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Top 2005 Limited Release Movies at the Domestic Box Office
See also: Top 2005 Domestic
Other Domestic Cumulative records for Limited Release Movies: All Time Domestic Limited Release - All Time Inf. Adj. Limited Release - Top 2024 Domestic Limited Release - Top 2025 Domestic Limited Release
This chart contains the total domestic box office for the top 100 limited release movies released in 2005.
| ←Top 2004 Domestic Limited Release | Top 2006 Domestic Limited Release→ |
| Rank | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Theaters |
Max Theaters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brokeback Mountain | $84,111,816 | 5 | 2,089 |
| 2 | Munich | $47,379,090 | 532 | 1,498 |
| 3 | Good Night, and Good Luck | $31,501,218 | 11 | 929 |
| 4 | Capote | $28,750,530 | 12 | 1,239 |
| 5 | Match Point | $23,089,926 | 8 | 512 |
| 6 | The Producers: The Movie Musical | $19,398,532 | 6 | 978 |
| 7 | The Upside of Anger | $18,761,993 | 9 | 1,166 |
| 8 | Broken Flowers | $13,744,960 | 27 | 433 |
| 9 | The New World | $12,712,093 | 3 | 811 |
| 10 | The Matador | $12,589,255 | 4 | 905 |
| 11 | Casanova | $11,304,403 | 37 | 1,011 |
| 12 | Mrs. Henderson Presents | $11,036,366 | 6 | 522 |
| 13 | Shopgirl | $10,284,523 | 8 | 493 |
| 14 | An Unfinished Life | $8,535,575 | 139 | 888 |
| 15 | Mad Hot Ballroom | $8,117,961 | 2 | 202 |
| 16 | Proof | $7,535,331 | 8 | 517 |
| 17 | The Squid and the Whale | $7,372,734 | 4 | 151 |
| 18 | Howl’s Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城)… | $7,095,145 | 36 | 1,592 |
| 19 | Ladies in Lavender | $6,759,422 | 22 | 119 |
| 20 | Bride & Prejudice | $6,601,079 | 32 | 288 |
| 21 | Millions | $6,584,159 | 5 | 340 |
| 22 | The Aristocrats | $6,377,461 | 4 | 234 |
| 23 | Der Untergang | $5,501,940 | 1 | 174 |
| 24 | Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada | $5,027,684 | 5 | 356 |
| 25 | The Libertine | $4,835,065 | 2 | 819 |
| 26 | Ong-Bak | $4,563,167 | 387 | 387 |
| 27 | Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang | $4,235,837 | 8 | 226 |
| 28 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | $4,071,700 | 3 | 151 |
| 29 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | $3,885,134 | 1 | 160 |
| 30 | Melinda and Melinda | $3,826,280 | 1 | 297 |
| 31 | Caché | $3,647,381 | 5 | 90 |
| 32 | Rize | $3,278,611 | 352 | 352 |
| 33 | Grizzly Man | $3,178,403 | 29 | 105 |
| 34 | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | $3,058,527 | 5 | 66 |
| 35 | G | $3,020,784 | 42 | 495 |
| 36 | Junebug | $2,678,010 | 7 | 143 |
| 37 | Oldboy | $2,458,110 | 5 | 250 |
| 38 | Layer Cake | $2,339,957 | 10 | 200 |
| 39 | Oliver Twist | $2,070,920 | 5 | 779 |
| 40 | The Work and the Glory: American Zion | $2,025,032 | 205 | 205 |
| 41 | Comme une image | $1,736,499 | 6 | 75 |
| 42 | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | $1,717,595 | 1 | 20 |
| 43 | Everything is Illuminated | $1,705,595 | 6 | 110 |
| 44 | El Vacilón: The Movie | $1,693,256 | 29 | 62 |
| 45 | State Property 2 | $1,691,706 | 202 | 202 |
| 46 | The White Countess | $1,669,971 | 10 | 67 |
| 47 | Murderball | $1,531,154 | 8 | 97 |
| 48 | Paradise Now | $1,452,402 | 4 | 65 |
| 49 | 2046 | $1,442,338 | 4 | 61 |
| 50 | Salaam Namaste | $1,411,065 | 63 | 63 |
| 51 | Paheli (Puzzle) | $1,409,499 | 68 | 68 |
| 52 | Ushpizin | $1,397,999 | 6 | 48 |
| 53 | Dear Frankie | $1,340,891 | 5 | 96 |
| 54 | Thumbsucker | $1,328,679 | 9 | 330 |
| 55 | Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic | $1,324,244 | 7 | 57 |
| 56 | Happy Endings | $1,315,701 | 52 | 74 |
| 57 | Off the Map | $1,310,368 | 10 | 70 |
| 58 | Saving Face | $1,187,266 | 6 | 56 |
| 59 | Bee Season | $1,180,560 | 21 | 277 |
| 60 | Heights | $1,158,405 | 7 | 66 |
| 61 | De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté | $1,023,424 | 5 | 37 |
| 62 | My Summer of Love | $1,000,915 | 17 | 63 |
| 63 | The Rising | $939,363 | 63 | 63 |
| 64 | Bunty Aur Babli | $932,509 | 51 | 51 |
| 65 | Separate Lies | $924,260 | 2 | 127 |
| 66 | Venom | $881,745 | 489 | 489 |
| 67 | Where the Truth Lies | $872,142 | 92 | 92 |
| 68 | Duma | $870,067 | 42 | 42 |
| 69 | MirrorMask | $864,959 | 18 | 42 |
| 70 | Innocent Voices | $837,878 | 65 | 65 |
| 71 | Après vous... | $830,292 | 3 | 42 |
| 72 | Breakfast on Pluto | $828,699 | 3 | 125 |
| 73 | Ballets Russes | $815,848 | 1 | 18 |
| 74 | The Thing About My Folks | $815,101 | 93 | 145 |
| 75 | WAQT | $815,064 | 52 | 52 |
| 76 | Parineeta | $802,758 | 50 | 50 |
| 77 | Saint Ralph | $795,126 | 61 | 61 |
| 78 | Black | $754,819 | 45 | 45 |
| 79 | First Descent | $739,690 | 243 | 243 |
| 80 | Bluff Master | $718,956 | 43 | 43 |
| 81 | Mysterious Skin | $713,240 | 1 | 19 |
| 82 | The Ballad of Jack and Rose | $712,294 | 4 | 74 |
| 83 | Inside Deep Throat | $691,880 | 12 | 27 |
| 84 | Nobody Knows | $683,575 | 2 | 23 |
| 85 | No Entry | $678,000 | 48 | 156 |
| 86 | CSA: The Confederate States of America | $672,156 | 2 | 31 |
| 87 | Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise | $665,260 | 1 | 22 |
| 88 | Saraband | $645,634 | 4 | 27 |
| 89 | Dust to Glory | $639,990 | 2 | 80 |
| 90 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | $627,844 | 41 | 41 |
| 91 | Gunner Palace | $607,502 | 8 | 56 |
| 92 | Schultze Gets the Blues | $595,071 | 4 | 35 |
| 93 | Palindromes | $553,368 | 7 | 46 |
| 94 | Madison | $517,262 | 93 | 94 |
| 95 | Travellers and Magicians | $506,793 | 3 | 11 |
| 96 | Bewafaa | $479,076 | 46 | 46 |
| 97 | Nine Lives | $478,830 | 7 | 33 |
| 98 | Steamboy | $468,867 | 39 | 46 |
| 99 | Last Days | $454,711 | 12 | 31 |
| 100 | Lucky | $453,507 | 44 | 44 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.