Director
M. Night Shyamalan
13 films•1 as cast•1999–2024•Drama · Thriller · Mystery
51%average critics60%average audience$109.8Mdomestic average
Films
13
1999–2024
Domestic
$1.43B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.17B
lifetime
Avg opening
$32.1M
3-day
Avg legs
3.45x
opening → total
Return
4.7x
on $677.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 13 films credited to M. Night Shyamalan, 13 as director and 1 in the cast, from The Sixth Sense (1999) to Trap (2024), together grossing $1.43B domestic and $3.17B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Sixth Sense (1999) at $673.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Signs (2002) at $60.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Trap | 2024 | $15.5M | $42.8M | 2.80x | $82.7M | C+ | 56% | #41 |
 Knock at the Cabin | 2023 | $14.1M | $35.4M | 2.50x | $54.8M | — | 67% | — |
 Old | 2021 | $16.3M | $48.3M | 3.00x | $90.2M | C+ | 50% | #28 |
 Glass | 2019 | $40.3M | $111.0M | 2.75x | $247.0M | B | 37% | #25 |
 Split | 2017 | $40.0M | $138.3M | 3.46x | $278.8M | A | 79% | #23 |
 The Visit | 2015 | $25.4M | $65.2M | 2.60x | $98.7M | — | 68% | — |
 After Earth | 2013 | $27.5M | $60.5M | 2.20x | $244.0M | B | 12% | — |
 The Last Airbender | 2010 | $40.3M | $132.0M | 3.27x | $320.0M | C | 5% | #19 |
 The Happening | 2008 | $30.5M | $64.5M | 2.11x | $163.0M | D | 17% | #50 |
 The Village | 2004 | $50.7M | $114.0M | 2.25x | $258.0M | C | 43% | #20 |
 Signs | 2002 | $60.1M | $228.0M | 3.79x | $408.0M | B | 76% | #6 |
 Unbreakable | 2000 | $30.3M | $95.0M | 3.13x | $248.0M | C | 71% | #22 |
 The Sixth Sense | 1999 | $26.7M | $293.0M | 11.0x | $673.0M | A- | 86% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.7x
$3.17B worldwide on $677.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.43BInternational $1.74B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven31.0x
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.
Records held
All records →Top 2 of 4 placings across 4 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
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.