List of highest-grossing biographical films

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The following is a list of the highest-grossing biographical films of all time, ranked by worldwide box-office revenue. Biographical films, commonly known as biopics, depict the lives of real people. The rankings are based on each film's lifetime worldwide theatrical gross as reported by reliable box-office sources and are not adjusted for inflation.

Highest-grossing biopics

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Rank Film Year Gross Subject(s) Ref
1 Michael † 2026 $1,021,426,595 Michael Jackson [1]
2 Oppenheimer 2023 $976,779,216 J. Robert Oppenheimer [2]
3 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $911,027,169 Freddie Mercury and Queen [3]
4 Hi, Mom 2021 $821,674,419 Jia Ling and Li Huanying [4]
5 The Passion of the Christ 2004 $612,054,506 Jesus [5]
6 American Sniper 2014 $547,659,020 Chris Kyle[6]
7 The Revenant 2015 $532,950,503 Hugh Glass [7]
8 The Conjuring: Last Rites 2025 $499,256,445 Ed and Lorraine Warren [8]
9 The Greatest Showman 2017 $471,812,742 P. T. Barnum [9]
10 The Eight Hundred 2020 $461,421,559 Xie Jinyuan [10]
11 The Last Samurai 2003 $456,810,575 Saigō Takamori and Emperor Meiji [11]
12 300 2006 $456,082,343 Leonidas I and Xerxes I [12]
13 Dying to Survive 2018 $451,183,391 Lu Yong [13]
14 The Intouchables 2011 $426,590,315 Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou [14]
15 The Captain 2019 $417,282,021 Liu Chuanjian [15]
16 The King's Speech 2010 $414,245,125 George VI [16]
17 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 $407,039,432 Jordan Belfort [17]
18 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 2019 $392,105,159 Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Bruce Lee [18]
19 Apollo 13 1995 $355,237,933 Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, Ken Mattingly [19]
20 Catch Me If You Can 2002 $352,114,312 Frank Abagnale [20]
21 Pocahontas 1995 $347,100,000 Pocahontas [21]
22 Dangal 2016 $340,000,000 Mahavir Singh Phogat and Phogat sisters [22]
23 300: Rise of an Empire 2014 $337,580,051 Xerxes I, Darius the Great, Artemisia I of Caria [23]
24 Schindler's List 1993 $322,161,245 Oskar Schindler [24]
25 Green Book 2018 $321,752,656 Don Shirley and Tony Lip [25]
26 The Conjuring 2 2016 $321,370,008 Ed and Lorraine Warren [26]
27 The Conjuring 2013 $320,415,166 Ed and Lorraine Warren [27]
28 A Beautiful Mind 2001 $316,791,257 John Forbes Nash [28]
29 The Blind Side 2009 $309,231,694 Michael Oher [29]
30 The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 $307,127,625 Chris Gardner [30]
31 Never Say Never 2023 $304,280,699 En Bo, Su Mudaerji, Enbo Fight Club [31]
32 Shakespeare in Love 1998 $289,317,794 William Shakespeare [32]
33 Elvis 2022 $288,670,284 Elvis Presley [33]
34 The Sound of Music 1965 $286,213,233 Trapp Family [34]
35 Lincoln 2012 $275,293,450 Abraham Lincoln [35]
36 American Gangster 2007 $269,755,430 Frank Lucas [36]
37 Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014 $268,175,631 Moses and Ramesses II [37]
38 Erin Brockovich 2000 $257,851,763 Erin Brockovich [38]
39 American Hustle 2013 $251,171,807 Mel Weinberg [39]
40 Sound of Freedom 2023 $250,570,396 Tim Ballard [40]
41 Sully 2016 $243,870,033 Sully Sullenberger [41]
42 Hidden Figures 2016 $235,956,898 Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan [42]
43 The Imitation Game 2014 $233,555,708 Alan Turing [43]
44 Argo 2012 $232,325,503 Tony Mendez [44]
45 Annabelle Comes Home 2019 $231,252,591 Ed and Lorraine Warren [45]
46 Out of Africa 1985 $227,514,205 Isak Dinesen [46]
47 Ford v Ferrari 2019 $225,508,210 Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles [47]
48 The Social Network 2010 $224,927,749 Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Divya Narendra [48]
49 Napoleon 2023 $221,394,838 Napoleon [49]
50 Captain Phillips 2013 $220,648,184 Richard Phillips and Abduwali Muse [50]
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Biggest biopic openings

The following is a list of biographical films with worldwide openings over $1 million.

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No. Film Year Opening Subject(s) Ref
1 Michael 2026 $218,800,000 Michael Jackson [51]
2 Hi, Mom 2021 $195,000,000 Jia Ling and Li Huanying [52]
3 Oppenheimer 2023 $180,400,000 J. Robert Oppenheimer [53]
4 Dying to Survive 2018 $152,163,428 Lu Yong [54]
5 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $141,700,000 Freddie Mercury and Queen [55]
6 300: Rise of an Empire 2014 $132,800,000 Xerxes I, Darius the Great, Artemisia I of Caria [56]
7 The Eight Hundred 2020 $116,000,000 Xie Jinyuan [57]
8 The Captain 2019 $102,353,091 Captain Liu Chuanjian [15]
9 American Sniper 2014 $92,693,844 Chris Kyle [58]
10 The Conjuring 2 2016 $90,400,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [59]
11 The Passion of the Christ 2004 $83,848,082 Jesus [5]
12 Napoleon 2023 $78,800,000 Napoleon [60]
13 Annabelle Comes Home 2019 $76,200,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [61]
14 300 2006 $70,885,301 Leonidas I and Xerxes I [62]
15 RRR 2022 $63,200,000 Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju [63]
16 Straight Outta Compton 2015 $60,200,180 N.W.A, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E [64]
17 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It 2021 $57,100,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [65]
18 The Conjuring 2013 $43,737,425 Ed and Lorraine Warren [27]
19 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 $42,967,799 Jordan Belfort [17]
20 The Revenant 2015 $41,383,741 Hugh Glass [66]
21 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 2019 $41,082,018 Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Bruce Lee [18]
22 Pocahontas 1995 $34,484,978 Pocahontas [67]
23 The Last Samurai 2003 $32,626,486 Saigō Takamori and Emperor Meiji [68]
24 Dangal 2016 $31,200,000 Mahavir Singh Phogat and Phogat sisters [69]
25 Catch Me If You Can 2002 $30,053,627 Frank Abagnale [20]
26 Apollo 13 1995 $25,353,380 Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, Mattingly [19]
27 The Social Network 2010 $22,445,653 Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin [48]
28 Valkyrie 2008 $21,027,007 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg [70][71]
29 A Beautiful Mind 2001 $16,565,820 John Forbes Nash [28]
30 The Intouchables 2011 $14,725,888 Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou [14]
31 The 13th Warrior 1999 $10,267,756 Ahmad ibn Fadlan [72]
32 The Greatest Showman 2017 $10,068,359 P. T. Barnum [9]
33 Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 1993 $10,019,970 Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell [73]
34 Green Book 2018 $7,860,501 Don Shirley and Tony Lip [25]
35 Young Guns 1988 $7,011,393 Billy the Kid and José Chávez y Chávez [74]
36 The Theory of Everything 2014 $6,400,000 Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde Hawking [75]
37 The King's Speech 2010 $5,479,078 George VI [16]
38 Schindler's List 1993 $4,637,480 Oskar Schindler [24]
39 Jodhaa Akbar 2008 $3,000,000 Akbar the Great and Mariam-uz-Zamani [76]
40 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 2005 $2,000,000 Mangal Pandey and Bahadur Shah Zafar [77]
41 The Greatest 1977 $1,361,800 Muhammad Ali [78]
42 Silkwood 1983 $1,218,322 Karen Silkwood [79]
43 Company 2002 $1,000,000 Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan [80]
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Timeline of gross records

Highest-grossing films

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Year Film Gross Subject(s) Ref
1922 Nero $522,000 Nero [81]
1923 The Ten Commandments $8,300,000 Moses and Ramesses II [82]
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ $10,700,000 Jesus, Mary, Balthazar [83]
1943 The Outlaw $20,000,000 Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday [84]
1954 The Egyptian $20,000,000 Horemheb, Baketaten, Akhenaten [85][86]
1956 The Ten Commandments $122,700,000 Moses and Ramesses II [82]
1959 Ben-Hur $146,900,000 Jesus, Joseph, Balthazar [87]
1965 The Sound of Music $286,213,233 Trapp Family [34]
1993 Schindler's List $322,161,245 Oskar Schindler [24]
1995 Pocahontas $347,100,000 Pocahontas [21]
Apollo 13 $355,237,933 Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, Ken Mattingly [19]
2003 The Last Samurai $456,810,575 Saigō Takamori and Emperor Meiji [11]
2004 The Passion of the Christ $612,054,506 Jesus [5]
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody $911,027,169 Freddie Mercury and Queen [3]
2023 Oppenheimer $976,779,216 J. Robert Oppenheimer [2]
2026 Michael † $1,010,133,475 Michael Jackson [88]
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Biggest openings

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Year Film Opening Subject(s) Ref
1943 The Outlaw $30,000 Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday [89]
1977 The Greatest $1,361,800 Muhammad Ali [78]
1988 Young Guns $7,011,393 Billy the Kid and José Chávez y Chávez [74]
1993 Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story $10,019,970 Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell [73]
1995 Apollo 13 $25,353,380 Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, Ken Mattingly [19]
Pocahontas $34,484,978 Pocahontas [67]
2004 The Passion of the Christ $83,848,082 Jesus [5]
2014 American Sniper $92,693,844 Chris Kyle [58]
300: Rise of an Empire $132,800,000 Xerxes I, Darius the Great, Artemisia I of Caria [56]
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody $141,700,000 Freddie Mercury and Queen [55]
Dying to Survive $152,163,428 Lu Yong [54]
2021 Hi, Mom $195,000,000 Jia Ling and Li Huanying [52]
2026 Michael $218,800,000 Michael Jackson [51]
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Box office ticket sales

See also: List of films by box office admissions

The following is a list of biographical films that sold more than 40 million tickets at the worldwide box office.

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Film Year Tickets (est.) Subject(s) Ref
From Slave to General 1979 470,000,000 Luo Binghui and People's Liberation Army [90]
The Xi'an Incident 1981 450,000,000 Zhang Xueliang, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek [90]
Ji Hongchang 1979 380,000,000 Ji Hongchang [91]
The Sound of Music 1965 283,300,000 Trapp Family [92]
The Ten Commandments 1956 262,000,000 Moses and Ramesses II
Du Shiniang 1981 260,000,000 Du Shiniang [90]
Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 176,500,000 Freddie Mercury and Queen [93]
Ben-Hur 1959 168,893,565 Jesus, Joseph, Balthazar [a]
Mughal-e-Azam (The Great Mughal) 1960 150,000,000 Jahangir, Anarkali, Akbar the Great [100]
Dangal 2016 140,000,000 Mahavir Singh Phogat and Phogat sisters
Spartacus 1960 124,783,920 Spartacus and Crassus [101][102]
Hi, Mom 2021 121,000,000 Jia Ling and Li Huanying [103]
Cleopatra 1963 116,470,333 Cleopatra [b]
The Revenant 2015 106,800,000 Hugh Glass [108]
Oppenheimer 2023 102,700,000 J. Robert Oppenheimer [109]
Zhou Enlai 1991 100,000,000 Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao [91]
Dying to Survive 2018 89,042,600 Lu Yong [110]
The Passion of the Christ 2004 85,612,215 Jesus [111]
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 85,542,933 T. E. Lawrence, Faisal I, Auda Abu Tayi [c]
The Greatest Showman 2017 85,100,000 P. T. Barnum [116]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 84,863,424 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid [117]
War and Peace 1956 82,195,201 Mikhail Kutuzov and Napoleon [d]
The Eight Hundred 2020 80,919,900 Xie Jinyuan [118]
The Captain 2019 77,923,355 Captain Liu Chuanjian [e]
Michael † 2026 77,800,000 Michael Jackson [122][f]
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925 64,500,000 Jesus, Mary, Balthazar [135]
The Conjuring 2 2016 64,200,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [136]
El Cid 1961 63,362,397 El Cid and Yusuf ibn Tashfin [g]
Fist of Fury 1972 59,000,000 Chin Woo and Huo Yuanjia [140][141]
War and Peace: Part I 1965 58,300,000 Mikhail Kutuzov and Napoleon [142]
Never Say Never 2023 54,251,200 En Bo, Su Mudaerji, Enbo Fight Club [143]
The Last Samurai 2003 54,175,104 Saigō Takamori and Emperor Meiji [h]
300 2006 52,317,727 Leonidas I and Xerxes I [147]
Pocahontas 1995 52,057,720 Pocahontas [i]
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 58,345,531 Bonnie and Clyde [150][151]
Green Book 2018 50,300,000 Don Shirley and Tony Lip [152]
The Intouchables 2011 50,200,000 Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou [153]
Apollo 13 1995 50,179,389 Jim Lovell, Swigert, Haise, Mattingly [154][155]
RRR 2022 50,000,000 Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju [100]
American Sniper 2014 49,500,000 Chris Kyle [156]
The Outlaw 1943 48,300,000 Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday [84][135]
Sully 2016 48,300,000 Sully Sullenberger [157]
A Beautiful Mind 2001 47,326,213 John Forbes Nash [158]
Out of Africa 1985 46,319,692 Isak Dinesen [159][160]
Hidden Figures 2016 46,200,000 Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan [161]
Catch Me If You Can 2002 46,031,903 Frank Abagnale [20][162]
Schindler's List 1993 43,643,699 Oskar Schindler [163][164]
The King's Speech 2010 43,624,849 George VI [165]
Funny Girl 1968 43,467,033 Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein [166]
Papillon 1973 43,321,023 Henri Charrière [167]
The Conjuring: Last Rites 2025 42,800,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [168]
The Young Guard 1948 42,400,000 Oleg Koshevoy and Lyubov Shevtsova [169]
Shakespeare in Love 1998 41,032,454 William Shakespeare [170]
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Highest-grossing biopics by year

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Year Film Box office (est.) Subject(s) Ref
Gross Tickets
1922 Nero $522,000 2,000,000 Nero [81][141]
1923 The Ten Commandments $8,300,000 34,739,917 Moses and Ramesses II [82][171]
1924 Beau Brummel $495,000 2,000,000 Beau Brummell [172][141]
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ $10,700,000 64,500,000 Jesus, Mary, Balthazar [83][135]
1941 Billy the Kid $6,300,000 25,000,000 Billy the Kid [173][141]
1943 The Outlaw $20,000,000 48,300,000 Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett [84][135]
1948 The Young Guard $12,000,000 42,400,000 Oleg Koshevoy [169][j]
1950 Samadhi $3,000,000 10,000,000 Subhas Chandra Bose [174][j]
1951 The Great Caruso $12,900,000 32,947,223 Enrico Caruso [175]
1953 Anarkali $5,000,000 25,000,000 Jahangir, Anarkali, Akbar [176][177][178]
1954 The Egyptian $20,000,000 33,000,000 Horemheb and Baketaten [85][86][141]
1956 The Ten Commandments $122,700,000 262,000,000 Moses and Ramesses II [82][92]
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral $11,750,000 27,983,361 Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday [179][180]
1958 The Vikings $15,000,000 16,529,540 Ragnar Lodbrok and Ecgberht I [181][182]
1959 Ben-Hur $146,900,000 168,893,565 Jesus, Joseph, Balthazar [87][a]
1960 Spartacus $59,999,883 124,783,920 Spartacus and Crassus [183][101][102]
Mughal-e-Azam $24,000,000 150,000,000 Jahangir, Anarkali, Akbar [184][185][100]
1961 El Cid $26,637,553 63,362,397 El Cid and Yusuf ibn Tashfin [137][186][g]
1962 Lawrence of Arabia $69,995,047 85,542,933 T. E. Lawrence and Faisal I [187][c]
1963 Cleopatra $76,000,000 116,470,333 Cleopatra [188][189][b]
1964 The Unsinkable Molly Brown $11,070,559 11,913,000 Molly Brown [190][191]
1965 The Sound of Music $286,213,233 283,300,000 Trapp Family [34][92]
1966 War and Peace: Part II $17,000,000 36,200,000 Mikhail Kutuzov and Napoleon [192][k]
1967 Bonnie and Clyde $70,000,000 58,345,531 Bonnie and Clyde [193][150][151]
1968 Funny Girl $58,707,416 43,467,033 Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein [194][166]
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $102,315,881 84,863,424 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid [195][117]
1970 Chisum $18,200,000 14,696,732 John Chisum, Lawrence Murphy [196]
1971 The Devils $11,000,000 5,480,149 Jeanne des Anges [197][198][199]
1972 Fist of Fury $100,000,000 59,000,000 Chin Woo and Huo Yuanjia [140][141]
1973 Papillon $53,267,000 43,321,023 Henri Charrière [167]
1974 The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams $65,000,000 25,369,000 Grizzly Adams [200][201]
1975 Funny Lady $40,055,897 22,900,000 Fanny Brice and Billy Rose [202][203]
Deewar $9,000,000 31,000,000 Haji Mastan [204][205]
1976 All the President's Men $70,603,656 34,057,742 Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward [206][207]
1977 The Greatest $10,300,000 3,782,000 Muhammad Ali [208][209]
1978 Drunken Master $16,483,650 ? Wong Fei-hung and Beggar So [l]
1979 From Slave to General $61,000,000 470,000,000 Luo Binghui [90][j]
1980 Coal Miner's Daughter $67,182,787 25,000,000 Loretta Lynn [210][211]
1981 The Xi'an Incident $54,000,000 450,000,000 Zhang Xueliang and Zhou Enlai [90][j]
1982 Gandhi $127,767,889 26,838,889 Gandhi and Muhammad Jinnah [212][m]
1983 Silkwood $35,616,970 12,080,367 Karen Silkwood [79][217]
1984 Amadeus $90,000,000 23,970,265 Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri [218][219][220]
1985 Out of Africa $227,514,205 46,319,692 Isak Dinesen [46][159][160]
1986 Heartburn $52,600,000 8,100,488 Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein [221][222]
1987 La Bamba $54,218,591 17,646,197 Ritchie Valens [223][224]
1988 The Silk Road (Dun-Huang) $74,100,000 7,300,000 Li Yuanhao [n][o]
Young Guns $56,000,000 11,213,883 José Chávez y Chávez [227][74]
1989 Born on the Fourth of July $161,001,698 21,004,639 Mao Zedong and Zhu De [228][229]
1990 Heaven and Earth $64,000,000 7,800,000 Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen [230][o]
Young Guns II $59,000,000 10,944,076 José Chávez y Chávez [231][232]
1991 JFK $205,405,498 25,817,007 Jim Garrison, John F. Kennedy [233][234][235]
Zhou Enlai $49,000,000 100,000,000 Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao [91]
1992 Malcolm X $73,102,963 13,165,142 Malcolm X [236][237][p]
1993 Schindler's List $322,161,245 43,643,699 Oskar Schindler [24][163][164]
1994 Drunken Master II $34,300,528 ? Wong Fei-hung [q]
1995 Apollo 13 $355,237,933 50,179,389 Lovell, Swigert, Haise, Mattingly [19][154][155]
Pocahontas $347,100,000 52,057,720 Pocahontas [21][i]
1996 Shine $35,999,121 19,852,892 David Helfgott [242][243]
1997 Border $18,000,000 37,083,000 Kuldip Singh Chandpuri [244]
1998 Shakespeare in Love $289,317,794 41,032,454 William Shakespeare [32][170]
1999 The 13th Warrior $61,698,899 11,016,902 Ahmad ibn Fadlan [72][r]
2000 Erin Brockovich $257,851,763 35,833,977 Erin Brockovich [38][248]
2001 A Beautiful Mind $316,791,257 47,326,213 John Forbes Nash [28][158]
2002 Catch Me If You Can $352,114,312 46,031,903 Frank Abagnale [20][162]
2003 The Last Samurai $456,810,575 54,175,104 Saigō Takamori, Emperor Meiji [11][h]
2004 The Passion of the Christ $612,054,506 85,612,215 Jesus [5][111]
2005 Kingdom of Heaven $218,366,336 24,640,138 Balian of Ibelin and Saladin [249][s]
2006 300 $456,082,343 52,317,727 Leonidas I and Xerxes I [12][147]
2007 American Gangster $269,755,430 38,751,925 Frank Lucas [36][t]
2008 Valkyrie $201,545,517 21,680,370 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg [70][71]
2009 The Blind Side $309,231,694 38,649,029 Michael Oher [29][u]
2010 The King's Speech $414,245,125 43,624,849 George VI [16][165]
2011 The Intouchables $426,590,315 50,200,000 Philippe di Borgo, Abdel Sellou [14][153]
2012 Lincoln $275,293,450 32,400,000 Abraham Lincoln [35][263]
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street $407,039,432 38,100,000 Jordan Belfort [17][264]
2014 American Sniper $547,659,020 49,500,000 Chris Kyle [6][156]
2015 The Revenant $532,950,503 106,800,000 Hugh Glass [7][108]
2016 Dangal $340,000,000 140,000,000 Mahavir Phogat, Phogat sisters [22][100]
2017 The Greatest Showman $471,812,742 85,100,000 P. T. Barnum [9][116]
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody $911,027,169 176,500,000 Freddie Mercury and Queen [3][93]
2019 The Captain $417,282,021 77,923,355 Captain Liu Chuanjian [15][e]
2020 The Eight Hundred $461,421,559 80,919,900 Xie Jinyuan [10][118]
2021 Hi, Mom $841,674,419 121,000,000 Jia Ling and Li Huanying [4][103]
2022 Elvis $288,670,284 31,800,000 Elvis Presley [33][265]
RRR $173,000,000 50,000,000 Komaram Bheem and Alluri Raju [266][100]
2023 Oppenheimer $976,779,216 102,700,000 J. Robert Oppenheimer [2][109]
2024 Bob Marley: One Love $180,971,146 17,200,000 Bob Marley [267][268]
2025 The Conjuring: Last Rites $499,256,445 42,800,000 Ed and Lorraine Warren [8][168]
2026 Michael † $991,658,425 77,800,000 Michael Jackson [88][122]
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Highest-grossing biopic series

The following is a list of biographical films series that gross over $1 million.

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Highest-grossing animated franchises and film series[§] (The films in each franchise can be viewed by selecting "show")
Rank Series Total gross No. of films Average of films Highest-grossing film
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Ben-Hur:
    • United States and Canada – 104,996,416[94]
    • Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom – 44,509,000[95]
    • France – 13,857,261[96]
    • Spain – 4,653,194[97]
    • South Korea – 873,163[98]
    • European re-releases (1996–2021) – 4,531[99]
  2. [b]
    Cleopatra:
    • United States and Canada – 67,183,500[104]
    • Soviet Union – 32.9 million[105]
    • France, Germany, Italy – 16,376,099[106]
    • South Korea – 9,192[98]
    • United Kingdom, Spain, Latvia (2011–2017) – 1,542[107]
  3. [c]
    Lawrence of Arabia admissions:
    • United States – 58,213,000[112]
    • United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal – 10,375,327[113]
    • Italy and France – 13,312,198[114]
    • Germany – 3,552,000[115]
    • South Korea (Seoul City) – 90,408[98]
  4. [d]
    War and Peace (1956 film) § Box office
  5. [e]
    The Captain:
    • China – 77,827,000[119]
    • United States – 77,137[120]
    • United Kingdom and Ireland – 19,218[121]
  6. [f]
    Michael admissions:
    • United States – 32,732,000[123]
    • Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain – 23,502,526[124]
    • Mexico – 6,950,000[125]
    • United Kingdom – 6,600,000[122]
    • South Korea – 1,624,177[126]
    • Argentina – 1,009,907[127]
    • United Arab Emirates – 578,316[128]
    • Hungary – 399,286[129]
    • Czech Republic – 280,961[130]
    • Greece – 216,205[131]
    • Bulgaria – 169,006[132]
    • Finland – 162,670[133]
    • Slovakia – 149,069[134]
  7. [g]
    El Cid
    • United States and Canada – 46,300,000[135]
    • Italy – 11,200,000[137]
    • France and Germany – 5,726,723[138]
    • Seoul City (South Korea) – 135,576[98]
    • Spain (1999 and 2022) – 98[139]
  8. [h]
    The Last Samurai admissions:
    • United States, Japan, Brazil – 33,243,101[144]
    • France – 2,213,315[145]
    • Other European countries – 17,455,488[146]
    • South Korea – 1,263,200[98]
  9. [i]
    Pocahontas
    • United Kingdom – 2,900,000[148]
    • South Korea – 280,683[98]
    • Other territories – 48,877,037[149]
  10. [j]
    See Film industry § Average ticket price.
  11. [k]
    War and Peace (film series) § Reception
  12. [l]
    Drunken Master § Box office
  13. [m]
    Gandhi admissions:
    • United Kingdom and United States – 18,800,000[213]
    • Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden – 7,506,687[214]
    • Italy – 532,000[215]
    • Finland, Ireland, Switzerland (since 1996) – 202[216]
  14. [n]
    $74,000,000 in Japan.[225] $123,959 in the United States.[226]
  15. [o]
    See List of highest-grossing Japanese films § Highest-grossing Japanese films by year.
  16. [p]
    Malcolm X:
    • United States, France, Spain – 12,339,182[238]
    • United Kingdom – 797,481[239]
    • Germany – 127,306[240]
    • South Korea – 28,159[98]
    • Switzerland (since 2022) – 320[241]
  17. [q]
    Drunken Master II § Box office
  18. [r]
    The 13th Warrior admissions:
    • United States – 6,436,791[245]
    • France and Germany – 1,944,938[246]
    • Other European countries – 2,635,173[247]
  19. [s]
    Kingdom of Heaven admissions:
    • United States – 7,428,000[250]
    • France, Germany, Italy – 4,700,955[251]
    • Other European countries – 7,678,851[252]
    • Brazil – 2,323,009[253]
    • South Korea – 1,509,323[98]
    • Japan – 1,000,000[254][255]
  20. [t]
    American Gangster admissions:
    • United States – 19,164,000[256]
    • Germany – 8,311,347[257]
    • Brazil and Russia – 768,288[258]
    • Other European countries – 9,244,666[259]
    • Japan – 860,000[260][255]
    • South Korea – 403,624[98]
  21. [u]
    The Blind Side:
    • United States and Brazil – 35,853,855[261]
    • Europe – 2,435,275[262]
    • South Korea – 359,899[98]

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