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 31,690 $648,888,723,431
Mandarin 2,553 $50,691,166,905
Japanese 1,847 $17,837,062,096
French 3,735 $17,382,361,131
Spanish 3,281 $10,454,306,375
Korean 1,892 $9,789,296,781
German 1,686 $9,009,390,048
Hindi 1,171 $7,732,685,483
Cantonese 385 $7,347,669,454
Italian 1,905 $6,911,481,162
Russian 1,539 $6,703,832,100
Swedish 240 $3,943,190,707
Arabic 481 $3,487,475,994
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 74 $2,263,498,002
Portuguese 930 $1,934,135,765
Hebrew 250 $1,654,272,295
Turkish 1,197 $1,254,895,679
Telugu 526 $944,754,820
Polish 320 $926,470,955
Sign Language 15 $882,275,915
Aramaic 7 $867,872,109
Tamil 501 $784,319,604
Tibetan 39 $624,645,564
Thai 138 $575,176,896
Apache 7 $533,232,500
Somali 14 $525,153,777
Malayalam 361 $518,129,452
Dutch 428 $507,463,259
Klingon 1 $467,381,584
Gaelic 21 $376,421,141
Nepali 43 $370,050,753
Urdu 100 $358,587,962
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 39 $353,224,295
Chinese 50 $340,971,801
Sinhala 9 $333,340,802
Vietnamese 67 $320,113,301
Czech 312 $287,617,006
Danish 183 $271,071,862
Farsi 25 $269,704,068
Albanian 31 $251,962,503
Picard (Chti) 1 $247,474,497
Hawaiian 4 $245,799,997
Serbian 68 $243,683,144
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $229,956,917
Bulgarian 83 $226,360,513
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Kannada 126 $200,614,907
Silent 69 $197,145,186
Hungarian 109 $191,006,398
Ukrainian 76 $173,193,905
Bengali 64 $169,039,428
Mongolian 22 $167,535,353
Romanian 200 $165,430,511
Finnish 145 $163,939,655
Punjabi 330 $160,257,226
Norwegian 162 $153,365,895
Greek 77 $145,129,538
Tagalog 114 $133,240,116
Filipino 134 $127,973,211
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Shanghainese 8 $119,918,838
Esperanto 2 $111,955,777
Estonian 26 $107,139,059
Indonesian 98 $107,077,321
Persian 116 $98,969,852
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Catalan 120 $84,472,163
Sicilian 5 $81,542,107
Swiss German 32 $76,193,968
Bosnian 25 $71,810,515
Amharic 11 $65,428,449
Xhosa 13 $59,148,866
Slovak 109 $57,971,064
Flemish 33 $56,922,444
Yiddish 41 $54,260,687
Croatian 49 $41,748,058
Uzbek 2 $38,871,304
Khmer 22 $35,381,099
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 43 $23,922,660
Lithuanian 90 $23,815,804
Swahili 27 $23,781,665
Guarani 9 $21,582,492
Icelandic 40 $19,914,000
Southern Min 4 $19,200,585
Maori 23 $16,481,492
Pashtu 12 $16,340,353
Hokkien 9 $15,186,954
Creole 8 $10,789,500
Cree 3 $9,290,016
Assamese 5 $8,540,692
Marathi 34 $8,305,191
Dari 25 $8,296,124
Mon 2 $7,036,041
Armenian 18 $6,597,887
Kazakh 14 $5,930,636
Inuktitut 10 $5,643,491
Gujarati 33 $5,526,110
Haitian Creole 8 $5,448,855
Romany 12 $5,327,012
Kurdish 28 $5,297,063
Chechen 5 $4,676,633
Dinka 3 $3,921,717
Georgian 27 $3,646,218
Kirundi 3 $3,317,368
Akan 3 $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 $2,060,410
Tok Pisin 2 $1,362,701
Aymaran 3 $1,219,023
Dzongkha 3 $1,181,803
Marwari 1 $1,148,956
Kabyle 1 $1,122,695
Galician 20 $995,539
Malagasy 4 $974,234
Kyrgyz 2 $813,915
Macedonian 7 $720,317
Bhojpuri 2 $705,933
Yakut 5 $681,461
Bhutani 1 $675,086
Maya 4 $630,933
Wolof 13 $625,262
Nauvhal 1 $574,050
Bambara 4 $483,764
Samoan 5 $397,787
Kinyarwanda 5 $360,198
Malay 12 $334,014
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 $231,946
A'ingae 1 $186,445
Secoya 1 $186,445
Azerbaijani 9 $182,673
Kabardian 1 $178,555
Oriya 2 $175,682
Shona 3 $161,523
Montenegrin 1 $158,411
Hausa 4 $148,648
Pedi 1 $134,078
Haryanvi 2 $123,941
Jola-Fonyi 1 $115,778
Latvian 17 $111,857
Kawesqar 1 $111,352
Fur 1 $110,408
Bemba 1 $104,965
Fulah 1 $95,703
Dhivehi 1 $86,331
Inupiaq 1 $70,526
Kirghiz 4 $64,260
O’odham 1 $51,190
Hopi 1 $51,190
Luganda 1 $44,568
Yoruba 11 $39,516
Sango 2 $18,364
Aka 1 $18,364
Bantu 1 $18,364
isiXhosa 2 $11,711
isiZulu 2 $11,711
Setswana 1 $11,711
Fanagalo 1 $10,679
Bini 1 $7,171
Fon 1 $5,929
Harari 1 $5,739
Oromo 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
Odiya 1 $2,021
Bengali (Bangla) 2 $1,262
Cebuano 1 $856
Irish 2 $0
Ga 2 $0
Odia 1 $0
Byelorussian (Belarusian) 1 $0
Warlpiri 1 $0
Igbo 1 $0
Sanskrit 1 $0
Rapa Nui 1 $0
Krio 1 $0
Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) 1 $0
Faroese 1 $0
Fang 1 $0
Luxembourgish 1 $0
Haida 1 $0
Ewe 1 $0
Kashmiri 1 $0
Inuvialuktun 1 $0
Ojibwa 1 $0
Twi 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 13 $0
2027 16 $0
2026 69 $0
2025 345 $0
2024 4,418 $16,030,980,326
2023 5,940 $28,297,521,211
2022 5,016 $22,952,710,700
2021 3,702 $19,428,815,892
2020 3,804 $8,793,678,917
2019 4,704 $38,671,184,849
2018 4,151 $38,351,269,804
2017 3,796 $38,072,668,379
2016 3,596 $36,892,385,429
2015 3,041 $36,107,795,521
2014 1,581 $30,076,130,960
2013 1,461 $29,912,859,165
2012 1,520 $31,733,572,368
2011 1,319 $27,425,324,893
2010 1,265 $25,371,469,659
2009 1,233 $26,001,042,419
2008 1,143 $24,300,648,813
2007 1,049 $23,241,205,786
2006 874 $20,210,457,112
2005 658 $18,332,607,181
2004 664 $18,946,748,779
2003 619 $17,865,775,564
2002 528 $16,968,568,339
2001 514 $15,480,731,040
2000 562 $13,349,779,114
1999 505 $13,598,300,790
1998 449 $11,634,672,796
1997 389 $12,789,466,608
1996 351 $9,835,945,577
1995 334 $10,181,100,052
1994 265 $8,854,266,932
1993 250 $7,954,180,779
1992 245 $6,958,142,222
1991 261 $6,187,920,940
1990 257 $6,644,325,409
1989 253 $5,900,350,493
1988 281 $4,767,806,487
1987 283 $4,138,588,104
1986 268 $3,615,182,238
1985 246 $3,758,596,856
1984 231 $3,880,592,077
1983 220 $3,214,655,409
1982 197 $3,630,537,151
1981 205 $2,881,754,677
1980 185 $2,785,030,675
1979 159 $2,467,315,662
1978 118 $2,291,029,811
1977 116 $2,685,675,479
1976 118 $1,168,085,685
1975 116 $1,335,382,033
1974 132 $1,227,134,204
1973 109 $1,305,566,363
1972 108 $834,293,733
1971 113 $616,650,820
1970 133 $746,808,228
1969 109 $664,063,964
1968 102 $634,778,712
1967 89 $930,979,197
1966 96 $423,438,276
1965 82 $820,219,367
1964 81 $556,793,043
1963 80 $507,747,294
1962 86 $296,099,333
1961 72 $468,245,282
1960 77 $251,609,398
1959 63 $272,051,438
1958 56 $142,864,651
1957 67 $138,350,592
1956 70 $273,644,160
1955 65 $198,473,924
1954 71 $235,502,757
1953 64 $233,053,580
1952 43 $80,281,809
1951 49 $112,773,558
1950 53 $320,407,697
1949 54 $83,165,610
1948 65 $68,294,300
1947 68 $133,794,282
1946 62 $249,612,922
1945 50 $126,722,048
1944 34 $38,193,529
1943 35 $76,521,506
1942 38 $322,187,396
1941 42 $35,058,401
1940 43 $189,738,067
1939 46 $437,508,599
1938 32 $13,946,527
1937 37 $199,488,640
1936 36 $16,624,788
1935 36 $3,202,522
1934 39 $3,625,664
1933 39 $14,484,875
1932 33 $17,079
1931 28 $16,998,901
1930 20 $11,118,349
1929 29 $7,087,611
1928 17 $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 6 $85,214
1921 7 $11,846,301
1920 5 $3,000,000
1919 4 $46,865
1918 6 $9,685
1916 6 $8,262,102
1915 3 $11,000,000
1902 1 $45,353
1899 1 $43,905