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#10,952 All-time worldwide
#154 1986 releases

Movie profile

Armed Response

1986 · 86 min · Cine Tel Films

Action Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.3M
Budget $1.5M
Gross minus budget -$200,000
ROI 0.87x

Domestic gross

$520,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$780,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$145,600

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Armed Response 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 #10,952 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #154 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #2 Cine Tel Films of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Cine Tel Films movie set. Primary genre #2,732 Action of 2,939 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.

#10,949 Night Head 1994 · $1.3M #10,950 Native Son 1986 · $1.3M #10,951 The Mortuary Assistant 2026 · $1.3M #10,972 Yamakasi 2001 · $1.3M #10,973 The Peacock King 1988 · $1.3M #10,974 Cousin Bette 1998 · $1.3M

Quick answer

How did Armed Response (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Armed Response (1986) earned a reported $1.3M worldwide against a reported $1.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$200.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.87x. In this database it currently ranks #10,952 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #154 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,300,000
Budget
$1,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$200,000
ROI
0.87x
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

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 3, 1986
Production
CineTel Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyCine Tel Films Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Armed Response is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Thriller title from CineTel Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.3M, reported production budget is $1.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$200,000, ROI is 0.87x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,952 all-time in the current chart set and #154 among 1986 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.