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 34,987 $683,917,173,487
Mandarin 3,123 $55,866,100,136
Japanese 2,327 $20,555,300,366
French 4,297 $17,628,782,034
Spanish 3,864 $10,666,138,977
Korean 2,290 $10,324,332,665
German 2,026 $9,173,941,357
Hindi 1,303 $8,103,037,350
Cantonese 447 $7,789,947,023
Italian 2,223 $7,337,908,383
Russian 1,840 $7,329,792,379
Swedish 279 $3,946,503,850
Arabic 555 $3,506,736,457
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 82 $2,323,319,843
Portuguese 1,185 $2,004,368,518
Hebrew 269 $1,708,898,150
Turkish 1,441 $1,367,712,829
Telugu 658 $1,091,034,281
Polish 372 $927,823,116
Aramaic 8 $894,899,041
Sign Language 18 $882,287,318
Tamil 595 $715,281,007
Thai 170 $582,890,018
Dutch 511 $574,486,701
Tibetan 43 $564,185,896
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 16 $525,163,459
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 22 $376,462,379
Nepali 67 $371,813,976
Urdu 106 $359,282,310
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 47 $353,224,423
Chinese 52 $342,487,958
Sinhala 11 $333,581,327
Czech 396 $331,537,845
Vietnamese 93 $321,711,160
Danish 211 $280,968,745
Kannada 170 $272,590,641
Farsi 28 $270,496,179
Albanian 34 $252,795,997
Serbian 82 $248,147,919
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Hungarian 140 $243,222,963
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,227,328
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 469 $223,191,179
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Finnish 196 $207,805,360
Silent 70 $197,283,256
Romanian 267 $193,531,478
Norwegian 186 $191,144,362
Ukrainian 93 $173,307,016
Bengali 78 $172,789,050
Punjabi 380 $172,676,882
Mongolian 25 $167,716,991
Greek 88 $147,925,721
Filipino 164 $134,065,654
Tagalog 131 $133,265,558
Shanghainese 10 $123,550,293
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Esperanto 3 $112,068,580
Indonesian 149 $109,940,547
Persian 130 $109,485,351
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 46 $105,163,429
Catalan 167 $88,861,271
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Sicilian 5 $82,053,908
Swiss German 38 $76,193,968
Bosnian 31 $71,927,842
Slovak 129 $66,567,682
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 35 $57,540,871
Croatian 75 $48,013,256
Uzbek 4 $38,885,234
Khmer 22 $35,509,203
Latvian 18 $32,290,821
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 53 $24,872,618
Swahili 30 $24,654,375
Lithuanian 96 $23,975,301
Icelandic 44 $21,644,926
Guarani 10 $21,582,492
Southern Min 5 $19,202,339
Maori 28 $17,323,722
Pashtu 13 $16,340,353
Hokkien 11 $15,186,954
Creole 9 $10,789,500
Cree 3 $9,290,016
Kazakh 24 $9,107,965
Marathi 44 $8,587,586
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Dari 26 $8,304,536
Romany 13 $7,284,272
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 19 $6,597,887
Gujarati 44 $5,950,221
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Haitian Creole 9 $5,455,799
Kurdish 33 $5,433,619
Galician 30 $4,782,682
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Georgian 31 $4,168,249
Dinka 3 $3,921,717
Kirundi 3 $3,317,368
Akan 3 $2,851,213
Isan 1 $2,514,148
Tupi 4 $2,352,032
Quechua 12 $2,312,297
Pushto 7 $2,307,126
Slovenian 34 $2,290,083
Hiligaynon 1 $2,232,350
Lingala 8 $2,061,119
Tok Pisin 2 $1,362,701
Aymaran 4 $1,219,023
Yakut 7 $1,203,648
Dzongkha 4 $1,189,942
Marwari 1 $1,148,956
Kabyle 1 $1,122,695
Malagasy 6 $974,234
Malay 25 $931,717
Shona 4 $817,016
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Macedonian 10 $796,141
Bhutani 1 $735,768
Bhojpuri 2 $705,933
Wolof 13 $648,636
Maya 4 $630,933
Fon 2 $575,821
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Bambara 5 $490,860
Samoan 6 $398,978
Azerbaijani 12 $370,787
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Austro-Bavarian 1 $308,040
Ladakhi 2 $297,759
Tajik 6 $285,394
Asturian 1 $282,362
Masai 2 $266,153
Navajo 6 $258,316
Sami 2 $248,740
Yoruba 17 $235,342
Lao 5 $231,946
A'ingae 1 $186,445
Secoya 1 $186,445
Kabardian 1 $178,555
Oriya 3 $175,682
Montenegrin 1 $158,411
Hausa 5 $148,648
Pedi 1 $134,078
Haryanvi 2 $123,941
Jola-Fonyi 1 $115,778
Kawesqar 1 $111,352
Fur 1 $110,408
Bemba 1 $104,965
Fulah 2 $101,290
Dhivehi 1 $86,331
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
Hopi 1 $51,190
O’odham 1 $51,190
Luganda 1 $44,568
Irish 2 $33,346
Sango 2 $18,364
Bantu 1 $18,364
Aka 1 $18,364
isiZulu 2 $11,711
isiXhosa 2 $11,711
Setswana 1 $11,711
Luxembourgish 3 $11,499
Fanagalo 1 $10,679
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 2 $8,104
Oromo 2 $8,004
Bini 1 $7,171
Bengali (Bangla) 4 $6,363
Harari 1 $5,739
Nawat 1 $5,553
Tamazight 1 $5,553
Maltese 1 $3,927
Tahitian (Reo Tahiti) 1 $3,820
Sotho 6 $3,386
Fiji 1 $2,834
Odiya 1 $2,021
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 3 $1,496
Tonga 1 $1,191
Cebuano 1 $856
Ga 2 $0
Krio 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Ewe 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Kikuyu 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Hmong 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 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
2030 1 $0
2029 15 $0
2028 36 $0
2027 100 $0
2026 1,715 $955,885,835
2025 5,527 $26,972,619,130
2024 5,367 $25,866,876,198
2023 5,956 $28,559,701,594
2022 5,021 $22,963,241,569
2021 3,716 $19,389,110,710
2020 3,686 $8,831,709,244
2019 4,337 $38,573,099,446
2018 4,153 $38,440,989,365
2017 3,800 $38,111,622,619
2016 3,585 $37,123,186,489
2015 3,041 $36,309,731,385
2014 1,605 $30,230,832,415
2013 1,475 $29,962,340,852
2012 1,533 $31,375,963,310
2011 1,336 $27,925,398,213
2010 1,267 $25,274,754,654
2009 1,245 $25,798,254,940
2008 1,157 $24,581,247,589
2007 1,059 $23,249,126,511
2006 893 $20,194,328,776
2005 666 $18,160,989,793
2004 680 $19,200,719,830
2003 633 $18,057,454,833
2002 534 $16,975,981,212
2001 525 $15,503,784,878
2000 578 $13,357,565,897
1999 519 $13,671,743,305
1998 457 $11,651,443,268
1997 391 $12,790,046,927
1996 362 $10,135,998,283
1995 340 $9,914,031,965
1994 277 $8,896,206,949
1993 261 $7,989,427,249
1992 260 $6,975,000,369
1991 272 $6,242,495,666
1990 268 $6,649,856,002
1989 259 $5,978,880,737
1988 290 $4,796,171,979
1987 294 $4,164,725,333
1986 281 $3,624,449,267
1985 253 $3,790,000,141
1984 239 $3,906,625,717
1983 229 $3,233,354,152
1982 206 $3,631,689,264
1981 215 $2,882,915,806
1980 201 $2,793,861,867
1979 175 $2,376,531,883
1978 129 $2,297,891,280
1977 126 $2,685,701,712
1976 130 $1,105,238,468
1975 128 $1,426,758,135
1974 143 $1,228,404,112
1973 119 $1,305,755,054
1972 121 $840,852,819
1971 122 $618,554,725
1970 142 $882,253,014
1969 121 $664,267,454
1968 109 $632,981,800
1967 90 $923,272,831
1966 106 $427,879,576
1965 95 $825,474,235
1964 86 $556,930,855
1963 86 $507,963,794
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 76 $460,331,073
1960 83 $252,150,594
1959 72 $272,277,012
1958 70 $142,912,371
1957 81 $139,238,702
1956 87 $273,174,424
1955 79 $198,486,360
1954 87 $239,520,255
1953 87 $233,288,990
1952 62 $80,378,235
1951 77 $112,806,223
1950 76 $328,634,348
1949 75 $83,172,768
1948 77 $68,310,319
1947 84 $87,538,090
1946 74 $249,623,994
1945 61 $126,718,419
1944 43 $38,193,926
1943 46 $65,955,664
1942 50 $333,104,626
1941 54 $35,148,540
1940 56 $189,768,971
1939 57 $438,058,289
1938 39 $13,950,131
1937 45 $199,490,582
1936 41 $16,626,034
1935 43 $3,340,047
1934 56 $3,634,329
1933 47 $14,484,875
1932 48 $17,112
1931 38 $17,005,929
1930 26 $11,118,349
1929 31 $7,122,061
1928 18 $11,238,194
1927 15 $4,342,858
1926 13 $3,002,993
1925 15 $31,198,286
1924 8 $18,835
1923 7 $3,800,000
1922 6 $85,214
1921 7 $11,846,301
1920 6 $3,000,000
1919 4 $66,676
1918 6 $9,685
1916 6 $8,262,102
1915 3 $11,000,000
1902 1 $45,353