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#7,037 All-time worldwide
#201 2008 releases

Movie profile

Buddenbrooks

2008 · 151 min · Colonia Media

Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $12.6M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$6.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Buddenbrooks 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 #7,037 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #201 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Primary genre #2,922 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.

#7,034 Everybody's All-American 1988 · $12.6M #7,035 Narc 2002 · $12.6M #7,036 Made in Dagenham 2010 · $12.6M #7,038 Bad Influence 1990 · $12.6M #7,039 Ben Is Back 2018 · $12.6M #7,040 The Omega Code 1999 · $12.6M

Quick answer

How did Buddenbrooks (2008) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Buddenbrooks (2008) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $12.6M. In this database it currently ranks #7,037 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #201 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$12,627,016
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 25, 2008
Production
Colonia Media, FilmInterest, ORF
Countries
DE

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, Buddenbrooks is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, History title from Colonia Media. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $12.6M. For comparison, it currently sits #7,037 all-time in the current chart set and #201 among 2008 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.