#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 13
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 601 to 650 of 1,044. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 601
Nov 30, 2012 US and Canada: $313K Rest of the world: $605.5K Worldwide: $918.5K - 602
Jul 21, 2023 US and Canada: $22.7K Rest of the world: $888.8K Worldwide: $911.5K - 603
Sep 8, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $900.7K - 604
May 22, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $899.1K - 605
Nov 25, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $892.6K - 606
Apr 8, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $860.4K - 607
Aug 13, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $856.1K - 608
Oct 4, 2013 US and Canada: $154.1K Rest of the world: $700.8K Worldwide: $854.9K - 609
May 2, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $854.7K - 610
Jul 22, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $803.6K - 611
Aug 10, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $800.3K - 612
Jan 11, 2002 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $790.1K - 613
Sep 2, 2004 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $784.4K - 614
Dec 1, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $779.5K - 615
Nov 14, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $761.5K - 616
Sep 30, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $759.9K - 617
Dec 6, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $756.9K - 618
Jun 16, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $742.3K - 619
Jun 3, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $734.1K - 620
Apr 14, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $728.9K - 621
May 1, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $728.4K - 622
Oct 25, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $722.7K - 623
Mar 30, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $693.1K - 624
May 29, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $678.6K - 625
Mar 15, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $670K - 626
Apr 26, 2013 US and Canada: $35.1K Rest of the world: $633.4K Worldwide: $668.5K - 627
Jun 29, 2012 US and Canada: $64.4K Rest of the world: $603.2K Worldwide: $667.6K - 628
Apr 14, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $663.8K - 629
Dec 6, 2004 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $662.2K - 630
Mar 9, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $656.5K - 631
Apr 13, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $649.7K - 632
Jan 28, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $647.7K - 633
Oct 8, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $645.8K - 634
Oct 11, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $645.7K - 635
Nov 24, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $637.5K - 636
Jul 26, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $625.6K - 637
Aug 13, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $623.4K - 638
Jun 24, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $616.3K - 639
Feb 19, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $610.9K - 640
Oct 7, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $598.6K - 641
Aug 22, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $594.4K - 642
Oct 7, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $594.3K - 643
Feb 18, 2000 US and Canada: $592.6K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $592.6K - 644
Jul 6, 2012 US and Canada: $10K Rest of the world: $578.7K Worldwide: $588.8K - 645
Apr 3, 2026 US and Canada: $26.6K Rest of the world: $561.1K Worldwide: $587.7K - 646
Mar 21, 2008 US and Canada: $49.3K Rest of the world: $537.6K Worldwide: $586.9K - 647
Apr 26, 2006 US and Canada: $151.9K Rest of the world: $430K Worldwide: $581.9K - 648
Sep 6, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $580K - 649
Mar 15, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $577.9K - 650
Mar 21, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $565.9K
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)