The 10 Highest-Grossing Films of All Time, in the Dollars They Actually Earned

Read the chart top to bottom and one number runs the whole argument: $2,942,318,540. That's the worldwide lifetime gross Box Office Mojo reports for "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), and the lead looks thinner the closer you get — second place misses by $18,607,832, a rounding error wearing a crown. You've probably heard a different winner named at some point. The chart disagrees, and the chart's the only judge this list recognizes. Animation gets a ranking of its own in this library; two of its titles appear below, because this chart crowns everything at once.

"Avengers: Endgame" Holds the Crown at $2,942,318,540, and "Avatar" Sits $18,607,832 Behind

The verdict, stated once more where a skim reader lands: "Avengers: Endgame" leads the all-time worldwide chart, "Avatar" runs second, and the whole top ten clears $1.87 billion a seat. The floor of the list — the No. 10 gross — tops $1.87 billion, and the title parked at No. 11 can't buy its way in. It falls $68,571,851 short, and its name's in the contract below, because a cutoff you can't inspect is just a rumor.

Read the ten as a group and two more figures frame the table. Combined, the ten titles grossed $23,172,702,498 in lifetime worldwide business on Mojo's chart, and the spread from first to tenth runs $1,072,009,249 — a full blockbuster's worth of daylight between the crown and the last chair.

The Contract: Five Rules This Ranking Runs On

• Gross: worldwide lifetime theatrical gross, in US dollars, exactly as Box Office Mojo reports the figure.
• Adjustment: none. Nominal dollars only — a 1997 dollar counts the same as a 2026 dollar, because the chart counts it that way.
• Scope: every title on Mojo's Top Lifetime Grosses worldwide chart, read in full rank order from No. 1 through the cutoff.
• Re-releases: folded into each title's lifetime total, the way Mojo folds them in.
• Cutoff: the chart as read on November 9, 2026. First title out: "The Odyssey" (2026), No. 11 at $1,801,737,440 — $68,571,851 behind No. 10, so the source draws the line, never vibes.

The Countdown, No. 10 to No. 1

No. 10 — "Zootopia 2" (2025) — $1,870,309,291

Disney's sequel takes the last chair and defends it well: $428,130,160 domestic (22.9 percent) and $1,442,179,131 foreign (77.1 percent). It clears No. 11, "The Odyssey," by $68,571,851, and it trails No. 9 by $51,116,782. A floor above $1.87 billion tells you how high the bar's climbed. Its 77.1 percent foreign share runs second-highest in the top ten, behind only the No. 5 film's 99.0 percent.

No. 9 — "Spider-Man: No Way Home" (2021) — $1,921,426,073

Three Spider-Men, one gross: $814,866,759 domestic (42.4 percent) plus $1,106,559,314 foreign. That 42.4 percent domestic share runs second-highest in the top ten, and the film still sits $130,988,966 below No. 8 — a gap big enough to swallow most studios' best year whole.

No. 8 — "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) — $2,052,415,039

The first $2 billion entry on the way up. The split runs $678,815,482 domestic (33.1 percent) and $1,373,599,557 foreign, and the film finishes just $18,895,179 behind No. 7 — the third-tightest margin in the top ten.

No. 7 — "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" (2015) — $2,071,310,218

"The Force Awakens" earned $936,662,225 domestic — a 45.2 percent domestic share, the highest share in the top ten — alongside $1,134,647,993 foreign. American audiences carried this one further, proportionally, than any other title up here, and it still lands seventh.

No. 6 — "Titanic" (1997) — $2,264,812,968

The oldest film on the list, and the only title from the 1990s. "Titanic" pairs $674,354,882 domestic with $1,590,458,086 foreign, a lifetime figure Mojo assembles across the original run and every re-release since. It misses the top five by $5,887,402 — the tightest margin in the top ten. Its foreign column alone, $1,590,458,086, would rank fifteenth on this same chart if it stood as a separate title.

No. 5 — "Ne Zha 2" (2025) — $2,270,700,370

Here's the entry that redraws the map. "Ne Zha 2" earned $2,247,392,194 outside the domestic market — 99.0 percent foreign, per Mojo — and Mojo's title page for the film puts $2,209,602,296 of the total in China alone. Its entire domestic gross, $23,308,176, amounts to about one percent of its worldwide figure. A top-five finish built almost entirely inside one country: that's the fact, and it needs no garnish.

No. 4 — "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) — $2,334,484,620

Thirteen years after the first film, the sequel lands fourth: $688,459,501 domestic (29.5 percent) and $1,646,025,119 foreign. It clears "Ne Zha 2" by $63,784,250, and it hands its franchise two of the top four slots — a claim no other series on this chart can match. Together, the two "Avatar" titles grossed $5,258,195,328 combined.

No. 3 — "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (2026) — $2,521,214,671

The chart's newest giant, and its domestic champion: $958,944,095 domestic (38.0 percent) — the largest domestic lifetime gross Mojo lists for any film, full stop — plus $1,562,270,576 foreign. It still trails No. 2 by $402,496,037, the widest gap in the top ten.

No. 2 — "Avatar" (2009) — $2,923,710,708

The near-miss gets the full paragraph, because the diagnosis lives in the split. "Avatar" earned $2,138,489,059 abroad — 73.1 percent of its total, and the largest foreign gross on the whole chart, ahead of the No. 1 film's $2,043,846,676. The loss comes at home: $785,221,649 domestic against the leader's $898,471,864, a $113,250,215 deficit the foreign column couldn't quite cover. Worldwide, the two films finish $18,607,832 apart — roughly six-tenths of one percent of "Avatar's" own gross. Why it fell short, in one line: the biggest foreign audience Mojo has ever charted still needed about $18.6 million more.

No. 1 — "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) — $2,942,318,540

$2,942,318,540. That's the largest worldwide lifetime gross on Box Office Mojo's chart — $898,471,864 domestic (30.5 percent) and $2,043,846,676 foreign (69.5 percent), gathered across the original run and every re-release Mojo folds in. No other film sits within $18 million of it. The list ends there because the chart does.

What Would Move This List

Rank first, interpret after — so here's the meaning, now that the ranking stands. Three of the ten titles opened in 2025 or 2026, so the top shelf's restocking in real time, and unadjusted dollars favor the present: ticket prices rise, markets widen, and a 1997 gross fights with one hand tied. That's the declared trade of this ranking. It answers "which films took in the most dollars," never "which films sold the most tickets," and an inflation-adjusted rematch would reshuffle the deck in ways Mojo's unadjusted chart can't settle. What could overturn the order as printed? A re-release for either of the top two — $18,607,832 is one strong weekend — or the next $2 billion opener. Until Mojo prints a bigger number, the crown stays where the chart puts it.

One last proof that the worldwide frame matters: a domestic-only ranking would crown a different winner — "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" at $958,944,095 — and would push "Ne Zha 2" far down the page, since it earned only $23,308,176 at home. The worldwide chart tells the fuller story, and the fuller story's the one this list prints.