Actor
Liam NeesonFollow
39 films•1981–2026•Action · Drama · Adventure
Avg critics58%
Avg audience64%
Avg domestic$77.9M
Domestic
$3.04B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$7.21B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$19.8M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | $64.8M | $487.6M | 6.65x | $1.05B | A- | 54% | — |
 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | $65.6M | $291.7M | 4.45x | $720.5M | A+ | 76% | #2 |
 The Lego Movie | 2014 | $69.1M | $258.4M | 3.74x | $467.2M | A | 96% | #5 |
 Batman Begins | 2005 | $48.7M | $205.3M | 4.22x | $356.8M | A | 85% | #8 |
 Taken | 2009 | $24.7M | $145.0M | 5.87x | $226.9M | A- | 60% | #20 |
 Taken 2 | 2012 | $49.5M | $139.9M | 2.83x | $377.8M | A- | 22% | #20 |
 Schindler's List | 1993 | $657K | $96.9M | 20.9x | $322.0M | — | 98% | — |
 The Haunting | 1999 | $33.4M | $91.2M | 2.70x | $180.2M | C+ | 17% | — |
 Non-Stop | 2014 | $28.9M | $91.1M | 3.15x | $222.4M | A- | 61% | #35 |
 Taken 3 | 2015 | $39.2M | $89.3M | 2.28x | $327.7M | B+ | 13% | #33 |
 Wrath of the Titans | 2012 | $33.5M | $83.7M | 2.50x | $302.0M | B+ | 26% | #36 |
 Men in Black: International | 2019 | $30.0M | $80.0M | 2.66x | $254.3M | B | 23% | #36 |
 The A-Team | 2010 | $25.7M | $77.2M | 3.01x | $177.0M | B+ | 48% | #44 |
 Battleship | 2012 | $25.5M | $65.4M | 2.56x | $303.0M | B | 34% | #46 |
 The Nut Job | 2014 | $19.4M | $64.3M | 3.30x | $122.5M | B | 12% | — |
 Unknown | 2011 | $21.9M | $63.7M | 2.90x | $136.1M | — | 56% | — |
 Love Actually | 2003 | $6.9M | $59.8M | 6.90x | $245.0M | B+ | 65% | — |
 The Naked Gun | 2025 | $16.8M | $52.6M | 3.10x | $102.0M | A- | 87% | #39 |
 The Grey | 2011 | $19.7M | $51.6M | 2.60x | $81.2M | — | 80% | — |
 Kingdom of Heaven | 2005 | $19.6M | $47.4M | 2.41x | $214.0M | A | 39% | — |
 A Million Ways to Die in the West | 2014 | $16.8M | $42.7M | 2.50x | $86.8M | — | 33% | — |
 Widows | 2018 | $12.4M | $42.4M | 3.40x | $76.0M | — | 91% | — |
 The Dead Pool | 1988 | $9.1M | $37.9M | 4.20x | — | — | 53% | — |
 The Commuter | 2018 | $13.7M | $36.3M | 2.70x | $118.5M | B | 55% | — |
 K-19: The Widowmaker | 2002 | $12.8M | $35.2M | 2.80x | $65.7M | — | 60% | — |
 Excalibur | 1981 | $4.5M | $34.2M | 7.60x | — | — | 73% | — |
 Nell | 1994 | $63K | $33.6M | 10.6x | $106.6M | — | 60% | — |
 Darkman | 1990 | $8.1M | $32.9M | 4.10x | — | C+ | 80% | — |
 Cold Pursuit | 2019 | $11.0M | $32.1M | 2.90x | $62.6M | — | 68% | — |
 Rob Roy | 1995 | $2.0M | $31.4M | 4.40x | — | — | 73% | — |
 Run All Night | 2015 | $11.0M | $26.5M | 2.40x | $71.7M | A- | 59% | — |
 A Walk Among the Tombstones | 2014 | $12.8M | $26.0M | 2.00x | $62.1M | — | 68% | — |
 The Next Three Days | 2010 | $6.5M | $21.1M | 3.20x | $67.3M | — | 50% | — |
 The Mission | 1986 | $40K | $17.2M | 14.7x | $20.8M | — | 63% | — |
 Ponyo | 2008 | $3.6M | $15.1M | 4.20x | $205.2M | — | 91% | — |
 Honest Thief | 2020 | $3.6M | $14.2M | 3.90x | $32.6M | — | 41% | — |
 Kinsey | 2004 | $169K | $10.2M | 7.90x | $17.4M | — | 90% | — |
 Silence | 2016 | $131K | $7.1M | 3.60x | $23.7M | — | 83% | — |
 The Fix | 2026 | $726K | $1.2M | 1.60x | $1.2M | B | 21% | #120 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.2 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.3x
$7.08B worldwide on $2.16B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.85BInternational $4.23B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven14.6x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#2Best multipliersStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace6.65x#3Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace−20.7%#6All-time PG domesticStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace$487.6M#7Biggest February openingsThe Lego Movie$69.1M#8Biggest January openingsTaken 3$39.2M#11Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)The Lego Movie−27.8%#14Biggest October openingsTaken 2$49.5M#14Biggest December openingsThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe$65.6M
Top 8 of 10 placings across 9 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
Connected
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
