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#11,102 All-time worldwide
#18 1948 releases

Movie profile

Portrait from Life

1948 · 90 min · Gainsborough Pictures

Drama Mystery Thriller Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.1M
Budget $535,000
Gross minus budget $573,592
ROI 2.07x

Domestic gross

$554,296

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$554,296

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$99,773

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Portrait from Life 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 #11,102 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1948 releases #18 Release-year chart position of 24 titles Ranked against movies released in 1948. Primary genre #4,984 Drama of 6,006 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.

#11,099 Georgia 1995 · $1.1M #11,100 Danger Signal 1945 · $1.1M #11,101 White Christmas 1954 · $1.1M #11,103 One Way Passage 1932 · $1.1M #11,104 Stagecoach 1939 · $1.1M #11,105 Mistress 1992 · $1.1M

Quick answer

How did Portrait from Life (1948) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Portrait from Life (1948) earned a reported $1.1M worldwide against a reported $535.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $573.6K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.07x. In this database it currently ranks #11,102 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #18 among 1948 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,108,592
Budget
$535,000
Gross minus budget
$573,592
ROI
2.07x
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 1, 1948
Production
Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Countries
GB

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1948, Portrait from Life is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Mystery, Thriller title from Gainsborough Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.1M, reported production budget is $535,000, gross-minus-budget is $573,592, ROI is 2.07x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,102 all-time in the current chart set and #18 among 1948 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.