22 Mandarin films of 2018 ranked by box office. #1: Operation Red Sea ($579.2 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operation Red Sea | Dante Lam | $70 million | $579.2 million | 8.27x | |
| 2 | The Meg | Jon Turteltaub | $130 million | $529 million | 4.07x | |
| 3 | Dying to Survive | Wen Muye | $10.9 million | $453 million | 41.56x | |
| 4 | Us and Them | René Liu | $209 million | |||
| 5 | Project Gutenberg | Felix Chong | $38 million | $188.1 million | 4.95x | |
| 6 | Forever Young | Li Fangfang | $118.6 million | |||
| 7 | The Monkey King 3 | Soi Cheang | $114.2 million | |||
| 8 | Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink | Ding Liang | $96.8 million | |||
| 9 | Shadow | Zhang Yimou | $91.7 million | |||
| 10 | Go Brother！ | Cheng Fen-fen | $54.7 million | |||
| 11 | Cry Me a Sad River | Luo Luo | $52 million | |||
| 12 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Bi Gan | $42.1 million | |||
| 13 | Mojin: The Worm Valley | Fei Xing | $22.4 million | |||
| 14 | Ash Is Purest White | Jia Zhangke | $12 million | |||
| 15 | Last Letter | Shunji Iwai | $11.8 million | |||
| 16 | Kung Fu League | Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai | $2.5 million | |||
| 17 | Agent Mr Chan | Jeff Cheung Ka-Kit | $208,351 | |||
| 18 | Yellow is Forbidden | Pietra Brettkelly | $26,659 | |||
| Hello Mr. Billionaire | Da-Mo Peng | CN¥2.5 billion | ||||
| The Tag-Along: The Devil Fish | TWD 73.1 million | |||||
| Dear Ex | Mag Hsu | TWD 35 million | TWD 65 million | 1.86x | ||
| Father to Son | Hsiao Ya-chuan | TWD 3.8 million |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.