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 30,788 $639,758,040,247
Mandarin 2,356 $49,376,875,228
Japanese 1,786 $17,613,199,625
French 3,550 $17,357,412,503
Spanish 3,139 $10,405,627,538
Korean 1,800 $9,564,702,359
German 1,599 $9,005,768,268
Hindi 1,140 $7,527,925,116
Cantonese 371 $7,345,416,918
Italian 1,786 $6,885,193,074
Russian 1,446 $6,636,948,569
Swedish 221 $3,941,590,459
Arabic 456 $3,486,318,682
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 70 $2,263,440,876
Portuguese 834 $1,930,380,285
Hebrew 242 $1,651,974,492
Turkish 1,115 $1,248,477,475
Polish 313 $925,928,534
Telugu 488 $918,424,540
Sign Language 13 $882,275,915
Aramaic 6 $867,872,109
Tamil 472 $757,640,781
Tibetan 38 $624,707,105
Thai 125 $541,136,118
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 13 $525,153,777
Malayalam 319 $512,265,835
Dutch 407 $499,051,423
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 19 $376,420,435
Nepali 39 $369,869,091
Urdu 95 $358,448,663
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 38 $353,224,264
Chinese 50 $339,598,714
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 62 $319,708,702
Czech 296 $276,611,200
Danish 178 $270,591,405
Farsi 24 $269,704,068
Albanian 31 $251,962,503
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Serbian 64 $243,648,736
Welsh 11 $229,940,475
Mende 2 $229,628,067
Bulgarian 83 $226,360,513
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Kannada 117 $197,495,126
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 105 $190,926,974
Ukrainian 73 $173,040,625
Bengali 61 $168,782,630
Mongolian 22 $167,482,857
Finnish 141 $161,562,103
Romanian 192 $160,766,095
Punjabi 310 $154,441,059
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 $107,136,677
Indonesian 81 $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 $76,191,255
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 104 $52,818,595
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 $23,751,517
Guarani 8 $21,582,492
Southern Min 4 $19,199,259
Icelandic 36 $18,194,438
Pashtu 11 $16,320,392
Maori 19 $15,487,100
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 $2,033,817
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
Maya 4 $630,933
Wolof 12 $625,262
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Macedonian 7 $544,700
Bambara 4 $483,764
Samoan 5 $397,787
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Yakut 4 $322,273
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
A'ingae 1 $186,445
Secoya 1 $186,445
Azerbaijani 9 $182,673
Kabardian 1 $178,555
Shona 3 $161,523
Bhutani 1 $160,382
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 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
Kyrgyz 2 $0
Ga 2 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Krio 1 $0
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Irish 1 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Haida 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 6 $0
2026 51 $0
2025 101 $0
2024 2,422 $5,145,590,849
2023 5,933 $28,110,609,236
2022 5,022 $22,976,814,706
2021 3,690 $19,447,316,206
2020 3,798 $8,798,180,025
2019 4,702 $38,864,458,619
2018 4,150 $38,347,573,458
2017 3,787 $37,993,081,689
2016 3,593 $37,106,659,332
2015 3,039 $36,141,405,598
2014 1,575 $30,066,529,750
2013 1,453 $29,912,066,937
2012 1,519 $31,734,843,234
2011 1,313 $27,424,315,579
2010 1,263 $25,371,337,302
2009 1,231 $25,960,110,226
2008 1,134 $24,293,974,139
2007 1,042 $23,240,109,474
2006 869 $20,210,457,112
2005 650 $18,331,160,361
2004 654 $18,925,386,644
2003 614 $17,863,486,762
2002 520 $16,965,718,150
2001 508 $15,477,482,030
2000 553 $13,349,513,079
1999 504 $13,595,522,920
1998 442 $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 $7,954,055,387
1992 241 $6,958,061,482
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 $3,614,814,041
1985 242 $3,758,366,954
1984 229 $3,880,408,957
1983 219 $3,168,796,412
1982 192 $3,629,741,080
1981 200 $2,881,799,931
1980 185 $2,785,005,387
1979 157 $2,463,916,274
1978 117 $2,291,029,679
1977 111 $2,685,582,340
1976 111 $1,168,072,419
1975 114 $1,335,360,441
1974 122 $1,226,931,336
1973 108 $1,305,561,573
1972 104 $834,125,574
1971 112 $642,702,842
1970 132 $746,776,490
1969 106 $663,966,155
1968 99 $635,584,750
1967 88 $930,978,338
1966 91 $423,437,335
1965 80 $820,218,120
1964 77 $556,768,042
1963 78 $507,690,264
1962 84 $296,098,521
1961 71 $468,243,749
1960 74 $251,600,410
1959 61 $272,064,375
1958 52 $142,864,333
1957 66 $138,345,182
1956 68 $273,467,420
1955 59 $198,448,595
1954 69 $235,494,623
1953 60 $233,053,003
1952 40 $80,279,642
1951 49 $112,742,983
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 29 $13,946,290
1937 36 $199,488,590
1936 34 $16,628,419
1935 33 $3,202,795
1934 30 $3,625,161
1933 33 $14,483,673
1932 32 $17,013
1931 27 $16,998,901
1930 20 $11,118,349
1929 28 $7,087,611
1928 16 $11,237,840
1927 13 $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