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#2,845 All-time worldwide
#99 2015 releases

Movie profile

The Danish Girl

2015 · 119 min · Pretty Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $64.2M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $49.2M
ROI 4.28x

Domestic gross

$32.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$32.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Danish Girl ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #2,845 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2015 releases #99 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2015. Primary genre #950 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.

#2,842 Jackass: The Movie 2002 · $64.3M #2,843 Wag the Dog 1997 · $64.3M #2,844 Suck Me Shakespeer 3 2017 · $64.2M #2,846 The House of Magic 2013 · $64.2M #2,847 The Lazarus Effect 2015 · $64.1M #2,848 My Cousin Vinny 1992 · $64.1M

Quick answer

How did The Danish Girl (2015) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Danish Girl (2015) earned a reported $64.2M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $49.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.28x. In this database it currently ranks #2,845 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #99 among 2015 releases.

Worldwide gross
$64,200,000
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$49,200,000
ROI
4.28x
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

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 27, 2015
Production
Pretty Pictures, Working Title Films, Artémis Productions
Countries
BE, GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPretty Pictures Release year chart2015 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2015, The Danish Girl is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Pretty Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $64.2M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $49.2M, ROI is 4.28x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,845 all-time in the current chart set and #99 among 2015 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.