Box Office
Worldwide 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.
| # | Title | Worldwide | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | $209.4M | $838.6M |
| 2 | 9 to 5 | $103.3M | $413.7M |
| 3 | Stir Crazy | $101.3M | $405.7M |
| 4 | Airplane! | $83.5M | $334.2M |
| 5 | Any Which Way You Can | $70.7M | $283.1M |
| 6 | Private Benjamin | $69.8M | $279.7M |
| 7 | Coal Miner's Daughter | $67.2M | $269.1M |
| 8 | Smokey and the Bandit II | $66.1M | $264.9M |
| 9 | The Blue Lagoon | $58.9M | $235.7M |
| 10 | The Blues Brothers | $57.3M | $229.3M |
| 11 | Ordinary People | $54.8M | $219.3M |
| 12 | Popeye | $49.8M | $199.5M |
| 13 | Urban Cowboy | $46.9M | $187.9M |
| 14 | The Shining | $44.2M | $177.1M |
| 15 | Seems Like Old Times | $44.0M | $176.2M |
| 16 | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | $41.7M | $166.9M |
| 17 | Caddyshack | $39.8M | $159.6M |
| 18 | Friday the 13th | $39.8M | $159.2M |
| 19 | Brubaker | $37.1M | $148.7M |
| 20 | Little Darlings | $34.3M | $137.5M |
| 21 | Dressed to Kill | $31.9M | $127.8M |
| 22 | The Jazz Singer | $27.1M | $108.6M |
| 23 | Flash Gordon | $27.1M | $108.6M |
| 24 | Lady and the Tramp 1980 Re-release | $26.1M | $104.6M |
| 25 | The Elephant Man | $26.1M | $104.4M |
| 26 | Bronco Billy | $24.3M | $97.2M |
| 27 | Raging Bull | $23.3M | $93.5M |
| 28 | Xanadu | $22.8M | $91.2M |
| 29 | American Gigolo | $22.7M | $91.1M |
| 30 | My Bodyguard | $22.5M | $90.0M |
| 31 | The Fog | $21.4M | $85.6M |
| 32 | Fame | $21.2M | $84.9M |
| 33 | Tess | $20.1M | $80.5M |
| 34 | Altered States | $19.9M | $79.5M |
| 35 | Song of the South | $19.8M | $79.3M |
| 36 | Cruising | $19.8M | $79.2M |
| 37 | The Octagon | $19.0M | $76.0M |
| 38 | Honeysuckle Rose | $17.8M | $71.3M |
| 39 | Herbie Goes Bananas | $17.0M | $68.1M |
| 40 | Rough Cut | $16.7M | $66.7M |
| 41 | The Final Countdown | $16.6M | $66.7M |
| 42 | The Hunter | $16.3M | $65.2M |
| 43 | Hero at Large | $15.9M | $63.8M |
| 44 | The Long Riders | $15.8M | $63.3M |
| 45 | The Island | $15.7M | $62.9M |
| 46 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1980 Special Edition | $15.7M | $62.8M |
| 47 | First Family | $15.2M | $60.9M |
| 48 | Prom Night | $14.8M | $59.3M |
| 49 | The Nude Bomb | $14.7M | $58.7M |
| 50 | Oh, God! Book II | $14.5M | $58.1M |
| 51 | The Competition | $14.3M | $57.2M |
| 52 | Wholly Moses! | $14.2M | $56.7M |
| 53 | Mary Poppins 1980 Re-release | $14.0M | $56.1M |
| 54 | The Last Married Couple in America | $12.8M | $51.4M |
| 55 | Used Cars | $11.7M | $46.9M |
| 56 | The Mirror Crack'd | $11.0M | $44.1M |
| 57 | The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | $11.0M | $44.1M |
| 58 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | $10.7M | $42.8M |
| 59 | Stardust Memories | $10.4M | $41.6M |
| 60 | The Hollywood Knights | $10.0M | $40.0M |
| 61 | Serial | $9.9M | $39.5M |
| 62 | Somewhere in Time | $9.7M | $38.9M |
| 63 | Saturn 3 | $9.0M | $36.0M |
| 64 | Tribute | $9.0M | $36.0M |
| 65 | The Formula | $8.9M | $35.6M |
| 66 | Mad Max | $8.8M | $35.0M |
| 67 | Battle Creek Brawl | $8.5M | $34.2M |
| 68 | The Awakening | $8.4M | $33.7M |
| 69 | Fatso | $7.7M | $30.6M |
| 70 | How to Become a Detective | $7.5M | $30.0M |
| 71 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | $7.5M | $30.0M |
| 72 | Foxes | $7.5M | $29.9M |
| 73 | The Big Red One | $7.2M | $28.9M |
| 74 | The Stunt Man | $7.1M | $28.3M |
| 75 | Where the Buffalo Roam | $6.7M | $26.7M |
| 76 | The Gong Show Movie | $6.6M | $26.5M |
| 77 | Motel Hell | $6.3M | $25.4M |
| 78 | Little Miss Marker | $6.3M | $25.3M |
| 79 | Oh Heavenly Dog | $6.2M | $24.9M |
| 80 | Divine Madness | $5.3M | $21.3M |
| 81 | In God We Trust (or Gimme That Prime Time Religion) | $5.2M | $20.9M |
| 82 | He Knows You're Alone | $4.9M | $19.5M |
| 83 | Coast to Coast | $4.5M | $18.0M |
| 84 | Melvin and Howard | $4.3M | $17.3M |
| 85 | Roadie | $4.2M | $16.9M |
| 86 | Gloria | $4.1M | $16.3M |
| 87 | Jaws 2 1980 Re-release | $4.0M | $16.1M |
| 88 | Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior | $4.0M | $16.0M |
| 89 | Resurrection | $3.9M | $15.7M |
| 90 | Hide in Plain Sight | $3.8M | $15.2M |
| 91 | Guyana: Cult of the Damned | $3.8M | $15.2M |
| 92 | When Time Ran Out... | $3.8M | $15.1M |
| 93 | Heaven's Gate | $3.5M | $14.0M |
| 94 | North Sea Hijack | $3.0M | $12.0M |
| 95 | Midnight Madness | $2.9M | $11.6M |
| 96 | Loving Couples | $2.8M | $11.2M |
| 97 | The Idolmaker | $2.6M | $10.5M |
| 98 | The Black Marble | $2.5M | $10.0M |
| 99 | Gilda Live | $2.3M | $9.1M |
| 100 | Windows | $2.1M | $8.5M |
“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.