Conservative values are movie staple.

• Position: Entertainment - Brief article

Moviegoers still prefer films with strong conservative content or values over those with liberal or leftist values, by about a four-to-one margin, according to an annual survey taken by Movieguide.

Motion pictures with strong pro-American, patriotic, capitalist, antisocialist, anti-Communist, and antistatist content and values make much more money per film than those with strong anti-American, anti-patriotic, welfare statist, Marxist, secular, atheist, leftist, radical feminist, and/or very strong perverse content or values reflecting an anti-human view.

In fact, movies with conservative values and content made almost four times as much money in 2013 as those with liberal, leftist, or statist values and content, averaging $90,680,000 per film versus $23,940,000 per leftist picture.

"Movies with more conservative values not only do better in the U.S., they do better overseas," points out Ted Baehr, founder of Movieguide. For example, 60% of the top 10 movies overseas in 2013 had strong conservative values, but none of them...