The Top 20 Highest Grossing Movies of All Time Worldwide



What are the highest grossing movies of all time? It might surprise you that four of the 20 highest-grossing movies of all time came out in 2018, and 2019 added another three: Avengers: Endgame now tops the worldwide box office list, the “don’t call it a live-action” remake of The Lion King has cracked the Top 10, and Frozen II was no slouch either. Those stats, of course, are skewed by rising ticket prices and increases in population. Adjusted for inflation, no movie can match the $3.7 billion haul that Gone with the Wind’s $390 million box-office receipts since its 1939 release would be worth in today’s dollars. But here, we’re looking at the highest-grossing movies ever in gross dollar receipts.With the exception of Titanic and two Disney films, all of the biggest box office movies are part of a franchise, making us believe that there were probably some studio execs at Paramount or 20th Century Fox trying to convince James Cameron that he should do a sequel (“Are we sure that Jack really dies? Can he come back as a ghost?”). Speaking of Cameron, directing what at one point were the two biggest box-office hits of all time is quite a feat, one we’re sure hasn’t gone to his head. That they were so different—a historic romance drama and a sci-fi action/adventure—makes it all the more impressive. The list of the highest grossing films of all time includes some highly enjoyable movies and some that we can only shake our heads at and marvel at the worldwide moviegoer.



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