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Top 1980 Movies at the Domestic Box Office
See also: Top 1980 International - Top 1980 Worldwide
Other Domestic Cumulative records: All Time Domestic - All Time Domestic (Inf. Adj.) - All Time Animated Domestic - All Time Sequel Domestic - All Time Non-Sequel Domestic - Top 2023 Domestic - Top 2024 Domestic
This chart contains the total domestic box office for movies released in 1980.
See Top Grossing Movies of 1980 for a list of movies that earned most at the domestic box office during 1980, including films released in 1979 and earlier.
| ←Top 1979 Domestic | Top 1981 Domestic→ |
| Rank | Movie | Distributor | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Box Office |
Max Theater Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Cent… | $291,738,960 | $4,910,483 | 2,322 |
| 2 | 9 to 5 | 20th Cent… | $103,290,500 | $3,966,832 | 910 |
| 3 | Stir Crazy | Columbia | $101,300,000 | $8,691,886 | 813 |
| 4 | Airplane! | Paramount… | $83,453,539 | ||
| 5 | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. | $70,687,344 | $8,024,663 | 1,541 |
| 6 | Private Benjamin | Warner Bros. | $69,847,348 | $4,739,769 | 763 |
| 7 | Coal Miner’s Daughter | Universal | $67,182,787 | $3,366,443 | 437 |
| 8 | Smokey and the Bandit II | Universal | $66,132,626 | $10,883,835 | 1,196 |
| 9 | The Blues Brothers | Universal | $57,229,890 | $4,858,152 | 594 |
| 10 | Ordinary People | Paramount… | $52,302,978 | $170,335 | 6 |
| 11 | Popeye | Paramount… | $49,823,037 | ||
| 12 | The Blue Lagoon | Universal | $47,923,795 | 116 | |
| 13 | Urban Cowboy | Paramount… | $46,918,287 | ||
| 14 | The Shining | Warner Bros. | $45,052,898 | $622,337 | 10 |
| 15 | Cheech & Chong's Next Movie | Universal | $41,675,194 | $5,262,963 | 814 |
| 16 | Caddyshack | Warner Bros. | $39,846,344 | $3,142,689 | 656 |
| 17 | Friday the 13th | Paramount… | $39,754,601 | $5,816,321 | 1,127 |
| 18 | Brubaker | 20th Cent… | $37,121,708 | $2,748,079 | 594 |
| 19 | Little Darlings | Paramount… | $34,326,249 | ||
| 20 | Dressed to Kill | Filmways … | $31,899,000 | ||
| 21 | Flash Gordon | Universal | $27,107,960 | $3,934,030 | 823 |
| 22 | The Elephant Man | Paramount… | $26,010,864 | ||
| 23 | Bronco Billy | Warner Bros. | $24,265,659 | $3,708,710 | 1,321 |
| 24 | Caligula | Analysis | $23,400,000 | 13 | |
| 25 | Raging Bull | United Ar… | $23,380,203 | $128,590 | 180 |
| 26 | Seems Like Old Times | Columbia | $23,200,000 | ||
| 27 | Xanadu | Universal | $22,762,571 | $1,471,595 | 249 |
| 28 | American Gigolo | Paramount… | $22,743,674 | $3,559,930 | 570 |
| 29 | My Bodyguard | 20th Cent… | $22,482,952 | $178,641 | 477 |
| 30 | In Search of Historic Jesus | Sunn Clas… | $22,000,000 | ||
| 31 | The Fog | Avco Embassy | $21,445,318 | 30 | |
| 32 | Fame | MGM | $21,202,829 | $118,160 | 3 |
| 33 | Tess | Columbia | $20,093,330 | 244 | |
| 34 | Altered States | Warner Bros. | $19,853,892 | $174,650 | 3 |
| 35 | Cruising | United Ar… | $19,784,223 | ||
| 36 | The Octagon | American … | $19,000,000 | ||
| 37 | Windwalker | Pacific I… | $18,000,000 | ||
| 38 | Hardly Working | 20th Cent… | $18,000,000 | ||
| 39 | Honeysuckle Rose | Warner Bros. | $17,815,212 | $2,189,966 | 826 |
| 40 | Herbie Goes Bananas | $17,000,000 | |||
| 41 | Rough Cut | Paramount… | $16,656,125 | ||
| 42 | The Hunter | Paramount… | $16,647,800 | ||
| 43 | The Final Countdown | United Ar… | $16,647,800 | ||
| 44 | A Change of Seasons | 20th Cent… | $16,400,000 | ||
| 45 | Hero At Large | MGM | $15,934,737 | $1,850,725 | 486 |
| 46 | The Island | Universal | $15,716,828 | $3,123,267 | 584 |
| 47 | First Family | Warner Bros. | $15,198,912 | $3,635,564 | 563 |
| 48 | The Long Riders | United Ar… | $15,198,912 | $2,351,112 | 759 |
| 49 | Prom Night | Avco Embassy | $14,796,236 | ||
| 50 | The Nude Bomb | Universal | $14,662,035 | $3,565,066 | 793 |
| 51 | Oh, God! Book II | Warner Bros. | $14,504,277 | $3,439,846 | 1,033 |
| 52 | Wholly Moses! | Sony Pict… | $14,155,617 | $3,625,280 | 608 |
| 53 | Middle Age Crazy | 20th Cent… | $13,000,000 | ||
| 54 | Hopscotch | Avco Embassy | $13,000,000 | ||
| 55 | The Competition | Columbia | $13,000,000 | $76,163 | 6 |
| 56 | The Last Married Couple in America | Universal | $12,835,544 | $2,454,289 | 488 |
| 57 | The Changeling | Associate… | $12,000,000 | ||
| 58 | Used Cars | Columbia | $11,715,321 | ||
| 59 | Hangar 18 | Sunn Clas… | $11,000,000 | ||
| 60 | The Mirror Crack'd | Associate… | $11,000,000 | ||
| 61 | It's My Turn | Columbia | $11,000,000 | ||
| 62 | The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark | Walt Disney | $11,000,000 | ||
| 63 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Orion Pic… | $10,697,276 | $2,399,109 | 465 |
| 64 | Stardust Memories | United Ar… | $10,389,003 | $326,779 | 29 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.