#1 of 418 #1 drama movie of 2025
2025 · Animation, Drama
$2.3B worldwide · 30% of the chart's total
$23.3M US & Canada · 1% $2.2B elsewhere · 99%
Drama box office · 2025
Drama Box Office 2025: Highest-Grossing Drama Movies, Page 2
Ne Zha 2 (2025) is the highest-grossing drama movie released in 2025, with $2.3B worldwide, ahead of F1: The Movie (2025) at $634.1M and Detective Chinatown 1900 (2025) at $500.3M. 418 drama films released in 2025 report a worldwide gross, $7.6B in all, 23% of it from the US & Canada. 1 film crossed $1 billion and 15 crossed $100 million. That is down 9% on 2024, whose releases took $8.4B. By language, Chinese leads with $3.5B across 18 drama releases.
- 2025 releases with a gross
- 418
- combined worldwide
- $7.6B
- films crossed $100M
- 15
- vs 2024
- −9%
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Every Drama Release of 2025, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 51 to 100 of 418. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in 2025.
- 51
Jan 17, 2025 US and Canada: $6.9M Rest of the world: $4.2M Worldwide: $11.1M - 52
Oct 15, 2025 US and Canada: $1.8M Rest of the world: $8.7M Worldwide: $10.5M - 53
May 22, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $10.2M - 54
Mar 21, 2025 US and Canada: $6.1M Rest of the world: $4.1M Worldwide: $10.2M - 55
Dec 19, 2025 US and Canada: $6.2M Rest of the world: $3.9M Worldwide: $10.1M - 56
Dec 25, 2025 US and Canada: $1M Rest of the world: $8.5M Worldwide: $9.5M - 57
Oct 10, 2025 US and Canada: $3.3M Rest of the world: $6.2M Worldwide: $9.4M - 58
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (2025)Aug 1, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $9.2M
Aug 1, 2025 · Korean · Action, Adventure, Drama $9.2M worldwide - 59
Face Off 8: Embrace of Light (2025)Sep 19, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $8.9M
Sep 19, 2025 · Vietnamese · Comedy, Drama, Family $8.9M worldwide - 60
Dec 24, 2025 US and Canada: $964.5K Rest of the world: $7.4M Worldwide: $8.3M - 61
Feb 14, 2025 US and Canada: $4.8M Rest of the world: $3.4M Worldwide: $8.2M - 62
Apr 17, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $8M - 63
Sep 26, 2025 US and Canada: $58.4K Rest of the world: $7.7M Worldwide: $7.8M - 64
May 23, 2025 US and Canada: $6.4M Rest of the world: $1.1M Worldwide: $7.5M - 65
Oct 10, 2025 US and Canada: $7.4M Rest of the world: Worldwide: $7.4M - 66
Mar 28, 2025 US and Canada: $110.8K Rest of the world: $7.1M Worldwide: $7.2M - 67
Apr 4, 2025 US and Canada: $149.4K Rest of the world: $6.7M Worldwide: $6.9M - 68
Mar 14, 2025 US and Canada: $6.6M Rest of the world: $128.6K Worldwide: $6.7M - 69
Sep 6, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $6.4M - 70
Mar 28, 2025 US and Canada: $1.6M Rest of the world: $4.7M Worldwide: $6.3M - 71
Apr 23, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $6.2M - 72
Oct 17, 2025 US and Canada: $6M Rest of the world: $120.8K Worldwide: $6.2M - 73
Mar 16, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $6.1M - 74
Dec 17, 2025 US and Canada: $955.7K Rest of the world: $4.8M Worldwide: $5.8M - 75
Jun 6, 2025 US and Canada: $527.1K Rest of the world: $5.2M Worldwide: $5.7M - 76
Sep 5, 2025 US and Canada: $5.2M Rest of the world: $428K Worldwide: $5.6M - 77
Apr 18, 2025 US and Canada: $308.6K Rest of the world: $5.3M Worldwide: $5.6M - 78
May 13, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $5.5M - 79
May 9, 2025 US and Canada: $3.9M Rest of the world: $1.5M Worldwide: $5.4M - 80
Mar 28, 2025 US and Canada: $3.9M Rest of the world: $1.3M Worldwide: $5.2M - 81
Mar 28, 2025 US and Canada: $625K Rest of the world: $4.5M Worldwide: $5.1M - 82
Sep 26, 2025 US and Canada: $2.6M Rest of the world: $2.2M Worldwide: $4.8M - 83
Dec 12, 2025 US and Canada: $4M Rest of the world: $535.4K Worldwide: $4.6M - 84
Feb 21, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4.6M - 85
Aug 1, 2025 US and Canada: $101.8K Rest of the world: $4.4M Worldwide: $4.5M - 86
Sep 1, 2025 US and Canada: $2.5M Rest of the world: $1.7M Worldwide: $4.2M - 87
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (2025)Feb 21, 2025 US and Canada: $671.3K Rest of the world: $3.5M Worldwide: $4.1M
Feb 21, 2025 · Chinese · Action, Adventure, Drama $4.1M worldwide - 88
Feb 17, 2025 US and Canada: $42.6K Rest of the world: $4M Worldwide: $4M - 89
Apr 9, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.8M - 90
Oct 12, 2025 US and Canada: $141K Rest of the world: $3.5M Worldwide: $3.6M - 91
Oct 17, 2025 US and Canada: $2.2M Rest of the world: $1.4M Worldwide: $3.6M - 92
Jun 20, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.5M - 93
May 19, 2025 US and Canada: $1.9M Rest of the world: $1.6M Worldwide: $3.5M - 94
Jun 27, 2025 US and Canada: $2.4M Rest of the world: $1M Worldwide: $3.4M - 95
2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.3M - 96
Oct 29, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.3M - 97
Apr 11, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.2M - 98
Aug 8, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3M - 99
Mar 29, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3M - 100
Dec 31, 2025 US and Canada: $2M Rest of the world: $997.5K Worldwide: $3M
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 · $49.8B
2010s 10 years · $113.7B
- 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 · $70.6B
- 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 · $42.4B
- 1999 $5.2B #1 The Sixth Sense (1999)
- 1998 $4.9B #1 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- 1997 $5.9B #1 Titanic (1997)
- 1996 $4.6B #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 $917.4M #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 · $861.5M
- 1969 $164M #1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- 1968 $55.9M #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 $6.2M #1 Mother and a Guest (1961)
- 1960 $21.9M #1 The Apartment (1960)
1950s 10 years · $437.8M
- 1959 $74.9M #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 $745.3K #1 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
1940s 10 years · $771.7M
- 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 $268.3M #1 Bambi (1942)
- 1941 $1.8M #1 Citizen Kane (1941)
- 1940 $402.6M #1 Gone with the Wind (1940)
1930s 10 years · $1.8M
- 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 $19K #1 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 1934 $13.2K #1 L’Atalante (1934)
- 1933 $267 #1 Today We Live (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 · $9.7M
- 1929 $89.1K #1 Pandora’s Box (1929)
- 1928 $40.9K #1 The Air Circus (1928)
- 1927 $161.5K #1 Sunrise (1927)
- 1926 $62.7K #1 Battleship Potemkin (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)