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International box office · 1983

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 III$20.3M
2Octopussy$24K
3The Outsiders$19K
4Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi$18K
5Scarface$8K
6The Hunger$5K
7Christine$2K
8Silkwood$1K
9A Christmas Story$970
10Staying Alive$659
11Psycho II$614
12Fanny and Alexander$597
13Rear Window 1983 Re-release$453
14Yentl$352
15Never Say Never Again$344
16National Lampoon's Vacation$299
17The Big Chill$57
18Risky Business$51
19Terms of Endearment$0
20Flashdance$0
21Trading Places$0
22WarGames$0
23Sudden Impact$0
24Mr. Mom$0
25Jaws 3-D$0
26Blue Thunder$0
27Porky's II: The Next Day$0
28Uncommon Valor$0
29Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1983 Re-release$0
30Never Cry Wolf$0
31Twilight Zone: The Movie$0
32Easy Money$0
33High Road to China$0
34Spring Break$0
35Two of a Kind$0
36My Tutor$0
37Class$0
38The Right Stuff$0
39Cujo$0
40The Rescuers 1983 Re-release$0
41The Dead Zone$0
42Breathless$0
43Max Dugan Returns$0
44Valley Girl$0
45All the Right Moves$0
46Krull$0
47Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone$0
48Richard Pryor... Here and Now$0
49D.C. Cab$0
50Gorky Park$0
51Still Smokin$0
52Monty Python's the Meaning of Life$0
53Educating Rita$0
54Private School$0
55The Survivors$0
56The Entity$0
57Revenge of the Ninja$0
58To Be or Not to Be$0
59Stroker Ace$0
60Lone Wolf McQuade$0
61The Black Stallion Returns$0
62The Sword in the Stone$0
63Deathstalker$0
64Zelig$0
65The Lords of Discipline$0
66Raiders of the Lost Ark 1983 Re-release$0
67The Smurfs and the Magic Flute$0
68The Man Who Loved Women$0
69Hercules$0
70The House on Sorority Row$0
71Doctor Detroit$0
72Deal of the Century$0
73The Man with Two Brains$0
74The Year of Living Dangerously$0
75Brainstorm$0
76Lovesick$0
77Without a Trace$0
78Bad Boys$0
79Strange Brew$0
80Tender Mercies$0
81Something Wicked This Way Comes$0
8210 to Midnight$0
83Romantic Comedy$0
84Nightmares$0
85The Golden Seal$0
86The Osterman Weekend$0
87Star 80$0
88The Sting II$0
89Amityville 3-D$0
90Chained Heat$0
91Beyond the Limit$0
92Local Hero$0
93Porky's 1983 Re-release$0
94Under Fire$0
95Smokey and the Bandit Part 3$0
96A Night in Heaven$0
97The Star Chamber$0
98The Grey Fox$0
99Vertigo 1983 Re-release$0
100The Dresser$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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