Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1980
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The list below includes all films using the English language, including movies using other languages as well.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back |
English |
Adventure |
$23,000,000 |
$549,001,086 |
|
| Nine to Five |
English |
Comedy |
|
$103,300,659 |
|
| Stir Crazy |
English |
Comedy |
|
$101,300,000 |
|
| Airplane! |
English |
Comedy |
$3,500,000 |
$83,454,307 |
|
| Any Which Way You Can |
English |
Comedy |
|
$70,687,344 |
|
| Private Benjamin |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$69,847,348 |
|
| Coal Miner’s Daughter |
English |
Drama |
$15,000,000 |
$67,182,787 |
|
| Smokey and the Bandit II |
English,
Spanish |
Comedy |
|
$66,132,626 |
|
| Friday the 13th |
English |
Horror |
$550,000 |
$59,754,601 |
|
| The Blues Brothers |
English |
Comedy |
$27,000,000 |
$57,245,279 |
|
| The Final Countdown |
English |
Action |
|
$56,647,800 |
|
| Ordinary People |
English |
Drama |
$6,200,000 |
$52,302,978 |
|
| Popeye |
English |
Musical |
$20,000,000 |
$49,823,037 |
|
| The Blue Lagoon |
English |
Drama |
$4,500,000 |
$47,923,795 |
|
| Urban Cowboy |
English |
Western |
|
$46,918,287 |
|
| The Shining |
English |
Horror |
$19,000,000 |
$46,212,649 |
|
| Cheech & Chong's Next Movie |
English |
Comedy |
|
$41,675,194 |
|
| Caddyshack |
English |
Comedy |
$6,000,000 |
$39,849,764 |
|
| Brubaker |
English |
Drama |
|
$37,121,708 |
|
| Dressed to Kill |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$6,500,000 |
$31,899,000 |
|
| Flash Gordon |
English |
Action |
$35,000,000 |
$27,176,825 |
|
| The Elephant Man |
English |
Drama |
$5,000,000 |
$26,024,886 |
|
| Raging Bull |
English |
Drama |
$18,000,000 |
$23,417,649 |
|
| Caligula |
English |
Drama |
|
$23,400,000 |
|
| Seems Like Old Times |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$23,200,000 |
|
| The Fog |
English |
Horror |
$1,100,000 |
$21,445,868 |
|
| Tess |
English |
Drama |
|
$20,093,330 |
|
| Cruising |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$19,784,223 |
|
| The Hunter |
English |
Action |
|
$16,647,800 |
|
| The Island |
English |
Adventure |
$22,000,000 |
$15,716,828 |
|
| The Nude Bomb |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,662,035 |
|
| Hopscotch |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| The Last Married Couple in America |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,835,544 |
|
| The Changeling |
English |
Horror |
|
$12,000,000 |
|
| Used Cars |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,715,321 |
|
| The Mirror Crack'd |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$11,000,414 |
|
| Maniac |
English |
Horror |
$350,000 |
$10,000,000 |
|
| Somewhere in Time |
English |
Drama |
$5,100,000 |
$9,709,597 |
|
| Saturn 3 |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| The Awakening |
English |
Horror |
|
$8,415,112 |
|
| Terror Train |
English |
Horror |
$3,500,000 |
$8,000,000 |
|
| Foxes |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,470,348 |
|
| The Big Red One |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,206,220 |
|
| Motel Hell |
English |
Horror |
|
$6,342,668 |
|
| Little Miss Marker |
English |
Comedy |
|
$6,321,392 |
|
| He Knows You're Alone |
English |
Horror |
|
$4,875,436 |
|
| Melvin and Howard |
English |
Comedy |
|
$4,309,490 |
|
| Guyana: Crime of the Century |
English,
Spanish |
Drama |
|
$3,798,102 |
|
| The Idolmaker |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,625,716 |
|
| The Black Marble |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$2,500,000 |
|
| Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!) |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,013,193 |
|
| Lion of the Desert |
English |
Drama |
$35,000,000 |
$1,502,136 |
|
| Gloria |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$47,019 |
|
| Stunt Rock |
English |
Action |
|
$9,530 |
|
| Humanoids From the Deep |
English |
Horror |
|
$160 |
|
| The Tempest |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Rockshow: Paul McCartney & Wings |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$0 |
|
| Incubo sulla citta contaminata |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Black Jack |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Cannibal Holocaust |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Forbidden Zone |
English,
French,
German |
Musical |
|
$0 |
|
| Demented |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Apple |
English,
French,
German,
Italian |
Musical |
|
$0 |
|
| The Last Word |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Without Warning |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Stone Cold Dead |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Nightkill |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| The Watcher in the Woods |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Zombi 2 |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Death Ship |
English,
German |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Silent Scream |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Earthling |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| The Ninth Configuration |
English |
Comedy |
$4,000,000 |
$0 |
|
| Battle Beyond the Stars |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Children |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Alligator |
English |
Horror |
$2,000,000 |
$0 |
|
| Cries in the Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Stir |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
