Domestic Box Office Rankings

Explore annual domestic box office rankings based on original theatrical performance. Re-releases are excluded, and each film's initial uninterrupted theatrical run is treated as a single release.

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Rank
Movie
Box Office
1
Raiders of the Lost Ark
$212,222,025
2
On Golden Pond
$119,285,432
3
Superman II
$108,185,706
4
Arthur
$95,461,682
5
Stripes
$85,297,000
6
The Cannonball Run
$72,179,579
7
Chariots of Fire
$58,972,904
8
For Your Eyes Only
$54,812,802
9
The Four Seasons
$50,427,646
10
Time Bandits
$42,365,581
11
Clash of the Titans
$41,092,328
12
Absence of Malice
$40,716,963
13
Reds
$40,382,659
14
The Fox and the Hound
$39,900,000
15
Tarzan the Ape Man
$36,565,280
16
Taps
$35,856,053
17
Sharky's Machine
$35,610,100
18
Excalibur
$34,967,437
19
History of the World: Part I
$31,672,907
20
Bustin' Loose
$31,261,269
21
The Great Muppet Caper
$31,206,251
22
Endless Love
$31,184,024
23
An American Werewolf in London
$30,565,292
24
Neighbors
$29,916,207
25
Fort Apache the Bronx
$29,200,000
26
The French Lieutenant's Woman
$26,890,068
27
Private Lessons
$26,279,000
28
Modern Problems
$26,154,211
29
Halloween II
$25,533,818
30
Only When I Laugh
$25,524,778
31
Escape from New York
$25,244,626
32
Body Heat
$24,058,838
33
Ghost Story
$23,371,905
34
Friday the 13th: Part 2
$21,722,776
35
The Final Conflict
$20,471,382
36
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
$20,259,961
37
Mommie Dearest
$19,032,261
38
Paternity
$18,838,812
39
Under the Rainbow
$18,826,490
40
The Howling
$17,985,893
41
Eye of the Needle
$17,583,634
42
Take This Job and Shove It
$17,569,027
43
Outland
$17,374,595
44
The Devil and Max Devlin
$16,000,000
45
Caveman
$15,965,924
46
Continental Divide
$15,578,237
47
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
$14,923,752
48
Ragtime
$14,920,781
49
Nighthawks
$14,905,359
50
S.O.B.
$14,867,086

Box Office notes

About the Domestic Box Office Rankings

Hollywood Rankings compiles annual domestic box office rankings to provide a consistent view of theatrical performance across different eras of film history. Each yearly list ranks films by their original domestic theatrical gross and applies the same release rules throughout the historical data.

Re-releases are excluded from the annual rankings. A film's initial theatrical run is treated as a single release as long as that run remains uninterrupted, while later theatrical returns are not added to the original ranking total. This approach is designed to make yearly box office results more directly comparable.

The historical archive is being expanded to include earlier decades, with particular attention given to years where complete and consistently structured annual box office rankings are difficult to find. Box office data is compiled and curated for use within the Hollywood Rankings database. More information about the underlying sources is available on the Data Sources page.