Movies are a type of mass media that is nowadays largely present in people's everyday life, and their influence on the individual is manifested both in attitudes and behavior, as well as in the beliefs and desires of the individual and the society as a whole (Galić, 2016). Although this influence of movies on the individual has been recognized, research that dealt with the relationship between personality traits and preferences was concentrated more on music preferences than movies, while research that deals with movie preferences and depressive symptoms is rare despite the exspressed problem of higher prevelence of depressive symptoms and depression in modern times. Given the above, the aim of this research was to examine the relationship between movie preference, extraversion and levels of depression. The survey was conducted online, with the participation of 122 adults, of which 35 were men, 84 were women, two participants chose the option other and one participan indicated that they preferred not to specify their gender. The average age of participants is 24.53 years. The participants first gave estimates of preferences for watching movie genres and the frequency of watching movie genres (comedy, romantic, action, science fiction, adventure, horror, thriller, drama and tragedy) after which they filled out the extraversion subscale from the Croatian translation of 50 lexical big five factor labels for self-assessment (IPIP 50) and the depression subscale - Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS). The analyses revealed a statistically significant correlation between depressive symptoms and the preference for the comedy genre. That is, the higher the level of depressive symptoms in an individual, the lower the preference for the comedy genre. No statistically significant correlation was found between depression and preference for other film genres, nor between the level of extraversion and any of the film genres.