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 34,515 $678,660,303,626
Mandarin 3,025 $55,563,206,159
Japanese 2,287 $20,447,296,366
French 4,185 $17,614,467,570
Spanish 3,780 $10,635,605,578
Korean 2,223 $10,256,130,514
German 1,987 $9,160,754,073
Hindi 1,279 $7,925,280,328
Cantonese 431 $7,734,588,677
Italian 2,185 $7,194,089,469
Russian 1,791 $7,137,629,000
Swedish 275 $3,946,469,792
Arabic 541 $3,502,291,030
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 81 $2,323,264,647
Portuguese 1,133 $1,998,706,978
Hebrew 266 $1,708,836,707
Turkish 1,416 $1,339,407,402
Telugu 630 $1,072,733,361
Polish 367 $927,754,204
Aramaic 8 $894,847,254
Sign Language 18 $882,287,318
Tamil 578 $714,248,916
Thai 167 $582,890,018
Tibetan 40 $564,074,743
Dutch 502 $561,077,568
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 16 $525,163,459
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 22 $376,462,379
Nepali 64 $371,756,501
Urdu 105 $359,236,459
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 47 $353,224,423
Chinese 51 $341,542,420
Sinhala 11 $333,581,327
Czech 381 $325,432,909
Vietnamese 85 $321,618,525
Danish 209 $277,101,884
Kannada 163 $272,373,762
Farsi 28 $270,495,410
Albanian 33 $251,973,691
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Serbian 77 $243,759,579
Hungarian 133 $242,653,150
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,138,187
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 457 $221,083,179
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Finnish 187 $200,532,656
Silent 70 $197,282,575
Romanian 256 $183,965,475
Norwegian 183 $175,451,679
Ukrainian 91 $173,276,751
Bengali 75 $172,789,050
Punjabi 377 $172,665,534
Mongolian 24 $167,716,991
Greek 86 $145,915,789
Filipino 162 $134,022,253
Tagalog 130 $133,265,558
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Shanghainese 10 $119,935,721
Esperanto 3 $112,011,903
Indonesian 141 $109,851,406
Persian 127 $107,476,523
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 44 $105,093,879
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 160 $87,939,895
Sicilian 5 $82,053,908
Swiss German 37 $76,193,968
Bosnian 31 $71,925,070
Slovak 126 $65,880,963
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 35 $57,538,813
Croatian 70 $43,443,022
Uzbek 4 $38,885,234
Khmer 22 $35,509,203
Latvian 18 $32,295,950
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 52 $24,717,769
Lithuanian 93 $23,898,140
Swahili 28 $23,785,948
Guarani 9 $21,582,492
Icelandic 43 $21,417,134
Southern Min 4 $19,202,339
Maori 27 $17,349,209
Pashtu 13 $16,340,353
Hokkien 11 $15,186,954
Creole 9 $10,789,500
Cree 3 $9,290,016
Kazakh 23 $9,107,965
Marathi 43 $8,587,586
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Dari 26 $8,298,385
Romany 13 $7,108,993
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 19 $6,597,887
Gujarati 41 $5,945,255
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Haitian Creole 9 $5,455,799
Kurdish 30 $5,307,719
Galician 29 $4,693,681
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Georgian 30 $4,168,249
Dinka 3 $3,921,717
Kirundi 3 $3,317,368
Akan 3 $2,851,213
Isan 1 $2,514,148
Tupi 4 $2,352,032
Quechua 11 $2,312,297
Pushto 7 $2,307,126
Slovenian 34 $2,264,596
Hiligaynon 1 $2,232,350
Lingala 8 $2,061,119
Tok Pisin 2 $1,362,701
Aymaran 4 $1,219,023
Yakut 7 $1,203,648
Dzongkha 4 $1,189,942
Marwari 1 $1,148,956
Kabyle 1 $1,122,695
Malagasy 6 $974,234
Malay 24 $931,717
Shona 4 $817,016
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Macedonian 10 $736,017
Bhutani 1 $735,768
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
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
Yoruba 16 $70,794
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
O’odham 1 $51,190
Hopi 1 $51,190
Luganda 1 $44,568
Irish 2 $33,346
Sango 2 $18,364
Bantu 1 $18,364
Aka 1 $18,364
isiZulu 2 $11,711
isiXhosa 2 $11,711
Setswana 1 $11,711
Luxembourgish 2 $11,499
Fanagalo 1 $10,679
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 2 $8,104
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
Fiji 1 $2,834
Odiya 1 $2,021
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 2 $1,496
Tonga 1 $1,191
Cebuano 1 $856
Ga 2 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Ewe 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Kikuyu 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Hmong 1 $0
Warlpiri 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 16 $0
2028 33 $0
2027 78 $0
2026 632 $16,115
2025 5,449 $21,577,589,659
2024 5,377 $25,847,530,060
2023 5,953 $28,544,117,755
2022 5,023 $22,959,972,497
2021 3,715 $19,390,909,426
2020 3,685 $8,831,602,128
2019 4,335 $38,572,733,901
2018 4,153 $38,437,872,915
2017 3,798 $38,111,654,458
2016 3,577 $37,123,900,504
2015 3,039 $36,310,233,656
2014 1,601 $30,227,199,144
2013 1,469 $29,961,494,395
2012 1,528 $31,374,681,578
2011 1,333 $27,925,735,526
2010 1,266 $25,273,798,076
2009 1,241 $25,790,130,736
2008 1,153 $24,581,782,102
2007 1,057 $23,249,265,828
2006 890 $20,211,515,032
2005 664 $18,158,143,340
2004 678 $19,198,363,122
2003 629 $18,052,076,018
2002 533 $16,970,284,444
2001 521 $15,492,534,865
2000 574 $13,354,182,219
1999 511 $13,667,749,025
1998 456 $11,651,187,126
1997 390 $12,789,950,039
1996 360 $10,135,972,513
1995 339 $9,913,041,271
1994 275 $8,896,207,033
1993 259 $7,989,310,232
1992 253 $6,974,253,918
1991 270 $6,242,385,777
1990 268 $6,646,096,865
1989 259 $5,977,907,641
1988 288 $4,796,171,979
1987 293 $4,162,297,176
1986 278 $3,623,378,674
1985 253 $3,785,490,901
1984 238 $3,905,478,959
1983 228 $3,231,174,857
1982 205 $3,630,970,409
1981 215 $2,882,915,806
1980 197 $2,785,709,483
1979 174 $2,376,522,795
1978 125 $2,297,890,096
1977 126 $2,685,699,279
1976 129 $1,105,238,119
1975 127 $1,423,308,103
1974 141 $1,228,403,808
1973 118 $1,305,754,507
1972 120 $840,851,390
1971 121 $616,880,095
1970 140 $882,253,014
1969 116 $664,101,028
1968 109 $632,981,800
1967 90 $923,272,633
1966 105 $427,879,530
1965 95 $825,470,665
1964 86 $556,926,822
1963 86 $507,960,016
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 74 $460,325,823
1960 82 $251,823,791
1959 69 $272,272,801
1958 66 $142,906,860
1957 78 $138,404,264
1956 79 $273,174,294
1955 74 $198,484,212
1954 84 $239,516,817
1953 81 $233,287,748
1952 58 $80,378,083
1951 69 $112,794,242
1950 69 $328,634,348
1949 70 $83,172,768
1948 75 $68,308,202
1947 77 $87,538,090
1946 71 $249,621,102
1945 59 $126,722,784
1944 38 $38,193,926
1943 42 $65,953,660
1942 46 $333,098,063
1941 53 $35,148,540
1940 55 $189,768,971
1939 57 $438,043,407
1938 37 $13,949,062
1937 45 $199,490,582
1936 41 $16,624,866
1935 41 $3,337,878
1934 54 $3,626,124
1933 47 $14,484,875
1932 46 $17,112
1931 37 $17,005,064
1930 25 $11,118,349
1929 29 $7,096,623
1928 18 $11,238,194
1927 15 $4,342,858
1926 13 $3,002,993
1925 15 $31,197,605
1924 8 $18,835
1923 7 $3,800,000
1922 6 $85,214
1921 7 $11,846,301
1920 6 $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