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All Time Domestic Box Office for Based on Real Life Events Movies (Rank 1,001-1,100)
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This chart contains the top 100 Based on Real Life Events movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
See our Based on Real Life Events Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Based on Real Life Events movies.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
International Box Office |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,001 | 2017 | Tom of Finland | $378,296 | $156,272 | $534,568 |
| 1,002 | 1998 | Artemisia | $377,512 | $377,512 | |
| 1,003 | 2003 | Im Toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin | $376,886 | $376,886 | |
| 1,004 | 2018 | Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | $375,208 | $363,429 | $738,637 |
| 1,005 | 2013 | Dirty Wars | $371,245 | $43,314 | $414,559 |
| 1,006 | 2013 | Hava Nagila: The Movie | $368,724 | $368,724 | |
| 1,007 | 2010 | Lebanon | $368,088 | $1,596,701 | $1,964,789 |
| 1,008 | 2013 | When Comedy Went to School | $365,548 | $365,548 | |
| 1,009 | 2014 | Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | $365,522 | $365,522 | |
| 1,010 | 2018 | Mountain | $364,429 | $633,224 | $997,653 |
| 1,011 | 1999 | The Source | $362,357 | $1,594,465 | $1,956,822 |
| 1,012 | 2018 | Kusama: Infinity | $360,931 | $180,290 | $541,221 |
| 1,013 | 2016 | Mr. Donkey | $356,255 | $25,048,315 | $25,404,570 |
| 1,014 | 2006 | Copying Beethoven | $355,968 | $6,230,356 | $6,586,324 |
| 1,015 | 2016 | Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | $355,074 | $10,466 | $365,540 |
| 1,016 | 2021 | Benedetta | $354,481 | $3,675,069 | $4,029,550 |
| 1,017 | 2004 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who We… | $353,580 | $38,138 | $391,718 |
| 1,018 | 2013 | Lovelace | $352,755 | $85,015 | $437,770 |
| 1,019 | 2017 | Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grat… | $351,957 | $351,957 | |
| 1,020 | 2017 | Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two | $348,832 | $212,746 | $561,578 |
| 1,021 | 2015 | Noble | $347,321 | $638,271 | $985,592 |
| 1,022 | 2013 | Mindless Behavior: All Around The World | $344,500 | $344,500 | |
| 1,023 | 1998 | Love is the Devil | $343,023 | $343,023 | |
| 1,024 | 2013 | Koch | $342,941 | $342,941 | |
| 1,025 | 2021 | Mogadisyu | $342,598 | $29,506,181 | $29,848,779 |
| 1,026 | 2015 | Talvar | $342,428 | $34,574 | $377,002 |
| 1,027 | 2010 | Creation | $341,323 | $341,323 | |
| 1,028 | 2014 | Jimi: All is By My Side | $340,911 | $586,163 | $927,074 |
| 1,029 | 1995 | Total Eclipse | $339,889 | $339,889 | |
| 1,030 | 2021 | Flee | $339,754 | $1,722,419 | $2,062,173 |
| 1,031 | 2011 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | $338,987 | $338,987 | |
| 1,032 | 2023 | UFC 293: Adesyana vs. Strickland | $336,498 | $336,498 | |
| 1,033 | 2010 | Kings of Pastry | $336,386 | $336,386 | |
| 1,034 | 2017 | Letters from Baghdad | $336,223 | $143,428 | $479,651 |
| 1,035 | 2022 | Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro … | $335,417 | $335,417 | |
| 1,036 | 2013 | Diana | $335,360 | $11,611,623 | $11,946,983 |
| 1,037 | 2006 | The Devil and Daniel Johnston | $334,450 | $118,887 | $453,337 |
| 1,038 | 2015 | Ballet 422 | $333,554 | $333,554 | |
| 1,039 | 2021 | Chang jin hu | $333,214 | $909,263,022 | $909,596,236 |
| 1,040 | 2011 | The First Grader | $332,306 | $23,425 | $355,731 |
| 1,041 | 1996 | The Young Poisoner's Handbook | $330,466 | $330,466 | |
| 1,042 | 2020 | Les misérables | $330,181 | $18,519,566 | $18,849,747 |
| 1,043 | 2014 | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | $330,083 | $330,083 | |
| 1,044 | 1982 | Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | $327,958 | $327,958 | |
| 1,045 | 2006 | The Road to Guantanamo | $326,876 | $751,759 | $1,078,635 |
| 1,046 | 2023 | Wild Life | $325,936 | $325,936 | |
| 1,047 | 2012 | The Central Park Five | $325,653 | $325,653 | |
| 1,048 | 2005 | The Boys of Baraka | $323,860 | $323,860 | |
| 1,049 | 2017 | Chuck | $322,005 | $148,762 | $470,767 |
| 1,050 | 1991 | The Last Waltz | $321,952 | $1,060 | $323,012 |
| 1,051 | 2015 | Taxi | $321,642 | $10,913,305 | $11,234,947 |
| 1,052 | 2008 | Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham | $320,896 | $320,896 | |
| 1,053 | 2010 | A Film Unfinished | $320,486 | $320,486 | |
| 1,054 | 2014 | Björk: Biophilia Live | $319,456 | $78,926 | $398,382 |
| 1,055 | 2006 | Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet | $319,088 | $319,088 | |
| 1,056 | 2019 | Out of Liberty | $317,217 | $317,217 | |
| 1,057 | 2022 | Waterman | $316,848 | $19,991 | $336,839 |
| 1,058 | 2019 | Josh Groban Bridges from Madison Square Garden | $315,173 | $315,173 | |
| 1,059 | 2004 | America's Heart and Soul | $314,000 | $314,000 | |
| 1,060 | 2017 | Citizen Jane: Battle for the City | $313,411 | $34,944 | $348,355 |
| 1,061 | 2017 | Obit | $312,777 | $312,777 | |
| 1,062 | 2007 | For the Bible Tells Me So | $312,751 | $5,833 | $318,584 |
| 1,063 | 2014 | The Hornet’s Nest | $312,706 | $312,706 | |
| 1,064 | 2011 | L'Amour Fou | $312,494 | $774,086 | $1,086,580 |
| 1,065 | 2004 | Bukowski: Born Into This | $311,431 | $17,467 | $328,898 |
| 1,066 | 2012 | West of Memphis | $309,864 | $97,653 | $407,517 |
| 1,067 | 2021 | Final Account | $308,976 | $44,108 | $353,084 |
| 1,068 | 2023 | UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 | $308,825 | $308,825 | |
| 1,069 | 2008 | Bigger, Stronger, Faster* | $308,575 | $118 | $308,693 |
| 1,070 | 2006 | This Film is Not Yet Rated | $306,845 | $34,923 | $341,768 |
| 1,071 | 2023 | The Inventor | $306,385 | $168,217 | $474,602 |
| 1,072 | 2012 | Whores’ Glory | $306,151 | $324,390 | $630,541 |
| 1,073 | 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut | $304,899 | $352,132 | $657,031 |
| 1,074 | 1996 | Stonewall | $304,602 | $304,602 | |
| 1,075 | 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $303,791 | $28,644 | $332,435 |
| 1,076 | 2010 | Holy Rollers | $303,064 | $303,064 | |
| 1,077 | 2001 | Piñero | $302,325 | $302,325 | |
| 1,078 | 2007 | God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of… | $301,447 | $301,447 | |
| 1,079 | 2019 | Aquarela | $301,429 | $385,223 | $686,652 |
| 1,080 | 2007 | Crazy Love | $301,027 | $301,027 | |
| 1,081 | 2014 | I Am Eleven | $300,968 | $300,968 | |
| 1,082 | 2016 | Christine | $298,525 | $51,168 | $349,693 |
| 1,083 | 2019 | Ask Dr. Ruth | $297,195 | $21,895 | $319,090 |
| 1,084 | 2003 | Bonhoeffer | $296,181 | $296,181 | |
| 1,085 | 2020 | Il Traditore | $296,027 | $8,654,919 | $8,950,946 |
| 1,086 | 2023 | Southern Gospel | $293,436 | $293,436 | |
| 1,087 | 2019 | Lie huo ying xiong | $290,217 | $244,889,313 | $245,179,530 |
| 1,088 | 2002 | Scratch | $289,885 | $289,885 | |
| 1,089 | 2007 | Shootout at Lokhandwala | $289,232 | $7,901,847 | $8,191,079 |
| 1,090 | 2014 | Antarctica: A Year on Ice | $288,757 | $288,757 | |
| 1,091 | 2015 | Above and Beyond | $288,751 | $288,751 | |
| 1,092 | 2012 | Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap | $288,738 | $45,388 | $334,126 |
| 1,093 | 2016 | Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer | $288,434 | $2,752,337 | $3,040,771 |
| 1,094 | 2010 | Last Train Home | $288,328 | $288,328 | |
| 1,095 | 2009 | Outrage | $287,198 | $287,198 | |
| 1,096 | 1995 | Rampo | $284,613 | $284,613 | |
| 1,097 | 2020 | Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words | $282,149 | $282,149 | |
| 1,098 | 2019 | Mike Wallace is Here | $281,245 | $281,245 | |
| 1,099 | 2006 | American Hardcore | $279,665 | $8,322 | $287,987 |
| 1,100 | 2014 | 20,000 Days on Earth | $279,558 | $1,700,215 | $1,979,773 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.