Certain factors are considered while using these instructional movies, such as the learners’ level of proficiency, the topics that are covered during the related sessions and sometimes the learners’ background knowledge. Previous research has focused on the relation of students’ interest in selecting listening materials and reported positive results regarding motivation enhancement; movies catch the learners’ interest and it can positively affect their motivation to learn (Kusumarasdyati, 2004; Luo, 2004). What seems to be missing here is the students’ interest in relation to movies in particular. In other words, it seems that their favourite genre is not taken into account.In case considering learners’ interest leads to better performance and higher motivation, as proven by previous research, there is a possibility that such positive relation exists between learners’ interest and movie genre in particular. However, some predicted obstacles might reduce the desired outcome. The present work focuses on one of these major complications, i.e. Culture.