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 30,838 $639,968,605,777
Mandarin 2,364 $49,288,320,124
Japanese 1,790 $17,671,036,996
French 3,555 $17,359,433,002
Spanish 3,160 $10,408,365,379
Korean 1,800 $9,569,193,436
German 1,600 $9,005,921,887
Hindi 1,141 $7,528,583,563
Cantonese 373 $7,345,629,417
Italian 1,794 $6,887,021,066
Russian 1,446 $6,643,649,602
Swedish 222 $3,941,663,054
Arabic 458 $3,486,398,785
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 71 $2,263,440,926
Portuguese 840 $1,930,445,949
Hebrew 242 $1,651,974,492
Turkish 1,120 $1,249,258,376
Polish 313 $926,054,167
Telugu 490 $918,886,514
Sign Language 13 $882,275,915
Aramaic 6 $867,872,109
Tamil 474 $758,106,291
Tibetan 38 $624,707,105
Thai 126 $541,165,001
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 13 $525,153,777
Malayalam 319 $513,666,835
Dutch 408 $499,536,403
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 19 $376,420,435
Nepali 38 $369,874,038
Urdu 97 $358,472,056
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 38 $353,224,264
Chinese 50 $339,772,712
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 62 $319,708,702
Czech 299 $277,291,842
Danish 178 $270,639,806
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 $197,932,686
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 105 $190,938,978
Ukrainian 73 $173,040,625
Bengali 61 $168,782,630
Mongolian 22 $167,491,778
Finnish 141 $162,005,950
Romanian 194 $160,824,084
Punjabi 310 $154,545,967
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 $107,136,817
Indonesian 83 $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 $76,192,063
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 105 $52,983,110
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 $23,772,824
Guarani 8 $21,582,492
Southern Min 4 $19,199,259
Icelandic 37 $18,194,438
Pashtu 11 $16,320,392
Maori 19 $15,520,593
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 $2,055,124
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
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
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
Bhutani 1 $161,929
Shona 3 $161,523
Montenegrin 1 $158,411
Hausa 4 $148,648
Pedi 1 $134,078
Haryanvi 2 $123,941
Kyrgyz 2 $117,398
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
Ga 2 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 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 52 $0
2025 106 $0
2024 2,526 $5,402,221,051
2023 5,929 $28,169,737,834
2022 5,020 $22,975,892,609
2021 3,689 $19,446,300,391
2020 3,798 $8,798,323,692
2019 4,702 $38,740,396,227
2018 4,150 $38,347,574,671
2017 3,787 $37,993,080,974
2016 3,592 $36,867,431,764
2015 3,038 $36,131,963,469
2014 1,576 $30,075,828,948
2013 1,454 $29,912,018,301
2012 1,519 $31,734,854,031
2011 1,313 $27,424,066,299
2010 1,263 $25,371,136,333
2009 1,231 $25,960,110,226
2008 1,134 $24,293,974,139
2007 1,041 $23,240,109,474
2006 869 $20,210,457,112
2005 650 $18,332,900,261
2004 656 $18,926,535,462
2003 614 $17,863,315,646
2002 521 $16,965,983,269
2001 508 $15,477,482,205
2000 553 $13,349,513,079
1999 504 $13,595,522,920
1998 443 $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 $7,954,059,691
1992 241 $6,958,062,143
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 $3,614,804,245
1985 242 $3,758,366,954
1984 229 $3,880,411,137
1983 219 $3,168,807,733
1982 192 $3,629,741,446
1981 200 $2,881,799,931
1980 185 $2,785,005,573
1979 157 $2,463,917,260
1978 117 $2,291,029,679
1977 112 $2,685,582,340
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 $834,141,340
1971 113 $642,703,057
1970 133 $746,776,490
1969 106 $663,966,155
1968 99 $635,580,632
1967 88 $930,978,338
1966 91 $423,437,335
1965 80 $820,218,120
1964 78 $556,768,363
1963 78 $507,726,222
1962 84 $296,098,521
1961 71 $468,243,749
1960 75 $251,600,410
1959 62 $272,050,902
1958 52 $142,864,333
1957 66 $138,345,182
1956 68 $273,466,766
1955 60 $198,453,328
1954 69 $235,495,312
1953 60 $233,053,003
1952 40 $80,279,642
1951 49 $112,743,134
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 30 $13,946,527
1937 37 $199,488,640
1936 34 $16,624,707
1935 33 $3,202,924
1934 30 $3,625,664
1933 33 $14,483,673
1932 32 $17,068
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