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FORTUNE.COM // JULY 2019


AS MUCH AS MANY OF US LOVE to bash Hollywood, moviemakers do tell us something about
our collective psyche—if not with their specific films, then with the types of movies they
keep putting into production. That’s what Fortune discovered when we broke down each
year’s crop of films by genre, as defined by IMDb. The lonesome, yearning Westerns of the
1920s gave way to musicals and war sagas in the ’40s, film noir in the ’50s, skin flicks in
the ’80s, and high-power action movies in the ’90s. So what does Tinseltown’s output say
about us now? Both thrillers and horror flicks reached their production peak during the
past two years. Something out there, it seems, has got us running scared. —CLIFTON LEAF

SCREEN


SHO T S


GENRE


MOVIES PRODUCED GLOBALLY IN EACH GENRE,


AS A SHARE OF ALL MOVIES MADE THAT YEAR


SHARE


IN


2018


46.3%


23.3


12.3


10.9


9.3


8.1


6.0


5.1


4.9


4.7


4.2


4.2


3.5


3.2


2.8


1.2


0.5


0.5


RATATOUILLE


ONE HOT NIGHT OF PASSION


THE IMITATION GAME


THE MIRACLE MAN


OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL


THE ADDAMS FAMILY


SPELLBOUND


INDEPENDENCE DAY


THIS IS THE ARMY


THE VANISHING AMERICAN


BATMAN


RETURNS


ROAD TO MOROCCO


HONKY


TONK


POSSESSED


GOING MY WAY


IT


SARATOGA


SEARCHING


SOURCE: IMDB; DOES NOT INCLUDE DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND OTHER CONTENT SUCH AS NEWS, GRAPHIC BY NICOLAS RAPP


TALK SHOWS, REALITY TV, AND SHORT MOVIES; PERCENTAGES ADD UP TO MORE THAN 100% BECAUSE


MOVIES ARE LABELED WITH MULTIPLE CATEGORIES. SOME SMALL CATEGORIES ARE NOT SHOWN.

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