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#7,866 All-time worldwide
#201 2005 releases

Movie profile

Tsotsi

2005 · 94 min · Movieworld Productions

Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.9M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $6.9M
ROI 3.30x

Domestic gross

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$890,217

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Tsotsi 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 #7,866 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #201 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Primary genre #1,224 Crime of 1,921 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.

#7,860 Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2007 · $9.9M #7,860 Cyrus 2010 · $9.9M #7,865 Very Bad Things 1998 · $9.9M #7,867 Night Falls on Manhattan 1997 · $9.9M #7,868 Miami Blues 1990 · $9.9M #7,869 Serial 1980 · $9.9M

Quick answer

How did Tsotsi (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Tsotsi (2005) earned a reported $9.9M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $6.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.30x. In this database it currently ranks #7,866 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #201 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,891,303
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$6,891,303
ROI
3.30x
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 young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 23, 2005
Production
Movieworld Productions, UK Film & TV Production Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa
Countries
ZA, GB

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Studio / production companyMovieworld Productions Release year chart2005 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Tsotsi is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama title from Movieworld Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.9M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $6.9M, ROI is 3.30x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,866 all-time in the current chart set and #201 among 2005 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.