Best 'Box Office Flop' Movies

The Top Ten
1 Citizen Kane

It got its money back, but still... It's surprising for it to only gain 19% of double from its budget.

2 John Carter

Visual stunning.perfect costume design.great casting. But I think two thing that make it flop is weak plot and too much spending on movie and marketing but it is great movie I recommend it

3 1492: Conquest of Paradise

One of my favorite movies from the early 90's. Shold have been a hit

4 I Dreamed of Africa
5 Cutthroat Island
6 Fantasia

It's quite a sad story of the film that would've changed animation forever had it not been for World War 2.

7 Speed Racer
8 Fight Club
9 Deep Rising
10 Strange Days
The Contenders
11 Heathers
12 Onward

Pixar's second total box office bomb, besides the Good Dinosaur, but while the Good Dinosaur was all Pixar's fault for poor planning and marketing, Onward's at fault from COVID-19.

13 Battleship
14 Blade Runner
15 Alice in Wonderland

Really, this movie just didn't do well at the box-office, thus why it was NEVER reissued in his lifetime, instead being aired on TV every 5 or so years.

16 Bringing Out the Dead

Martin Scorsese created a masterpiece that was criminally underrated and overlooked

17 Catwoman
18 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
19 Bambi

Once again, really, this movie failed due to World War 2, and caused Walt to resort to cheaper package films.

20 Eye See You (D-Tox)
21 The Shawshank Redemption
22 A Christmas Story

Yes, really, This movie originally bombed at the box office, literally no one saw it, but the film's rights were picked up cheap by Turner, and since then, it has became an iconic movie.



While I personally find the movie overrated, with some aspects (e.g. Randy's sudden and loud crying and the Asian waiters relying on an old stereotype) just not sticking with me, I can see why people like this film, and thus, it's here, it's on the list, and you'll shoot your eye out, kid!

23 Supernova
24 The Big Year
25 The Thing (1982)
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