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#12,612 All-time worldwide
#86 1978 releases

Movie profile

Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho

1978 · 85 min · Profilmar P.c.

Mystery Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $17,280
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$6,912

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10,368

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1,935

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #12,612 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #86 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Primary genre #944 Mystery of 951 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.

#12,609 Diary of a Chambermaid 1964 · $17,754 #12,610 The Mute 1980 · $17,740 #12,611 Shoeshine 1946 · $17,480 #12,613 Django 1966 · $17,277 #12,614 A Real Young Girl 1976 · $17,245 #12,615 The Reflecting Skin 1990 · $17,042

Quick answer

How did Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho (1978) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho (1978) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $17.3K. In this database it currently ranks #12,612 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #86 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$17,280
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell". Detective Pepe Carvalho is put in charge of the case, taking him from the back streets of Barcelona to the Amsterdam canals, with no effect whatsoever on his peculiar investigation methods.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 5, 1978
Production
Profilmar P.C.
Countries
ES

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyProfilmar P.c. Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartMystery Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Thriller title from Profilmar P.C. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $17,280. For comparison, it currently sits #12,612 all-time in the current chart set and #86 among 1978 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.