A crime film is a cinematic genre inspired by and comparable to the crime fiction literary genre. The majority of films in this category deal with various elements of crime and its investigation. The genre is split into numerous sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense, and noir, and may overlap and blend with many other genres, such as drama or gangster cinema. It also includes humour, and is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense, or noir. In his screenwriters' taxonomy, screenwriter and researcher Eric R. Williams named crime film as one of eleven super-genres, suggesting that these super-genres may be used to categorise all feature-length narrative films. Action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war, and western are the other eleven super-genres. Drama is classified as a "film type," mystery and suspense as "macro-genres," and film noir as a "screenwrit...