Box Office
Worldwide 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.
| # | Title | Worldwide | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | $252.6M | $836.9M |
| 2 | Terms of Endearment | $108.4M | $359.2M |
| 3 | Flashdance | $92.9M | $307.9M |
| 4 | Trading Places | $90.4M | $299.5M |
| 5 | Superman III | $80.3M | $265.9M |
| 6 | WarGames | $79.6M | $263.6M |
| 7 | Octopussy | $67.9M | $225.0M |
| 8 | Sudden Impact | $67.6M | $224.1M |
| 9 | Staying Alive | $64.9M | $215.0M |
| 10 | Mr. Mom | $64.8M | $214.6M |
| 11 | Risky Business | $63.5M | $210.5M |
| 12 | National Lampoon's Vacation | $61.4M | $203.4M |
| 13 | The Big Chill | $56.3M | $186.7M |
| 14 | Never Say Never Again | $55.4M | $183.7M |
| 15 | Jaws 3-D | $45.5M | $150.8M |
| 16 | Scarface | $45.2M | $149.9M |
| 17 | Blue Thunder | $42.3M | $140.2M |
| 18 | Yentl | $40.2M | $133.3M |
| 19 | Silkwood | $35.6M | $118.0M |
| 20 | Psycho II | $34.7M | $115.1M |
| 21 | Porky's II: The Next Day | $33.8M | $111.9M |
| 22 | Uncommon Valor | $30.5M | $101.1M |
| 23 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1983 Re-release | $30.1M | $99.7M |
| 24 | Never Cry Wolf | $29.6M | $98.1M |
| 25 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | $29.5M | $97.6M |
| 26 | Easy Money | $29.3M | $97.1M |
| 27 | High Road to China | $28.4M | $94.2M |
| 28 | The Outsiders | $25.7M | $85.2M |
| 29 | Spring Break | $24.1M | $79.8M |
| 30 | Two of a Kind | $23.6M | $78.3M |
| 31 | My Tutor | $22.6M | $74.8M |
| 32 | Class | $21.7M | $71.8M |
| 33 | The Right Stuff | $21.2M | $70.2M |
| 34 | Cujo | $21.2M | $70.1M |
| 35 | Christine | $21.0M | $69.6M |
| 36 | The Rescuers 1983 Re-release | $21.0M | $69.6M |
| 37 | The Dead Zone | $20.8M | $68.8M |
| 38 | Breathless | $19.9M | $66.0M |
| 39 | A Christmas Story | $19.3M | $63.9M |
| 40 | Max Dugan Returns | $17.6M | $58.4M |
| 41 | Valley Girl | $17.3M | $57.5M |
| 42 | All the Right Moves | $17.2M | $57.1M |
| 43 | Krull | $16.5M | $54.7M |
| 44 | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | $16.5M | $54.6M |
| 45 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $16.2M | $53.5M |
| 46 | D.C. Cab | $16.1M | $53.5M |
| 47 | Gorky Park | $15.9M | $52.5M |
| 48 | Still Smokin | $15.5M | $51.5M |
| 49 | Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | $14.9M | $49.5M |
| 50 | Educating Rita | $14.6M | $48.5M |
| 51 | Private School | $14.0M | $46.5M |
| 52 | The Survivors | $14.0M | $46.4M |
| 53 | The Entity | $13.3M | $44.0M |
| 54 | Revenge of the Ninja | $13.2M | $43.6M |
| 55 | To Be or Not to Be | $13.0M | $43.2M |
| 56 | Stroker Ace | $13.0M | $43.1M |
| 57 | Lone Wolf McQuade | $12.2M | $40.5M |
| 58 | The Black Stallion Returns | $12.0M | $39.9M |
| 59 | The Sword in the Stone | $12.0M | $39.8M |
| 60 | Deathstalker | $11.9M | $39.5M |
| 61 | Zelig | $11.8M | $39.1M |
| 62 | The Lords of Discipline | $11.8M | $39.1M |
| 63 | Raiders of the Lost Ark 1983 Re-release | $11.4M | $37.7M |
| 64 | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | $11.2M | $37.2M |
| 65 | The Man Who Loved Women | $11.0M | $36.3M |
| 66 | Hercules | $10.7M | $35.4M |
| 67 | The House on Sorority Row | $10.6M | $35.1M |
| 68 | Doctor Detroit | $10.4M | $34.4M |
| 69 | Deal of the Century | $10.4M | $34.4M |
| 70 | The Man with Two Brains | $10.4M | $34.3M |
| 71 | The Year of Living Dangerously | $10.3M | $34.1M |
| 72 | Brainstorm | $10.2M | $33.9M |
| 73 | Lovesick | $10.2M | $33.7M |
| 74 | Without a Trace | $9.6M | $31.9M |
| 75 | Bad Boys | $9.2M | $30.5M |
| 76 | Rear Window 1983 Re-release | $9.1M | $30.1M |
| 77 | Strange Brew | $8.6M | $28.4M |
| 78 | Tender Mercies | $8.4M | $28.0M |
| 79 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | $8.4M | $27.8M |
| 80 | 10 to Midnight | $7.2M | $23.8M |
| 81 | Romantic Comedy | $6.9M | $22.7M |
| 82 | Fanny and Alexander | $6.8M | $22.5M |
| 83 | Nightmares | $6.7M | $22.1M |
| 84 | The Golden Seal | $6.7M | $22.1M |
| 85 | The Osterman Weekend | $6.5M | $21.5M |
| 86 | Star 80 | $6.5M | $21.4M |
| 87 | The Sting II | $6.3M | $21.0M |
| 88 | Amityville 3-D | $6.3M | $21.0M |
| 89 | Chained Heat | $6.1M | $20.4M |
| 90 | Beyond the Limit | $6.0M | $19.9M |
| 91 | The Hunger | $6.0M | $19.8M |
| 92 | Local Hero | $5.9M | $19.5M |
| 93 | Porky's 1983 Re-release | $5.8M | $19.2M |
| 94 | Under Fire | $5.7M | $18.9M |
| 95 | Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 | $5.7M | $18.8M |
| 96 | A Night in Heaven | $5.6M | $18.4M |
| 97 | The Star Chamber | $5.6M | $18.4M |
| 98 | The Grey Fox | $5.5M | $18.3M |
| 99 | Vertigo 1983 Re-release | $5.3M | $17.7M |
| 100 | The Dresser | $5.3M | $17.6M |
“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.