Director
David Lean
4 films•1945–1965•Drama · Romance · War
91%average critics91%average audience$45.7Mdomestic average
Films
4
1945–1965
Domestic
$182.7M
lifetime
Worldwide
$215.4M
lifetime
Avg opening
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3-day
Avg legs
—
opening → total
Return
7.4x
on $29.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | — | $111.9M | — | $112.1M | — | 82% | — |
 Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | — | $37.5M | — | $70.0M | — | 93% | — |
 The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | — | $33.3M | — | $33.3M | — | 96% | — |
 Brief Encounter | 1945 | — | — | — | — | — | 94% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$50M$100M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 6.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
7.4x
$215.4M worldwide on $29.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $182.7MInternational $32.7M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven11.1x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.