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MOVIES

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Grosses

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Highest Grossing Films of 1980

This list features movies that have earned the highest box-office revenue during the year 1980.

RANK

FILMS

WORLDWIDE GROSS

1

Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back

$549,001,086

2

The Gods Must Be Crazy

$200,000,000

3

Airplane!

$130,000,000

4

The Blues Brothers

$115,000,000

5

9 to 5

$103,300,659

6

Stir Crazy

$101,300,000

7

Any Which Way You Can

$70,687,344

8

Private Benjamin

$69,847,348

9

Coal Miner’s Daughter

$67,182,787

10

Smokey and the Bandit II

$66,132,626

11

Friday the 13th

$59,754,601

12

The Final Countdown

$56,647,800

13

American Gigolo

$52,743,674

14

Ordinary People

$52,302,978

15

Popeye

$49,823,037

16

The Blue Lagoon

$47,923,795

17

Urban Cowboy

$46,918,287

18

The Shining

$46,212,649

19

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

$41,675,194

20

Caddyshack

$39,849,764

21

Brubaker

$37,121,708

22

Little Darlings

$34,326,249

23

Dressed to Kill

$31,899,000

24

Flash Gordon

$27,176,825

25

The Elephant Man

$26,024,886

26

Bronco Billy

$24,265,659

27

Raging Bull

$23,417,649

28

Caligula

$23,400,000

29

Seems Like Old Times

$23,200,000

30

Xanadu

$22,762,611


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References

The Numbers (2025). Top Grossing Movies of 1980. Available at: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1980/top-grossing-movies [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia (2025). 1980 in Film. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_in_film [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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