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Top 1980 Movies at the Domestic Box Office


See also: Top 1980 International - Top 1980 Worldwide

Other Domestic Cumulative records: All Time Domestic - All Time Domestic (Inf. Adj.) - All Time Animated Domestic - All Time Sequel Domestic - All Time Non-Sequel Domestic - Top 2023 Domestic - Top 2024 Domestic

This chart contains the total domestic box office for movies released in 1980.

See Top Grossing Movies of 1980 for a list of movies that earned most at the domestic box office during 1980, including films released in 1979 and earlier.

Top 1979 Domestic Top 1981 Domestic
Rank Movie Distributor Domestic
Box
Office
Opening
Weekend
Box Office
Max
Theater
Count
1 Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back 20th Cent… $291,738,960 $4,910,483 2,322
2 Nine to Five 20th Cent… $103,290,500 $3,966,832 910
3 Stir Crazy Columbia $101,300,000 $8,691,886 813
4 Airplane! Paramount… $83,453,539
5 Any Which Way You Can Warner Bros. $70,687,344 $8,024,663 1,541
6 Private Benjamin Warner Bros. $69,847,348 $4,739,769 763
7 Coal Miner’s Daughter Universal $67,182,787 $3,366,443 437
8 Smokey and the Bandit II Universal $66,132,626 $10,883,835 1,196
9 The Blues Brothers Universal $57,229,890 $4,858,152 594
10 Ordinary People Paramount… $52,302,978 $170,335 6
11 Popeye Paramount… $49,823,037
12 The Blue Lagoon Universal $47,923,795 116
13 Urban Cowboy Paramount… $46,918,287
14 The Shining Warner Bros. $45,052,898 $622,337 10
15 Cheech & Chong's Next Movie Universal $41,675,194 $5,262,963 814
16 Caddyshack Warner Bros. $39,846,344 $3,142,689 656
17 Friday the 13th Paramount… $39,754,601 $5,816,321 1,127
18 Brubaker 20th Cent… $37,121,708 $2,748,079 594
19 Little Darlings Paramount… $34,326,249
20 Dressed to Kill Filmways … $31,899,000
21 Flash Gordon Universal $27,107,960 $3,934,030 823
22 The Elephant Man Paramount… $26,010,864
23 Bronco Billy Warner Bros. $24,265,659 $3,708,710 1,321
24 Caligula Analysis $23,400,000 6
25 Raging Bull United Ar… $23,380,203 $128,590 180
26 Seems Like Old Times Columbia $23,200,000
27 Xanadu Universal $22,762,571 $1,471,595 249
28 American Gigolo Paramount… $22,743,674 $3,559,930 570
29 My Bodyguard 20th Cent… $22,482,952 $178,641 477
30 In Search of Historic Jesus Sunn Clas… $22,000,000
31 The Fog Avco Embassy $21,445,318 30
32 Fame MGM $21,202,829 $118,160 3
33 Tess Columbia $20,093,330 244
34 Altered States Warner Bros. $19,853,892 $174,650 3
35 Cruising United Ar… $19,784,223
36 The Octagon American … $19,000,000
37 Windwalker Pacific I… $18,000,000
38 Hardly Working 20th Cent… $18,000,000
39 Honeysuckle Rose Warner Bros. $17,815,212 $2,189,966 826
40 Herbie Goes Bananas $17,000,000
41 Rough Cut Paramount… $16,656,125
42 The Hunter Paramount… $16,647,800
43 The Final Countdown United Ar… $16,647,800
44 A Change of Seasons 20th Cent… $16,400,000
45 Hero At Large MGM $15,934,737 $1,850,725 486
46 The Island Universal $15,716,828 $3,123,267 584
47 First Family Warner Bros. $15,198,912 $3,635,564 563
48 The Long Riders United Ar… $15,198,912 $2,351,112 759
49 Prom Night Avco Embassy $14,796,236
50 The Nude Bomb Universal $14,662,035 $3,565,066 793
51 Oh, God! Book II Warner Bros. $14,504,277 $3,439,846 1,033
52 Wholly Moses! Sony Pict… $14,155,617 $3,625,280 608
53 Middle Age Crazy 20th Cent… $13,000,000
54 Hopscotch Avco Embassy $13,000,000
55 The Competition Columbia $13,000,000 $76,163 6
56 The Last Married Couple in America Universal $12,835,544 $2,454,289 488
57 The Changeling Associate… $12,000,000
58 Used Cars Columbia $11,715,321
59 Hangar 18 Sunn Clas… $11,000,000
60 The Mirror Crack'd Associate… $11,000,000
61 It's My Turn Columbia $11,000,000
62 The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark Walt Disney $11,000,000
63 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Orion Pic… $10,697,276 $2,399,109 465
64 Stardust Memories United Ar… $10,389,003 $326,779 29

The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.