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International box office · 1981

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
1Superman II$108.2M
2Endless Love$1.3M
3An American Werewolf in London$177K
4Raiders of the Lost Ark$30K
5The Postman Always Rings Twice$7K
6Thief$7K
7Gallipoli$3K
8Mommie Dearest$2K
9Chariots of Fire$2K
10Blow Out$2K
11My Bloody Valentine$1K
12Escape from New York$1K
13Excalibur$968
14Friday the 13th: Part 2$940
15Modern Romance$822
16For Your Eyes Only$595
17Reds$391
18Dragonslayer$159
19On Golden Pond$0
20Arthur$0
21Stripes$0
22The Cannonball Run$0
23The Four Seasons$0
24Time Bandits$0
25Clash of the Titans$0
26Absence of Malice$0
27The Fox and the Hound$0
28Tarzan the Ape Man$0
29Taps$0
30Sharky's Machine$0
31History of the World: Part I$0
32Bustin' Loose$0
33The Great Muppet Caper$0
34Neighbors$0
35Fort Apache the Bronx$0
36Cinderella 1981 Re-release$0
37The French Lieutenant's Woman$0
38Private Lessons$0
39Modern Problems$0
40Halloween II$0
41Only When I Laugh$0
42Body Heat$0
43Ghost Story$0
44The Final Conflict$0
45The Incredible Shrinking Woman$0
46Paternity$0
47Under the Rainbow$0
48The Howling$0
49Eye of the Needle$0
50Take This Job and Shove It$0
51Outland$0
52The Devil and Max Devlin$0
53Caveman$0
54Continental Divide$0
55The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia$0
56Ragtime$0
57Nighthawks$0
58S.O.B.$0
59Rich and Famous$0
60Scanners$0
61True Confessions$0
62Atlantic City$0
63The Legend of the Lone Ranger$0
64First Monday in October$0
65Back Roads$0
66Victory$0
67Rollover$0
68Wolfen$0
69Carbon Copy$0
70Pennies from Heaven$0
71Deadly Blessing$0
72Whose Life Is It Anyway?$0
73Prince of the City$0
74The Funhouse$0
75Buddy Buddy$0
76La Cage aux Folles II$0
77...All the Marbles$0
78Eyewitness$0
79Going Ape!$0
80The Dogs of War$0
81Student Bodies$0
82The Watcher in the Woods$0
83All Night Long$0
84The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper$0
85Zoot Suit$0
86The Fan$0
87The Last Metro$0
88Gas$0
89The Hand$0
90Heartbeeps$0
91This Is Elvis$0
92Sphinx$0
93Honky Tonk Freeway$0
94Raggedy Man$0
95King of the Mountain$0
96Cutter's Way$0
97Silence of the North$0
98From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China$0
99Night School$0
100Eyes of a Stranger$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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