23 Mandarin films of 2016 ranked by box office. #1: Operation Mekong ($173 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operation Mekong | Dante Lam | $30 million | $173 million | 5.77x | |
| 2 | I Am Not Madame Bovary | Feng Xiaogang | $70.8 million | |||
| 3 | See You Tomorrow | Zhang Jiajia | $69.3 million | |||
| 4 | Chongqing Hot Pot | Qing Yang | $58.4 million | |||
| 5 | L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties | Guo Jingming | $58 million | |||
| 6 | A Chinese Odyssey Part Three | Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai | $20 million | $48.4 million | 2.42x | |
| 7 | Phantom of the Theatre | Raymond Yip | $7.9 million | |||
| Boonie Bears: The Big Top Secret | Ding Liang | CN¥287.7 million | ||||
| Mr. Donkey | Lu Liu | CN¥173 million | ||||
| Cock and Bull | Cao Baoping | CN¥135.9 million | ||||
| Royal Treasure | CN¥125.4 million | |||||
| Heartfall Arises | Ken Wu | CN¥114 million | ||||
| So I Married An Anti-fan | Kim Je-young | CN¥74.4 million | ||||
| The Secret | Wong Chun-chun | CN¥64.2 million | ||||
| Xuanzang | Huo Jianqi | CN¥32.9 million | ||||
| Throne of Elves | Yuefeng Song | CN¥23.4 million | ||||
| Armor Hero Captor King | CN¥18.6 million | |||||
| Spicy Hot in Love | CN¥9.8 million | |||||
| Trivisa | Jevons Au Man-Kit | HK$5 million | HK$9.2 million | 1.84x | ||
| At Café 6 | Neal Wu | CN¥6.5 million | ||||
| Murder at Honeymoon Hotel | Jang Cheol-soo | CN¥5.6 million | ||||
| Godspeed | Chung Mong-hong | TWD 5.4 million | ||||
| Lulu The Movie | Michelle Chong | SGD 1.5 million | SGD 2.1 million | 1.40x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.