MOVIES
Grosses
Highest Grossing Films of the 1970s
This list features movies that have earned the highest box-office revenue during the 1970s.
RANK | FILMS | WORLDWIDE GROSS | YEAR |
1 | Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope | $775,398,007 | 1977 |
2 | Jaws | $483,655,893 | 1975 |
3 | The Exorcist | $441,306,145 | 1973 |
4 | Enter the Dragon | $400,000,000 | 1973 |
5 | Grease | $387,472,317 | 1978 |
6 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | $340,800,479 | 1977 |
7 | Superman | $300,200,000 | 1978 |
8 | Smokey and the Bandit | $300,000,000 | 1977 |
9 | The Godfather | $291,000,000 | 1972 |
10 | Saturday Night Fever | $282,400,000 | 1977 |
11 | The Sting | $257,000,000 | 1973 |
12 | Rocky | $225,000,000 | 1976 |
13 | Moonraker | $210,300,000 | 1979 |
14 | Jaws 2 | $208,900,376 | 1978 |
15 | The Towering Inferno | $203,300,000 | 1974 |
16 | Rocky 2 | $200,182,160 | 1979 |
17 | Alien | $186,955,482 | 1979 |
18 | The Spy Who Loved Me | $185,400,000 | 1977 |
19 | Love Story | $173,400,000 | 1970 |
20 | Kramer vs. Kramer | $173,000,000 | 1979 |
21 | Earthquake | $167,400,000 | 1974 |
22 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | $163,274,115 | 1975 |
23 | Live and Let Die | $161,800,000 | 1973 |
24 | National Lampoon’s Animal House | $141,607,202 | 1978 |
25 | American Graffiti | $140,000,000 | 1973 |
26 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | $139,000,000 | 1979 |
27 | Airport | $128,400,000 | 1970 |
28 | The Poseidon Adventure | $125,000,000 | 1972 |
29 | To Fly! | $120,700,000 | 1976 |
30 | Blazing Saddles | $119,600,000 | 1974 |
31 | Diamonds Are Forever | $116,000,000 | 1971 |
32 | A Clockwork Orange | $114,000,000 | 1971 |
33 | 10 | $107,000,000 | 1979 |
34 | Apocalypse Now | $104,800,000 | 1979 |
35 | Every Which Way but Loose | $104,268,727 | 1978 |
36 | Airport 1975 | $103,000,000 | 1974 |
37 | The Jerk | $100,000,000 | 1979 |
38 | Mad Max | $99,750,000 | 1979 |
39 | Heaven Can Wait | $98,800,000 | 1978 |
40 | Last Tango In Paris | $96,000,000 | 1973 |
41 | 1941 | $94,875,000 | 1979 |
42 | Airport '77 | $94,000,000 | 1977 |
43 | King Kong | $90,614,445 | 1976 |
44 | The Godfather Part Two | $93,000,000 | 1974 |
45 | The Trial of Billy Jack | $89,000,000 | 1974 |
46 | The Amityville Horror | $86,432,520 | 1979 |
47 | Young Frankenstein | $86,200,000 | 1974 |
48 | The Goodbye Girl | $83,700,000 | 1977 |
49 | Fiddler on the Roof | $83,300,000 | 1971 |
50 | MAS*H | $81,600,000 | 1970 |
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