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International box office · 1980

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
1The Shining$195K
2The Elephant Man$49K
3The Blues Brothers$37K
4Friday the 13th$7K
5Xanadu$3K
6Gloria$2K
7Popeye$2K
8Cruising$2K
9Raging Bull$2K
10Airplane!$2K
11Flash Gordon$2K
12Dressed to Kill$1K
13Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior$1K
14Mad Max$884
15Fame$703
16The Mirror Crack'd$657
17The Blue Lagoon$137
18Altered States$6
19Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back$0
209 to 5$0
21Stir Crazy$0
22Any Which Way You Can$0
23Private Benjamin$0
24Coal Miner's Daughter$0
25Smokey and the Bandit II$0
26Ordinary People$0
27Urban Cowboy$0
28Seems Like Old Times$0
29Cheech and Chong's Next Movie$0
30Caddyshack$0
31Brubaker$0
32Little Darlings$0
33The Jazz Singer$0
34Lady and the Tramp 1980 Re-release$0
35Bronco Billy$0
36American Gigolo$0
37My Bodyguard$0
38The Fog$0
39Tess$0
40Song of the South$0
41The Octagon$0
42Honeysuckle Rose$0
43Herbie Goes Bananas$0
44Rough Cut$0
45The Final Countdown$0
46The Hunter$0
47Hero at Large$0
48The Long Riders$0
49The Island$0
50Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1980 Special Edition$0
51First Family$0
52Prom Night$0
53The Nude Bomb$0
54Oh, God! Book II$0
55The Competition$0
56Wholly Moses!$0
57Mary Poppins 1980 Re-release$0
58The Last Married Couple in America$0
59Used Cars$0
60The Last Flight of Noah's Ark$0
61The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu$0
62Stardust Memories$0
63The Hollywood Knights$0
64Serial$0
65Somewhere in Time$0
66Saturn 3$0
67Tribute$0
68The Formula$0
69Battle Creek Brawl$0
70The Awakening$0
71Fatso$0
72How to Become a Detective$0
73How to Beat the High Cost of Living$0
74Foxes$0
75The Big Red One$0
76The Stunt Man$0
77Where the Buffalo Roam$0
78The Gong Show Movie$0
79Motel Hell$0
80Little Miss Marker$0
81Oh Heavenly Dog$0
82Divine Madness$0
83In God We Trust (or Gimme That Prime Time Religion)$0
84He Knows You're Alone$0
85Coast to Coast$0
86Melvin and Howard$0
87Roadie$0
88Jaws 2 1980 Re-release$0
89Resurrection$0
90Hide in Plain Sight$0
91Guyana: Cult of the Damned$0
92When Time Ran Out...$0
93Heaven's Gate$0
94North Sea Hijack$0
95Midnight Madness$0
96Loving Couples$0
97The Idolmaker$0
98The Black Marble$0
99Gilda Live$0
100Windows$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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