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 34,676 $681,136,328,538
Mandarin 3,058 $55,668,448,815
Japanese 2,298 $20,520,912,692
French 4,199 $17,714,025,601
Spanish 3,810 $10,643,226,428
Korean 2,259 $10,263,297,131
German 2,004 $9,162,388,860
Hindi 1,287 $7,943,764,661
Cantonese 436 $7,738,859,503
Italian 2,196 $7,206,271,847
Russian 1,813 $7,159,617,499
Swedish 275 $3,946,469,792
Arabic 547 $3,502,844,393
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 82 $2,323,267,731
Portuguese 1,146 $2,000,257,894
Hebrew 268 $1,708,851,235
Turkish 1,424 $1,351,283,873
Telugu 637 $1,072,924,630
Polish 367 $927,823,116
Aramaic 8 $894,847,254
Sign Language 18 $882,287,318
Tamil 585 $714,716,727
Thai 167 $582,890,018
Dutch 505 $565,341,333
Tibetan 42 $564,094,154
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 16 $525,163,459
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 22 $376,462,379
Nepali 64 $371,770,760
Urdu 105 $359,282,310
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 47 $353,224,423
Chinese 51 $341,544,889
Sinhala 11 $333,581,327
Czech 386 $327,881,721
Vietnamese 90 $321,634,578
Danish 209 $277,787,855
Kannada 166 $272,497,258
Farsi 28 $270,496,179
Albanian 33 $251,973,691
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Serbian 79 $243,763,129
Hungarian 135 $242,711,921
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,192,483
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 459 $221,826,180
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Finnish 187 $201,449,860
Silent 70 $197,282,575
Romanian 260 $186,841,494
Norwegian 183 $179,941,444
Ukrainian 92 $173,276,751
Bengali 76 $172,789,050
Punjabi 377 $172,665,534
Mongolian 25 $167,716,991
Greek 87 $145,917,036
Filipino 163 $134,029,482
Tagalog 130 $133,265,558
Shanghainese 10 $123,207,252
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Esperanto 3 $112,068,580
Indonesian 142 $109,905,702
Persian 128 $108,457,982
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 46 $105,163,429
Catalan 164 $88,487,043
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Sicilian 5 $82,053,908
Swiss German 37 $76,193,968
Bosnian 31 $71,927,842
Slovak 128 $66,058,864
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 35 $57,540,871
Croatian 73 $43,585,724
Uzbek 4 $38,885,234
Khmer 22 $35,509,203
Latvian 18 $32,295,950
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 52 $24,836,127
Swahili 30 $24,368,234
Lithuanian 93 $23,898,140
Guarani 9 $21,582,492
Icelandic 43 $21,463,613
Southern Min 4 $19,202,339
Maori 27 $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 43 $8,587,586
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Dari 26 $8,300,935
Romany 13 $7,276,985
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 19 $6,597,887
Gujarati 42 $5,946,493
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Haitian Creole 9 $5,455,799
Kurdish 30 $5,307,719
Galician 29 $4,726,679
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 11 $2,312,297
Pushto 7 $2,307,126
Slovenian 34 $2,287,681
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 24 $931,717
Shona 4 $817,016
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Macedonian 10 $791,610
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
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
Azerbaijani 11 $186,279
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 $70,794
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 2 $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 16 $0
2028 35 $0
2027 81 $0
2026 866 $16,115
2025 5,609 $23,916,071,185
2024 5,374 $25,848,589,463
2023 5,953 $28,546,000,856
2022 5,023 $22,960,433,966
2021 3,716 $19,388,282,825
2020 3,685 $8,831,656,649
2019 4,336 $38,572,690,768
2018 4,153 $38,438,288,544
2017 3,799 $38,111,693,521
2016 3,580 $37,123,877,205
2015 3,040 $36,308,998,930
2014 1,601 $30,229,252,603
2013 1,470 $29,961,505,515
2012 1,531 $31,375,692,739
2011 1,334 $27,925,856,099
2010 1,269 $25,273,835,110
2009 1,242 $25,797,916,324
2008 1,155 $24,581,779,506
2007 1,060 $23,249,126,511
2006 891 $20,211,654,349
2005 664 $18,158,142,233
2004 678 $19,198,001,945
2003 629 $18,052,076,018
2002 533 $16,970,286,874
2001 522 $15,589,062,232
2000 574 $13,357,250,819
1999 512 $13,668,620,643
1998 456 $11,651,187,364
1997 390 $12,790,046,896
1996 360 $10,135,994,029
1995 339 $9,913,041,937
1994 275 $8,896,207,039
1993 259 $7,989,310,559
1992 258 $6,974,425,959
1991 270 $6,242,385,777
1990 268 $6,646,099,108
1989 259 $5,977,907,641
1988 289 $4,796,171,979
1987 293 $4,162,297,820
1986 279 $3,623,378,803
1985 253 $3,786,375,337
1984 238 $3,905,490,937
1983 228 $3,231,174,907
1982 205 $3,630,972,754
1981 215 $2,882,915,806
1980 197 $2,785,881,310
1979 174 $2,376,527,136
1978 126 $2,297,890,096
1977 126 $2,685,701,712
1976 130 $1,105,238,375
1975 127 $1,423,335,212
1974 141 $1,228,403,808
1973 118 $1,305,755,054
1972 120 $840,851,390
1971 121 $616,882,265
1970 140 $882,253,014
1969 117 $664,248,277
1968 109 $632,981,800
1967 90 $923,272,831
1966 105 $427,879,530
1965 95 $825,471,045
1964 86 $556,929,459
1963 86 $507,960,016
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 74 $460,325,823
1960 82 $251,902,119
1959 69 $272,273,324
1958 67 $142,908,182
1957 78 $139,006,124
1956 80 $273,174,331
1955 76 $198,484,579
1954 85 $239,516,817
1953 82 $233,287,748
1952 60 $80,378,235
1951 72 $112,805,583
1950 71 $328,634,348
1949 73 $83,172,768
1948 76 $68,308,202
1947 79 $87,538,090
1946 73 $249,621,102
1945 60 $126,716,663
1944 39 $38,193,926
1943 44 $65,953,660
1942 47 $333,098,306
1941 53 $35,148,540
1940 56 $189,768,971
1939 57 $438,043,407
1938 37 $13,949,062
1937 45 $199,490,582
1936 41 $16,624,866
1935 41 $3,337,878
1934 54 $3,634,329
1933 47 $14,484,875
1932 47 $17,112
1931 37 $17,005,064
1930 25 $11,118,349
1929 30 $7,096,623
1928 18 $11,238,194
1927 15 $4,342,858
1926 13 $3,002,993
1925 15 $31,197,605
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