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Box Office

International box office · 1988

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
1Who Framed Roger Rabbit$81.6M
2Moving$260K
3Child's Play$157K
4Die Hard$80K
5Beetlejuice$13K
6Rain Man$10K
7Return of the Living Dead II$2K
8They Live$1K
9Willow$984
10Dead Ringers$936
11Colors$643
12The Last Temptation of Christ$396
13The Blob$267
14Big$196
15The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!$142
16Coming to America$32
17Twins$0
18Crocodile Dundee II$0
19Cocktail$0
20Working Girl$0
21A Fish Called Wanda$0
22Scrooged$0
23Beaches$0
24Rambo III$0
25Oliver & Company$0
26Bull Durham$0
27A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master$0
28The Land Before Time$0
29Young Guns$0
30Biloxi Blues$0
31Dirty Rotten Scoundrels$0
32The Great Outdoors$0
33Tequila Sunrise$0
34Big Business$0
35Bambi 1988 Re-release$0
36Midnight Run$0
37The Dead Pool$0
38Red Heat$0
39Dangerous Liaisons$0
40Mississippi Burning$0
41The Accidental Tourist$0
42The Accused$0
43Shoot to Kill$0
44Ernest Saves Christmas$0
45Betrayed$0
46Funny Farm$0
47Alien Nation$0
48Gorillas in the Mist$0
49The Fox and the Hound 1988 Re-release$0
50License to Drive$0
51Short Circuit 2$0
52Married to the Mob$0
53Punchline$0
54The Presidio$0
55Action Jackson$0
56Tucker: The Man and His Dream$0
57The Serpent and the Rainbow$0
58Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach$0
59Friday the 13th: The New Blood$0
60Cocoon: The Return$0
61The Seventh Sign$0
62Above the Law$0
63Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers$0
64Frantic$0
65Johnny Be Good$0
66For Keeps?$0
67Crossing Delancey$0
68Bright Lights, Big City$0
69She's Having a Baby$0
70Masquerade$0
71Big Top Pee-wee$0
72Arthur 2: On the Rocks$0
73School Daze$0
74Poltergeist III$0
75Stand and Deliver$0
76My Stepmother Is an Alien$0
77The Milagro Beanfie ld War$0
78Return to Snowy River$0
79Vice Versa$0
80I'm Gonna Git You Sucka$0
81Mystic Pizza$0
82D.O.A.$0
83Everybody's All-American$0
84Casual Sex?$0
85Hellbound: Hellraiser II$0
86Bloodsport$0
87Caddyshack II$0
88Moon Over Parador$0
89The Couch Trip$0
90Iron Eagle II$0
91Shakedown$0
92The Unbearable Lightness of Being$0
93Bad Dreams$0
94Switching Channels$0
95Salsa$0
96Clean and Sober$0
97U2: Rattle and Hum$0
98High Spirits$0
99Without a Clue$0
100Satisfaction$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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