Favorite film genres in the U.S. 2018, by gender
U.S. movie genre preferences
In the U.S., movie genre preferences varied greatly according to age when it came to stereotypically divisive genres like musicals and romantic films – 64 percent of women cited musicals as their favorite genre, compared to 48 percent of men.Comedies, thrillers, fantasy and adventure films were considered similarly favorable by each gender, with 84 percent of men saying that they had a very or somewhat favorable impression of thriller or mystery films compared to 83 percent of female respondents.
The movie genre that has generated the most revenue at the North American box office since 1995 is the adventure genre, having brought in 58.84 billion U.S. dollars of revenue since that year. Second on the list is the action genre, which has box office takings of 44.15 billion U.S. dollars. Drama ranked third, and is a genre popular not only with consumers but also with producers – over 5.1 thousand drama movies have been released in the U.S. since the mid 1990s.