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#7,265 All-time worldwide
#58 1983 releases

Movie profile

The Lords of Discipline

1983 · 102 min · Paramount Pictures

Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.8M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$5.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Lords of Discipline 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 #7,265 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1983 releases #58 Release-year chart position of 150 titles Ranked against movies released in 1983. Studio / company #286 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,021 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.

#7,262 The Belko Experiment 2017 · $11.8M #7,263 This Must Be the Place 2011 · $11.8M #7,264 I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2019 · $11.8M #7,266 Millions 2005 · $11.8M #7,267 The Man Cave 2014 · $11.8M #7,268 The Hoax 2006 · $11.8M

Quick answer

How did The Lords of Discipline (1983) perform at the box office?

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The Lords of Discipline (1983) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $11.8M. In this database it currently ranks #7,265 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #58 among 1983 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,787,127
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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 18, 1983
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1983 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1983, The Lords of Discipline is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.8M. For comparison, it currently sits #7,265 all-time in the current chart set and #58 among 1983 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.