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#9,117 All-time worldwide
#205 2002 releases

Movie profile

The Dancer Upstairs

2002 · 132 min · Vía Digital

Crime Drama Romance Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.2M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$470,461

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Dancer Upstairs 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 #9,117 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #205 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Studio / company #2 Vía Digital of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Vía Digital movie set. Primary genre #1,415 Crime of 1,921 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 The Dancer Upstairs (2002) perform at the box office?

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The Dancer Upstairs (2002) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $5.2M. In this database it currently ranks #9,117 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #205 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,227,348
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 police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 20, 2002
Production
Vía Digital, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Lolafilms
Countries
ES, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVía Digital Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, The Dancer Upstairs is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Romance title from Vía Digital. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.2M. For comparison, it currently sits #9,117 all-time in the current chart set and #205 among 2002 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.