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.

Steve’s Epic You Tube Video On This Subject

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

  1. We Have discussed the conflicting worldwide grosses quoted for The Godfather 1972. Your adjusted worldwide gross of around $1.525 billion based presumably on ticket sales equates to an actual figure of around $285 million back in 1972 which is the approximate top figure quoted by Wikipedia and one other source.

    According to the Consumer Price Index [CPI] of the US Bureau of Labor Stats $285 million earned in 1972 would today have the purchasing power of just short of $1.8 billion [at 2019 prices]

    If your figures ARE based on ticket sales, the difference between your $1.525 billion for Godpop and CPI’s $1.8 billion would be explained by the fact, known to me for some time now, that between 1972 and 2019/20 ticket prices have inflated at a slower rate than general prices; the reverse was dramatically the case during the classic era.

    For example between 1945 and 2019 ticket inflation increased at nearly twice the rate overall of general price inflation. Esther Williams’ Thrill of a Romance earned $12 million domestically in 1945 according to WH and he quite correctly adjusts that figure to around $325 for ticket inflation. However $12 million in 1945 would have the purchasing power today of just approx $175 million [$173.4 to be exact] according to CPI.

    I found you video interesting as both a statistical exercise and a further pictorial summary of the 100 highest grossing films, this time worldwide, and it gave me personal satisfaction worth a 98% rating. My selections this time round are in Parts 2 and 3.

    Anyway it’s good to see you taking an interest, albeit late in the day, in box office stats. As Paul Henried said to Bogie at the end of Casablanca “With you on our side this time I know we’ll win!” [I like Humph very much, but I sometimes wish that Paul had said that to Laddie!]

    LADD FAN [In fan magazine] “Alan is the kind of screen hero whom, if you were in trouble and looked behind you, it would be comforting to see standing there.”

    SON o BOB “Yes, but you’d have to look down first!”

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  2. Added in Steve’s latest video….here are our thoughts on that massive video.

    Argggg! Somehow I lost my massive comment. So this is take two. Good video. I have seen all of these movies….and in most cases more than once. Lots of great movies and a few clunkers….looking right at you Mr. Transformers. Glad to see The Sixth Sense holding it’s spot in the Top 100. That has always been my “little movie that could”….as nobody ever expected it to be such a hit. Looking at your list and our worldwide list….pretty close with some exceptions. Who is right and who is wrong…..do not think anybody can really answer that one…..I can answer that this is a fun video to watch. Voted up and shared.

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    1. Hi Bruce, still losing comments eh? Too easily distracted that’s why, happens to me too sometimes. 🙂
      Thanks for checking out my latest extra long video. The final calculations are not that far different from your own with some special exceptions. Gone With the Wind isn’t no.1 on your chart for instance, it’s not even no.2. I managed to include Joker’s Oscar nomination just before uploading to youtube. Missing is Star Wars 9 – Rise of Skywalker which hasn’t finished it’s run yet and taking longer than usual to pass $1bn. Star Wars fatigue setting in? Thanks for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated. Next video will rely almost entirely on your stats.

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    1. Hey George….I think we will continue to tweak and update this page versus deleting it. I appreciate the attached lists….but I will stick with our UMR estimates….which is what any list like this is….thanks for the feedback.

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  4. Hey George….the lists that are out there….rarely agree……as each site does there box office calculation different. Which is right? Probably none of them. I think the question is….Which is the most accurate? For movies over the last 30 years Mojo has the best numbers. Before that it was Variety. Variety, however, only used box office rentals vs box office grosses. Ours uses Mojo’s and Variety’s rentals….but turns the rentals into a box office gross. Wiki….picks one of the lists and goes with it…..but in the end….we all have different numbers.

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    1. Hey George…Part 2….our next update on this page will be when the official average ticket price for 2019 comes out…that usually happens around March…so March 2020 (now that is scary)..you will see massive changes on the entire website..including the two you mentioned. Good feedback.

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        1. Hey George…..your comment did make me realize that two movies from 2019…had cracked his list…so I added them in….Fast & Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw and Joker. Hobbs and Shaw sits in 118th place. Thanks for getting me to notice those exclusions. Good stuff.

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          1. 1. Titanic is not worth 4 billion. 2. Gone with the Wind is #01. 3. The Ten Commandments is below Endgame.

          2. Here is how the top 10 goes.
            1 Gone with the Wind $3,728,000,000 1939
            2 Avatar $3,273,000,000 2009
            3 Titanic $3,099,000,000 1997
            4 Star Wars $3,061,000,000 1977
            5 Avengers: Endgame $2,798,000,000 2019
            6 The Sound of Music $2,564,000,000 1965
            7 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $2,503,000,000 1982
            8 The Ten Commandments $2,370,000,000 1956
            9 Doctor Zhivago $2,246,000,000 1965
            10 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $2,215,000,000 2015
            The rest are as follows.
            https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/top-30-highest-grossing-movies-of-all-time-adjusted-for-inflation-14995975

          4. I like their list…but listing only 30, with no source of their information makes me doubt the accuracy of their list….this looks like somebody that took BoxOfficeMojo’s list and ran with it. A one and done list versus a list that has been researched an updated for a decade…give me the one with sources and one that acknowledges all the lists are “best guesses”. Good feedback.

    1. Hey Jordie….good point….I will have to get those overseas totals added to the table. I assume you are talking about the animated version and not the Glenn Close version…..though soon we will be able to include the Emma Stone version….lol.

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        1. Hey Jordie…..added in the overseas box office totals for 101 Dalmations…which has now moved to 46th place on this list…right behind Iron Man 3….good catch. Thanks for letting me know those numbers were out there.

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