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. Hey Jon….as I type this comment….my database is talking to the website and updating this page to include Avengers:Endgame….I went ahead and put it on the Domestic Chart as well….granted it will be Monday before actually earns it’s way onto that chart….but making that list in 4 days is an incredible accomplishment. Thanks for coming back for another visit.

      1. Hey Jon….Avengers:Endgame…now has a spot on the table…currently in the Top 100…..and probably going to reach the mid 60s when all the box office totals come in for it’s FIRST weekend of release.

    1. Hey Jon…..the database is updating that page as I write this comment…should be done in a few minutes. Infinity War’s box office book has now been closed…so I do not think it is going to reach any higher in the rankings….but it is in the elusive two billion dollar club. Thanks for the heads-up.

    1. Hey Jon….should reach the $2 billion mark in the next few days….an incredible accomplishment.

      1. Number rank is wrong, it says Lion King and infinity war are 14, infinity war should be 13 Zhivago 14 and lion King 15

  1. And excuse me … i also forgot, have you also worldwide box office figures for those movies ? Which version performed better ?

    5)Rob Roy the highland rogue (1953) vs Rob Roy (1994)
    6)The Mark of Zorro 1940 vs The Mask Of Zorro 1998
    7)The Thing From Another World vs The Thing 1982
    8)Man in the iron mask 1939 vs 1998 version
    9) Dirty Harry vs Magnum Force VS The Enforcer

    Thanks a lot Bruce and WOC !

    1. Hey Max….the only two we have worldwide grosses on are:

      1933 King Kong….$554 million in adjusted worldwide box office
      1976 King Kong….$381 million in adjusted worldwide box office

      1951 The Thing…..$174 million in adjusted worldwide box office
      1982 The Thing……$83 million in adjusted worldwide box office

  2. Hello Bruce ! Thanks for your amazing job ! It’s wonderful !
    Just have a question about some movies worldwide grosses :
    What movie version performed better worldwide than the other (if you have some infos…) :

    1) King Kong 1933 vs King Kong 1976
    2) Mad Max 1 vs Max Mad Beyond the Thunderdome
    3) The Fly 1958 vs The Fly 1986
    4) Sinbad the sailor 1947 vs the 7th voyage of Sinbad
    Thanks a lot !

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