Box Office
Worldwide box office · 1984
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 | Beverly Hills Cop | $234.8M | $745.6M |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | $229.4M | $728.6M |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $179.9M | $571.3M |
| 4 | Gremlins | $159.7M | $507.2M |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | $90.8M | $288.5M |
| 6 | Police Academy | $81.2M | $257.9M |
| 7 | Footloose | $80.0M | $254.2M |
| 8 | Romancing the Stone | $76.6M | $243.2M |
| 9 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $76.6M | $243.1M |
| 10 | Splash | $69.8M | $221.8M |
| 11 | Purple Rain | $68.4M | $217.3M |
| 12 | Amadeus | $51.6M | $163.8M |
| 13 | Tightrope | $48.1M | $152.9M |
| 14 | The Natural | $48.0M | $152.3M |
| 15 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $45.9M | $145.7M |
| 16 | Revenge of the Nerds | $40.9M | $129.8M |
| 17 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | $40.4M | $128.3M |
| 18 | Breakin' | $38.7M | $122.9M |
| 19 | Bachelor Party | $38.4M | $122.1M |
| 20 | The Terminator | $38.4M | $121.9M |
| 21 | Red Dawn | $38.4M | $121.9M |
| 22 | City Heat | $38.3M | $121.8M |
| 23 | All of Me | $36.4M | $115.6M |
| 24 | Places in the Heart | $34.9M | $110.9M |
| 25 | The Killing Fields | $34.7M | $110.2M |
| 26 | A Passage to India | $33.0M | $104.8M |
| 27 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $33.0M | $104.8M |
| 28 | Dune | $31.4M | $99.9M |
| 29 | Conan the Destroyer | $31.0M | $98.6M |
| 30 | The Gods Must Be Crazy | $30.0M | $95.4M |
| 31 | Starman | $28.7M | $91.3M |
| 32 | The Last Starfig hter | $28.7M | $91.3M |
| 33 | Cannonball Run II | $28.1M | $89.2M |
| 34 | Teachers | $27.8M | $88.2M |
| 35 | Pinocchio 1984 Re-release | $26.4M | $83.9M |
| 36 | Protocol | $26.2M | $83.2M |
| 37 | Micki + Maude | $26.1M | $82.8M |
| 38 | The Cotton Club | $25.9M | $82.4M |
| 39 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | $25.5M | $81.1M |
| 40 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $25.5M | $81.0M |
| 41 | The Woman in Red | $25.3M | $80.5M |
| 42 | Moscow on the Hudson | $25.1M | $79.6M |
| 43 | The Flamingo Kid | $23.9M | $75.8M |
| 44 | Sixteen Candles | $23.7M | $75.2M |
| 45 | The Jungle Book 1984 Re-release | $23.5M | $74.5M |
| 46 | Missing in Action | $22.8M | $72.5M |
| 47 | A Soldier's Story | $21.8M | $69.3M |
| 48 | Against All Odds | $21.7M | $68.9M |
| 49 | Oh, God! You Devil | $21.5M | $68.4M |
| 50 | Rhinestone | $21.4M | $68.1M |
| 51 | Weekend Pass | $21.1M | $66.9M |
| 52 | Top Secret! | $20.5M | $65.0M |
| 53 | Hot Dog... The Movie | $20.3M | $64.5M |
| 54 | The NeverEnding Story | $20.2M | $64.1M |
| 55 | Unfaithfully Yours | $19.9M | $63.3M |
| 56 | Best Defense | $19.3M | $61.2M |
| 57 | Blame It on Rio | $18.6M | $59.2M |
| 58 | Lassiter | $17.5M | $55.6M |
| 59 | Angel | $17.5M | $55.5M |
| 60 | Johnny Dangerously | $17.1M | $54.4M |
| 61 | Firestarter | $17.1M | $54.2M |
| 62 | Beat Street | $16.6M | $52.7M |
| 63 | Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo | $15.1M | $48.0M |
| 64 | Children of the Corn | $14.6M | $46.3M |
| 65 | Night of the Comet | $14.4M | $45.8M |
| 66 | Supergirl | $14.3M | $45.4M |
| 67 | The Ice Pirates | $14.3M | $45.3M |
| 68 | The Evil That Men Do | $13.1M | $41.6M |
| 69 | Irreconcilable Differences | $12.4M | $39.4M |
| 70 | Dreamscape | $12.1M | $38.6M |
| 71 | Up the Creek | $11.7M | $37.2M |
| 72 | The River | $11.5M | $36.5M |
| 73 | Tank | $11.3M | $35.9M |
| 74 | Falling in Love | $11.1M | $35.3M |
| 75 | Hard to Hold | $11.1M | $35.3M |
| 76 | The Wild Life | $11.0M | $35.0M |
| 77 | Broadway Danny Rose | $10.6M | $33.7M |
| 78 | Where the Boys Are | $10.5M | $33.4M |
| 79 | Thief of Hearts | $10.4M | $33.1M |
| 80 | Terror in the Aisles | $10.0M | $31.8M |
| 81 | Cloak and Dagger | $9.7M | $30.9M |
| 82 | Country | $9.6M | $30.6M |
| 83 | Bolero | $8.9M | $28.3M |
| 84 | Body Double | $8.8M | $28.0M |
| 85 | Oxford Blues | $8.8M | $27.9M |
| 86 | The Bounty | $8.6M | $27.4M |
| 87 | 1984 | $8.4M | $26.8M |
| 88 | Reckless | $8.3M | $26.3M |
| 89 | The Philadelphia Experiment | $8.1M | $25.7M |
| 90 | Streets of Fire | $8.1M | $25.7M |
| 91 | Just the Way You Are | $7.9M | $25.1M |
| 92 | The Little Drummer Girl | $7.8M | $24.9M |
| 93 | Ninja III: The Domination | $7.6M | $24.2M |
| 94 | Iceman | $7.3M | $23.3M |
| 95 | Hardbodies | $7.1M | $22.6M |
| 96 | Alphabet City | $7.0M | $22.3M |
| 97 | The Pope of Greenwich Village | $6.8M | $21.7M |
| 98 | Runaway | $6.8M | $21.5M |
| 99 | Swing Shift | $6.7M | $21.1M |
| 100 | The Razor's Edge | $6.6M | $20.8M |
“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.