“Drama” has the highest value (410) and “News” the lowest (0).

Popularity of film genres on IMDb in 2019
Film genre	Number of ratings given (millions)
Drama	410
Action	268
Comedy	246
Adventure	222
Crime	151
Thriller	140
Sci-Fi	107
Romance	105
Fantasy	79.5
Mystery	78.5
Horror	72.6
Biography	51.8
Animation	47.2
Family	40.8
History	24.1
War	17.5
Music	15.2
Sport	13.8
Western	8
Musical	7.9
Film-Noir	2.8
Adult	0
Documentary	0
Reality-TV	0
News	0

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is global, collected by Namafar for comparison with Iran.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: Namafar
Year: 1399 (2020/21)
Industry: Film and TV series
Published: Oct 21, 2020

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