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#11,722 All-time worldwide
#125 1982 releases

Movie profile

The Plague Dogs

1982 · 103 min · Nepenthe Productions

Adventure Animation Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $423,281
Budget $1.2M
Gross minus budget -$776,719
ROI 0.35x

Domestic gross

$182,011

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$241,270

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$54,603

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Plague Dogs 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 #11,722 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1982 releases #125 Release-year chart position of 157 titles Ranked against movies released in 1982. Studio / company #2 Nepenthe Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Nepenthe Productions movie set. Primary genre #2,055 Adventure of 2,138 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.

#11,719 Handsome Poor Bilo 1979 · $425,000 #11,720 The Roar of the Vietnamese 1991 · $424,910 #11,721 Drowning by Numbers 1988 · $424,773 #11,723 Tiger Warsaw 1988 · $422,627 #11,724 Storyville 1992 · $422,503 #11,725 The Last Days 1998 · $421,432

Quick answer

How did The Plague Dogs (1982) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Plague Dogs (1982) earned a reported $423.3K worldwide against a reported $1.2M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$776.7K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.35x. In this database it currently ranks #11,722 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #125 among 1982 releases.

Worldwide gross
$423,281
Budget
$1,200,000
Gross minus budget
-$776,719
ROI
0.35x
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

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued by search parties and then the military after rumours spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 1, 1982
Production
Nepenthe Productions, Goldcrest
Countries
GB

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1982, The Plague Dogs is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Animation, Drama title from Nepenthe Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $423,281, reported production budget is $1.2M, gross-minus-budget is -$776,719, ROI is 0.35x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,722 all-time in the current chart set and #125 among 1982 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.