100 English films of 2011 ranked by box office. #1: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($1.3 billion).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | David Yates | $250 million | $1.3 billion | 5.37x | |
| 2 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Bay | $195 million | $1.1 billion | 5.76x | |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Rob Marshall | $410 million | $1 billion | 2.55x | |
| 4 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Bill Condon | $127 million | $732 million | 5.76x | |
| 5 | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Brad Bird | $145 million | $694.7 million | 4.79x | |
| 6 | Fast Five | Justin Lin | $125 million | $630 million | 5.04x | |
| 7 | The Hangover Part II | Todd Phillips | $80 million | $586.8 million | 7.34x | |
| 8 | The Smurfs | Raja Gosnell | $110 million | $564 million | 5.13x | |
| 9 | Cars 2 | John Lasseter | $200 million | $559.8 million | 2.80x | |
| 10 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Guy Ritchie | $125 million | $543.8 million | 4.35x | |
| 11 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Rupert Wyatt | $93 million | $481.8 million | 5.18x | |
| 12 | Thor | Kenneth Branagh | $150 million | $449.3 million | 3.00x | |
| 13 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Joe Johnston | $140 million | $370.6 million | 2.65x | |
| 14 | X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | $160 million | $353 million | 2.21x | |
| 15 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | Mike Mitchell | $75 million | $349.1 million | 4.65x | |
| 16 | Real Steel | Shawn Levy | $110 million | $300 million | 2.73x | |
| 17 | Bridesmaids | Paul Feig | $32.5 million | $290 million | 8.92x | |
| 18 | Enteng Ng Ina Mo | Tony Y. Reyes | $272 million | |||
| 19 | Super 8 | J. J. Abrams | $50 million | $260.1 million | 5.20x | |
| 20 | Green Lantern | Martin Campbell | $200 million | $237 million | 1.19x | |
| 21 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | $90 million | $233 million | 2.59x | |
| 22 | The Green Hornet | Michel Gondry | $120 million | $229.3 million | 1.91x | |
| 23 | Immortals | Tarsem Singh | $75 million | $226.9 million | 3.03x | |
| 24 | The Help | Tate Taylor | $25 million | $221.8 million | 8.87x | |
| 25 | Bad Teacher | Jake Kasdan | $20 million | $216 million | 10.80x | |
| 26 | Just Go with It | Dennis Dugan | $80 million | $215 million | 2.69x | |
| 27 | Battle: Los Angeles | Jonathan Liebesman | $70 million | $212 million | 3.03x | |
| 28 | Horrible Bosses | Seth Gordon | $35 million | $209.8 million | 5.99x | |
| 29 | Paranormal Activity 3 | Ariel Schulman | $5 million | $207 million | 41.40x | |
| 30 | Gnomeo & Juliet | Kelly Asbury | $36 million | $194 million | 5.39x | |
| 31 | Hop | Tim Hill | $63 million | $188 million | 2.98x | |
| 32 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Mark Waters | $55 million | $187.4 million | 3.41x | |
| 33 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese | $170 million | $185.8 million | 1.09x | |
| 34 | War Horse | Steven Spielberg | $66 million | $177.6 million | 2.69x | |
| 35 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne | $20 million | $177.2 million | 8.86x | |
| 36 | Cowboys & Aliens | Jon Favreau | $163 million | $175 million | 1.07x | |
| 37 | In Time | Andrew Niccol | $40 million | $174 million | 4.35x | |
| 38 | The Muppets | James Bobin | $45 million | $171.8 million | 3.82x | |
| 39 | Zookeeper | Frank Coraci | $80 million | $169.8 million | 2.12x | |
| 40 | Limitless | Neil Burger | $27 million | $161.8 million | 5.99x | |
| 41 | Johnny English Reborn | Oliver Parker | $45 million | $160.1 million | 3.56x | |
| 42 | Happy Feet Two | George Miller | $135 million | $159.2 million | 1.18x | |
| 43 | Final Destination 5 | Steven Quale | $40 million | $157.9 million | 3.95x | |
| 44 | Tower Heist | Brett Ratner | $75 million | $152.9 million | 2.04x | |
| 45 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | $17 million | $151.7 million | 8.92x | |
| 46 | I Am Number Four | D.J. Caruso | $60 million | $149.9 million | 2.50x | |
| 47 | Friends with Benefits | Will Gluck | $35 million | $149.5 million | 4.27x | |
| 48 | Jack and Jill | Dennis Dugan | $79 million | $149 million | 1.89x | |
| 48 | No Strings Attached | Ivan Reitman | $25 million | $149 million | 5.96x | |
| 50 | Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith | $100 million | $147.4 million | 1.47x | |
| 51 | Source Code | Duncan Jones | $32 million | $147 million | 4.59x | |
| 52 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | Glenn Ficarra | $50 million | $145 million | 2.90x | |
| 53 | New Year's Eve | Garry Marshall | $56 million | $142 million | 2.54x | |
| 54 | Assassination Games | Ernie Barbarash | $8 million | $137.6 million | 17.20x | |
| 55 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | $10 million | $136.8 million | 13.68x | |
| 56 | Contagion | Steven Soderbergh | $60 million | $136.5 million | 2.28x | |
| 57 | Unknown | Jaume Collet-Serra | $30 million | $136.1 million | 4.54x | |
| 58 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | $15 million | $133.4 million | 8.89x | |
| 59 | The Three Musketeers | Paul W. S. Anderson | $75 million | $132.3 million | 1.76x | |
| 60 | Catch Me, I'm in Love | Mae Cruz-Alviar | $130 million | |||
| 61 | The Adjustment Bureau | George Nolfi | $50.2 million | $127.8 million | 2.55x | |
| 62 | We Bought a Zoo | Cameron Crowe | $50 million | $120 million | 2.40x | |
| 63 | Water for Elephants | Francis Lawrence | $38 million | $117.1 million | 3.08x | |
| 64 | The Iron Lady | Phyllida Lloyd | $13 million | $115.9 million | 8.92x | |
| 65 | Moneyball | Bennett Miller | $50 million | $110.2 million | 2.20x | |
| 66 | Sanctum | Alister Grierson | $30 million | $108.6 million | 3.62x | |
| 67 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | Jon M. Chu | $13 million | $99 million | 7.62x | |
| 68 | Paul | Greg Mottola | $40 million | $98 million | 2.45x | |
| 69 | Red Riding Hood | Catherine Hardwicke | $42 million | $97.8 million | 2.33x | |
| 70 | The Rite | Mikael Håfström | $37 million | $97.1 million | 2.62x | |
| 71 | Scream 4 | Wes Craven | $40 million | $97 million | 2.43x | |
| 72 | Dolphin Tale | Charles Martin Smith | $37 million | $95.9 million | 2.59x | |
| 73 | Season of the Witch | Dominic Sena | $40 million | $91.6 million | 2.29x | |
| 74 | Sucker Punch | Zack Snyder | $82 million | $89.8 million | 1.10x | |
| 75 | The Inbetweeners Movie | Ben Palmer | £3.5 million | $88 million | ||
| 76 | Won't Last a Day Without You | Raz de la Torre | $87.6 million | |||
| 77 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Brad Furman | $40 million | $87.1 million | 2.18x | |
| 78 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | Robert Rodriguez | $27 million | $85.6 million | 3.17x | |
| 79 | J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | $35 million | $84.9 million | 2.43x | |
| 80 | Hall Pass | Peter Farrelly | $36 million | $83.2 million | 2.31x | |
| 81 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | John Whitesell | $32 million | $82.7 million | 2.58x | |
| 82 | Abduction | John Singleton | $40 million | $82.1 million | 2.05x | |
| 83 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | $15 million | $81.4 million | 5.43x | |
| 84 | The Grey | Joe Carnahan | $25 million | $81.2 million | 3.25x | |
| 84 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | $30 million | $81.2 million | 2.71x | |
| 86 | Priest | Scott Stewart | $60 million | $78.3 million | 1.31x | |
| 87 | The Mechanic | Simon West | $40 million | $76.3 million | 1.91x | |
| 87 | The Ides of March | George Clooney | $12.5 million | $76.3 million | 6.10x | |
| 89 | The Change-Up | David Dobkin | $52 million | $75.5 million | 1.45x | |
| 90 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | David Bowers | $18 million | $72.5 million | 4.03x | |
| 91 | Larry Crowne | Tom Hanks | $30 million | $72.1 million | 2.40x | |
| 92 | The Dilemma | Ron Howard | $70 million | $69.7 million | 1.00x | |
| 93 | Hanna | Joe Wright | $30 million | $65.3 million | 2.18x | |
| 94 | The Darkest Hour | Chris Gorak | $34.8 million | $64.6 million | 1.86x | |
| 95 | Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | $80 million | $63.5 million | 0.79x | |
| 95 | Colombiana | Olivier Megaton | $40 million | $63.5 million | 1.59x | |
| 95 | Footloose | Craig Brewer | $24 million | $63.5 million | 2.65x | |
| 98 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | $32 million | $61 million | 1.91x | |
| 99 | Something Borrowed | Luke Greenfield | $35 million | $60.1 million | 1.72x | |
| 100 | One Day | Lone Scherfig | $15 million | $59.4 million | 3.96x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.