#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 21
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 1,001 to 1,044 of 1,044. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 1001
Dec 6, 1973 US and Canada: $4.3K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $4.3K - 1002
Sep 8, 2000 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4.3K - 1003
Nov 19, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4.2K - 1004
Dec 13, 2019 US and Canada: $4.1K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $4.1K - 1005
Apr 30, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $4K - 1006
Jan 28, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.9K - 1007
Jan 9, 2013 US and Canada: $3.8K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $3.8K - 1008
Sep 27, 2017 US and Canada: $3.7K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $3.7K - 1009
Mar 24, 2017 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.6K - 1010
Sep 3, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $3.1K - 1011
Aug 22, 1987 US and Canada: $2.6K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $2.6K - 1012
Nov 29, 2002 US and Canada: $2.6K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $2.6K - 1013
Jun 8, 2001 US and Canada: $2.6K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $2.6K - 1014
May 16, 1998 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.5K - 1015
Oct 14, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.5K - 1016
Aug 27, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.4K - 1017
Sep 9, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.3K - 1018
Apr 11, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2.1K - 1019
May 28, 2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2K - 1020
Apr 26, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.7K - 1021
Aug 1, 1997 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.6K - 1022
Sep 22, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.4K - 1023
Mar 23, 2012 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.4K - 1024
Aug 13, 2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.3K - 1025
1990 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $1.1K - 1026
Jul 5, 2013 US and Canada: $1K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $1K - 1027
Dec 17, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $935 - 1028
Sep 7, 2006 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $756 - 1029
May 9, 1973 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $591 - 1030
Oct 23, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $532 - 1031
Dec 23, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $491 - 1032
Sep 26, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $466 - 1033
Aug 19, 2022 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $362 - 1034
May 31, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $343 - 1035
2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $341 - 1036
Sep 28, 2009 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $230 - 1037
Jul 30, 1952 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $217 - 1038
Sep 16, 2021 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $193 - 1039
Nov 2, 1966 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $134 - 1040
Feb 18, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $55 - 1041
Sep 6, 1996 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $54 - 1042
Sep 12, 1999 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $37 - 1043
Sep 5, 2004 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $25 - 1044
Sep 10, 2003 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $20
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)