In January, one French documentary caused a stir in French-language markets, two dramatic features, which won awards in Cannes, glittered in Latin America, and one hit comedy attracted large audiences in Australian theaters.
This January, one French production attracted more than 2.5 million spectators in foreign theaters, while three others tallied more than 100,000 admissions.
| # | Title | No. of Admissions | Box Office Revenues (€) | No. of Prints | No. of Countries | Total Admissions |
| 1 | The Little Prince | 2,558,336 | 14,406,031 | 2,670 | 31 | 17,563,839 |
| 2 | Seasons | 311,208 | 2,907,562 | 345 | 3 | 311,208 |
| 3 | Belle & Sebastian, the Adventure Continues... | 259,282 | 1,359,379 | 681 | 10 | 840,612 |
| 4 | The Bélier Family | 108,572 | 905,940 | 57 | 4 | 3,704,294 |
| 5 | Mustang | 96,983 | 545,129 | 120 | 8 | 278,178 |
| 6 | Tomorrow | 88,631 | 852,615 | 76 | 3 | 96,573 |
| 7 | Babysitting 2 | 72,465 | 491,956 | 87 | 6 | 398,866 |
| 8 | Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants | 64,694 | 452,769 | 171 | 3 | 2,542,979 |
| 9 | Mon roi | 36,043 | 171,875 | 59 | 3 | 139,402 |
| 10 | Once in a Lifetime | 34,646 | 174,882 | 79 | 4 | 215,453 |
| 11 | The New Adventures of Aladdin | 31723 | 249,710 | 28 | 3 | 297,683 |
| 12 | Francofonia | 28,073 | 169,976 | 34 | 2 | 46,414 |
| 13 | Entre amis | 27,121 | 204,338 | 84 | 2 | 43,101 |
| 14 | The Roommates Party | 25,933 | 253,288 | 35 | 2 | 42,090 |
| 15 | I'm All Yours | 25,874 | 189,070 | 71 | 2 | 27,787 |
| 16 | The Measure of a Man | 25,545 | 112,892 | 77 | 4 | 104,668 |
| 17 | Un plus une | 20,351 | 214,614 | 22 | 3 | 46,608 |
| 18 | Call me Bernadette | 19,585 | 66 668 | 77 | 1 | 19,585 |
| 19 | Not My Type | 18,161 | 114,383 | 34 | 2 | 168,185 |
| 20 | The Three of Us | 17,072 | 145,009 | 15 | 2 | 26,191 |
Tomorrow continues its incredible rise in French-speaking Switzerland. After six weeks in theaters, the film has now edged into the number 2 position at the local box office. At the end of January, the film was playing across 30 screens and had racked up 40,000 admissions. It had overtaken the final results of On the Way to School, released in 2013 (36,000 admissions in Romandy), and also those of Salt of the Earth (22,000 admissions). The same situation is noted in Belgium, where the film is holding well after three weeks in the theaters, with 35,000 total admissions, from a number of prints in circulation that increased from 18 to 31.
Released nearly two weeks after its French premiere, Seasons launched its international career in 4th position at the Japanese box office. With 254,000 spectators in two weeks, the film has achieved the third highest score recorded by a French documentary in Japan, behind Oceans (2 million admissions), and The March of the Penguins (658,000 admissions). Japan remains one of the territories the most favorable to French documentaries, with 10.2% of global French film admissions recorded for the genre between 1995 and 2014 – a ratio more than two times higher than the 4.4% generally noted outside France.
The Measure of a Man pursues its international career in 2016 and was released in Argentinean theaters in January. Present in the local Top 10, with more than 16,000 admissions tallied in three weeks, the film has registered more admissions than Young and Beautiful (10,300 admissions) and Marguerite (15,800 admissions). While still in Latin America, we note that Mustang entered the Top 10 in Colombia in its opening week. Seventh at the box office the first week of its release, the film had tallied 17,000 admissions by the end of January. A fine result in this territory, which registered a record for global theatrical admissions, but also for those relating to French cinema, with successes in the comedy (La Famille Bélier – 537,000 admissions), animation (The Little Prince – 464,000 admissions), and fantasy (Beauty and the Beast – 134,000 admissions) genres.
The Bélier Family continues its excellent Australian career, and has accumulated nearly 130,000 admissions after five weeks in theaters. It is the best performance for a French-language film since 2012 and The Intouchables (467,000 admissions). La Famille Bélier hence overtakes the result achieved by La Ritournelle (64,000 admissions), which made a mark on the local box office exactly a year ago.
The Little Prince crossed the threshold of a million admissions in Italy in less than two weeks! It hence became the fifteenth French film to register this number of admissions in Italy during the past 20 years. It is worth noting that, in 2014, Belle & Sebastien attracted a million spectators in three weeks, ending its career with 1.2 million admissions.
