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Movie Languages


  1. Breakdown by Language
  2. Breakdown by Year

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.

LanguagesNo. of
Movies
Total
Worldwide
Box Office
English 33,782 $671,823,403,479
Mandarin 2,873 $53,959,430,144
Japanese 2,171 $19,278,364,051
French 4,033 $17,530,958,668
Spanish 3,639 $10,555,784,150
Korean 2,100 $10,113,918,293
German 1,903 $9,136,225,969
Hindi 1,228 $7,839,903,746
Cantonese 412 $7,565,665,662
Italian 2,105 $7,153,863,418
Russian 1,706 $7,028,183,265
Swedish 271 $3,945,001,534
Arabic 518 $3,493,538,599
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 79 $2,322,940,852
Portuguese 1,062 $1,996,717,712
Hebrew 258 $1,708,525,536
Turkish 1,350 $1,320,581,890
Telugu 594 $1,056,352,867
Polish 352 $927,083,898
Aramaic 8 $894,762,977
Sign Language 17 $882,287,318
Tamil 551 $702,505,365
Thai 156 $576,166,094
Tibetan 39 $564,041,854
Dutch 481 $537,130,977
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 15 $525,163,459
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 22 $376,462,379
Nepali 57 $371,494,342
Urdu 103 $359,194,328
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 44 $353,224,423
Chinese 51 $341,297,795
Sinhala 10 $333,345,108
Vietnamese 79 $321,138,247
Czech 362 $314,771,421
Danish 202 $276,950,091
Farsi 27 $270,471,257
Kannada 149 $265,694,886
Albanian 33 $251,973,691
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Serbian 76 $243,713,278
Hungarian 124 $242,423,931
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,103,401
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 423 $216,312,006
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Silent 70 $197,172,915
Finnish 178 $184,516,799
Romanian 235 $176,432,784
Ukrainian 89 $173,250,103
Bengali 72 $169,879,060
Punjabi 361 $169,571,842
Mongolian 24 $167,694,203
Norwegian 179 $155,898,836
Greek 81 $145,811,469
Filipino 146 $133,833,276
Tagalog 123 $133,262,577
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Shanghainese 8 $119,918,838
Esperanto 3 $111,955,777
Indonesian 134 $109,520,555
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 43 $104,446,500
Persian 124 $103,516,031
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 150 $85,494,583
Sicilian 5 $81,833,725
Swiss German 36 $76,193,968
Bosnian 28 $71,911,727
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Slovak 123 $63,314,167
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 34 $57,069,670
Croatian 61 $42,597,078
Uzbek 4 $38,885,234
Khmer 22 $35,509,203
Latvian 17 $30,675,436
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 49 $24,152,162
Lithuanian 92 $23,832,974
Swahili 28 $23,785,948
Guarani 9 $21,582,492
Icelandic 42 $20,631,086
Southern Min 4 $19,202,339
Maori 26 $16,625,179
Pashtu 12 $16,340,353
Hokkien 9 $15,186,954
Creole 9 $10,789,500
Cree 3 $9,290,016
Kazakh 22 $9,100,806
Marathi 39 $8,566,505
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Dari 26 $8,298,385
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 18 $6,597,887
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Gujarati 38 $5,624,617
Haitian Creole 9 $5,455,799
Romany 12 $5,327,012
Kurdish 30 $5,307,719
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Georgian 29 $4,134,675
Dinka 3 $3,921,717
Kirundi 3 $3,317,368
Akan 3 $2,851,213
Galician 26 $2,539,732
Isan 1 $2,514,148
Tupi 4 $2,337,545
Pushto 7 $2,307,126
Quechua 11 $2,282,172
Slovenian 34 $2,249,918
Hiligaynon 1 $2,232,350
Lingala 8 $2,061,119
Tok Pisin 2 $1,362,701
Aymaran 3 $1,219,023
Yakut 7 $1,203,648
Dzongkha 3 $1,181,803
Marwari 1 $1,148,956
Kabyle 1 $1,122,695
Malagasy 6 $974,234
Malay 17 $928,182
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Bhutani 1 $735,768
Macedonian 9 $729,762
Bhojpuri 2 $705,933
Wolof 13 $648,636
Maya 4 $630,933
Fon 2 $575,821
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Bambara 5 $490,860
Samoan 6 $398,978
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Austro-Bavarian 1 $308,040
Ladakhi 2 $297,759
Tajik 6 $285,394
Asturian 1 $282,362
Masai 2 $266,153
Navajo 6 $258,316
Sami 2 $248,740
Lao 5 $231,946
Shona 4 $213,091
Secoya 1 $186,445
A'ingae 1 $186,445
Azerbaijani 10 $186,279
Kabardian 1 $178,555
Oriya 3 $175,682
Montenegrin 1 $158,411
Hausa 4 $148,648
Pedi 1 $134,078
Haryanvi 2 $123,941
Jola-Fonyi 1 $115,778
Kawesqar 1 $111,352
Fur 1 $110,408
Bemba 1 $104,965
Fulah 2 $101,290
Dhivehi 1 $86,331
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Yoruba 14 $65,066
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
O’odham 1 $51,190
Hopi 1 $51,190
Luganda 1 $44,568
Irish 2 $32,724
Sango 2 $18,364
Bantu 1 $18,364
Aka 1 $18,364
isiZulu 2 $11,711
isiXhosa 2 $11,711
Setswana 1 $11,711
Fanagalo 1 $10,679
Oromo 2 $8,004
Bini 1 $7,171
Bengali (Bangla) 4 $6,363
Harari 1 $5,739
Tamazight 1 $5,553
Nawat 1 $5,553
Maltese 1 $3,927
Tahitian (Reo Tahiti) 1 $3,820
Sotho 6 $3,386
Odiya 1 $2,021
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 2 $1,496
Tonga 1 $1,191
Cebuano 1 $856
Ga 2 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Ewe 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Kikuyu 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 1 $0
Hmong 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Krio 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 YearNo. of
Movies
Total
Worldwide
Box Office
2031 1 $0
2030 1 $0
2029 21 $0
2028 30 $0
2027 58 $0
2026 229 $0
2025 3,918 $12,384,856,494
2024 5,384 $25,799,430,974
2023 5,946 $28,510,537,431
2022 5,023 $22,955,266,242
2021 3,708 $19,360,706,120
2020 3,681 $8,809,582,355
2019 4,330 $38,570,571,163
2018 4,147 $38,426,641,434
2017 3,793 $38,104,338,864
2016 3,575 $37,126,713,031
2015 3,040 $36,262,802,345
2014 1,597 $30,218,593,834
2013 1,468 $29,960,691,633
2012 1,520 $31,260,837,911
2011 1,327 $27,922,374,477
2010 1,269 $25,410,809,609
2009 1,240 $25,796,708,698
2008 1,150 $24,507,526,655
2007 1,054 $23,228,940,926
2006 885 $20,221,220,850
2005 659 $18,149,117,535
2004 675 $19,192,795,262
2003 626 $18,051,921,815
2002 529 $16,968,944,579
2001 518 $15,491,927,539
2000 571 $13,353,303,181
1999 510 $13,665,113,932
1998 454 $11,648,737,910
1997 388 $12,789,824,382
1996 355 $9,830,588,519
1995 340 $10,197,957,909
1994 270 $8,854,718,417
1993 255 $7,989,164,554
1992 248 $6,974,120,927
1991 267 $6,243,091,741
1990 265 $6,646,020,461
1989 257 $5,906,043,669
1988 288 $4,795,235,195
1987 290 $4,136,142,156
1986 277 $3,616,187,724
1985 251 $3,774,605,312
1984 238 $3,903,853,400
1983 225 $3,231,112,866
1982 204 $3,631,009,406
1981 213 $2,882,883,622
1980 194 $2,785,624,072
1979 169 $2,376,484,348
1978 123 $2,297,878,202
1977 124 $2,685,686,668
1976 123 $1,168,358,789
1975 122 $1,410,202,221
1974 138 $1,228,020,331
1973 114 $1,305,719,306
1972 115 $840,812,058
1971 121 $616,813,966
1970 139 $882,149,213
1969 112 $664,087,428
1968 105 $634,789,156
1967 90 $923,167,288
1966 104 $427,771,316
1965 94 $823,806,935
1964 84 $556,864,700
1963 85 $507,919,280
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 74 $468,392,997
1960 81 $251,823,574
1959 67 $272,272,691
1958 62 $142,901,627
1957 74 $138,374,192
1956 75 $273,173,944
1955 69 $198,484,116
1954 80 $239,492,212
1953 73 $233,111,035
1952 54 $80,377,692
1951 66 $112,794,242
1950 59 $320,493,153
1949 65 $83,165,814
1948 72 $68,308,076
1947 74 $133,828,169
1946 68 $249,620,673
1945 57 $126,722,408
1944 37 $38,193,926
1943 40 $65,953,319
1942 42 $333,099,859
1941 48 $35,148,383
1940 48 $189,739,895
1939 55 $438,043,407
1938 35 $13,946,527
1937 45 $199,490,570
1936 41 $16,624,866
1935 40 $3,242,345
1934 48 $3,626,124
1933 43 $14,484,875
1932 38 $17,112
1931 31 $17,000,415
1930 21 $11,118,349
1929 29 $7,096,623
1928 17 $11,238,194
1927 14 $4,342,342
1926 13 $3,002,993
1925 15 $31,087,945
1924 8 $18,835
1923 7 $3,800,000
1922 6 $85,214
1921 7 $11,846,301
1920 5 $3,000,000
1919 4 $66,676
1918 6 $9,685
1916 6 $8,262,102
1915 3 $11,000,000
1902 1 $45,353
1899 1 $43,905