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Top 2016 Limited Release Movies at the Domestic Box Office
See also: Top 2016 Domestic
Other Domestic Cumulative records for Limited Release Movies: All Time Domestic Limited Release - All Time Inf. Adj. Limited Release - Top 2024 Domestic Limited Release - Top 2025 Domestic Limited Release
This chart contains the total domestic box office for the top 100 limited release movies released in 2016.
| ←Top 2015 Domestic Limited Release | Top 2017 Domestic Limited Release→ |
| Rank | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Theaters |
Max Theaters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lion | $51,739,495 | 4 | 1,802 |
| 2 | Manchester by the Sea | $47,695,371 | 4 | 1,213 |
| 3 | Moonlight | $27,854,931 | 4 | 1,564 |
| 4 | Hell or High Water | $27,007,844 | 32 | 1,505 |
| 5 | Eye in the Sky | $18,704,596 | 5 | 1,089 |
| 6 | Hello, My Name is Doris | $14,444,999 | 4 | 979 |
| 7 | Love & Friendship | $14,016,568 | 4 | 826 |
| 8 | Jackie | $13,960,394 | 5 | 508 |
| 9 | Dangal | $12,391,761 | 331 | 338 |
| 10 | No Manches Frida | $11,528,613 | 362 | 465 |
| 11 | Café Society | $11,103,205 | 5 | 631 |
| 12 | The Lady in the Van | $10,021,175 | 4 | 602 |
| 13 | The Lobster | $9,196,278 | 7 | 563 |
| 14 | Loving | $7,710,234 | 4 | 572 |
| 15 | Silence | $7,100,177 | 4 | 1,580 |
| 16 | Captain Fantastic | $5,879,835 | 4 | 550 |
| 17 | Sultan | $5,599,781 | 283 | 283 |
| 18 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | $5,205,471 | 5 | 200 |
| 19 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | $4,772,155 | 313 | 355 |
| 20 | Don’t Think Twice | $4,417,983 | 1 | 175 |
| 21 | The Meddler | $4,267,219 | 4 | 464 |
| 22 | Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | $4,264,983 | 302 | 302 |
| 23 | A Hologram for the King | $4,212,494 | 401 | 523 |
| 24 | Swiss Army Man | $4,210,454 | 3 | 636 |
| 25 | Denial | $4,073,448 | 5 | 648 |
| 26 | Kabali | $3,903,095 | 236 | 236 |
| 27 | The Man Who Knew Infinity | $3,877,922 | 6 | 348 |
| 28 | Where to Invade Next | $3,827,261 | 308 | 308 |
| 29 | Midnight Special | $3,712,282 | 5 | 521 |
| 30 | En man som heter Ove | $3,479,315 | 9 | 194 |
| 31 | Indignation | $3,401,155 | 4 | 317 |
| 32 | Everybody Wants Some | $3,400,278 | 19 | 454 |
| 33 | Maggie’s Plan | $3,351,735 | 5 | 335 |
| 34 | Sing Street | $3,237,118 | 5 | 525 |
| 35 | The Mermaid (美人鱼) | $3,229,457 | 35 | 106 |
| 36 | Green Room | $3,220,371 | 3 | 777 |
| 37 | The Eagle Huntress | $3,168,664 | 4 | 122 |
| 38 | Our Kind of Traitor | $3,153,157 | 373 | 399 |
| 39 | Compadres | $3,127,773 | 368 | 368 |
| 40 | The Other Side of the Door | $3,000,342 | 546 | 585 |
| 41 | Anthropoid | $2,963,630 | 452 | 452 |
| 42 | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week | $2,934,445 | 85 | 155 |
| 43 | 2016 Oscar Shorts | $2,816,816 | 123 | 260 |
| 44 | Yip Man 3 | $2,679,437 | 103 | 115 |
| 45 | Miles Ahead | $2,610,896 | 4 | 527 |
| 46 | Kapoor & Sons | $2,607,036 | 143 | 153 |
| 47 | Dear Zindagi | $2,376,479 | 154 | 155 |
| 48 | Elle | $2,339,735 | 2 | 143 |
| 49 | A Aa | $2,313,043 | 115 | 115 |
| 50 | Paterson | $2,141,423 | 4 | 70 |
| 51 | Train to Busan (부산행) | $2,129,768 | 27 | 36 |
| 52 | I’m Not Ashamed | $2,082,980 | 505 | 516 |
| 53 | A Bigger Splash | $2,024,099 | 5 | 378 |
| 54 | The Dressmaker | $2,022,115 | 36 | 174 |
| 55 | A Ga ssi | $2,006,788 | 5 | 125 |
| 56 | Desierto | $2,002,036 | 73 | 168 |
| 57 | Greater | $2,000,093 | 340 | 340 |
| 58 | Shin Godjira | $1,908,028 | 34 | 487 |
| 59 | M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story | $1,801,550 | 256 | 256 |
| 60 | Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer | $1,741,889 | 357 | 357 |
| 61 | Fan | $1,689,879 | 280 | 307 |
| 62 | Weiner | $1,675,196 | 5 | 88 |
| 63 | I Saw the Light | $1,646,788 | 5 | 741 |
| 64 | Equity | $1,605,463 | 4 | 255 |
| 65 | Neerja | $1,585,687 | 73 | 121 |
| 66 | Priceless | $1,499,605 | 303 | 303 |
| 67 | Toni Erdmann | $1,478,960 | 3 | 112 |
| 68 | Genius | $1,361,045 | 16 | 152 |
| 69 | El abrazo de la serpiente | $1,329,249 | 3 | 93 |
| 70 | Housefull 3 | $1,326,999 | 145 | 145 |
| 71 | The Little Prince | $1,311,213 | 52 | 163 |
| 72 | Mohenjo Daro | $1,264,339 | 246 | 246 |
| 73 | Lazer Team | $1,186,426 | 35 | 35 |
| 74 | The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and … | $1,169,214 | 3 | 82 |
| 75 | Vaxxed: From Cover Up to Catastrophe | $1,163,265 | 1 | 95 |
| 76 | Dough | $1,148,304 | 9 | 55 |
| 77 | Papa: Hemingway in Cuba | $1,115,615 | 325 | 325 |
| 78 | Certain Women | $1,068,054 | 5 | 138 |
| 79 | Les Innocentes | $1,065,665 | 3 | 69 |
| 80 | Elvis & Nixon | $1,055,284 | 381 | 381 |
| 81 | Operation Chromite | $1,022,720 | 1 | 114 |
| 82 | The Hollars | $1,016,985 | 4 | 298 |
| 83 | Baar Baar Dekho | $981,947 | 146 | 146 |
| 84 | Dark Horse | $940,715 | 3 | 74 |
| 85 | Neruda | $939,099 | 3 | 46 |
| 86 | Gentleman | $897,876 | 126 | 126 |
| 87 | Rustom | $880,000 | 147 | 147 |
| 88 | Ki & Ka | $857,986 | 148 | 148 |
| 89 | Premam | $825,602 | 112 | 112 |
| 90 | Dishoom | $812,737 | 113 | 113 |
| 91 | Operation Mekong | $800,012 | 25 | 29 |
| 92 | Goksung | $786,633 | 2 | 35 |
| 93 | 31 | $779,820 | 14 | 538 |
| 94 | Chongqing Hot Pot | $776,649 | 20 | 46 |
| 95 | Born to Be Blue | $755,153 | 23 | 79 |
| 96 | Saturday’s Warrior | $744,046 | 9 | 28 |
| 97 | The Monkey King 2 (西游记之孙悟空三打白骨精)… | $709,982 | 38 | 38 |
| 98 | Little Men | $702,537 | 2 | 61 |
| 99 | Chaar Sahibzaade 2: Rise of Banda Sin… | $700,723 | 103 | 103 |
| 100 | Mr. Church | $685,780 | 354 | 354 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.