#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 16
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 751 to 800 of 1,044. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 751
May 22, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $171.6K - 752
Nov 21, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $167.6K - 753
May 24, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $166.3K - 754
Oct 23, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $165.7K - 755
Sep 28, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $163K - 756
Aug 6, 2010 US and Canada: $10.8K Rest of the world: $150.3K Worldwide: $161.1K - 757
Dec 11, 2020 US and Canada: $3.4K Rest of the world: $155.5K Worldwide: $159K - 758
Dec 23, 2019 US and Canada: $3.4K Rest of the world: $155.5K Worldwide: $159K - 759
Nov 14, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $158.7K - 760
Jun 28, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $158.5K - 761
Apr 19, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $155.3K - 762
Sep 22, 2017 US and Canada: $20.7K Rest of the world: $133.2K Worldwide: $153.9K - 763
Nov 23, 2018 US and Canada: $20.7K Rest of the world: $133.2K Worldwide: $153.9K - 764
Apr 11, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $152K - 765
Aug 23, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $148K - 766
Apr 4, 2014 US and Canada: $84.5K Rest of the world: $62.1K Worldwide: $146.6K - 767
Aug 25, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $144.7K - 768
May 4, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $143.6K - 769
Sep 12, 1989 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $143.2K - 770
Aug 9, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $141.1K - 771
Aug 23, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $140.9K - 772
Feb 14, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $140.2K - 773
Nov 9, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $139K - 774
Jan 21, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $132.9K
- 775
Jun 25, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $131.6K - 776
Sep 19, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $129.8K - 777
Feb 1, 2022 US and Canada: $82.8K Rest of the world: $46K Worldwide: $128.8K - 778
Mar 30, 2018 US and Canada: $121.1K Rest of the world: $7.5K Worldwide: $128.6K - 779
Feb 1, 2013 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $128K - 780
Jan 19, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $127K - 781
Sep 13, 2001 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $125.5K - 782
2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $123.4K - 783
Jun 16, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $120.7K - 784
Sep 5, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $118.8K - 785
Jul 27, 1991 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $117.4K - 786
Sep 15, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $114.9K - 787
Sep 3, 2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $114.1K - 788
Oct 11, 2004 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $113.8K - 789
Oct 10, 1988 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $108.4K - 790
Jan 30, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $108.1K - 791
Oct 12, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $107.8K - 792
Sep 15, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $104K - 793
May 14, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $98.5K - 794
2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $97.5K - 795
Dec 30, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $97.5K - 796
Jul 4, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $97K - 797
Nov 20, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $96.8K - 798
Nov 2, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $96.6K - 799
Feb 8, 2008 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $95K - 800
Jan 17, 2014 US and Canada: $6.7K Rest of the world: $86.4K Worldwide: $93K
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)