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MOVIES

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Grosses

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Highest Grossing Films of 1979

This list features movies that have earned the highest box-office revenue during the year 1979.

RANK

FILMS

WORLDWIDE GROSS

1

Moonraker

$210,300,000

2

Rocky 2

$200,182,160

3

Alien

$186,955,482

4

Kramer vs. Kramer

$173,000,000

5

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

$139,000,000

6

10

$107,000,000

7

Apocalypse Now

$104,800,000

8

Mad Max

$99,750,000

9

1941

$94,875,000

10

The Amityville Horror

$86,432,520

11

The Muppet Movie

$76,657,000

12

The Jerk

$73,691,419

13

Dawn of the Dead

$55,000,000

14

The China Syndrome

$51,700,000

15

Love at First Bite

$43,900,000

16

Escape from Alcatraz

$43,000,459

17

Meatballs

$43,000,000

18

The Electric Horseman

$42,670,138

19

Manhattan

$40,053,595

20

The In-Laws

$38,200,000

21

Starting Over

$38,200,000

22

All That Jazz

$37,823,676

23

The Black Stallion

$37,799,643

24

The Main Event

$37,198,813

25

The Black Hole

$35,841,901

26

The China Syndrome

$35,708,042

27

...And Justice For All

$33,300,000

28

The Champ

$30,441,738

29

Being There

$30,177,606

30

Chapter Two

$30,000,000


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References

The Numbers (2025). Top Grossing Movies of 1979. Available at: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1979/top-grossing-movies [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia (2025). 1979 in Film. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_in_film [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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