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#4,803 All-time worldwide
#47 1990 releases

Movie profile

Internal Affairs

1990 · 115 min · Paramount Pictures

Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $27.7M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $12.7M
ROI 1.85x

Domestic gross

$13.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$13.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Internal Affairs 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 #4,803 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #47 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #216 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #762 Crime of 1,921 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Internal Affairs (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Internal Affairs (1990) earned a reported $27.7M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $12.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.85x. In this database it currently ranks #4,803 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #47 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$27,734,391
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$12,734,391
ROI
1.85x
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

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 12, 1990
Production
Paramount Pictures, Image Organization, Malofilm
Countries
CA, US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Internal Affairs is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $27.7M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $12.7M, ROI is 1.85x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,803 all-time in the current chart set and #47 among 1990 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.