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 30,948 $640,774,029,041
Mandarin 2,404 $49,475,907,234
Japanese 1,802 $17,675,600,725
French 3,578 $17,362,259,402
Spanish 3,176 $10,421,462,765
Korean 1,800 $9,627,314,829
German 1,612 $9,006,874,794
Hindi 1,143 $7,530,087,793
Cantonese 374 $7,345,665,958
Italian 1,808 $6,894,396,001
Russian 1,454 $6,661,899,271
Swedish 223 $3,941,994,955
Arabic 462 $3,486,961,668
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 71 $2,263,457,245
Portuguese 855 $1,930,703,012
Hebrew 244 $1,652,018,624
Turkish 1,133 $1,250,679,904
Polish 313 $926,064,352
Telugu 496 $920,293,920
Sign Language 13 $882,275,915
Aramaic 6 $867,872,109
Tamil 478 $759,707,527
Tibetan 39 $624,707,105
Thai 128 $541,165,001
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 13 $525,153,777
Malayalam 324 $515,563,245
Dutch 411 $500,765,448
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 19 $376,420,435
Nepali 40 $369,889,414
Urdu 98 $358,472,056
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 38 $353,224,264
Chinese 50 $339,897,714
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 62 $319,708,702
Czech 301 $277,941,504
Danish 178 $270,656,685
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
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $229,940,475
Bulgarian 83 $226,360,513
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Kannada 117 $199,332,121
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 105 $190,951,687
Ukrainian 73 $173,040,625
Bengali 62 $168,786,468
Mongolian 22 $167,491,778
Romanian 196 $164,583,692
Finnish 141 $162,709,304
Punjabi 314 $154,904,821
Norwegian 154 $153,020,849
Greek 76 $145,050,529
Tagalog 113 $133,240,116
Filipino 124 $127,773,385
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Shanghainese 8 $119,901,311
Esperanto 2 $111,955,777
Estonian 25 $107,138,246
Indonesian 87 $105,912,338
Persian 111 $98,587,997
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 116 $84,406,171
Sicilian 5 $81,542,107
Swiss German 31 $76,193,120
Bosnian 24 $71,810,515
Amharic 11 $65,428,449
Xhosa 13 $59,148,866
Flemish 33 $56,922,444
Yiddish 40 $54,260,687
Slovak 105 $53,101,054
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 $23,802,724
Swahili 26 $23,776,106
Guarani 8 $21,582,492
Southern Min 4 $19,199,259
Icelandic 37 $18,194,438
Pashtu 11 $16,320,392
Maori 20 $15,541,709
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 $8,118,074
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 26 $3,426,538
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 $2,058,406
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 4 $971,269
Galician 20 $924,189
Bhojpuri 2 $705,933
Yakut 5 $681,461
Macedonian 7 $666,208
Maya 4 $630,933
Wolof 12 $625,262
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Bambara 4 $483,764
Samoan 5 $397,787
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Kyrgyz 2 $325,121
Malay 10 $321,340
Bhutani 1 $311,592
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
A'ingae 1 $186,445
Secoya 1 $186,445
Azerbaijani 9 $182,673
Kabardian 1 $178,555
Shona 3 $161,523
Montenegrin 1 $158,411
Hausa 4 $148,648
Pedi 1 $134,078
Haryanvi 2 $123,941
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 11 $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
Ojibwa 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 1 $0
Krio 1 $0
Irish 1 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 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
2029 23 $0
2027 5 $0
2026 57 $0
2025 116 $0
2024 2,799 $6,324,766,084
2023 5,932 $28,188,531,385
2022 5,020 $22,977,055,907
2021 3,691 $19,446,246,716
2020 3,801 $8,798,426,801
2019 4,702 $38,740,455,467
2018 4,151 $38,347,484,972
2017 3,788 $37,994,378,674
2016 3,592 $36,881,487,014
2015 3,038 $36,131,963,096
2014 1,576 $30,075,962,539
2013 1,454 $29,912,018,301
2012 1,519 $31,735,540,588
2011 1,315 $27,423,744,611
2010 1,263 $25,371,465,749
2009 1,230 $25,960,110,226
2008 1,135 $24,293,974,139
2007 1,041 $23,241,187,002
2006 869 $20,210,457,112
2005 650 $18,332,900,261
2004 656 $18,926,649,829
2003 614 $17,863,315,646
2002 521 $16,965,983,269
2001 508 $15,477,482,205
2000 554 $13,349,513,893
1999 504 $13,609,280,689
1998 444 $11,634,551,559
1997 390 $12,832,485,376
1996 346 $9,836,177,344
1995 327 $10,179,728,102
1994 263 $8,848,222,918
1993 246 $7,954,069,166
1992 241 $6,958,064,576
1991 261 $6,187,853,445
1990 254 $6,644,300,313
1989 252 $5,900,349,323
1988 275 $4,767,344,201
1987 280 $4,098,503,627
1986 265 $3,614,819,453
1985 242 $3,758,366,980
1984 229 $3,880,406,130
1983 219 $3,168,821,105
1982 193 $3,629,746,042
1981 200 $2,881,806,982
1980 185 $2,785,005,625
1979 157 $2,466,235,581
1978 117 $2,291,029,679
1977 113 $2,685,583,189
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 $834,215,412
1971 113 $614,105,994
1970 133 $746,792,809
1969 108 $663,966,155
1968 100 $634,774,830
1967 89 $930,978,338
1966 92 $423,437,335
1965 81 $820,218,120
1964 79 $556,769,222
1963 78 $507,727,779
1962 84 $296,099,029
1961 71 $468,244,826
1960 75 $251,600,410
1959 62 $272,051,027
1958 52 $142,864,333
1957 67 $138,345,270
1956 68 $273,467,630
1955 61 $198,454,031
1954 69 $235,495,425
1953 60 $233,053,003
1952 40 $80,280,073
1951 49 $112,760,293
1950 50 $320,407,538
1949 50 $83,138,350
1948 57 $68,292,743
1947 54 $133,783,278
1946 45 $249,612,641
1945 41 $126,720,035
1944 29 $38,192,868
1943 33 $76,490,449
1942 37 $322,187,287
1941 40 $35,058,373
1940 41 $189,738,067
1939 44 $437,508,599
1938 30 $13,946,527
1937 37 $199,488,640
1936 34 $16,624,725
1935 33 $3,203,034
1934 30 $3,625,664
1933 33 $14,483,673
1932 33 $17,079
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