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#11,454 All-time worldwide
#54 1974 releases

Movie profile

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974 · 113 min · Optimus Films

Action Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $700,000
Budget $1.5M
Gross minus budget -$800,000
ROI 0.47x

Domestic gross

$350,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$350,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$63,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 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 #11,454 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1974 releases #54 Release-year chart position of 72 titles Ranked against movies released in 1974. Primary genre #2,798 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.

#11,451 Edward II 1991 · $706,131 #11,452 The Unholy Three 1925 · $704,000 #11,453 If They Tell You I Fell 1989 · $700,183 #11,463 Tosun Pasha 1976 · $698,200 #11,464 Split Decisions 1988 · $695,822 #11,465 The Pirates of Penzance 1983 · $694,497

Quick answer

How did Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) earned a reported $700.0K worldwide against a reported $1.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$800.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.47x. In this database it currently ranks #11,454 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #54 among 1974 releases.

Worldwide gross
$700,000
Budget
$1,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$800,000
ROI
0.47x
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

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 1, 1974
Production
Optimus Films, Estudios Churubusco Azteca, United Artists
Countries
US, MX

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyOptimus Films Release year chart1974 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1974, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Drama title from Optimus Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $700,000, reported production budget is $1.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$800,000, ROI is 0.47x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,454 all-time in the current chart set and #54 among 1974 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.