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#4,213 All-time worldwide
#39 1988 releases

Movie profile

Dangerous Liaisons

1988 · 119 min · Lorimar Film Entertainment

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.7M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget $20.7M
ROI 2.48x

Domestic gross

$17.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Dangerous Liaisons 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 #4,213 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #39 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #1 Lorimar Film Entertainment of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Lorimar Film Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,579 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 Dangerous Liaisons (1988) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) earned a reported $34.7M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $20.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.48x. In this database it currently ranks #4,213 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #39 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,670,720
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
$20,670,720
ROI
2.48x
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

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 21, 1988
Production
Lorimar Film Entertainment, NFH Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Dangerous Liaisons is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Lorimar Film Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.7M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is $20.7M, ROI is 2.48x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,213 all-time in the current chart set and #39 among 1988 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.