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Top Grossing Thriller Movies in 2012

Rank Title Language Domestic Worldwide
1 The Avengers
English

EN

$623,357,910 $1,520,538,536
2 The Dark Knight Rises
English

EN

$448,149,584 $1,114,976,407
3 Skyfall
English

EN

$304,360,277 $1,108,594,137
4 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
English

EN

$292,324,737 $848,593,948
5 The Amazing Spider-Man
English

EN

$262,782,352 $758,725,893
6 The Hunger Games
English

EN

$408,010,692 $695,220,619
7 Les Miserables
English

EN

$149,260,140 $442,757,529
8 Prometheus
English

EN

$126,477,084 $403,354,469
9 Taken 2
English

EN

$139,854,287 $376,152,455
10 The Expendables 2
English

EN

$85,028,192 $314,975,955
11 Battleship
English

EN

$65,422,625 $303,025,485
12 The Bourne Legacy
English

EN

$113,203,870 $276,144,750
13 Dark Shadows
English

EN

$79,727,149 $245,527,149
14 Resident Evil: Retribution
English

EN

$42,345,531 $240,159,255
15 Jack Reacher
English

EN

$80,070,736 $218,340,595
16 Safe House
English

EN

$126,373,434 $208,076,205
17 Total Recall (2012)
English

EN

$58,877,969 $198,467,607
18 Total Recall
English

EN

$58,877,969 $198,467,607
19 The Impossible
English

EN

$19,019,882 $198,087,212
20 Looper
English

EN

$66,486,205 $176,506,819
21 Zero Dark Thirty
English

EN

$95,720,716 $132,820,716
22 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
English

EN

$51,774,002 $132,563,930
23 The Woman in Black
English

EN

$54,333,290 $128,955,898
24 Chronicle
English

EN

$64,575,175 $126,636,097
25 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
English

EN

$37,519,139 $116,471,580
26 The Devil Inside
French

FR

$53,261,944 $101,758,490
27 Contraband
English

EN

$66,528,000 $96,262,212
28 The Possession
english

EN

$49,130,154 $85,446,075
29 Savages
English

EN

$47,382,068 $82,966,152
30 Sinister
English

EN

$48,086,903 $82,515,113
31 Act of Valor
English

EN

$70,012,847 $82,499,399
32 The Grey
English

EN

$51,580,236 $79,781,695
33 The Cabin in the Woods
English

EN

$42,073,277 $70,038,838
34 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
English

EN

$17,529,157 $55,362,705
35 End of Watch
English

EN

$41,003,371 $55,078,146
36 Man on a Ledge
English

EN

$18,620,000 $47,636,031
37 House at the End of the Street
English

EN

$31,611,916 $44,287,131
38 Safe
English

EN

$17,142,080 $41,564,670
39 Dredd
English

EN

$13,414,714 $41,037,742
40 Chernobyl Diaries
English

EN

$18,119,640 $38,390,020
41 One for the Money
English

EN

$26,414,527 $38,084,162
42 Killing Them Softly
English

EN

$15,026,056 $37,930,465
43 Arbitrage
English

EN

$7,919,574 $35,485,056
44 Alex Cross
English

EN

$25,888,412 $34,618,867
45 Haywire
English

EN

$18,942,396 $34,513,760
46 Lockout
English

EN

$14,326,864 $32,948,113
47 Premium Rush
English

EN

$20,275,446 $31,083,599
48 The Raven
Danish

DK

$16,008,272 $29,699,345
49 Deranged
Korean

KR

- $28,444,173
50 Lesson of the Evil
Japanese

JP

- $26,167,224

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