100 English films of 2004 ranked by box office. #1: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ($810.6 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | $130 million | $810.6 million | 6.24x | |
| 2 | Spider-Man 2 | Sam Raimi | $200 million | $797 million | 3.99x | |
| 3 | The Day After Tomorrow | Roland Emmerich | $125 million | $552.6 million | 4.42x | |
| 4 | Meet the Fockers | Jay Roach | $80 million | $522.7 million | 6.53x | |
| 5 | Troy | Wolfgang Petersen | $175 million | $497.4 million | 2.84x | |
| 6 | Ocean's Twelve | Steven Soderbergh | $110 million | $362.9 million | 3.30x | |
| 7 | I, Robot | Alex Proyas | $120 million | $353.1 million | 2.94x | |
| 8 | National Treasure | Jon Turteltaub | $100 million | $347.5 million | 3.48x | |
| 9 | The Bourne Supremacy | Paul Greengrass | $75 million | $311 million | 4.15x | |
| 10 | Van Helsing | Stephen Sommers | $160 million | $300.2 million | 1.88x | |
| 11 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Beeban Kidron | $40 million | $265.1 million | 6.63x | |
| 12 | The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | $60 million | $256.7 million | 4.28x | |
| 13 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore | $6 million | $222.4 million | 37.07x | |
| 14 | Collateral | Michael Mann | $65 million | $220 million | 3.38x | |
| 15 | The Terminal | Steven Spielberg | $60 million | $219 million | 3.65x | |
| 16 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | $30 million | $217 million | 7.23x | |
| 17 | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | $110 million | $214 million | 1.95x | |
| 18 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Brad Silberling | $140 million | $211.5 million | 1.51x | |
| 19 | Garfield: The Movie | Peter Hewitt | $50 million | $208 million | 4.16x | |
| 20 | King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | $90 million | $203.6 million | 2.26x | |
| 21 | 50 First Dates | Peter Segal | $70 million | $198.5 million | 2.84x | |
| 22 | The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | $10 million | $187.3 million | 18.73x | |
| 23 | Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | Raja Gosnell | $25 million | $181 million | 7.24x | |
| 24 | Along Came Polly | John Hamburg | $42 million | $178 million | 4.24x | |
| 25 | Alien vs. Predator | Paul W. S. Anderson | $60 million | $177 million | 2.95x | |
| 26 | Shall We Dance? | Peter Chelsom | $50 million | $170.1 million | 3.40x | |
| 27 | Starsky & Hutch | Todd Phillips | $60 million | $170 million | 2.83x | |
| 28 | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Rawson Marshall Thurber | $20 million | $168.4 million | 8.42x | |
| 29 | Alexander | Oliver Stone | $155 million | $167.3 million | 1.08x | |
| 30 | The Phantom of the Opera | Joel Schumacher | $70 million | $154.6 million | 2.21x | |
| 31 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | $30 million | $153.3 million | 5.11x | |
| 32 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Mark Osborne | $30 million | $141 million | 4.70x | |
| 33 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Garry Marshall | $45 million | $135.3 million | 3.01x | |
| 34 | Blade: Trinity | David S. Goyer | $65 million | $132 million | 2.03x | |
| 35 | Man on Fire | Tony Scott | $70 million | $130.3 million | 1.86x | |
| 36 | Mean Girls | Mark Waters | $17 million | $130.1 million | 7.65x | |
| 37 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Alexander Witt | $43 million | $129.3 million | 3.01x | |
| 38 | Ray | Taylor Hackford | $40 million | $124 million | 3.10x | |
| 39 | The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | $30 million | $118.3 million | 3.94x | |
| 40 | The Forgotten | Joseph Ruben | $42 million | $117.6 million | 2.80x | |
| 41 | Finding Neverland | Marc Forster | $25 million | $116.8 million | 4.67x | |
| 42 | The Chronicles of Riddick | David Twohy | $105 million | $115.8 million | 1.10x | |
| 43 | Closer | Mike Nichols | $27 million | $115.5 million | 4.28x | |
| 44 | White Chicks | Keenen Ivory Wayans | $37 million | $113.1 million | 3.06x | |
| 45 | Sideways | Alexander Payne | $16 million | $109.7 million | 6.86x | |
| 46 | Hidalgo | Joe Johnston | $100 million | $108.1 million | 1.08x | |
| 47 | The Stepford Wives | Frank Oz | $90 million | $103.3 million | 1.15x | |
| 48 | Dawn of the Dead | Zack Snyder | $26 million | $102.3 million | 3.93x | |
| 48 | Ladder 49 | Jay Russell | $50 million | $102.3 million | 2.05x | |
| 50 | Hellboy | Guillermo del Toro | $66 million | $99.8 million | 1.51x | |
| 51 | Crash | Paul Haggis | $6.5 million | $98.4 million | 15.14x | |
| 52 | The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress | $13 million | $96.8 million | 7.45x | |
| 53 | Christmas with the Kranks | Joe Roth | $60 million | $96.6 million | 1.61x | |
| 54 | The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | $80 million | $96.1 million | 1.20x | |
| 55 | 13 Going on 30 | Gary Winick | $37 million | $96 million | 2.59x | |
| 56 | Secret Window | David Koepp | $40 million | $92.1 million | 2.30x | |
| 57 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Adam McKay | $26 million | $90.6 million | 3.48x | |
| 58 | Catwoman | Pitof | $100 million | $82.4 million | 0.82x | |
| 59 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Renny Harlin | $50 million | $78.1 million | 1.56x | |
| 60 | The Ladykillers | Joel Coen | $35 million | $76.7 million | 2.19x | |
| 61 | Without a Paddle | Steven Brill | $19 million | $73 million | 3.84x | |
| 62 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | $20 million | $72.9 million | 3.65x | |
| 63 | Around the World in 80 Days | Frank Coraci | $140 million | $72.6 million | 0.52x | |
| 64 | Taxi | Tim Story | $25 million | $71.3 million | 2.85x | |
| 65 | Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | Dwight H. Little | $20 million | $71 million | 3.55x | |
| 66 | A Cinderella Story | Mark Rosman | $19 million | $70.1 million | 3.69x | |
| 67 | Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 | Ron de Moraes | $69 million | |||
| 68 | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $18 million | $66 million | 3.67x | |
| 69 | Taking Lives | D.J. Caruso | $45 million | $65.4 million | 1.45x | |
| 70 | Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | $28 million | $64.5 million | 2.30x | |
| 71 | After the Sunset | Brett Ratner | $57 million | $62.7 million | 1.10x | |
| 72 | Two Brothers | Jean-Jacques Annaud | €57.8 million | $62.2 million | ||
| 73 | Friday Night Lights | Peter Berg | $30 million | $62 million | 2.07x | |
| 74 | In Good Company | Lawrence Pressman | $26 million | $61.3 million | 2.36x | |
| 75 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Kerry Conran | $70 million | $57.9 million | 0.83x | |
| 76 | Cellular | David R. Ellis | $25 million | $57.7 million | 2.31x | |
| 77 | Walking Tall | Kevin Bray | $46 million | $57.2 million | 1.24x | |
| 78 | Spanglish | James L. Brooks | $80 million | $55 million | 0.69x | |
| 79 | The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | $33 million | $54.7 million | 1.66x | |
| 80 | Team America: World Police | Trey Parker | $32 million | $50.8 million | 1.59x | |
| 81 | You Got Served | Chris Stokes | $8 million | $50.6 million | 6.33x | |
| 82 | Raising Helen | Garry Marshall | $50 million | $49.7 million | 0.99x | |
| 83 | Fat Albert | Joel Zwick | $45 million | $48.6 million | 1.08x | |
| 84 | Torque | Joseph Kahn | $40 million | $46.5 million | 1.16x | |
| 85 | Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | $400,000 | $46.1 million | 115.25x | |
| 86 | Wimbledon | Richard Loncraine | $31 million | $41.5 million | 1.34x | |
| 87 | Twisted | Philip Kaufman | $50 million | $41 million | 0.82x | |
| 88 | Shaun of the Dead | Edgar Wright | £4 million | $38.7 million | ||
| 89 | The Prince and Me | Martha Coolidge | $22 million | $37.6 million | 1.71x | |
| 90 | Garden State | Zach Braff | $2.5 million | $35.8 million | 14.32x | |
| 91 | Jersey Girl | Kevin Smith | $35 million | $35.5 million | 1.01x | |
| 92 | Alfie | Charles Shyer | $60 million | $35.1 million | 0.59x | |
| 93 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Wes Anderson | $50 million | $34.8 million | 0.70x | |
| 94 | Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore | $45 million | $34.5 million | 0.77x | |
| 95 | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | $17.5 million | $33.9 million | 1.94x | |
| 96 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Sara Sugarman | $15 million | $33.3 million | 2.22x | |
| 97 | Johnson Family Vacation | Christopher Erskin | $12 million | $31.5 million | 2.63x | |
| 98 | The Girl Next Door | Luke Greenfield | $20 million | $30.4 million | 1.52x | |
| 99 | Godsend | Nick Hamm | $25 million | $30 million | 1.20x | |
| 99 | Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag | Stephen Low | $5 million | $30 million | 6.00x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.