Box Office

Top Grossing English Movies in 1980

Rank	Title	Genre(s)	Domestic	Worldwide
1	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	Action Adventure Sci-Fi	$292,753,960	$550,016,086
2	The Blues Brothers	Action Music Comedy	$57,229,890	$115,229,890
3	9 to 5	Comedy	$103,290,500	$103,303,473
4	Stir Crazy	Comedy Crime	$101,300,000	$101,300,000
5	Airplane!	Comedy	$83,453,539	$83,455,874
6	Any Which Way You Can	Action Comedy	$70,687,344	$70,687,344
7	Coal Miner's Daughter	Biography Drama Music	$67,182,787	$67,182,787
8	Smokey and the Bandit II	Action Comedy	$66,132,626	$66,132,626
9	The Blue Lagoon	Adventure Drama Romance	$58,853,106	$58,853,243
10	Popeye	Comedy Romance Family	$49,823,037	$49,823,329
11	The Shining	Thriller Horror	$45,634,352	$47,964,195
12	Urban Cowboy	Drama Romance Western	$46,918,287	$46,918,287
13	Seems Like Old Times	Comedy Romance	$43,995,918	$43,995,918
14	Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie	Action Comedy Adventure	$41,675,194	$41,675,194
15	Caddyshack	Sport Comedy	$39,918,650	$39,918,650
16	Friday the 13th	Horror	$39,754,601	$39,917,915
17	Brubaker	Drama Crime	$37,121,708	$37,121,708
18	Little Darlings	Drama Comedy	$34,326,249	$34,326,249
19	Dressed to Kill	Mystery Thriller	$31,899,000	$31,900,256
20	Flash Gordon	Action Adventure Sci-Fi	$27,107,960	$27,186,606
21	The Jazz Singer	Drama Romance Music	$27,118,000	$27,118,000
22	The Elephant Man	Biography Drama	$26,010,864	$26,034,325
23	Bronco Billy	Action Adventure Drama	$24,265,659	$24,265,659
24	Raging Bull	Biography Drama Sport	$23,383,987	$23,405,883
25	Xanadu	Fantasy Romance	$22,762,571	$22,767,489
26	American Gigolo	Drama Mystery Thriller	$22,743,674	$22,745,134
27	My Bodyguard	Drama Comedy Family	$22,482,952	$22,482,952
28	Fame	Drama Music Musical	$21,202,829	$21,203,707
29	Altered States	Sci-Fi Thriller Horror	$19,853,892	$19,853,898
30	Cruising	Drama Mystery Thriller	$19,798,718	$19,815,314
31	The Octagon	Action Drama Thriller	$18,971,000	$18,971,000
32	Herbie Goes Bananas	Adventure Fantasy Comedy	$18,000,000	$18,000,000
33	Honeysuckle Rose	Romance Music Drama	$17,815,212	$17,815,212
34	Rough Cut	Adventure Mystery Comedy	$16,656,125	$16,656,125
35	The Final Countdown	Action Sci-Fi	$16,647,800	$16,647,800
36	Hero at Large	Comedy Drama Action	$15,934,737	$15,934,737
37	The Long Riders	Western	$15,795,189	$15,795,189
38	First Family	Comedy	$15,198,912	$15,198,912
39	Prom Night	Thriller Horror	$14,796,236	$14,796,236
40	The Nude Bomb	Crime Comedy Action	$14,662,035	$14,662,035
41	Oh, God! Book II	Fantasy Comedy	$14,504,277	$14,504,277
42	Wholly Moses	Comedy	$14,155,617	$14,155,617
43	The Last Married Couple in America	Comedy	$12,835,544	$12,835,544
44	Used Cars	Comedy	$11,715,321	$11,715,321
45	The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark	Adventure Family	$11,000,000	$11,000,000
46	The Mirror Crack'd	Mystery Thriller Crime	$11,000,000	$11,000,000
47	Stardust Memories	Comedy Drama Romance	$10,389,003	$10,389,003
48	The Hollywood Knights	Comedy	$10,000,000	$10,000,000
49	Serial	Comedy Romance	$9,870,727	$9,870,727
50	Somewhere in Time	Drama Fantasy Romance	$9,709,597	$9,709,597