Following 'minor flop' and 'even' status on Film Excess, 'box office success' is the first label that marks a real theatrical hit, which in most cases has grossed between 2.5 - 3.49 times its own budget at the box office. Some older films with unknown budgets and/or grosses end up in this category if reported theatrical hits elsewhere
1. The Leopard/Il Gattopardo/Le Guépard (1963) - Luchino Visconti
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) - Stephen Chbosky
3. The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick
4. Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) - Robert Wiene
6. Mommy (2014) - Xavier Dolan
7. Carol (2015) - Todd Haynes
8. Elephant (2003) - Gus Van Sant
9. Bad Hair/Pelo Malo (2013) - Mariana Rondón
10. 21 Grams (2003) - Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
Other great 'box office success' movies (in alphabetical order)
A Star Is Born (1937) - William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
August: Osage County (2013) - John Wells
Biloxi Blues (1988) - Mike Nichols
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage/L'uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo (1970) - Dario Argento
Brave (2012) - Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell
The Constant Gardner (2005) - Fernando Meirelles
Cria Cuervos/Cría Cuervos/Cria! (1976) - Carlos Saura
Date Night (2010) - Shawn Levy
The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino
Die Another Day (2002) - Lee Tamahori
El Dorado (1966) - Howard Hawks
Elizabeth (1998) - Shekhar Kapur
Enough Said (2013) - Nicole Holofcener
Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan
The Expendables (2010) - Sylvester Stallone
GasLand (2010, documentary) - Josh Fox
Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0 (2007) - Len Wiseman
Men in Black 3 (2012) - Barry Sonnenfeld
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) - Mark Waters
Mud (2012) - Jeff Nichols
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) - Derek Cianfrance
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) - John Lee Hancock
Good 'box office success' movies (in alphabetical order)
17 Again (2009) - Burr Steers
Alien 3 (1992) - David Fincher
Anchorman: The Legend Continues (2013) - Adam McKay
Bus Stop (1956) - Joshua Logan
Charlie's Angels (2000) - McG
Congo (1995) - Frank Marshall
Creepshow (1982) - George A. Romero
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - Scott Derrickson
Demolition Man (1993) - Marco Brambilla
Due Date (2010) - Todd Phillips
Friends with Money (2006) - Nicole Holofcener
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) - Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Iron Man 2 (2010) - Jon Favreau
Lone Survivor (2013) - Peter Berg
Piranha 3D (2010) - Alexandre Aja
Predators (2010) - Nimród Antal
Primal Fear (1996) - Gregory Hoblit
Sex and the City 2 (2010) - Michael Patrick King
Shame (2011) - Steve McQueen
Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) - John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller
Less than good 'box office success' movies (in alphabetical order)
127 Hours (2010) - Danny Boyle
The American (2010) - Anton Corbijn
The Car (1977) - Elliot Silverstein
City Lights (1931) - Charlie Chaplin
Corpse Bride (2005) - Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) - Glenn Flicarra, John Requa
Days of Thunder (1990) - Tony Scott
Deep Blue Sea (1999) - Renny Harlin
Derailed (2005) - Mikael Håfström
The Devil's Rejects (2005) - Rob Zombie
Die Hard 2 (1990) - Renny Harlin
Dumb and Dumber To (2014) - Bobby and Peter Farrelly
Julia's Eyes/Los Ojos de Julia (2010) - Guillem Morales
Kick-Ass (2010) - Matthew Vaughn
The Last Exorcism Part 2 (2013) - Ed Gass-Donnelly
This Life/Hvidsten Gruppen (2012) - Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis
War Horse (2011) - Steven Spielberg
Warm Bodies (2013) - Jonathan Levine
Weekend at Bernie's (1989) - Ted Kotcheff
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore
Turkey 'box office success' movies (in alphabetical order)
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) - John Moore
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - Samuel Bayer
The Crazies (2010) - Breck Eisner
Legion (2010) - Scott Stewart
RED (2010) - Robert Schwentke
World War Z (2013) - Marc Forster
[78 in total]
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