#1 of 1,044 Highest-grossing Chinese-language movie ever
2025 · Animation, Drama
$2.3B worldwide
$23.3M US & Canada · 1% $2.2B elsewhere · 99%
Chinese box office · All time
Highest-Grossing Chinese Movies of All Time, Page 11
Ne Zha 2 (2025) is the highest-grossing Chinese-language movie in our database, with $2.3B worldwide, ahead of The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021) at $902.5M and Wolf Warrior 2 (2017) at $870.3M. 1,044 Chinese-language films in our database report a worldwide gross, $35.5B in all, 2% of it from the US & Canada. 1 film crossed $1 billion and 82 crossed $100 million. By genre, Drama leads with $21.2B across 612 Chinese releases.
- films with a reported gross
- 1,044
- combined worldwide
- $35.5B
- films crossed $100M
- 82
- earned in the US & Canada
- 2%
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All 1,044 Chinese Movies, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 501 to 550 of 1,044. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 501
Jun 13, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.1M - 502
Mar 18, 2011 US and Canada: $47.9K Rest of the world: $2M Worldwide: $2.1M - 503
Dec 22, 1995 US and Canada: $2.1M Rest of the world: Worldwide: $2.1M - 504
Nov 22, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.1M - 505
Jan 13, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.1M - 506
Feb 5, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.1M - 507
Oct 19, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 508
Oct 1, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 509
Jun 5, 2026 US and Canada: $81.2K Rest of the world: $1.9M Worldwide: $2M - 510
Oct 30, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 511
Feb 14, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 512
Feb 14, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 513
Apr 1, 1991 US and Canada: $2M Rest of the world: Worldwide: $2M - 514
Jan 11, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 515
Jan 22, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 516
Jun 19, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 517
Oct 28, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M - 518
Sep 18, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.9M - 519
Jun 17, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.9M - 520
Nov 26, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.9M - 521
Sep 24, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.9M - 522
Aug 28, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.9M - 523
Apr 27, 2007 US and Canada: $55.8K Rest of the world: $1.8M Worldwide: $1.8M - 524
Jul 10, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.8M - 525
Nov 19, 1976 US and Canada: $1.8M Rest of the world: Worldwide: $1.8M - 526
Apr 26, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.8M - 527
Sep 12, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.8M - 528
Jul 19, 2024 US and Canada: $122.1K Rest of the world: $1.6M Worldwide: $1.7M - 529
Aug 23, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 530
Jan 19, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 531
Jul 8, 2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 532
May 22, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 533
Dec 9, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 534
Sep 20, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 535
Nov 5, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 536
Jun 1, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 537
Mar 25, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7M - 538
Jan 12, 2024 US and Canada: $198.4K Rest of the world: $1.4M Worldwide: $1.6M - 539
Nov 24, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.6M - 540
Sep 22, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 541
Feb 8, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 542
Apr 15, 2016 US and Canada: $92.4K Rest of the world: $1.5M Worldwide: $1.5M - 543
Oct 30, 1997 US and Canada: $320.3K Rest of the world: $1.2M Worldwide: $1.5M - 544
Aug 31, 2012 US and Canada: $117.6K Rest of the world: $1.4M Worldwide: $1.5M - 545
Feb 8, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 546
Oct 17, 2002 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 547
Aug 17, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 548
Oct 17, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 549
Mar 31, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.5M - 550
May 21, 2010 US and Canada: $67.5K Rest of the world: $1.4M Worldwide: $1.5M
Archive
Chinese Box Office Year by Year
Every year from 1947 to 2026 with its total and its biggest film. 2019 leads with $4.6B, led by Ne Zha (2019).
2020s 7 years · $14.3B
2010s 10 years · $19.3B
- 2019 $4.6B #1 Ne Zha (2019)
- 2018 $3.5B #1 Operation Red Sea (2018)
- 2017 $3.2B #1 Wolf Warrior 2 (2017)
- 2016 $2.2B #1 Monster Hunt (2016)
- 2015 $2.6B #1 Lost in Hong Kong (2015)
- 2014 $1.1B #1 Journey to the West (2014)
- 2013 $1.3B #1 Lost in Thailand (2013)
- 2012 $289.1M #1 Chinese Zodiac (2012)
- 2011 $325.1M #1 Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
- 2010 $281.6M #1 If You Are the One 2 (2010)
2000s 10 years · $1.7B
- 2009 $205M #1 Red Cliff (2009)
- 2008 $681.4M #1 Sex and the City (2008)
- 2007 $184.4M #1 Lust, Caution (2007)
- 2006 $130.2M #1 Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
- 2005 $140.6M #1 Kung Fu Hustle (2005)
- 2004 $120.8M #1 House of Flying Daggers (2004)
- 2003 $5.4M #1 Sweet Sixteen (2003)
- 2002 $7.4M #1 Lan yu (2002)
- 2001 $16.2M #1 In the Mood for Love (2001)
- 2000 $216.8M #1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
1990s 10 years · $172.5M
- 1999 $28.5M #1 Election (1999)
- 1998 $1M #1 Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
- 1997 $36.2M #1 Addicted to Love (1997)
- 1996 $26.9M #1 Eye for an Eye (1996)
- 1995 $3.2M #1 Shanghai Triad (1995)
- 1994 $9.7M #1 Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
- 1993 $27M #1 Undercover Blues (1993)
- 1992 $19.6M #1 Hero (1992)
- 1991 $4.7M #1 Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
- 1990 $15.6M #1 Revenge (1990)
1980s 9 years · $46.7M
- 1989 $220.8K #1 A City of Sadness (1989)
- 1988 $108.4K #1 Red Sorghum (1988)
- 1987 $2.6K #1 Daughter of the Nile (1987)
- 1986 $7.8M #1 The Best of Times (1986)
- 1985 $35.3K #1 Taipei Story (1985)
- 1984 $23.8M #1 Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
- 1983 $37.5K #1 That Day, on the Beach (1983)
- 1981 $14.5M #1 Rich and Famous (1981)
- 1980 $228.5K #1 Haunted Tales (1980)