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 34,905 $683,263,416,000
Mandarin 3,120 $55,811,476,839
Japanese 2,317 $20,551,027,855
French 4,265 $17,627,242,360
Spanish 3,853 $10,657,937,549
Korean 2,288 $10,312,653,524
German 2,011 $9,171,419,138
Hindi 1,298 $8,102,627,266
Cantonese 446 $7,784,996,141
Italian 2,218 $7,328,819,285
Russian 1,831 $7,328,200,918
Swedish 278 $3,946,496,699
Arabic 551 $3,506,367,222
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 82 $2,323,319,843
Portuguese 1,173 $2,003,345,644
Hebrew 268 $1,708,885,435
Turkish 1,436 $1,366,156,756
Telugu 651 $1,091,019,295
Polish 368 $927,823,116
Aramaic 8 $894,899,041
Sign Language 18 $882,287,318
Tamil 591 $715,227,510
Thai 169 $582,890,018
Dutch 508 $573,315,434
Tibetan 43 $564,185,115
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 16 $525,163,459
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 22 $376,462,379
Nepali 65 $371,784,766
Urdu 106 $359,282,310
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 47 $353,224,423
Chinese 52 $342,486,257
Sinhala 11 $333,581,327
Czech 396 $331,124,695
Vietnamese 93 $321,711,160
Danish 210 $278,613,211
Kannada 170 $272,587,997
Farsi 28 $270,496,179
Albanian 34 $252,795,997
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Serbian 80 $246,965,785
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Hungarian 137 $243,062,067
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,227,328
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 467 $223,174,406
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Finnish 194 $206,787,262
Silent 70 $197,283,256
Romanian 264 $191,808,061
Norwegian 185 $190,063,049
Ukrainian 93 $173,307,016
Bengali 77 $172,789,050
Punjabi 379 $172,665,534
Mongolian 25 $167,716,991
Greek 88 $147,925,721
Filipino 163 $134,065,654
Tagalog 130 $133,265,558
Shanghainese 10 $123,512,760
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Esperanto 3 $112,068,580
Indonesian 142 $109,940,547
Persian 129 $109,355,123
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 46 $105,163,429
Catalan 167 $88,845,052
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Sicilian 5 $82,053,908
Swiss German 38 $76,193,968
Bosnian 31 $71,927,842
Slovak 129 $66,504,892
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 35 $57,540,871
Croatian 74 $46,831,122
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 95 $23,975,301
Icelandic 44 $21,592,623
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 23 $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 $5,946,493
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Haitian Creole 9 $5,455,799
Kurdish 32 $5,433,619
Galician 29 $4,773,021
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Georgian 30 $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
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
Yoruba 17 $70,772
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
O’odham 1 $51,190
Hopi 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
Tamazight 1 $5,553
Nawat 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) 2 $1,496
Tonga 1 $1,191
Cebuano 1 $856
Ga 2 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Kikuyu 1 $0
Twi 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Odia 1 $0
Hmong 1 $0
Krio 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Ewe 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 95 $0
2026 1,535 $542,335,514
2025 5,514 $26,724,476,022
2024 5,367 $25,866,175,429
2023 5,954 $28,548,324,396
2022 5,021 $22,958,598,503
2021 3,716 $19,388,879,350
2020 3,686 $8,831,684,137
2019 4,336 $38,572,931,027
2018 4,153 $38,438,880,058
2017 3,800 $38,111,510,677
2016 3,585 $37,123,952,038
2015 3,041 $36,309,708,026
2014 1,605 $30,230,724,847
2013 1,475 $29,961,505,515
2012 1,533 $31,375,966,345
2011 1,336 $27,925,135,218
2010 1,267 $25,274,754,161
2009 1,245 $25,798,254,940
2008 1,157 $24,581,247,589
2007 1,060 $23,249,126,511
2006 892 $20,194,328,776
2005 666 $18,160,989,793
2004 679 $19,200,992,678
2003 633 $18,057,454,833
2002 534 $16,975,980,498
2001 525 $15,503,784,878
2000 578 $13,357,556,233
1999 519 $13,671,724,210
1998 457 $11,651,425,139
1997 391 $12,790,046,927
1996 362 $10,135,998,283
1995 340 $9,914,031,608
1994 277 $8,896,206,949
1993 260 $7,989,427,249
1992 260 $6,974,820,581
1991 272 $6,242,476,296
1990 268 $6,649,854,977
1989 259 $5,978,876,355
1988 289 $4,796,171,979
1987 294 $4,164,723,748
1986 280 $3,624,351,026
1985 253 $3,789,950,556
1984 239 $3,906,625,257
1983 229 $3,233,354,152
1982 206 $3,631,689,029
1981 215 $2,882,915,806
1980 200 $2,789,322,447
1979 174 $2,376,529,953
1978 128 $2,297,891,280
1977 126 $2,685,701,712
1976 130 $1,105,238,468
1975 127 $1,426,744,265
1974 142 $1,228,403,940
1973 118 $1,305,755,054
1972 121 $840,852,819
1971 122 $618,551,593
1970 142 $882,253,014
1969 120 $664,267,209
1968 109 $632,981,800
1967 90 $923,272,831
1966 106 $427,879,530
1965 95 $825,474,235
1964 86 $556,930,673
1963 86 $507,963,676
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 76 $460,330,726
1960 83 $252,150,589
1959 72 $272,277,221
1958 70 $142,912,316
1957 80 $139,220,280
1956 87 $273,174,001
1955 79 $198,486,360
1954 87 $239,518,686
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 $333,103,904
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 $16,624,866
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 $7,118,905
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