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 31,261 $643,498,496,440
Mandarin 2,450 $49,631,362,995
Japanese 1,824 $17,727,854,395
French 3,652 $17,370,614,840
Spanish 3,223 $10,430,731,467
Korean 1,832 $9,667,977,613
German 1,641 $9,007,759,077
Hindi 1,152 $7,542,807,653
Cantonese 379 $7,346,986,297
Italian 1,846 $6,903,699,112
Russian 1,489 $6,685,231,351
Swedish 226 $3,942,378,068
Arabic 473 $3,487,242,694
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 72 $2,263,486,867
Portuguese 896 $1,930,981,260
Hebrew 245 $1,654,263,836
Turkish 1,158 $1,252,684,107
Telugu 507 $932,553,145
Polish 318 $926,354,314
Sign Language 14 $882,275,915
Aramaic 6 $867,872,109
Tamil 491 $772,161,807
Tibetan 39 $624,626,318
Thai 129 $541,165,001
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 14 $525,153,777
Malayalam 335 $516,670,702
Dutch 418 $502,474,021
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 20 $376,421,141
Nepali 43 $370,041,973
Urdu 100 $358,513,465
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 39 $353,224,295
Chinese 50 $340,805,050
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 65 $319,829,365
Czech 306 $278,288,427
Danish 179 $270,777,553
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 $229,956,917
Bulgarian 83 $226,360,513
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Kannada 119 $199,476,238
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 107 $190,979,044
Ukrainian 74 $173,051,956
Bengali 62 $168,787,862
Mongolian 22 $167,491,778
Romanian 200 $165,339,000
Finnish 141 $163,023,371
Punjabi 319 $158,115,549
Norwegian 156 $153,131,347
Greek 76 $145,050,529
Tagalog 114 $133,240,116
Filipino 128 $127,773,385
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Shanghainese 8 $119,901,311
Esperanto 2 $111,955,777
Estonian 25 $107,139,059
Indonesian 90 $106,147,682
Persian 113 $98,828,367
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 119 $84,450,095
Sicilian 5 $81,542,107
Swiss German 31 $76,193,582
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 $53,118,368
Croatian 46 $41,726,870
Uzbek 2 $38,871,304
Khmer 20 $35,218,290
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 43 $23,922,660
Lithuanian 90 $23,814,328
Swahili 26 $23,778,110
Guarani 8 $21,582,492
Southern Min 4 $19,199,299
Icelandic 40 $18,194,438
Pashtu 12 $16,320,392
Maori 21 $15,907,576
Hokkien 9 $15,183,528
Creole 8 $10,789,500
Cree 3 $9,290,016
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Marathi 33 $8,305,166
Dari 24 $8,162,104
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 18 $6,580,351
Kazakh 14 $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 27 $5,297,063
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Dinka 3 $3,921,717
Georgian 26 $3,445,876
Kirundi 3 $3,317,368
Akan 3 $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 $2,060,410
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
Galician 20 $992,210
Malagasy 4 $971,269
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Bhojpuri 2 $705,933
Yakut 5 $681,461
Macedonian 7 $677,817
Maya 4 $630,933
Wolof 12 $625,262
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Bambara 4 $483,764
Bhutani 1 $480,718
Samoan 5 $397,787
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Malay 11 $334,014
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
Secoya 1 $186,445
A'ingae 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 17 $111,857
Kawesqar 1 $111,352
Fur 1 $110,408
Bemba 1 $104,965
Dhivehi 1 $86,331
Fulah 1 $79,277
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
O’odham 1 $51,190
Hopi 1 $51,190
Luganda 1 $44,568
Yoruba 11 $39,516
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
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 6 $3,386
Odiya 1 $2,021
Bengali (Bangla) 2 $1,262
Cebuano 1 $856
Ga 2 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Irish 1 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Haida 1 $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
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 17 $0
2027 6 $0
2026 66 $0
2025 202 $0
2024 3,462 $9,364,096,743
2023 5,926 $28,171,086,091
2022 5,016 $22,968,845,233
2021 3,697 $19,442,323,850
2020 3,801 $8,801,524,087
2019 4,703 $38,699,726,621
2018 4,151 $38,359,820,844
2017 3,791 $38,045,125,353
2016 3,592 $36,881,331,730
2015 3,038 $36,130,413,152
2014 1,579 $30,076,130,960
2013 1,455 $29,912,028,963
2012 1,520 $31,735,596,266
2011 1,316 $27,423,744,611
2010 1,262 $25,371,469,529
2009 1,232 $25,960,110,226
2008 1,139 $24,301,044,584
2007 1,043 $23,241,205,786
2006 869 $20,210,457,112
2005 650 $18,332,900,261
2004 656 $18,945,937,085
2003 614 $17,865,766,573
2002 522 $16,968,549,681
2001 509 $15,480,588,724
2000 556 $13,349,655,809
1999 505 $13,591,832,838
1998 446 $11,634,613,965
1997 390 $12,789,466,608
1996 348 $9,836,177,590
1995 329 $10,180,098,889
1994 263 $8,850,942,177
1993 247 $7,954,118,287
1992 242 $6,958,059,521
1991 261 $6,187,853,445
1990 255 $6,644,309,568
1989 252 $5,900,350,493
1988 278 $4,767,423,318
1987 281 $4,102,331,575
1986 267 $3,614,784,902
1985 243 $3,758,414,857
1984 230 $3,880,431,989
1983 219 $3,168,845,009
1982 195 $3,630,473,685
1981 201 $2,881,740,189
1980 185 $2,785,018,339
1979 157 $2,466,235,581
1978 117 $2,291,029,811
1977 115 $2,685,675,479
1976 113 $1,168,073,785
1975 116 $1,335,382,033
1974 127 $1,226,980,114
1973 108 $1,305,561,573
1972 105 $834,276,697
1971 113 $616,650,386
1970 133 $746,808,228
1969 108 $663,966,269
1968 100 $634,775,020
1967 89 $930,978,829
1966 93 $423,437,335
1965 82 $820,218,120
1964 79 $556,791,733
1963 79 $507,741,814
1962 84 $296,099,241
1961 71 $468,244,826
1960 75 $251,600,410
1959 62 $272,051,438
1958 53 $142,864,651
1957 67 $138,345,515
1956 68 $273,468,270
1955 61 $198,472,645
1954 69 $235,496,039
1953 60 $233,053,115
1952 40 $80,280,104
1951 49 $112,771,362
1950 50 $320,407,697
1949 52 $83,144,975
1948 58 $68,293,394
1947 55 $133,794,282
1946 45 $249,612,641
1945 41 $126,721,657
1944 30 $38,193,092
1943 33 $76,490,449
1942 37 $322,187,287
1941 41 $35,058,401
1940 41 $189,738,067
1939 44 $437,508,599
1938 31 $13,946,527
1937 37 $199,488,640
1936 34 $16,624,788
1935 33 $3,203,034
1934 30 $3,625,664
1933 34 $14,483,779
1932 33 $17,079
1931 27 $16,998,901
1930 20 $11,118,349
1929 29 $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 6 $85,214
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