film

C684
concept

A film is a recorded sequence of moving images, often combined with sound, created to tell stories, document events, or convey artistic expression for viewing by an audience.

All labels observed (200)

Label Occurrences
film canonical 19,409
American film 2,054
drama film 1,507

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: film
Generated description
A film is a recorded sequence of moving images, often combined with sound, created to tell stories, document events, or convey artistic expression for viewing by an audience.

Instances (23,376)

Instance Via concept surface
Dirty Pretty Things (2002 film)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002 film)
surface form: He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
Delicacy (2011 film)
Mood Indigo (2013 film)
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012 film)
Jaime de Hoyos
surface form: El Mariachi
Marley Shelton
surface form: Planet Terror
Jimmy Lindsey
surface form: Machete
YaYa Gosselin
surface form: We Can Be Heroes
Sabara
surface form: Spy Kids
World's Greatest Dad
John Carter
The Water Babies
surface form: The Water Babies (1978 film)
The Chain
Beckett on Film: Not I short film
Beckett on Film: Play
The Judge
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Fernando Trueba
surface form: Belle Époque
Little Fockers
Insurgent
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965 film)
Davis Boulton
surface form: The Haunting
Argyle Enterprises
surface form: The Haunting (1963 film)
horror film
Afterlife television film
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
A Walton Wedding television film
A Walton Easter television film
The Christmas Box television film
William Edmund Barrett
surface form: Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
Cynthia Ludwig
surface form: My Bloody Valentine 3D
Ruby Gentry
Michael Elias
surface form: The Jerk
Neal Jimenez
surface form: River's Edge
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear
surface form: Ran
Indignation
surface form: Indignation (film)
1952 film Limelight
surface form: Limelight (1952 film)
Chelsea Girls
Empire
surface form: Empire (film)
experimental film
Sleep
surface form: Sleep (1963 film)
experimental film
Shrek the Halls television film
Penrod and Sam (1937 film)
Penrod’s Double Trouble (1938 film)
Vantage Point
Belfort
surface form: The Wolf of Wall Street (film)
Jens Schlosser
surface form: The Salvation
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
surface form: Pork Chop Hill
war film
Frank Gross
surface form: All That Heaven Allows
Stuart Fenegan
surface form: Warcraft
fantasy film
Marion Nelson
surface form: Tracks