The Top 100 Movies for each Year of the 1980s
Top Movies for 1980
| Rank | Movie | Date | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Empire Strikes Back | 21-May | $209,398,025 |
| 2 | Nine to Five | 19-Dec | $103,290,500 |
| 3 | Stir Crazy | 12-Dec | $101,300,000 |
| 4 | Airplane! | 27-Jun | $83,453,539 |
| 5 | Any Which Way You Can | 17-Dec | $70,687,344 |
| 6 | Private Benjamin | 10-Oct | $69,847,348 |
| 7 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 7-Mar | $67,182,787 |
| 8 | Smokey and the Bandit II | 15-Aug | $66,132,626 |
| 9 | The Blue Lagoon | 20-Jun | $58,853,106 |
| 10 | The Blues Brothers | 20-Jun | $57,229,890 |
| 11 | Ordinary People | 19-Sep | $54,766,923 |
| 12 | Popeye | 12-Dec | $49,823,037 |
| 13 | Urban Cowboy | 6-Jun | $46,918,287 |
| 14 | The Shining | 23-May | $44,017,374 |
| 15 | Seems Like Old Times | 19-Dec | $43,995,918 |
| 16 | Cheech & Chong's Next Movie | 18-Jul | $41,675,194 |
| 17 | Caddyshack | 25-Jul | $39,846,344 |
| 18 | Friday the 13th | 9-May | $39,754,601 |
| 19 | Brubaker | 20-Jun | $37,121,708 |
| 20 | Little Darlings | 21-Mar | $34,326,249 |
| 21 | Dressed to Kill | 23-Jun | $31,899,000 |
| 22 | The Jazz Singer | 19-Dec | $27,118,000 |
| 23 | Flash Gordon | 5-Dec | $27,107,960 |
| 24 | Lady and the Tramp | 7-Mar | $26,114,207 |
| 25 | The Elephant Man | 3-Oct | $26,010,864 |
| 26 | Bronco Billy | 11-Jun | $24,265,659 |
| 27 | Raging Bull | 14-Nov | $23,334,953 |
| 28 | Xanadu | 8-Aug | $22,762,571 |
| 29 | American Gigolo | 1-Feb | $22,743,674 |
| 30 | My Bodyguard | 11-Jul | $22,482,952 |
| 31 | The Fog | 1-Feb | $21,378,361 |
| 32 | Fame | 16-May | $21,202,829 |
| 33 | Tess | 12-Dec | $20,093,330 |
| 34 | Altered States | 25-Dec | $19,853,892 |
| 35 | Song of the South | 8-Oct | $19,800,000 |
| 36 | Cruising | 15-Feb | $19,784,223 |
| 37 | The Octagon | 14-Aug | $18,971,000 |
| 38 | The Aristocats | 19-Dec | $18,000,000 |
| 39 | Honeysuckle Rose | 18-Jul | $17,815,212 |
| 40 | Herbie Goes Bananas | 25-Jun | $17,000,000 |
| 41 | Rough Cut | 20-Jun | $16,656,125 |
| 42 | The Final Countdown | 1-Aug | $16,647,800 |
| 43 | The Hunter | 1-Aug | $16,274,150 |
| 44 | Hero at Large | 8-Feb | $15,934,737 |
| 45 | The Long Riders | 16-May | $15,795,189 |
| 46 | The Island | 13-Jun | $15,716,828 |
| 47 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) | 14-Nov | $15,693,175 |
| 48 | First Family | 25-Dec | $15,198,912 |
| 49 | Prom Night | 15-Aug | $14,796,236 |
| 50 | The Nude Bomb | 9-May | $14,662,035 |
| 51 | Oh, God! Book II | 3-Oct | $14,504,277 |
| 52 | The Competition | 3-Dec | $14,287,755 |
| 53 | Wholly Moses | 13-Jun | $14,155,617 |
| 54 | Mary Poppins | 23-May | $14,000,000 |
| 55 | Last Married Couple in America | 8-Feb | $12,835,544 |
| 56 | Used Cars | 18-Jul | $11,715,321 |
| 57 | The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | 27-Jul | $11,000,000 |
| 58 | The Mirror Crack'd | 19-Dec | $11,000,000 |
| 59 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | 8-Aug | $10,697,276 |
| 60 | Stardust Memories | 26-Sep | $10,389,003 |
| 61 | The Hollywood Knights | 16-May | $10,000,000 |
| 62 | Serial | 28-Mar | $9,870,727 |
| 63 | Somewhere in Time | 3-Oct | $9,709,597 |
| 64 | Tribute | 14-Dec | $9,000,000 |
| 65 | Saturn 3 | 15-Feb | $9,000,000 |
| 66 | The Formula | 19-Dec | $8,894,289 |
| 67 | Mad Max | 21-Mar | $8,750,000 |
| 68 | The Big Brawl | 29-Aug | $8,527,743 |
| 69 | The Awakening | 31-Oct | $8,415,112 |
| 70 | Fatso | 1-Feb | $7,653,061 |
| 71 | How to Become a Detective | 1-Jun | $7,500,000 |
| 72 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | 1-Jan | $7,500,000 |
| 73 | Foxes | 29-Feb | $7,470,348 |
| 74 | The Big Red One | 18-Jul | $7,206,220 |
| 75 | The Stunt Man | 27-Jun | $7,063,886 |
| 76 | Where the Buffalo Roam | 25-Apr | $6,659,377 |
| 77 | The Gong Show Movie | 23-May | $6,621,520 |
| 78 | Motel Hell | 24-Oct | $6,342,668 |
| 79 | Little Miss Marker | 21-Mar | $6,321,392 |
| 80 | Oh, Heavenly Dog! | 11-Jul | $6,216,067 |
| 81 | Divine Madness | 26-Sep | $5,318,098 |
| 82 | In God We Trust | 26-Sep | $5,215,015 |
| 83 | He Knows You're Alone | 29-Aug | $4,875,436 |
| 84 | Coast to Coast | 3-Oct | $4,495,445 |
| 85 | Willie & Phil | - | $4,400,000 |
| 86 | Melvin and Howard | 24-Oct | $4,309,490 |
| 87 | Roadie | 13-Jun | $4,226,370 |
| 88 | Gloria | 1-Oct | $4,059,673 |
| 89 | Jaws 2 (1980 re-issue) | 15-Feb | $4,028,735 |
| 90 | Kagemusha | 10-Oct | $4,000,000 |
| 91 | Resurrection | 26-Sep | $3,910,019 |
| 92 | Hide in Plain Sight | 21-Mar | $3,806,930 |
| 93 | Guyana: Cult of the Damned | 25-Jan | $3,798,102 |
| 94 | When Time Ran Out | 28-Mar | $3,763,988 |
| 95 | Heaven's Gate | 19-Nov | $3,484,331 |
| 96 | Ffolkes | 18-Apr | $2,993,772 |
| 97 | Midnight Madness | 8-Feb | $2,900,000 |
| 98 | Loving Couples | 24-Oct | $2,806,659 |
| 99 | The Idolmaker | 14-Nov | $2,625,716 |
| 100 | The Black Marble | 1-Jan | $2,500,000 |