There were some Chinese films which are supposed to be in this list as well, but they were never released outside of China, so most other people haven’t heard of them. So I limited it to English language films only.
Avatar (2009) – $2.847 billion
Titanic (1997) – $2.195 billion
Inception (2010) – $836.8 million
Independence Day (1996) – $817.4 million
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – $792.9 million
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) – $775.8 million
Gravity (2013) – $723.2 million
Interstellar (2014) – $701.8 million
The Sixth Sense (1999) – $672.8 million
Hancock (2008) – $629.4 million
Armageddon (1998) – $553.7 million
Ted (2012) – $549.4 million
Dunkirk (2017) – $526.9 million
Ghost (1990) – $505.7 million
Twister (1996) – $495.7 million
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