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 34,754 $682,007,378,530
Mandarin 3,069 $55,706,665,992
Japanese 2,304 $20,524,301,895
French 4,243 $17,620,311,705
Spanish 3,823 $10,648,153,880
Korean 2,264 $10,276,164,822
German 2,005 $9,163,205,669
Hindi 1,290 $7,946,298,314
Cantonese 437 $7,751,089,452
Italian 2,200 $7,271,970,853
Russian 1,814 $7,166,668,457
Swedish 275 $3,946,463,706
Arabic 549 $3,503,434,804
Na'vi 1 $2,923,706,026
Latin 82 $2,323,313,267
Portuguese 1,148 $2,001,074,100
Hebrew 268 $1,708,851,235
Turkish 1,427 $1,353,737,489
Telugu 642 $1,072,962,053
Polish 367 $927,823,116
Aramaic 8 $894,892,790
Sign Language 18 $882,287,318
Tamil 587 $714,729,171
Thai 167 $582,890,018
Dutch 505 $569,879,501
Tibetan 42 $564,143,499
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 105 $359,282,310
Algonquian 3 $355,311,952
Afrikaans 47 $353,224,423
Chinese 51 $341,547,905
Sinhala 11 $333,581,327
Czech 387 $328,833,087
Vietnamese 90 $321,652,043
Danish 209 $278,121,301
Kannada 168 $272,513,059
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 136 $242,802,272
Mende 2 $236,920,128
Welsh 11 $230,227,328
Bulgarian 86 $226,385,692
Malayalam 460 $222,886,820
Nyanja 1 $212,453,431
Finnish 190 $203,751,570
Silent 70 $197,283,256
Romanian 261 $188,978,196
Norwegian 183 $184,155,108
Ukrainian 92 $173,276,751
Bengali 76 $172,789,050
Punjabi 377 $172,665,534
Mongolian 25 $167,716,991
Greek 87 $146,431,293
Filipino 163 $134,029,482
Tagalog 130 $133,265,558
Shanghainese 10 $123,411,290
Burmese 8 $123,050,447
Esperanto 3 $112,068,580
Indonesian 142 $109,940,547
Persian 128 $108,689,859
Estonian 27 $107,139,059
Yiddish 46 $105,163,429
Catalan 164 $88,728,691
Teochew 2 $87,969,037
Sicilian 5 $82,053,908
Swiss German 37 $76,193,968
Bosnian 31 $71,927,842
Slovak 128 $66,065,264
Amharic 12 $65,430,714
Xhosa 14 $59,149,784
Flemish 35 $57,540,871
Croatian 73 $43,603,205
Uzbek 4 $38,885,234
Khmer 22 $35,509,203
Latvian 18 $32,293,154
Zulu 22 $26,471,244
Bahasa 1 $25,414,221
Basque 52 $24,871,820
Swahili 30 $24,632,441
Lithuanian 94 $23,898,140
Guarani 10 $21,582,492
Icelandic 43 $21,558,496
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 $8,303,940
Romany 13 $7,284,272
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 $4,766,548
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 $2,288,654
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 $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
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
Secoya 1 $186,445
A'ingae 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 $70,772
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
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
Krio 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 35 $0
2027 83 $0
2026 1,087 $12,929,586
2025 5,552 $25,427,075,481
2024 5,375 $25,850,967,013
2023 5,954 $28,546,512,366
2022 5,023 $22,960,816,112
2021 3,716 $19,388,346,456
2020 3,685 $8,831,662,524
2019 4,336 $38,572,694,452
2018 4,153 $38,438,831,887
2017 3,799 $38,111,766,792
2016 3,583 $37,123,944,994
2015 3,040 $36,309,454,218
2014 1,604 $30,229,371,266
2013 1,473 $29,961,505,515
2012 1,532 $31,375,705,599
2011 1,334 $27,926,627,335
2010 1,269 $25,274,753,802
2009 1,243 $25,798,247,445
2008 1,157 $24,582,123,141
2007 1,060 $23,249,126,511
2006 891 $20,194,321,344
2005 665 $18,160,282,740
2004 678 $19,200,440,743
2003 629 $18,055,190,966
2002 533 $16,971,385,110
2001 524 $15,497,144,547
2000 574 $13,357,351,683
1999 513 $13,670,535,498
1998 456 $11,651,401,879
1997 391 $12,790,046,896
1996 361 $10,135,994,029
1995 340 $9,914,013,702
1994 277 $8,896,206,949
1993 259 $7,989,427,249
1992 258 $6,974,446,253
1991 270 $6,242,385,777
1990 268 $6,646,099,108
1989 259 $5,978,868,603
1988 289 $4,796,171,979
1987 293 $4,162,297,820
1986 280 $3,623,378,803
1985 253 $3,787,080,665
1984 238 $3,906,597,607
1983 228 $3,231,174,907
1982 205 $3,631,687,039
1981 215 $2,882,915,806
1980 198 $2,789,302,461
1979 174 $2,376,527,850
1978 127 $2,297,890,096
1977 126 $2,685,701,712
1976 130 $1,105,238,468
1975 127 $1,426,713,663
1974 141 $1,228,403,940
1973 118 $1,305,755,054
1972 120 $840,852,819
1971 122 $618,551,593
1970 140 $882,253,014
1969 117 $664,267,209
1968 109 $632,981,800
1967 90 $923,272,831
1966 106 $427,879,530
1965 95 $825,471,539
1964 86 $556,929,459
1963 86 $507,961,920
1962 92 $296,099,429
1961 75 $460,329,342
1960 82 $252,150,589
1959 71 $272,275,122
1958 68 $142,910,514
1957 80 $139,176,883
1956 85 $273,173,466
1955 78 $198,486,360
1954 87 $239,516,817
1953 83 $233,288,978
1952 60 $80,378,235
1951 77 $112,806,223
1950 75 $328,634,348
1949 74 $83,172,768
1948 76 $68,308,202
1947 84 $87,538,090
1946 74 $249,621,102
1945 61 $126,718,419
1944 43 $38,193,926
1943 46 $65,954,977
1942 49 $333,102,936
1941 54 $35,148,540
1940 56 $189,768,971
1939 57 $438,043,407
1938 38 $13,949,062
1937 45 $199,490,582
1936 41 $16,624,866
1935 42 $3,337,878
1934 56 $3,634,329
1933 47 $14,484,875
1932 47 $17,112
1931 38 $17,005,064
1930 26 $11,118,349
1929 31 $7,096,623
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