Highest-grossing drama film at the global box office

The fifth and final instalment in teen vampire drama series The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (USA, 2012) had accumulated US$829,724,737 in global ticket sales as of 11 January 2018.

1 / 2012 / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 / $829,724,737

2 / 1982 / ET: The Extra-Terrestrial / $792,965,326

3 / 2010 / The Twilight Saga: Eclipse / $706,102,828

4 / 2011 / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 / $689,420,051

5 / 2009 / The Twilight Saga: New Moon / $687,557,727

6 / 1994 / Forrest Gump / $679,850,637

7 / 2004 / The Passion of the Christ / $622,341,924

8 / 2012 / Life of Pi / $607,987,022

9 / 2015 / Fifty Shades of Grey / $570,998,101

10 / 2014 / American Sniper / $547,326,372

11 / 2015 / Cinderella / $534,551,353

12 / 1990 / Ghost / $517,600,000

13 / 1998 / Saving Private Ryan / $485,035,085

14 / 2010 / The King’s Speech / $430,821,168

15 / 2000 / Cast Away / $427,230,516

16 / 2008 / Twilight / $402,280,159

17 / 1939 / Gone with the Wind / $390,525,192

18 / 2008 / Slumdog Millionaire / $384,519,665

19 / 2017 / Fifty Shades Darker / $381,081,967

20 / 1999 / American Beauty / $356,258,047

21 / 2002 / Catch Me if You Can / $355,612,291

22 / 2014 / Noah / $352,831,065

23 / 2013 / The Great Gatsby / $351,040,419

24 / 2016 / Kimi no na wa / $343,196,722

25 / 2017 / Murder on the Orient Express / $338,846,677

26 / 1995 / Apollo 13 / $334,100,000

27 / 2008 / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / $329,631,958

28 / 2000 / The Perfect Storm / $328,711,434

29 / 1993 / Schindler's List / $321,365,567

30 / 2001 / A Beautiful Mind / $317,668,058

31 / 2009 / Disney’s A Christmas Carol / $315,709,697

32 / 2006 / The Pursuit of Happyness / $307,325,633

33 / 2014 / The Fault in Our Stars / $307,166,834

34 / 2009 / The Blind Side / $305,705,794

35 / 1985 / Rocky IV / $300,373,716

36 / 1999 / The Green Mile / $290,701,374

37 / 2006 / The Departed / $289,660,619

38 / 1977 / Saturday Night Fever / $282,400,000

39 / 2008 / Gran Torino / $274,543,085

40 / 2012 / Lincoln / $273,346,281

41 / 1972 / The Godfather / $268,500,000

42 / 2014 / Exodus: Gods and Kings / $268,314,513

43 / 1942 / Bambi / $268,000,000

44 / 2007 / American Gangster / $267,985,456

45 / 1993 / Indecent Proposal / $266,600,000

46 / 1998 / The Truman Show / $264,118,201

47 / 1985 / Out of Africa / $258,210,860

48 / 2000 / Erin Brockovich / $257,805,243

49 / 1998 / You've Got Mail / $250,800,000

50 / 2002 / 8 Mile / $245,768,384

51 / 1989 / Dead Poets Society / $239,500,000

52 / 2016 / Sully / $238,552,082

53 / 1992 / A Few Good Men / $236,500,000

54 / 2012 / Silver Linings Playbook / $236,412,453

55 / 2001 / Artificial Intelligence: AI / $235,900,000

56 / 2004 / Million Dollar Baby / $231,928,227

57 / 1996 / The English Patient / $231,711,151

58 / 2016 / Hidden Figures / $231,580,573

59 / 1998 / La vita è bella / $229,385,361

60 / 2014 / The Imitation Game / $227,773,686

61 / 1997 / Good Will Hunting / $225,933,435

62 / 1976 / Rocky / $225,000,000

63 / 2010 / The Social Network / $224,922,135

64 / 2017 / Wonder / $220,665,020

65 / 2013 / Captain Phillips / $220,648,184

66 / 2004 / The Terminal / $218,673,959

67 / 2012 / Jack Reacher / $217,370,736

68 / 2000 / The Patriot / $215,300,000

69 / 2008 / Australia / $215,080,810

70 / 2017 / Fang Hua / $214,262,438

71 / 1987 / Dirty Dancing / $213,893,795

72 / 2011 / The Help / $213,120,004

73 / 1994 / Pulp Fiction / $212,928,762

74 / 2009 / Public Enemies / $212,282,709

75 / 1994 / Disclosure / $212,200,000

76 / 2014 / Fury / $210,253,368

77 / 1995 / Braveheart / $209,045,522

78 / 2004 / The Aviator / $208,370,892

79 / 2000 / Traffic / $208,300,000

80 / 2010 / Eat Pray Love / $206,598,789

81 / 2016 / Me Before You / $205,445,075

82 / 1991 / JFK / $205,400,000

83 / 2016 / Arrival / $203,178,872

84 / 2015 / Straight Outta Compton / $202,043,881

85 / 1983 / Flashdance / $201,463,574

86 / 1993 / Philadelphia / $201,324,422

87 / 1998 / City of Angels / $198,750,909

88 / 2017 / A Dog’s Purpose / $198,421,890

89 / 2012 / The Vow / $197,618,160

90 / 1993 / The Pelican Brief / $187,995,859

91 / 2005 / Walk the Line / $187,707,495

92 / 1995 / Heat / $187,436,818

93 / 1998 / The Horse Whisperer / $186,883,563

94 / 2002 / Road to Perdition / $183,354,514

95 / 2002 / Gangs of New York / $183,124,621

96 / 2013 / 12 Years a Slave / $181,025,343

97 / 1995 / Dangerous Minds / $178,919,401

98 / 1997 / Dante's Peak / $178,200,000

99 / 2013 / Lee Daniels' The Butler / $177,025,498

100 / 2005 / Brokeback Mountain / $177,012,173