All Time Top Worldwide Box Office Grosses Movies

This page is our attempt to list the All Time Top Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies.  Potential problems?  Box office reporting before Box Office Mojo and Box Office Guru  is pretty weak.  So many movies would probably crack this Top 250 list…but due to lack of international stats they were excluded from this table.

What you do have here, are the movies in our database (36,000 movies and growing) that have domestic AND international box office.  Roughly 45% of the movies in our database have both box office totals…..but that means 55% or almost 20,000 only have domestic totals.   So before exploring the massive table below….please realize that we know that sadly some blockbusters are not on this page.   Thank you Paramount, Universal, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox for keeping crappy records back in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

All Time Top Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by movie titles and trailers
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by co-stars or directors
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each movie received
  • Sort All Time Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grossing Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

All the box office numbers are adjusted box office numbers.

This page is the brother page to our All-Time Domestic Ticket Selling Movies.

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64 thoughts on “All Time Top Worldwide Box Office Grosses Movies”

  1. I count 32 ComicBook movies and 22 Computer Animated movies. Other then totals I counted: Orlando Bloom 10 morning movies, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford 8 movies, Spielberg 12 and Michael Bay

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    1. 13 James Bond Movies, 9 Star Wars movies, 8 Hjarry Potter movies, Emma Watson 9 movies. No Star Trek movies. Correction from early post. 34 computer animated movies not 32.

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      1. Hey Ethan…..34 Computer Animated movies…..Toy Story broke the dam…lol. Yep no Star Trek movies….Emma Watson has the eight Harry Potters and Beauty and the Beast…..poor Danny Radcliffe is one behind. Good stuff.

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    2. Hey Ethan R. Thanks for all the work in creating this tally counts. 54 ComicBook movies and Computer Animated movies? I guess it is a reality that all of the current movies seem to be these two types of movies…and sequels or reboots.

      I gave Orlando Bloom star credit for 5 of the Tolkien movies he appeared….but he was a supporting role in most of those movies. You did not have a count for Bay…..but it is a pretty amazing 6. Even more impressive when you realize he has actually directed a few handful of movies.

      Thanks again.

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  2. Great site, great info. I like Raskins comment. uh oh , it got me thinking, a bad thing. I do not consider anime to be movies. they are feature length cartoons and a fabulous art form ( rapidly being transformed by computerization). they are not movies, no acting involved with voice overs. should not be included in an actors numbers for box office . tom hanks is listed about 7 times , 3 are toy story series. this saddens me. to preserve the greatness of UMR , I hope you download a master list of the way things are now and the fabulous history of movies before it is lost to anime and comic book movies with little acting and mostly special effects. put it in a time capsule. your info is precious and might become lost when polluted/overwhelmed with non acting computer dominated “movies”.
    kudos to Johnny Depp for 7 listings a tremendously undervalued actor. our Bruce Willis is on 4 times and only 1 from die hard series. his greatness is more appreciated world wide.
    if you take out transformers and anime and fast and furious series and twilight saga series. I saw 192 of 200.
    yea Cogerson. yea UMR.

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    1. Hey bob cox…..originally “voice roles” were pulled out of the tables….but over time it became apparent that it was confusing not to include them…as many people would comment…”What about the Toy Story movies?”…because they had missed the second, much smaller table. A few times a “voice over” role has topped a person’s UMR score table….frustrating but luckily that does not happen very often.

      I think we could actually split this page into two different parts….a Classic UMR page and a Current UMR page….the classic movies will never have to worry about getting lost….as it is only on pages like this that two pages merge.

      Speaking of which…..since publishing this page….been doing some more research……as the lack of classic movies…..is something that bothers me……in the last few days I have found some international numbers…..last night I got a Ben-Hur number….as well as a Butch Cassidy number…..that Cassidy number put it back into the Top 250…..but knocked one of Depp’s 7 movies out of the Top 250….meanwhile Ben-Hur moved all the way back to the Top 10.

      192 out of 200….a very impressive 96% rate. Good feedback.

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  3. Whoa an epic list of moneymakers Bruce, nice work putting this together.

    I’ve scanned the list and there are just 4 of the 250 I haven’t seen – Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Random Harvest and Wolf Warrior II.

    Most recent films I’ve seen – Coco, Jumanji II, The Last Jedi and Black Panther.

    Shouldn’t Ben-Hur be higher up? it did almost as well as The Ten Commandments at the box office, why is it lower than Cleopatra? I see you don’t have the worldwide gross for Ben-Hur you’ve listed it’s domestic gross twice, not really fair, ticket sales tell a different story.

    Titanic beats Avatar in adjusted grosses, but neither can compete with Star Wars (1977) and Gone With the Wind in ticket sales, not even close.

    Interesting list Bruce but you lose points for dropping the hugely successful Ben-Hur nearly off the chart.

    Vote Up.

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    1. Hey Steve; the greatness of Ben-Hur is a that it made this list without having any international box office numbers. The same can be said about The Sting. If you have some information on Ben-Heston and its global box office please share and I will include it….and then Ben should get a more respected rankings.

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  4. I decided to count how many films I have seen on this list. I knew it would be a low total, because as you said there aren’t many records for the classic era. Raskin does a good job of listing the totals by decade.

    I have seen 52 movies. That is only 1/5th of these movies.That stretches from the 1930s to the 2000s. None of the movies I have seen on this list are from the 2010s. Unlike with some people like you and Steve, my totals will take a steep decline when you hit the 1970s Yearly Reviews.

    The top film I have seen is Avatar. I saw it because it was about Howard Hughes. I usually don’t watch blockbuster films. Most of those I have seen are Bond movies.

    The lowest ranked film I have seen is Die Another Day.

    Favourite Top 15:

    Gone With the Wind
    The Spy Who Loved Me
    The Sting
    Goldfinger
    Ghost
    Grease
    How the West Was Won
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    Random Harvest
    Rain Man
    Pretty Woman
    The Sound of Music
    Doctor Zhivago
    Back to the Future
    From Russia With Love

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    1. Hey Flora
      1. One of the few times that I can say I have you topped in a tally count….my tally is 248…only missing Black Panther and the yet to be released Infinity War….both will be seen very very soon.
      2. 52 is pretty good…especially with 150 of the movies listed being made in the last 18 years(thanks Raskin).
      3. So if we take out the ones made after 2010….then your total is 52 out of 162…or 33%….not too bad.
      4. I suspect the 1970s will be better than you are thinking….maybe it will dip in 1977, 1978 and 1979….but I give you the edge on the early 1970s.
      5. We should be there pretty soon…started looking at 1966 yesterday….so the 1960 decade is getting near the end too.
      6. Of your favorites….I have seen them all….with Goldfinger, The Sting, Spy For Loved Me, Back To the Future and From Russia With Love being my favorites too.
      7. The Sting would be much higher than 162nd…but it only includes it’s domestic box office…..sadly I can not find any international numbers on that classic.
      Good stuff as always.

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  5. fun page to read. sad you do not have more numbers for the classic movies. breakdown by decade. 1930s three movies, 1940s 7 movies, 1950s 3 movies, 1960s 12 movies, 1970s 12 movies, 1980s 20 movies, 1990s 43 movies, 2000s 64 movies and this decade 86 movies.

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    1. Hey Raskin….glad you liked this page….I agree….it is sad that we have not been able to include more classic movies. Thanks for the breakdown by decade……wow….only 3 from the 1950s! The 2000s and 2010s make up 60% of the list…..not a stat I like…I understand it…..just don’t like it, because it shows just how much information is missing. Thanks for finding this page and doing that stat breakdown.

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