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#8,403 All-time worldwide
#134 1997 releases

Movie profile

Airbag

1997 · 132 min · Road Movies Dritte Produktionen

Comedy Action Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.0M
Budget $3.4M
Gross minus budget $4.7M
ROI 2.39x

Domestic gross

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$896,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Airbag 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 #8,403 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #134 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Primary genre #3,273 Comedy of 4,840 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.

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Quick answer

How did Airbag (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Airbag (1997) earned a reported $8.0M worldwide against a reported $3.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.39x. In this database it currently ranks #8,403 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #134 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,000,000
Budget
$3,350,000
Gross minus budget
$4,650,000
ROI
2.39x
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

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 20, 1997
Production
Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, ARD Degeto, Virgin Vision
Countries
FR, DE, PT, ES

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyRoad Movies Dritte Produktionen Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Airbag is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Action, Crime title from Road Movies Dritte Produktionen. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.0M, reported production budget is $3.4M, gross-minus-budget is $4.7M, ROI is 2.39x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,403 all-time in the current chart set and #134 among 1997 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.