100 English films of 2003 ranked by box office. #1: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.1 billion).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson | $94 million | $1.1 billion | 12.21x | |
| 2 | The Matrix Reloaded | Lilly Wachowski | $150 million | $741.8 million | 4.95x | |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Gore Verbinski | $140 million | $654.3 million | 4.67x | |
| 4 | Bruce Almighty | Tom Shadyac | $81 million | $485 million | 5.99x | |
| 5 | The Last Samurai | Edward Zwick | A$140 million | $456.8 million | ||
| 6 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Jonathan Mostow | $200 million | $433.4 million | 2.17x | |
| 7 | The Matrix Revolutions | Lilly Wachowski | $150 million | $427.3 million | 2.85x | |
| 8 | X2 | Bryan Singer | $110 million | $407.7 million | 3.71x | |
| 9 | Bad Boys II they become more rebellious | Michael Bay | $130 million | $273.3 million | 2.10x | |
| 10 | Something's Gotta Give | Nancy Meyers | $80 million | $266.7 million | 3.33x | |
| 11 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | McG | $120 million | $259 million | 2.16x | |
| 12 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | $40 million | $250.6 million | 6.27x | |
| 13 | Hulk | Ang Lee | $137 million | $245.3 million | 1.79x | |
| 14 | 2 Fast 2 Furious | John Singleton | $76 million | $236 million | 3.11x | |
| 15 | American Wedding | Jesse Dylan | $55 million | $231 million | 4.20x | |
| 16 | Elf | Jon Favreau | $33 million | $228.9 million | 6.94x | |
| 17 | Scary Movie 3 | David Zucker | $48 million | $220.7 million | 4.60x | |
| 18 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | $150 million | $211.6 million | 1.41x | |
| 19 | S.W.A.T. | Clark Johnson | $70 million | $207.7 million | 2.97x | |
| 20 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Robert Rodriguez | $38 million | $197 million | 5.18x | |
| 21 | Anger Management | Peter Segal | $75 million | $195.7 million | 2.61x | |
| 22 | Cheaper by the Dozen | Shawn Levy | $40 million | $190.5 million | 4.76x | |
| 23 | The Haunted Mansion | Rob Minkoff | $90 million | $182.3 million | 2.03x | |
| 24 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Quentin Tarantino | $30 million | $180.9 million | 6.03x | |
| 25 | Daredevil | Mark Steven Johnson | $78 million | $180 million | 2.31x | |
| 26 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Stephen Norrington | $78 million | $179.3 million | 2.30x | |
| 27 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Donald Petrie | $50 million | $177.5 million | 3.55x | |
| 28 | The Italian Job | F. Gary Gray | $60 million | $176.1 million | 2.94x | |
| 29 | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | $79 million | $173 million | 2.19x | |
| 30 | Bringing Down the House | Adam Shankman | $33 million | $164.7 million | 4.99x | |
| 31 | Daddy Day Care | Steve Carr | $60 million | $164.4 million | 2.74x | |
| 32 | Freaky Friday | Mark Waters | $20 million | $160.8 million | 8.04x | |
| 33 | Johnny English | Peter Howitt | $40 million | $160.5 million | 4.01x | |
| 34 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life | Jan de Bont | $95 million | $160.1 million | 1.69x | |
| 35 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | $25 million | $156.6 million | 6.26x | |
| 36 | Seabiscuit | Gary Ross | $87 million | $148.3 million | 1.70x | |
| 37 | Gothika | Mathieu Kassovitz | $40 million | $141.6 million | 3.54x | |
| 38 | Mona Lisa Smile | Mike Newell | $72.3 million | $141.3 million | 1.95x | |
| 39 | The Cat in the Hat | Bo Welch | $109 million | $134 million | 1.23x | |
| 40 | School of Rock | Richard Linklater | $35 million | $131.3 million | 3.75x | |
| 41 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Charles Herman-Wurmfeld | $25 million | $125.3 million | 5.01x | |
| 42 | Big Fish | Tim Burton | $70 million | $123.2 million | 1.76x | |
| 43 | Peter Pan | P. J. Hogan | $130 million | $122 million | 0.94x | |
| 44 | Intolerable Cruelty | Joel Coen | $60 million | $120.8 million | 2.01x | |
| 45 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | $4 million | $119 million | 29.75x | |
| 46 | Paycheck | John Woo | $60 million | $117.2 million | 1.95x | |
| 47 | Freddy vs. Jason | Ronny Yu | $30 million | $117 million | 3.90x | |
| 48 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Marcus Nispel | $9.5 million | $107.4 million | 11.31x | |
| 49 | Saw | James Wan | $1.2 million | $104 million | 86.67x | |
| 50 | Just Married | Shawn Levy | $18 million | $101.6 million | 5.64x | |
| 51 | The Recruit | Roger Donaldson | $46 million | $101.2 million | 2.20x | |
| 52 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Robert Rodriguez | $29 million | $98.8 million | 3.41x | |
| 53 | Underworld | Len Wiseman | $22 million | $95.7 million | 4.35x | |
| 54 | Calendar Girls | Nigel Cole | $10 million | $93.4 million | 9.34x | |
| 55 | Final Destination 2 | David R. Ellis | $26 million | $90.9 million | 3.50x | |
| 56 | Kangaroo Jack | David McNally | $60 million | $90.5 million | 1.51x | |
| 57 | Identity | James Mangold | $28 million | $90.3 million | 3.23x | |
| 58 | Shanghai Knights | David Dobkin | ARS 50 million | $88.3 million | ||
| 59 | Old School | Todd Phillips | $24 million | $87.1 million | 3.63x | |
| 60 | Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | $100.5 million | $86.5 million | 0.86x | |
| 61 | The Rundown | Peter Berg | $85 million | $80.9 million | 0.95x | |
| 62 | Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | $60 million | $80.2 million | 1.34x | |
| 63 | Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | $23 million | $76.5 million | 3.33x | |
| 64 | Dreamcatcher | Lawrence Kasdan | $68 million | $75.7 million | 1.11x | |
| 65 | Dead End | Jean-Baptiste Andrea | $900,000 | $75 million | 83.33x | |
| 66 | The Core | Jon Amiel | $73.5 million | $74.1 million | 1.01x | |
| 67 | Holes | Andrew Davis | $20 million | $71.4 million | 3.57x | |
| 68 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Joe Dante | $80 million | $68.5 million | 0.86x | |
| 69 | Open Range | Kevin Costner | $22 million | $68.3 million | 3.10x | |
| 70 | The Animatrix | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | $5 million | $68 million | 13.60x | |
| 71 | Stuck on You | Peter Farrelly | $55 million | $65.8 million | 1.20x | |
| 72 | Matchstick Men | Ridley Scott | $62 million | $65.6 million | 1.06x | |
| 73 | Honey | Bille Woodruff | $18 million | $65.3 million | 3.63x | |
| 74 | Monster | Jennifer Kent | $1.5 million | $64.2 million | 42.80x | |
| 75 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Victor Salva | $17 million | $63.1 million | 3.71x | |
| 76 | 21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | $20 million | $60.4 million | 3.02x | |
| 77 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Audrey Wells | $18 million | $58.9 million | 3.27x | |
| 78 | Agent Cody Banks | Harald Zwart | $28 million | $58.8 million | 2.10x | |
| 79 | Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | $25 million | $56.5 million | 2.26x | |
| 80 | Out of Time | Carl Franklin | $50 million | $55.5 million | 1.11x | |
| 80 | Open Water | Chris Kentis | $500,000 | $55.5 million | 111.00x | |
| 80 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie | Jim Fall | $17 million | $55.5 million | 3.26x | |
| 83 | National Security | Dennis Dugan | $30 million | $54.6 million | 1.82x | |
| 84 | Radio | Michael Tollin | $30 million | $52.6 million | 1.75x | |
| 85 | Hollywood Homicide | Ron Shelton | $75 million | $51.1 million | 0.68x | |
| 86 | What a Girl Wants | Dennie Gordon | $25 million | $51 million | 2.04x | |
| 87 | Secondhand Lions | Tim McCanlies | $30 million | $48.3 million | 1.61x | |
| 88 | Darkness Falls | Jonathan Liebesman | $11 million | $47.5 million | 4.32x | |
| 89 | The Hunted | William Friedkin | $55 million | $46.1 million | 0.84x | |
| 90 | Good Boy! | John Robert Hoffman | $18 million | $45.3 million | 2.52x | |
| 91 | Uptown Girls | Boaz Yakin | $30 million | $44.6 million | 1.49x | |
| 92 | A Man Apart | F. Gary Gray | $36 million | $44.3 million | 1.23x | |
| 93 | Timeline | Richard Donner | $80 million | $43.9 million | 0.55x | |
| 94 | Basic | John McTiernan | $50 million | $42.8 million | 0.86x | |
| 95 | Down with Love | Peyton Reed | $35 million | $39.5 million | 1.13x | |
| 96 | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | Troy Miller | $19 million | $39.3 million | 2.07x | |
| 97 | The Life of David Gale | Alan Parker | $38 million | $38.9 million | 1.02x | |
| 98 | Head of State | Chris Rock | $35 million | $38.6 million | 1.10x | |
| 99 | The Missing | Ron Howard | $60 million | $38.4 million | 0.64x | |
| 100 | Bulletproof Monk | Paul Hunter | $52 million | $37.7 million | 0.73x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.