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International box office · 1979

The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.

WorldwideDomesticInternational
#TitleInternational
1Apocalypse Now$288K
2Alien$71K
3Monty Python's Life of Brian$54K
4The Warriors$8K
5City on Fire$7K
6The Muppet Movie$3K
7All That Jazz$3K
8Manhattan$3K
9Being There$2K
10Hair$605
11Winter Kills$462
12Moonraker$434
13The Rose$226
14Star Trek: The Motion Picture$156
15Kramer vs. Kramer$0
16The Amityville Horror$0
17Rocky II$0
1810$0
19The Jerk$0
20The Electric Horseman$0
21The China Syndrome$0
22Meatballs$0
23Escape from Alcatraz$0
24The Main Event$0
25The Black Stallion$0
26The Black Hole$0
27Starting Over$0
28And Justice for All$0
291941$0
30The Champ$0
31Going in Style$0
32North Dallas Forty$0
33Norma Rae$0
34Buck Rogers in the 25th Century$0
35National Lampoon's Animal House 1979 Re-release$0
36The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again$0
37La Cage aux Folles$0
38Dracula$0
39When a Stranger Calls$0
40Same Time, Next Year$0
41The Seduction of Joe Tynan$0
42One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1979 Re-release$0
43Prophecy$0
44Breaking Away$0
45More American Graffiti$0
46Roller Boogie$0
47The Great Train Robbery$0
48The Concorde... Airport '79$0
49Phantasm$0
50The Promise$0
51The Legacy$0
52Fiddler on the Roof 1979 Re-release$0
53The Onion Field$0
54The Frisco Kid$0
55Meteor$0
56The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh$0
57Bloodline$0
58The Prisoner of Zenda$0
59Agatha$0
60Americathon$0
61Running$0
62Cuba$0
63Butch and Sundance: The Early Days$0
64Players$0
65The Great Santini$0
66Yanks$0
67Lost and Found$0
68Hanover Street$0
69Voices$0
70Wanda Nevada$0
71Sunburn$0
72Rich Kids$0
73Walk Proud$0
74Last Embrace$0
75Goldengirl$0
76The Passage$0
77A Man, a Woman and a Bank$0
78Five Days from Home$0
79Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider$0
80The Human Factor$0
81Real Life$0
82An Almost Perfect Affair$0
83Nest of Vipers$0
84The Milky Way$0

“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.

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