"Forrest Gump" is certainly not a conservative movie. All of Gump's material success in life is due to completely random luck - not by dint of his, e.g., business acumen, perseverance, ability to lead, foresight, ability to defer gratification, etc. While Gump certainly does have some positive qualities, most of his successes are due to random chance, combined with people feeling pity towards him.
"The Great Escape" is a terrific film about perseverance against great odds, about human grit, about bravery and self-sacrifice for one's comrades, and those are fundamentally good human characteristics, but I would say that their portrayal in the film does not rise to the level of an explicit political statement.
I don't at all understand why "The Godfather" is on this list.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a film about fundamental decency and fairness as a cornerstone of personal values, but again (like "The Great Escape"), I don't think that their portrayal in the film can be construed as "conservative." Liberals probably also claim this film for their own. Oh, and: "Boo" Radley probably should have been institutionalized long ago.
I haven't seen some of the films on this list, so my retaining them in this excerpt is in no wise to be inferred as any approval of them.
Regards,
Re: The Godfather. See my #83:
“The Godfather is a great example: Michael Corleone gains the world but loses his own soul in the process. The scene in which Michael settles accounts is perfect: his gunmen are carrying out simultaneous hits on those who had betrayed him while Michael is in church, standing as the godfather at the baptism of the infant son of a man he has just had murdered, swearing to renounce Satan and all his ways and to renounce the glamor of evil.”
Michael doesn’t get away with anything in the end. And at the end of three movies, he dies alone.
I didn’t like the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” when I saw it in the theater in 1963 (I haven’t seen it since). When I read the book for the first time in 2015, I thought it was a good story despite its occasional historical inaccuracies. However, I loved the book’s takedown of “progressive” education, which conservative readers will enjoy.