1. Film Genre 1. a class or category of artistic endeavour having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music. 2. Fine Arts; a. paintings in which scenes of everyday life form thesubject matter. b. realistic style of painting using such subject matter. 3. genus; kind; sort; style. – adjective 4. Fine Arts . of or pertaining to genre. 5. of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type.