Movies are exceedingly costly to make, and the financial success of a film is never a guarantee.

According to the box office database websiteTheNumbers.com,only 54 movies have grossed more than a billion dollars globally.

These are 10 movies that came painstakingly close to reaching that coveted billion-dollar mark.

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An experiment known as The Trinity Test would lead to Oppenheimer’s greatest success and worst nightmares.

The massive success ofOppenheimershouldn’t have been surprising.

Still, the sheercultural impact ofOppenheimeris hard to quantify.

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That girl is none other than teenager America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez).

Their mission is complicated when Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) succumbs to the wicked allure of dark witchcraft.

His existence is threatened by the arrival of a villainous tiger named Shere Khan (voiced byIdris Elba).

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Cillian Murphy’s silhouette against an explosion in Oppenheimer

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Gru (left) and Dr. Nefario (right) stand with an army of minions at their back

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Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillian pose in Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle

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Elizabeth Swann, Captain Barbossa, and Jack Sparrow at Shipwreck Cove.

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Mowgli sits on a tree branch with his hand on Baloo the bear

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Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’ (2011)

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Marlin and Nemo swim together in Finding Nemo (2003)

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Shrek and Fiona standing together in the moonlight on their Honeymoon in Shrek 2

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