Actor
Richard Gere
8 films•1978–2009•Drama · Romance · Comedy
63%average critics74%average audience$69.7Mdomestic average
Films
8
1978–2009
Domestic
$557.4M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.27B
lifetime
Avg opening
$8.9M
3-day
Avg legs
7.85x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $227.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films featuring Richard Gere, from Days of Heaven (1978) to Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), together grossing $557.4M domestic and $1.27B worldwide. The biggest hit is Pretty Woman (1990) at $432.6M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Unfaithful (2002) at $14.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 2009 | — | — | — | $47.7M | — | 64% | — |
 Shall We Dance? | 2004 | $11.8M | $57.9M | 4.90x | $170.0M | — | 46% | — |
 Chicago | 2003 | $12.7M | $171.0M | 13.5x | $307.0M | — | 87% | #8 |
 Unfaithful | 2002 | $14.1M | $52.8M | 3.75x | $119.0M | C+ | 51% | #47 |
 Autumn in New York | 2000 | $11.0M | $37.8M | 3.44x | $90.7M | C+ | 20% | — |
 Primal Fear | 1996 | $9.9M | $56.1M | 5.70x | $102.6M | — | 77% | — |
 Pretty Woman | 1990 | $11.3M | $178.4M | 15.8x | $432.6M | — | 65% | — |
 Days of Heaven | 1978 | $26K | $3.4M | 132.1x | $3.7M | — | 93% | — |
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 4.4 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$1.12B worldwide on $227.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $501.3MInternational $621.7M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven30.9x
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 1 of 3 placings across 3 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
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.