience and is generally not theoretical.
This category is only for sites that deal with some aspect of
film theory or
film criticism.
Sites offering reviews or commentary on films should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Reviews.
This category is for individual film titles. No sites are listed in this category; they are all listed in subcategories.
If you can't find a movie you're interested in, try searching the directory for the title, looking through some of the sites listed in
Arts: Movies: Databases for more information about the title, or submitting a site about the movie to the appropriate alpha or numeral subcategory.
To avoid delay in listing, please review
the ODP Submission Guidelines prior to submitting your site.
Please submit only sites
in English relating to feature films in wide theatrical or video release, available in English (soundtrack or subtitles).
If a category already exists for the movie your site is about, please submit it to that specific category. Otherwise, please submit it to the appropriate letter or numeral category of the alphabet bar in accordance with these examples:
- A site for a film called Slithy Toves should go to Arts/Movies/Titles/S
- A site for a film called The Manxome Foe should go to Arts/Movies/Titles/M
- A site for a film called A Frabjous Day should go to Arts/Movies/Titles/F
Interesting and funny facts pertaining to movies.
Please submit only sites dealing with movie trivia in this category.
Sites dealing with trivia from one specific movie, should be submitted to the appropriate letter subcategory under Arts: Movies: Titles.