Box Office History for Genre - Thriller/Suspense

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	The Sixth Sense	Buena Vista	8/6/1999	$293,506,292	$397,650,598
2	The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	8/6/1993	$183,875,760	$305,571,313
3	Fatal Attraction	Paramount Pictures	9/18/1987	$156,645,693	$273,295,898
4	Signs	Buena Vista	8/2/2002	$227,965,690	$270,404,557
5	The Firm	Paramount Pictures	6/30/1993	$158,340,892	$263,136,553
6	The Da Vinci Code	Sony Pictures	5/19/2006	$217,536,138	$228,495,973
7	The Silence of the Lambs	Orion Pictures	2/14/1991	$130,726,716	$213,634,155
8	The Bodyguard	Warner Bros.	11/25/1992	$121,945,720	$202,300,442
9	What Lies Beneath	Dreamworks SKG	7/21/2000	$155,464,351	$198,440,583
10	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount Pictures	3/2/1990	$120,709,866	$196,797,130
11	Basic Instinct	Sony Pictures	3/20/1992	$117,727,224	$195,171,881
12	In the Line of Fire	Sony Pictures	7/9/1993	$102,243,874	$169,912,525
13	Sleeping with the Enemy	20th Century Fox	2/8/1991	$101,599,005	$166,033,526
14	WarGames	MGM	6/3/1983	$74,433,837	$162,572,955
15	Se7en	New Line	9/22/1995	$100,125,643	$158,032,018
16	The Deep	Columbia	6/17/1977	$50,681,884	$156,363,838
17	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	Buena Vista	1/10/1992	$88,036,683	$145,949,974
18	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	7/27/1990	$86,303,188	$140,702,825
19	Cape Fear	Universal	11/15/1991	$79,091,969	$129,252,434
20	Witness	Paramount Pictures	2/8/1985	$65,532,576	$127,003,981
21	The Village	Buena Vista	7/30/2004	$114,197,520	$126,314,942
22	Vanilla Sky	Paramount Pictures	12/14/2001	$100,614,858	$121,598,448
23	Unbreakable	Buena Vista	11/22/2000	$94,999,143	$120,968,838
24	Entrapment	20th Century Fox	4/30/1999	$87,707,396	$119,254,322
25	Conspiracy Theory	Warner Bros.	8/8/1997	$76,118,990	$114,095,567
Complete List

Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1995	17	6.27%	$329,734,413	75,801,013	$521,510,969	Se7en	$87,046,142
1996	15	4.92%	$283,532,062	64,147,525	$441,334,972	Executive Decision	$56,679,192
1997	21	7.85%	$488,459,185	106,418,126	$732,156,707	Conspiracy Theory	$76,118,990
1998	18	5.05%	$340,124,020	72,521,113	$498,945,257	A Perfect Murder	$67,658,331
1999	16	7.80%	$574,295,226	113,497,078	$780,859,897	The Sixth Sense	$276,386,495
2000	22	7.67%	$571,733,138	106,072,938	$729,781,813	What Lies Beneath	$155,464,351
2001	20	5.96%	$483,930,351	85,651,388	$589,281,549	Along Came a Spider	$74,058,698
2002	28	8.67%	$809,695,897	139,602,740	$960,466,851	Signs	$227,746,423
2003	18	4.14%	$382,510,341	63,434,551	$436,429,711	The Recruit	$52,784,696
2004	27	6.11%	$567,486,330	91,235,746	$627,701,932	The Village	$114,197,520
2005	26	5.01%	$443,803,488	69,236,114	$476,344,464	Flightplan	$89,132,263
2006	33	8.01%	$742,798,212	113,404,308	$780,221,639	The Da Vinci Code	$217,536,138
2007	53	5.89%	$565,450,619	82,187,593	$565,450,640	Disturbia	$80,209,692
2008	18	8.80%	$274,469,137	39,893,768	$274,469,124	21	$80,418,000

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