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#6,843 All-time worldwide
#113 1996 releases

Movie profile

Secrets & Lies

1996 · 142 min · Ci By 2000

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $13.4M
Budget $4.5M
Gross minus budget $8.9M
ROI 2.98x

Domestic gross

$6.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Secrets & Lies 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 #6,843 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #113 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #3 Ci By 2000 of 9 titles Position inside the mapped Ci By 2000 movie set. Primary genre #2,822 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 Secrets & Lies (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Secrets & Lies (1996) earned a reported $13.4M worldwide against a reported $4.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $8.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.98x. In this database it currently ranks #6,843 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #113 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,417,292
Budget
$4,500,000
Gross minus budget
$8,917,292
ROI
2.98x
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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 24, 1996
Production
CiBy 2000, Channel Four Films, Thin Man Films
Countries
GB, FR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyCi By 2000 Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Secrets & Lies is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from CiBy 2000. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $13.4M, reported production budget is $4.5M, gross-minus-budget is $8.9M, ROI is 2.98x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,843 all-time in the current chart set and #113 among 1996 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.