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#12,581 All-time worldwide
#233 1988 releases

Movie profile

A Man Against the Law

1988 · 100 min · Tamido Film Production And Distribution (Medhat El Sherif)

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $22,000
Budget $145,000
Gross minus budget -$123,000
ROI 0.15x

Domestic gross

$11,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1,980

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Man Against the Law ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #12,581 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #233 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Primary genre #5,701 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#12,578 The servant 1990 · $23,000 #12,579 The Atomic Cafe 1982 · $22,293 #12,580 This Is New Zealand 1970 · $22,224 #12,584 Zombie High 1987 · $21,905 #12,585 The Sunchaser 1996 · $21,508 #12,586 The Vikings 1958 · $20,311

Quick answer

How did A Man Against the Law (1988) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Man Against the Law (1988) earned a reported $22.0K worldwide against a reported $145.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$123.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.15x. In this database it currently ranks #12,581 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #233 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$22,000
Budget
$145,000
Gross minus budget
-$123,000
ROI
0.15x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

The teacher leaves Faraj after spending the sentence for cheating on building materials. He returns to the neighborhood and returns to his old life. As if the prison period did not leave any traces, he tries to seize the house owned by his neighbor, on the grounds that he signed a preliminary contract with him to buy the house before To enter the prison and had intended to demolish him to establish a huge building in his house refuses to complete the deal, especially as he rented one of the apartments for a young journalist is Laila, who lives with her mother and loved by the son of the owner Mohsen

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 8, 1988
Production
Tamido Film Production and Distribution (Medhat El-Sherif)
Countries
EG

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Studio / production companyTamido Film Production And Distribution (Medhat El Sherif) Release year chart1988 box office Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, A Man Against the Law is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Tamido Film Production and Distribution (Medhat El-Sherif). Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $22,000, reported production budget is $145,000, gross-minus-budget is -$123,000, ROI is 0.15x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,581 all-time in the current chart set and #233 among 1988 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.