Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Gross Worldwide: $25.3 million

Because it's a British export, it makes more sense to look at the worldwide box office haul for Guy Ritchie's out-of-nowhere take on London's underworld. The first-time director expertly weaved the interlocking stories of competing criminal elements into a slick, irresistible movie that led to the follow-up Snatch.