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#10,946 All-time worldwide
#156 1990 releases

Movie profile

The Fourth War

1990 · 91 min · Aurora Production

Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.3M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$652,944

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$652,943

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$117,530

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Fourth War 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 #10,946 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #156 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Primary genre #4,817 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 The Fourth War (1990) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

The Fourth War (1990) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $1.3M. In this database it currently ranks #10,946 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #156 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,305,887
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

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 12, 1990
Production
Aurora Production, Kodiak Films, The Cannon Group
Countries
US, CA

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyAurora Production Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, The Fourth War is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller title from Aurora Production. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.3M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,946 all-time in the current chart set and #156 among 1990 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.