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 30,902 $640,637,369,577
Mandarin 2,366 $49,297,332,791
Japanese 1,800 $17,675,020,994
French 3,566 $17,361,119,516
Spanish 3,170 $10,412,223,425
Korean 1,800 $9,626,864,098
German 1,611 $9,006,613,516
Hindi 1,142 $7,528,709,483
Cantonese 374 $7,345,638,686
Italian 1,806 $6,892,034,649
Russian 1,454 $6,661,840,829
Swedish 222 $3,941,819,990
Arabic 461 $3,486,938,282
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 71 $2,263,455,740
Portuguese 853 $1,930,666,968
Hebrew 243 $1,652,018,624
Turkish 1,125 $1,249,806,462
Polish 313 $926,064,352
Telugu 495 $918,955,816
Sign Language 13 $882,275,915
Aramaic 6 $867,872,109
Tamil 478 $758,341,818
Tibetan 39 $624,707,105
Thai 128 $541,165,001
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 13 $525,153,777
Malayalam 324 $513,965,978
Dutch 411 $500,460,098
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 19 $376,420,435
Nepali 40 $369,881,287
Urdu 97 $358,472,056
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 38 $353,224,264
Chinese 50 $339,887,709
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 62 $319,708,702
Czech 300 $277,729,701
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
Welsh 11 $229,940,475
Mende 2 $229,628,067
Bulgarian 83 $226,360,513
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Kannada 117 $197,994,207
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 105 $190,949,343
Ukrainian 73 $173,040,625
Bengali 62 $168,786,468
Mongolian 22 $167,491,778
Romanian 196 $164,581,348
Finnish 141 $162,447,753
Punjabi 311 $154,687,010
Norwegian 154 $153,000,166
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 86 $105,912,338
Persian 111 $98,587,997
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 116 $84,373,748
Sicilian 5 $81,542,107
Swiss German 31 $76,192,830
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 $53,081,657
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 $23,775,441
Guarani 8 $21,582,492
Southern Min 4 $19,199,259
Icelandic 37 $18,194,438
Pashtu 11 $16,320,392
Maori 20 $15,535,702
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 $8,090,802
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 $2,057,741
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 $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
Kyrgyz 2 $325,121
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
Bhutani 1 $243,159
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
Aka 1 $18,364
Bantu 1 $18,364
isiXhosa 1 $11,711
Setswana 1 $11,711
isiZulu 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
Nawat 1 $5,553
Tamazight 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
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 1 $0
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 1 $0
Krio 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Irish 1 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 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 53 $0
2025 108 $0
2024 2,682 $5,887,033,976
2023 5,933 $28,363,711,164
2022 5,021 $22,976,800,847
2021 3,691 $19,446,223,505
2020 3,801 $8,798,425,617
2019 4,702 $38,740,450,950
2018 4,151 $38,347,485,055
2017 3,788 $37,994,378,317
2016 3,592 $36,881,447,357
2015 3,038 $36,131,963,096
2014 1,576 $30,075,828,948
2013 1,454 $29,912,018,301
2012 1,519 $31,735,364,665
2011 1,315 $27,423,728,455
2010 1,263 $25,371,465,749
2009 1,230 $25,960,110,226
2008 1,135 $24,293,974,139
2007 1,041 $23,241,186,522
2006 869 $20,210,457,112
2005 650 $18,332,900,261
2004 656 $18,926,648,409
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 $13,606,869,695
1998 443 $11,634,550,590
1997 390 $12,779,058,530
1996 345 $9,836,177,344
1995 327 $10,179,728,102
1994 263 $8,848,222,918
1993 246 $7,954,065,188
1992 241 $6,958,059,868
1991 261 $6,187,853,445
1990 253 $6,643,007,990
1989 251 $5,898,579,241
1988 275 $4,767,344,201
1987 280 $4,098,503,627
1986 265 $3,614,802,409
1985 242 $3,758,366,980
1984 229 $3,880,406,130
1983 219 $3,168,816,522
1982 193 $3,629,745,027
1981 200 $2,881,799,931
1980 185 $2,785,005,593
1979 157 $2,466,235,581
1978 117 $2,291,029,679
1977 113 $2,685,583,101
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 $834,183,212
1971 113 $614,105,994
1970 133 $746,791,304
1969 107 $663,966,155
1968 100 $635,580,632
1967 89 $930,978,338
1966 91 $423,437,335
1965 81 $820,218,120
1964 79 $556,769,222
1963 78 $507,727,246
1962 84 $296,098,521
1961 71 $468,244,164
1960 75 $251,600,410
1959 62 $272,050,967
1958 52 $142,864,333
1957 67 $138,345,209
1956 68 $273,466,891
1955 60 $198,453,328
1954 69 $235,495,425
1953 60 $233,053,003
1952 40 $80,279,642
1951 49 $112,754,769
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 29 $38,192,837
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 $16,624,707
1935 33 $3,203,034
1934 30 $3,625,664
1933 33 $14,483,673
1932 32 $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