"Hot Summer," the teenage musical that was the D.D.R.'s second-highest-grossing film in 1968, is not quite socialism a-go-go but it's an entertaining artifact nonetheless.

In 2002, a French monster film Brotherhood of the Wolf became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades.

(Even "Pearl Harbor," which was hardly a feel-good account of Japanese-American relations, was the second-highest-grossing foreign film of its year.)

In Venezuela, it has earned $8 million, marking the second-highest-grossing film of all time behind Ice Age 3 ($11.6 million).

It was the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in 1992.

It is the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide and the highest-grossing film of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

The following year, Brotherhood of the Wolf became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States since 1980 and went on to gross more than $70 million worldwide.

When adjusted for inflation, it is the second-highest-grossing film in the US and Canada and is the third-highest-grossing in the world as of 2012.

Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.

It was the second-highest-grossing film domestically and the highest-grossing in the overseas market that year.