#1 of 694 #1 drama movie of 2008
2008 · Action, Drama
$1B worldwide · 10% of the chart's total
$535M US & Canada · 53% $477.6M elsewhere · 47%
Drama box office · 2008
Drama Box Office 2008: Highest-Grossing Drama Movies, Page 8
The Dark Knight (2008) is the highest-grossing drama movie released in 2008, with $1B worldwide, ahead of Sex and the City (2008) at $418.8M and Twilight (2008) at $408.5M. 694 drama films released in 2008 report a worldwide gross, $10.6B in all, 40% of it from the US & Canada. 1 film crossed $1 billion and 26 crossed $100 million. That is up 39% on 2007, whose releases took $7.6B. By language, English leads with $8.1B across 269 drama releases.
- 2008 releases with a gross
- 694
- combined worldwide
- $10.6B
- films crossed $100M
- 26
- vs 2007
- +39%
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Every Drama Release of 2008, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 351 to 400 of 694. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in 2008.
- 351
Jun 15, 2008 US and Canada: $406.1K Rest of the world: $322.8K Worldwide: $728.9K - 352
Sep 6, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $724.8K - 353
Sep 26, 2008 US and Canada: $719.6K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $719.6K - 354
Dec 24, 2008 US and Canada: $141.1K Rest of the world: $575.2K Worldwide: $716.4K - 355
Feb 22, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $694.2K - 356
Mar 14, 2008 US and Canada: $5.3K Rest of the world: $687.3K Worldwide: $692.6K - 357
Dec 3, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $692.2K - 358
Sep 12, 2008 US and Canada: $372.1K Rest of the world: $319.6K Worldwide: $691.7K - 359
Oct 8, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $686.7K - 360
Jan 30, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $673.2K - 361
Sep 18, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $658.3K - 362
Apr 13, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $631.3K - 363
Sep 5, 2008 US and Canada: $177K Rest of the world: $453.4K Worldwide: $630.4K - 364
Apr 4, 2008 US and Canada: $85.4K Rest of the world: $542.8K Worldwide: $628.3K - 365
Mar 13, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $624.9K - 366
Jul 5, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $623.8K - 367
Sep 17, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $616.5K - 368
Jan 11, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $600.7K - 369
Aug 8, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $598.9K - 370
Dec 19, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $592.5K - 371
Mar 13, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $588.2K - 372
Mar 21, 2008 US and Canada: $49.3K Rest of the world: $537.6K Worldwide: $586.9K - 373
Mar 6, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $582K - 374
May 24, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $580.2K - 375
Nov 22, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $569.9K - 376
Oct 24, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $569.2K - 377
Sep 23, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $568K - 378
Jan 25, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $556.3K - 379
Dec 12, 2008 US and Canada: $39.1K Rest of the world: $514.1K Worldwide: $553.2K - 380
Jun 6, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $553K - 381
Dec 5, 2008 US and Canada: $540.4K Rest of the world: $10.4K Worldwide: $550.8K - 382
May 21, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $538.7K - 383
Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008)Oct 26, 2008 US and Canada: $532.9K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $532.9K
Oct 26, 2008 · English · Comedy, Drama, Romance $532.9K worldwide - 384
Nov 7, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $529.4K - 385
Jan 18, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $524.5K - 386
Oct 31, 2008 US and Canada: $14.2K Rest of the world: $508.3K Worldwide: $522.5K - 387
May 4, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $513.8K - 388
May 31, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $508.7K - 389
Nov 7, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $499.1K - 390
Dec 12, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $498.1K - 391
Jul 12, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $489.8K - 392
Feb 29, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $489.8K - 393
Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge (2008)Jan 19, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $477.6K
Jan 19, 2008 · Japanese · Horror, Drama, Fantasy $477.6K worldwide - 394
Nov 26, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $476.8K - 395
Apr 30, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $475.4K - 396
Jul 11, 2008 US and Canada: $459.2K Rest of the world: $14.8K Worldwide: $474K - 397
Nov 28, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $461.5K - 398
Mar 26, 2008 US and Canada: $128.2K Rest of the world: $331.9K Worldwide: $460.1K - 399
Nov 27, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $432.6K - 400
Oct 24, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $431.3K
Archive
Drama Box Office Year by Year
Every year from 1919 to 2026 with its total and its biggest film. 2019 leads with $13.9B, led by The Lion King (2019).
2020s 7 years · $50.1B
2010s 10 years · $113.6B
- 2019 $13.9B #1 The Lion King (2019)
- 2018 $12.7B #1 Black Panther (2018)
- 2017 $12.5B #1 Wolf Warrior 2 (2017)
- 2016 $11.1B #1 The Jungle Book (2016)
- 2015 $11.6B #1 Inside Out (2015)
- 2014 $10.3B #1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
- 2013 $12.1B #1 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- 2012 $12B #1 The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- 2011 $7.8B #1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
- 2010 $9.6B #1 Inception (2010)
2000s 10 years · $70.7B
- 2009 $9.9B #1 2012 (2009)
- 2008 $10.6B #1 The Dark Knight (2008)
- 2007 $7.6B #1 I Am Legend (2007)
- 2006 $7.5B #1 The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
- 2005 $8.1B #1 War of the Worlds (2005)
- 2004 $6.4B #1 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
- 2003 $5B #1 Bruce Almighty (2003)
- 2002 $5.2B #1 Signs (2002)
- 2001 $4.6B #1 Pearl Harbor (2001)
- 2000 $5.8B #1 Gladiator (2000)
1990s 10 years · $42.3B
- 1999 $5.2B #1 The Sixth Sense (1999)
- 1998 $4.9B #1 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- 1997 $5.9B #1 Titanic (1997)
- 1996 $4.5B #1 Twister (1996)
- 1995 $4.8B #1 Apollo 13 (1995)
- 1994 $4.3B #1 The Lion King (1994)
- 1993 $4.7B #1 Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- 1992 $2.9B #1 The Bodyguard (1992)
- 1991 $2.4B #1 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
- 1990 $2.7B #1 Ghost (1990)
1980s 10 years · $14.2B
- 1989 $2B #1 Dead Poets Society (1989)
- 1988 $2.1B #1 Rain Man (1988)
- 1987 $1.7B #1 Fatal Attraction (1987)
- 1986 $1.4B #1 Top Gun (1986)
- 1985 $1.5B #1 Rocky IV (1985)
- 1984 $1.4B #1 Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- 1983 $1.1B #1 Terms of Endearment (1983)
- 1982 $1.3B #1 Tootsie (1982)
- 1981 $889.5M #1 On Golden Pond (1981)
- 1980 $674.6M #1 Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
1970s 10 years · $5B
- 1979 $919.3M #1 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- 1978 $585M #1 Jaws 2 (1978)
- 1977 $832.1M #1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- 1976 $378.6M #1 Rocky (1976)
- 1975 $303.6M #1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- 1974 $439.5M #1 The Towering Inferno (1974)
- 1973 $869.6M #1 The Exorcist (1973)
- 1972 $337M #1 The Godfather (1972)
- 1971 $133.4M #1 The French Connection (1971)
- 1970 $229.2M #1 Airport (1970)
1960s 10 years · $865.1M
- 1969 $164M #1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- 1968 $59.2M #1 Funny Girl (1968)
- 1967 $166.8M #1 The Graduate (1967)
- 1966 $29.7M #1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- 1965 $272.6M #1 The Sound of Music (1965)
- 1964 $74.9M #1 My Fair Lady (1964)
- 1963 $63.5M #1 Cleopatra (1963)
- 1962 $6M #1 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- 1961 $6.5M #1 Mother and a Guest (1961)
- 1960 $21.9M #1 The Apartment (1960)
1950s 10 years · $438.7M
- 1959 $75M #1 Ben-Hur (1959)
- 1958 $3.3M #1 Touch of Evil (1958)
- 1957 $32.5M #1 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- 1956 $119.9M #1 The Ten Commandments (1956)
- 1955 $95.8M #1 Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- 1954 $32.7M #1 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- 1953 $36.8M #1 The Robe (1953)
- 1952 $36.5M #1 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- 1951 $4.5M #1 Ace in the Hole (1951)
- 1950 $1.5M #1 Shadow on the Wall (1950)
1940s 10 years · $775.9M
- 1949 $164.2K #1 Stray Dog (1949)
- 1948 $6.2M #1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- 1947 $11.1M #1 It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
- 1946 $54.6M #1 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- 1945 $22M #1 The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
- 1944 $102.5K #1 Henry V (1944)
- 1943 $4.9M #1 Casablanca (1943)
- 1942 $270.1M #1 Bambi (1942)
- 1941 $1.8M #1 Citizen Kane (1941)
- 1940 $404.9M #1 Gone with the Wind (1940)
1930s 10 years · $2.8M
- 1939 $1.1M #1 Wuthering Heights (1939)
- 1938 $47.4K #1 Port of Shadows (1938)
- 1937 $19.3K #1 Stage Door (1937)
- 1936 $536.4K #1 Modern Times (1936)
- 1935 $516K #1 Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- 1934 $13.2K #1 L’Atalante (1934)
- 1933 $451.3K #1 Baby Face (1933)
- 1932 $47.1K #1 The Old Dark House (1932)
- 1931 $46.6K #1 M (1931)
- 1930 $5.1K #1 The Blue Angel (1930)
1920s 8 years · $10.4M
- 1929 $89.2K #1 Pandora’s Box (1929)
- 1928 $40.9K #1 The Air Circus (1928)
- 1927 $161.5K #1 Sunrise (1927)
- 1926 $720.7K #1 Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- 1925 $82.5K #1 The Gold Rush (1925)
- 1923 $12.9K #1 A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
- 1921 $9.2M #1 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- 1920 $9.3K #1 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)