Box Office

Top Grossing Movies in 1980

Rank Title Language Genre(s) Domestic Worldwide
1 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
English

UK

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

$292,753,960 $550,016,086
2 9 to 5
English

UK

Comedy

$103,290,500 $103,303,454
3 Stir Crazy
English

UK

Comedy

Crime

$101,300,000 $101,300,000
4 Airplane!

Comedy

$83,453,539 $83,455,547
5 Any Which Way You Can
English

UK

Action

Comedy

$70,687,344 $70,687,344
6 Private Benjamin

Comedy

War

$69,847,348 $69,847,348
7 Coal Miner's Daughter
English

UK

Biography

Drama

Music

$67,182,787 $67,182,787
8 Smokey and the Bandit II
English

UK

Action

Comedy

$66,132,626 $66,132,626
9 The Blue Lagoon
English

UK

Adventure

Drama

Romance

$58,853,106 $58,853,106
10 Ordinary People
Korean

KR

Drama

$54,766,923 $54,766,923
11 Popeye
English

UK

Comedy

Romance

Family

$49,823,037 $49,823,037
12 The Shining
English

UK

Thriller

Horror

$45,634,352 $47,959,450
13 Urban Cowboy
English

UK

Drama

Romance

Western

$46,918,287 $46,918,287
14 Seems Like Old Times
English

UK

Comedy

Romance

$43,995,918 $43,995,918
15 Caddyshack
English

UK

Sport

Comedy

$39,918,650 $39,918,650
16 Friday the 13th
English

UK

Horror

$39,754,601 $39,917,363
17 Brubaker
English

UK

Drama

Crime

$37,121,708 $37,121,708
18 Little Darlings
English

UK

Drama

Comedy

$34,326,249 $34,326,249
19 Dressed to Kill
English

UK

Mystery

Thriller

$31,899,000 $31,899,000
20 Flash Gordon
English

UK

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

$27,107,960 $27,185,209
21 The Jazz Singer
English

UK

Drama

Romance

Music

$27,118,000 $27,118,000
22 The Elephant Man
English

UK

Biography

Drama

$26,010,864 $26,028,672
23 Bronco Billy
English

UK

Action

Adventure

Drama

$24,265,659 $24,265,659
24 Raging Bull
English

UK

Biography

Drama

Sport

$23,383,987 $23,405,198
25 American Gigolo
English

UK

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

$22,743,674 $22,745,134
26 My Bodyguard
English

UK

Drama

Comedy

Family

$22,482,952 $22,482,952
27 The Fog
Telugu

IN

Thriller

Horror

$21,448,782 $21,448,830
28 Fame
English

UK

Drama

Music

Musical

$21,202,829 $21,203,707
29 Tess

Drama

Romance

$20,093,330 $20,101,247
30 Altered States
English

UK

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Horror

$19,853,892 $19,853,898
31 Cruising
English

UK

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

$19,798,718 $19,815,314
32 The Octagon
English

UK

Action

Drama

Thriller

$18,971,000 $18,971,000
33 Herbie Goes Bananas
English

UK

Adventure

Fantasy

Comedy

$18,000,000 $18,000,000
34 Rough Cut
English

UK

Adventure

Mystery

Comedy

$16,656,125 $16,656,125
35 The Final Countdown
English

UK

Action

Sci-Fi

$16,647,800 $16,647,800
36 The Hunter
Kannada

KN

Action

Biography

Drama

$16,274,150 $16,274,150
37 The Long Riders
English

UK

Western

$15,795,189 $15,795,189
38 Prom Night
English

UK

Thriller

Horror

$14,796,236 $14,796,236
39 Oh, God! Book II
English

UK

Fantasy

Comedy

$14,504,277 $14,504,277
40 Used Cars
English

UK

Comedy

$11,715,321 $11,715,321
41 The Mirror Crack'd
English

UK

Mystery

Thriller

Crime

$11,000,000 $11,000,000
42 The Hollywood Knights
English

UK

Comedy

$10,000,000 $10,000,000
43 Somewhere in Time
English

UK

Drama

Fantasy

Romance

$9,709,597 $9,709,597
44 Saturn 3
English

UK

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Thriller

$9,000,000 $9,000,000
45 Mad Max
English

UK

Action

Adventure

Thriller

$8,750,000 $8,773,932
46 How to Beat the High Cost of Living
English

UK

Comedy

Crime

$7,500,000 $7,500,000
47 Foxes
English

UK

Drama

$7,470,348 $7,470,348
48 The Big Red One
English

UK

Action

Drama

War

$7,206,220 $7,206,823
49 The Stunt Man
English

UK

Action

Drama

Thriller

$7,063,886 $7,063,886
50 Motel Hell
English

UK

Thriller

Horror

Comedy

$6,342,668 $6,342,668

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