What are the top ten grossing French Films of all time?

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 28 May 2004 14:07 PDT

tomtprod --

It would help me (and possibly other researchers) to have a little
more information, such as:

1. For your purposes, would a "French film" include only
French-language films, or would it include, for example, an
Italian-language film that is co-produced with an Italian production
company?

2. Are you interested in worldwide gross revenues or in gross revenues
of these French films in the U.S.?  (I am not a film-business expert,
but I suspect that the list may well be the same in both cases, but
the latter list would be harder to find, at least for those of us who
don't speak French.)

markj-ga

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Clarification of Question by tomtprod-ga on 28 May 2004 14:51 PDT

I am looking for French language films, and am interested in worldwide
gross revenues.

Top 20 all-time films at the French box office:
 
(Note: 1st number is their rank as French films, 2nd number is their
rank against US films in France, dollar figure is in US dollars)

1 2 Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002) $75,340,600
2 4 Taxi II (2000) $63,704,000
3 5 Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) $59,152,000
4 8 Visitors II (1998) $53,899,000
5 10 Le Diner des cons (1998) $53,155,000
6 16 Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amelie) (2001) $44,856,224
7 17 Les Trois Freres (1995) $44,460,000
8 18 La Verite si je Mens 2 (2001) $40,916,970
9 20 Les Anges Gardiens (1995) $40,540,000
10 24 Taxi (1998) $37,980,000
11 30 Le Bonheur est Dans le Pre (1995) $30,903,000
12 35 La Verite si je Mens (1997) $29,456,000
13 39 Le Placard (The Closet) (2001) $27,628,614
14 40 Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) (2001) $26,916,656
15 43 Pedale Douce (1996) $26,046,000
16 54 Le Pari (1997) $23,559,000
17 56 Mon Pere, Ma Mere (1999) $22,960,000
18 58 Le Huitieme Jour (1996) $22,802,000
19 65 Le Gout des Autres (The Taste of Others) (2000) $22,090,000
20 66 Tais-toi! (2003) $22,000,000

Any clarification required, or is that what you were looking for?

yes, thank you!