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#7,529 All-time worldwide
#167 2003 releases

Movie profile

Carandiru

2003 · 145 min · Oscar Kramer

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.8M
Budget $3.7M
Gross minus budget $7.1M
ROI 2.93x

Domestic gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$970,394

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Carandiru 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 #7,529 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #167 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #1 Oscar Kramer of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Oscar Kramer movie set. Primary genre #3,141 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.

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Quick answer

How did Carandiru (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Carandiru (2003) earned a reported $10.8M worldwide against a reported $3.7M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.93x. In this database it currently ranks #7,529 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #167 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,782,155
Budget
$3,684,600
Gross minus budget
$7,097,555
ROI
2.93x
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

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 11, 2003
Production
Oscar Kramer, Petrobras, HB Filmes
Countries
BR, AR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Carandiru is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Oscar Kramer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.8M, reported production budget is $3.7M, gross-minus-budget is $7.1M, ROI is 2.93x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,529 all-time in the current chart set and #167 among 2003 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.