Top 10 classics that flopped at the box office

The Christmas classic was seen as too depressing – and barely broke even on its £2.5 million budget.

Now one of the most-loved movies of all time, Shawshank lost £7 million on its budget.

It’s a children’s classic now but made only made a small profit when it was first released in 1971.

Movie studio MGM lost £1 million on this due to high production costs.

Critics consider it the best movie of all time – but audiences stayed away in their droves.

The sci-fi horror is considered a classic of the genre – but hardly anyone went to see it.

The Robert De Niro boxing drama won eight Oscars but made only a small profit on its budget.

Italian director Sergio Leone’s big budget crime epic flopped – and nearly bankrupted the studio.

Brad Pitt’s anarchic movie made only half of its £50 million budget back, and cost the head of 20th Century Fox his job.

It made only £15,000 on its first release, but this camp classic has become a late-night fixture.