#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 14
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 651 to 700 of 1,044. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 651
Jul 13, 2007 US and Canada: $39.1K Rest of the world: $514.1K Worldwide: $553.2K - 652
Feb 9, 2002 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $547.8K - 653
Sep 29, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $540K - 654
Sep 23, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $525.1K - 655
May 9, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $524.4K - 656
Oct 28, 2005 US and Canada: $77.5K Rest of the world: $439.4K Worldwide: $516.9K - 657
May 31, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $508.8K - 658
Dec 16, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $508.8K - 659
Jan 16, 2026 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $508K - 660
Sep 3, 2010 US and Canada: $190.9K Rest of the world: $313.3K Worldwide: $504.3K - 661
Jan 26, 2018 US and Canada: $79.4K Rest of the world: $424.6K Worldwide: $504K - 662
Oct 28, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $484.7K - 663
Aug 22, 2025 US and Canada: $152K Rest of the world: $324.5K Worldwide: $476.4K - 664
Aug 16, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $469.8K - 665
Oct 1, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $460.2K - 666
Apr 4, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $459.3K - 667
Nov 17, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $454.2K - 668
Aug 1, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $452.9K - 669
Oct 23, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $451.8K - 670
Jul 30, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $436.7K - 671
May 9, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $436.2K - 672
May 12, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $430.3K - 673
Dec 3, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $417.8K - 674
Nov 13, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $410K - 675
Aug 4, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $408.2K - 676
Sep 8, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $403.5K - 677
Jun 5, 2009 US and Canada: $30.8K Rest of the world: $372.1K Worldwide: $402.9K - 678
Aug 10, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $396.4K - 679
2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $394.7K - 680
May 20, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $387.8K - 681
Sep 20, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $373.9K - 682
Oct 3, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $368.9K - 683
Sep 15, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $365.6K - 684
Sep 10, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $360.3K - 685
Sep 9, 2011 US and Canada: $34.8K Rest of the world: $323.7K Worldwide: $358.5K - 686
Feb 27, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $352.3K - 687
Oct 1, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $348.2K - 688
Jul 23, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $346.1K - 689
2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $336.1K - 690
Sep 6, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $335.2K - 691
Sep 11, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $331K - 692
Nov 9, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $326K - 693
May 9, 2025 US and Canada: $291.3K Rest of the world: $33.8K Worldwide: $325.1K - 694
Aug 21, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $322.6K - 695
Aug 21, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $322.6K - 696
Jun 8, 2012 US and Canada: $44.8K Rest of the world: $276.3K Worldwide: $321.1K - 697
Jul 27, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $311.7K - 698
Oct 18, 2024 US and Canada: $40.1K Rest of the world: $269.8K Worldwide: $309.9K - 699
Jan 20, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $309.8K - 700
Sep 3, 2010 US and Canada: $288.3K Rest of the world: $21.4K Worldwide: $309.7K
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)