Movie Languages
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
Languages | No. of Movies | Total Worldwide Box Office |
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English | 30,838 | $639,984,792,382 |
Mandarin | 2,364 | $49,288,320,124 |
Japanese | 1,790 | $17,671,321,996 |
French | 3,555 | $17,359,433,002 |
Spanish | 3,160 | $10,408,365,379 |
Korean | 1,800 | $9,569,193,436 |
German | 1,600 | $9,005,921,887 |
Hindi | 1,141 | $7,528,583,563 |
Cantonese | 373 | $7,345,629,417 |
Italian | 1,794 | $6,887,021,066 |
Russian | 1,446 | $6,643,649,602 |
Swedish | 222 | $3,941,663,054 |
Arabic | 458 | $3,486,398,785 |
Na'vi | 1 | $2,923,706,026 |
Latin | 71 | $2,263,440,926 |
Portuguese | 840 | $1,930,445,949 |
Hebrew | 242 | $1,651,974,492 |
Turkish | 1,120 | $1,249,258,376 |
Polish | 313 | $926,054,167 |
Telugu | 490 | $918,886,514 |
Sign Language | 13 | $882,275,915 |
Aramaic | 6 | $867,872,109 |
Tamil | 474 | $758,106,291 |
Tibetan | 38 | $624,707,105 |
Thai | 126 | $541,165,001 |
Apache | 7 | $533,232,500 |
Somali | 13 | $525,153,777 |
Malayalam | 319 | $513,666,835 |
Dutch | 408 | $499,536,403 |
Klingon | 1 | $467,381,584 |
Gaelic | 19 | $376,420,435 |
Nepali | 38 | $369,874,038 |
Urdu | 97 | $358,472,056 |
Algonquian | 3 | $355,311,952 |
Afrikaans | 38 | $353,224,264 |
Chinese | 50 | $339,772,712 |
Sinhala | 9 | $333,340,802 |
Vietnamese | 62 | $319,708,702 |
Czech | 299 | $277,291,842 |
Danish | 178 | $270,639,806 |
Farsi | 24 | $269,704,068 |
Albanian | 31 | $251,962,503 |
Picard (Chti) | 1 | $247,474,497 |
Hawaiian | 4 | $245,799,997 |
Serbian | 64 | $243,665,506 |
Welsh | 11 | $229,940,475 |
Mende | 2 | $229,628,067 |
Bulgarian | 83 | $226,360,513 |
Nyanja | 1 | $212,453,431 |
Kannada | 117 | $197,932,686 |
Silent | 69 | $197,145,186 |
Hungarian | 105 | $190,938,978 |
Ukrainian | 73 | $173,040,625 |
Bengali | 61 | $168,782,630 |
Mongolian | 22 | $167,491,778 |
Finnish | 141 | $162,005,950 |
Romanian | 194 | $160,824,084 |
Punjabi | 310 | $154,545,967 |
Norwegian | 155 | $152,933,267 |
Greek | 75 | $145,050,529 |
Tagalog | 113 | $133,261,702 |
Filipino | 124 | $127,773,385 |
Burmese | 8 | $123,050,447 |
Shanghainese | 8 | $119,901,311 |
Esperanto | 2 | $111,955,777 |
Estonian | 25 | $107,136,817 |
Indonesian | 83 | $105,856,374 |
Persian | 109 | $98,549,718 |
Teochew | 2 | $87,969,037 |
Catalan | 116 | $84,344,350 |
Sicilian | 5 | $81,542,107 |
Swiss German | 31 | $76,192,063 |
Bosnian | 24 | $71,809,394 |
Amharic | 11 | $65,428,449 |
Xhosa | 13 | $59,148,866 |
Flemish | 33 | $56,922,444 |
Yiddish | 40 | $54,260,687 |
Slovak | 105 | $52,983,110 |
Croatian | 46 | $41,726,870 |
Uzbek | 2 | $38,871,304 |
Khmer | 20 | $35,218,290 |
Zulu | 21 | $26,471,213 |
Bahasa | 1 | $25,414,221 |
Basque | 43 | $23,922,660 |
Lithuanian | 90 | $23,802,720 |
Swahili | 26 | $23,772,824 |
Guarani | 8 | $21,582,492 |
Southern Min | 4 | $19,199,259 |
Icelandic | 37 | $18,194,438 |
Pashtu | 11 | $16,320,392 |
Maori | 19 | $15,520,593 |
Hokkien | 9 | $15,183,528 |
Creole | 8 | $10,789,500 |
Cree | 3 | $9,290,016 |
Assamese | 5 | $8,540,692 |
Marathi | 32 | $8,264,554 |
Dari | 23 | $8,058,055 |
Mon | 2 | $7,036,041 |
Armenian | 17 | $6,580,351 |
Kazakh | 13 | $5,930,636 |
Inuktitut | 10 | $5,643,491 |
Gujarati | 32 | $5,523,544 |
Haitian Creole | 7 | $5,406,814 |
Romany | 12 | $5,327,012 |
Kurdish | 26 | $5,260,859 |
Chechen | 5 | $4,676,633 |
Dinka | 3 | $3,921,717 |
Georgian | 25 | $3,400,670 |
Kirundi | 3 | $3,317,368 |
Akan | 2 | $2,851,213 |
Isan | 1 | $2,514,148 |
Pushto | 7 | $2,307,126 |
Tupi | 3 | $2,303,615 |
Quechua | 10 | $2,282,172 |
Slovenian | 31 | $2,238,921 |
Hiligaynon | 1 | $2,232,350 |
Lingala | 8 | $2,055,124 |
Tok Pisin | 2 | $1,362,701 |
Aymaran | 3 | $1,219,023 |
Dzongkha | 3 | $1,173,844 |
Marwari | 1 | $1,148,956 |
Kabyle | 1 | $1,122,695 |
Malagasy | 3 | $948,871 |
Galician | 19 | $924,189 |
Bhojpuri | 2 | $705,933 |
Yakut | 5 | $681,461 |
Macedonian | 7 | $657,755 |
Maya | 4 | $630,933 |
Wolof | 12 | $625,262 |
Nauvhal | 1 | $574,050 |
Bambara | 4 | $483,764 |
Samoan | 5 | $397,787 |
Kinyarwanda | 5 | $360,198 |
Malay | 10 | $321,340 |
Austro-Bavarian | 1 | $308,040 |
Ladakhi | 2 | $297,759 |
Asturian | 1 | $282,362 |
Tajik | 5 | $271,464 |
Masai | 2 | $266,153 |
Navajo | 6 | $259,369 |
Sami | 2 | $248,740 |
Lao | 5 | $228,391 |
Secoya | 1 | $186,445 |
A'ingae | 1 | $186,445 |
Azerbaijani | 9 | $182,673 |
Kabardian | 1 | $178,555 |
Bhutani | 1 | $161,929 |
Shona | 3 | $161,523 |
Montenegrin | 1 | $158,411 |
Hausa | 4 | $148,648 |
Pedi | 1 | $134,078 |
Haryanvi | 2 | $123,941 |
Kyrgyz | 2 | $117,398 |
Jola-Fonyi | 1 | $115,778 |
Latvian | 16 | $111,857 |
Kawesqar | 1 | $111,352 |
Fur | 1 | $110,408 |
Bemba | 1 | $104,965 |
Dhivehi | 1 | $86,331 |
Inupiaq | 1 | $70,526 |
Kirghiz | 4 | $64,260 |
O’odham | 1 | $51,190 |
Hopi | 1 | $51,190 |
Fulah | 1 | $45,092 |
Luganda | 1 | $44,568 |
Yoruba | 10 | $39,516 |
Sango | 2 | $18,364 |
Bantu | 1 | $18,364 |
Aka | 1 | $18,364 |
isiZulu | 1 | $11,711 |
isiXhosa | 1 | $11,711 |
Setswana | 1 | $11,711 |
Fanagalo | 1 | $10,679 |
Bini | 1 | $7,171 |
Oriya | 2 | $7,128 |
Fon | 1 | $5,929 |
Harari | 1 | $5,739 |
Oromo | 1 | $5,739 |
Tamazight | 1 | $5,553 |
Nawat | 1 | $5,553 |
Maltese | 1 | $3,927 |
Tahitian (Reo Tahiti) | 1 | $3,820 |
Sotho | 5 | $3,355 |
Odiya | 1 | $2,021 |
Bengali (Bangla) | 2 | $1,262 |
Cebuano | 1 | $856 |
Ga | 2 | $0 |
Faroese | 1 | $0 |
Fang | 1 | $0 |
Irish | 1 | $0 |
Luxembourgish | 1 | $0 |
Haida | 1 | $0 |
Kashmiri | 1 | $0 |
Inuvialuktun | 1 | $0 |
Ojibwa | 1 | $0 |
Twi | 1 | $0 |
Warlpiri | 1 | $0 |
Igbo | 1 | $0 |
Sanskrit | 1 | $0 |
Rapa Nui | 1 | $0 |
Odia | 1 | $0 |
Byelorussian (Belarusian) | 1 | $0 |
Krio | 1 | $0 |
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) | 1 | $0 |
Box office totals are based on the years that films were released, so a film released in December, 2012, for example, will accrue box office towards 2012's total, even for tickets sold in 2013 and beyond.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
Release Year | No. of Movies | Total Worldwide Box Office |
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2031 | 1 | $0 |
2029 | 23 | $0 |
2027 | 6 | $0 |
2026 | 52 | $0 |
2025 | 106 | $0 |
2024 | 2,526 | $5,417,431,656 |
2023 | 5,929 | $28,170,022,834 |
2022 | 5,020 | $22,975,892,609 |
2021 | 3,689 | $19,446,300,391 |
2020 | 3,798 | $8,798,323,692 |
2019 | 4,702 | $38,740,396,227 |
2018 | 4,150 | $38,347,574,671 |
2017 | 3,787 | $37,993,080,974 |
2016 | 3,592 | $36,867,431,764 |
2015 | 3,038 | $36,131,963,469 |
2014 | 1,576 | $30,075,828,948 |
2013 | 1,454 | $29,912,018,301 |
2012 | 1,519 | $31,734,854,031 |
2011 | 1,313 | $27,424,066,299 |
2010 | 1,263 | $25,371,136,333 |
2009 | 1,231 | $25,960,110,226 |
2008 | 1,134 | $24,293,974,139 |
2007 | 1,041 | $23,240,109,474 |
2006 | 869 | $20,210,457,112 |
2005 | 650 | $18,332,900,261 |
2004 | 656 | $18,926,535,462 |
2003 | 614 | $17,863,315,646 |
2002 | 521 | $16,965,983,269 |
2001 | 508 | $15,477,482,205 |
2000 | 553 | $13,349,513,079 |
1999 | 504 | $13,595,892,920 |
1998 | 443 | $11,634,890,445 |
1997 | 390 | $12,779,058,530 |
1996 | 345 | $9,836,177,344 |
1995 | 327 | $10,179,728,102 |
1994 | 263 | $8,848,223,982 |
1993 | 246 | $7,954,059,691 |
1992 | 241 | $6,958,062,143 |
1991 | 261 | $6,187,853,445 |
1990 | 252 | $6,643,007,990 |
1989 | 249 | $5,898,579,241 |
1988 | 275 | $4,767,344,201 |
1987 | 280 | $4,098,503,627 |
1986 | 265 | $3,614,804,245 |
1985 | 242 | $3,758,366,954 |
1984 | 229 | $3,880,411,137 |
1983 | 219 | $3,168,807,733 |
1982 | 192 | $3,629,741,446 |
1981 | 200 | $2,881,799,931 |
1980 | 185 | $2,785,005,573 |
1979 | 157 | $2,464,523,260 |
1978 | 117 | $2,291,029,679 |
1977 | 112 | $2,685,582,340 |
1976 | 111 | $1,168,072,419 |
1975 | 114 | $1,335,360,441 |
1974 | 123 | $1,226,931,336 |
1973 | 108 | $1,305,561,573 |
1972 | 104 | $834,141,340 |
1971 | 113 | $642,703,057 |
1970 | 133 | $746,776,490 |
1969 | 106 | $663,966,155 |
1968 | 99 | $635,580,632 |
1967 | 88 | $930,978,338 |
1966 | 91 | $423,437,335 |
1965 | 80 | $820,218,120 |
1964 | 78 | $556,768,363 |
1963 | 78 | $507,726,222 |
1962 | 84 | $296,098,521 |
1961 | 71 | $468,243,749 |
1960 | 75 | $251,600,410 |
1959 | 62 | $272,050,902 |
1958 | 52 | $142,864,333 |
1957 | 66 | $138,345,182 |
1956 | 68 | $273,466,766 |
1955 | 60 | $198,453,328 |
1954 | 69 | $235,495,312 |
1953 | 60 | $233,053,003 |
1952 | 40 | $80,279,642 |
1951 | 49 | $112,743,134 |
1950 | 50 | $320,407,538 |
1949 | 50 | $83,138,350 |
1948 | 57 | $68,292,743 |
1947 | 53 | $133,783,278 |
1946 | 45 | $249,612,641 |
1945 | 41 | $126,720,035 |
1944 | 28 | $38,192,823 |
1943 | 33 | $76,487,435 |
1942 | 37 | $322,187,287 |
1941 | 40 | $35,058,373 |
1940 | 41 | $189,738,026 |
1939 | 44 | $437,508,599 |
1938 | 30 | $13,946,527 |
1937 | 37 | $199,488,640 |
1936 | 34 | $16,624,707 |
1935 | 33 | $3,202,924 |
1934 | 30 | $3,625,664 |
1933 | 33 | $14,483,673 |
1932 | 32 | $17,068 |
1931 | 27 | $16,998,901 |
1930 | 20 | $11,118,349 |
1929 | 28 | $7,087,611 |
1928 | 16 | $11,237,840 |
1927 | 14 | $4,340,660 |
1926 | 12 | $3,002,993 |
1925 | 15 | $31,061,039 |
1924 | 7 | $18,835 |
1923 | 6 | $3,800,000 |
1922 | 5 | $0 |
1921 | 7 | $11,846,301 |
1920 | 5 | $3,000,000 |
1919 | 4 | $46,865 |
1918 | 5 | $9,685 |
1916 | 6 | $8,262,102 |
1915 | 3 | $11,000,000 |
1902 | 1 | $45,353 |
1899 | 1 | $43,905 |