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#9,166 All-time worldwide
#126 1992 releases

Movie profile

The Lover

1992 · 115 min · Timothy Burrill Productions

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$451,178

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Lover 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 #9,166 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1992 releases #126 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1992. Studio / company #1 Timothy Burrill Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Timothy Burrill Productions movie set. Primary genre #3,933 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 Lover (1992) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

The Lover (1992) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $5.0M. In this database it currently ranks #9,166 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #126 among 1992 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,013,090
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 poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 22, 1992
Production
Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio
Countries
FR, GB, VN

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTimothy Burrill Productions Release year chart1992 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1992, The Lover is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Timothy Burrill Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #9,166 all-time in the current chart set and #126 among 1992 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.