The 10 Highest-Grossing R-Rated Films Ever Made

The criteria print before the titles, because a ranking without its contract is just an opinion with numbers on it. Source: Box Office Mojo, and Mojo alone. Population: every film Mojo classifies with an MPA rating of R, checked across the full worldwide chart the source offers, not a sample of it. Measure: lifetime worldwide gross, domestic plus foreign, unadjusted for inflation, exactly as Mojo reports it. Cutoff: today, November 9, 2026, on chart data Mojo stamps as of November 8, 2026. Scope note: the rating is the American one Mojo carries, so a film earns its place here on that classification whatever certificate it holds elsewhere. On those terms, the ten below are the whole of the top of the chart, in the chart's own order.

"The Odyssey" Leads at $1,801,737,440, and Only Three Films on This List Have Crossed $1 Billion

The verdict lands before the countdown, per house habit. A 2026 epic holds the record an R-rated comic-book sequel set in 2024, and the gap isn't close: "The Odyssey" leads "Deadpool & Wolverine" by $463,663,795, a margin larger than the entire worldwide gross of every film ranked 31st or lower on Mojo's R chart. Three titles have crossed $1 billion worldwide under an R rating — the two above, plus "Joker" — and the drop after them is steep: No. 4 sits more than $100 million behind No. 3, and No. 10 holds its place by $67,077,087 over the first film out. The list also spans 23 years, from a 2003 sequel at No. 8 to the 2026 leader, and it closes with a film that earned every dollar of its gross outside the domestic market Mojo measures first.

1. "The Odyssey" (2026) — $1,801,737,440

The leader, and the surprise for any reader working from an older chart. Mojo ranks the film 11th among all films ever released worldwide, R or otherwise, and its split explains the total: $625,595,435 domestic against $1,176,142,005 foreign, a 65.3 percent foreign share. An R rating is supposed to cap a film's ceiling by closing the door on younger audiences. This one grossed past the cap, past the previous record holder, and past $1.8 billion doing it.

2. "Deadpool & Wolverine" (2024) — $1,338,073,645

The record holder until this year, now the clearest second place on the chart. Mojo ranks it 25th among all films worldwide, and its split runs the other way from the leader's: $636,745,858 domestic — the largest domestic gross any R-rated film has posted on Mojo's charts — against $701,327,787 foreign. It held the top spot for roughly two years. The film that took the record didn't edge past it; it cleared it by nearly half a billion dollars.

3. "Joker" (2019) — $1,078,958,629

The first R-rated film to cross $1 billion worldwide, and still the third. Mojo ranks it 45th among all films, on a split that leans hard overseas: $335,477,657 domestic against $743,480,972 foreign, so more than two dollars in every three arrived from outside the domestic market. It sits $259,115,016 behind No. 2 and $103,147,296 ahead of No. 4 — close enough to the film below it that the order of the top four is a live question for the next big R-rated release, and far enough ahead that nothing below No. 4 threatens it yet.

4. "Oppenheimer" (2023) — $975,811,333

The highest-grossing straight drama on the list, and the entry where sourcing discipline matters most: figures higher than this one circulate widely, and none of them is Mojo's chart figure. Mojo prints $975,811,333, ranks the film 67th among all films worldwide, and splits it $330,078,895 domestic against $645,732,438 foreign. That's the number this list runs on, because Mojo is the named source and the chart is the chart. Readers comparing lists elsewhere will find the disagreement instructive all by itself.

5. "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle" (2025) — $793,594,078

The list's animated entry, and its most lopsided split. Mojo ranks the film 123rd among all films worldwide, on $136,950,340 domestic against $656,643,738 foreign — an 82.7 percent foreign share, the highest on this list by a wide margin. Every other title in the top five earned at least a quarter of its gross domestically. This one earned barely a sixth of it there and still cleared three-quarters of a billion dollars.

6. "Deadpool 2" (2018) — $785,896,632

The middle entry of a three-film run that owns Nos. 2, 6 and 7 between them. Mojo ranks it 128th among all films worldwide, split $324,591,735 domestic and $461,304,897 foreign. Its margin over the film directly below runs tightest on the entire list: $3,059,285, a rounding error at this altitude, separating two films from the same series that were released two years apart.

7. "Deadpool" (2016) — $782,837,347

The film that started that run, ranked 129th among all films worldwide by Mojo, split $363,070,709 domestic against $419,766,638 foreign. Its domestic gross is the larger of the two Deadpool solos — the original out-earned its sequel at home and lost the worldwide order overseas, where the sequel found an extra $41,538,259. Two films, one character, and a $3 million coin flip of a margin between them: that's the chart's closest call, and it isn't close anywhere else in the ten.

8. "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003) — $741,847,937

The oldest film on the list, and the only one that predates the modern franchise economy the rest of the ten swims in. Mojo ranks it 146th among all films worldwide, split $281,576,461 domestic against $460,271,476 foreign. It held a place in this top ten for 23 years of challengers, through the entire comic-book era, and it still sits $22,081,928 ahead of No. 9. Longevity at that level isn't nostalgia. It's a gross that was simply very large, very early.

9. "It" (2017) — $719,766,009

The list's horror entry, ranked 154th among all films worldwide by Mojo, split $328,874,981 domestic against $390,891,028 foreign — the most balanced split in the bottom half of the ten. Horror usually trades in small budgets and short runs; this one played like a tentpole and grossed like one. It also marks the last step before the floor drops: No. 10 sits $33,508,446 behind it, and the film at No. 11 sits a further $67,077,087 behind that.

10. "Detective Chinatown 3" (2021) — $686,257,563

The cutoff film, and the strangest line on the chart. Mojo ranks it 169th among all films worldwide and prints a dash where its domestic gross would go: the entire $686,257,563 is foreign gross, earned outside the domestic market altogether, under the R classification Mojo carries for the title. It holds the final place over "Logan" (2017), 11th on Mojo's R chart at $619,180,476, by $67,077,087. A top ten that ends on a film with no domestic gross at all is the cleanest possible reminder that worldwide means worldwide — the chart counts the money wherever it was earned.

Read the ten as one statement and the pattern is blunt. The R rating doesn't cap a film anymore; it filters one. Three of the ten crossed $1 billion, two of them wear the same character's name, and the leader is a classical epic that earned two-thirds of its money overseas. The next change to this list needs a film that can gross $686,257,563 just to get through the door. If you're tracking how the money side of the screen business gets priced before a camera rolls, our explainer on state film tax credits — California at 35 percent, Georgia at up to 30 percent — is the companion piece, and our account of a movie's second-weekend drop shows the number studios read first once a film like these opens.