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The box office was a popular place this past year, rife with sequels, long-awaited releases of movies once-announced for 2012 and the ever prevalent dose of dystopia that keeps audiences entertained.
The Great Gatsby and World War Z, both originally scheduled to hit theaters in 2012, made their debuts in 2013, after rewrites and supposed production problems. The Hunger Games sequel followed heroine Katniss throughout her victory tour, but per usual, the odds are rarely in her favor. In other sequel releases, Iron Man 3 topped the box offices, and Fast and The Furious 6 proved that given a strong fan-base, fast cars and cool stunts, the sixth movie in a franchise that started 12 years ago might end up being that franchise's biggest commercial success yet (Fast and the Furious 7 is currently on hold, per Paul Walker's death).
All in all, 2013 didn't fail to entertain and movie-goers the world over took to the Internet to find out more about their favorite films. Here, Bing Trends lists the top-searched movies of 2013 throughout 11 countries. And there were a few surprising takeaways:

• The Conjuring topped the lists as the most searched horror film of 2013 across the globe. And the reviews for the possession-themed movie weren't half bad, either.
• Interestingly, 12 Years a Slave and Gravity are nowhere to be found on any list, even in the U.S., despite wide media coverage of both.
• Iron Man 3 made the list on 9 of the 11 countries listed here. Only those in China and India weren't often searching for it.

Check out the all the top 10 lists across 11 countries below:

Australia

1. Despicable Me 2
2. World War Z
3. Man of Steel
4. The Conjuring
5. Fast and Furious 6
6. Now You See Me
7. Pacific Rim
8. The Great Gatsby
9. Iron Man 3
10. The Heat

Canada

1. Man of Steel
2. World War Z
3. Iron Man 3
4. Despicable Me 3
5. The Conjuring
6. Sharknado
7. This Is The End
8. Now You See Me
9. Fast and Furious 6
10. Pacific Rim

China

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2. Badges of Fury
3. Pacific Rim
4. World War Z
5. Silent Witness

France

1. Les Prof
2. Iron Man 3
3. Les Gamins
4. Spring Breakers
5. Elysium
6. Percy Jackson: la mer des monstres
7. Eyjafjallajökull
8. Jappeloup
9. Paulette
10. Oblivion

Germany

1. Django Unchained
2. Feuchtgebiete
3. 21 and Over
4. Elysium
5. Iron Man 3
6. Turbo
7. Red 2
8. Rush
9. Das ist das Ende
10. Zum Geburtstag

India

1. Race 2
2. Chennai Express
3. Aashiqui 2
4. Grand Masti
5. Fukrey
6. Special 26
7. Lootera
8. Ramaiya Vastavaiya
9. Himmatwala
10. Nasha

Italy

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2. Iron Man 3
3. Benevenuto Presidente
4. I Croods
5. Django Unchained
6. Tutto Tutto niente niente
7. Mai Stati Uniti
8. La Migliore Offerta
9. Il Cacciatore di Gigantic
10. Il Grande e Potente Oz

Japan

1. Kaze Tachinu
2. Toshokan Senso
3. Ted
4. Galileo
5. Strawberry Night
6. Lincoln
7. Gatchama
8. Emperor
9. Pacific Rim
10. Iron Man 3

Spain

1. One Direction: This is Us
2. Argo
3. La vida de Pi (Life of Pi)
4. Django
5. El lado bueno de las cosas (Silver Linings Playbook)
6. Iron Man 3
7. Oblivion
8. Los amantes pasajeros
9. Los Croods (The Croods)
10. Lincoln

UK

1. Iron Man 3
2. Kick-Ass 2
3. Despicable Me 2
4. The Conjuring
5. Oblivion
6. Diana
7. Star Trek into Darkness
8. Fast and Furious 6
9. Los Croods (The Croods)
10. Man of Steel

U.S.

1. Iron Man 3
2. Fast and Furious 6
3. Despicable Me 2
4. The Conjuring
5. The Wolverine
6. 2 Guns
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Oz: The Great and Powerful
9. Snitch
10. Man of Steel
The data above comes from Bing's 2013 search data. Spam and repeat queries have been filtered to build a database that reflects the most compelling search trends of 2013.