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
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
$252,583,617
2
Terms of Endearment
$108,423,489
3
Flashdance
$92,921,203
4
Trading Places
$90,404,800
5
WarGames
$79,567,667
6
Octopussy
$67,893,619
7
Sudden Impact
$67,642,693
8
Staying Alive
$64,892,670
9
Mr. Mom
$64,783,827
10
Risky Business
$63,541,777
11
National Lampoon's Vacation
$61,399,552
12
Superman III
$59,950,623
13
The Big Chill
$56,342,711
14
Never Say Never Again
$55,432,841
15
Jaws 3-D
$45,517,055
16
Scarface
$45,227,398
17
Blue Thunder
$42,313,354
18
Yentl
$40,218,899
19
Silkwood
$35,615,609
20
Psycho II
$34,725,000
21
Porky's II: The Next Day
$33,759,266
22
Uncommon Valor
$30,503,151
23
Never Cry Wolf
$29,600,000
24
Twilight Zone: The Movie
$29,450,919
25
Easy Money
$29,309,766
26
High Road to China
$28,445,927
27
The Outsiders
$25,697,647
28
Spring Break
$24,071,666
29
Two of a Kind
$23,646,952
30
My Tutor
$22,587,834
31
Class
$21,667,789
32
The Right Stuff
$21,192,102
33
Cujo
$21,156,152
34
Christine
$21,017,849
35
The Dead Zone
$20,766,616
36
Breathless
$19,910,002
37
A Christmas Story
$19,294,144
38
Max Dugan Returns
$17,613,720
39
Valley Girl
$17,343,596
40
All the Right Moves
$17,233,166
41
Krull
$16,519,460
42
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
$16,478,265
43
Richard Pryor... Here and Now
$16,156,776
44
D.C. Cab
$16,134,627
45
Gorky Park
$15,856,028
46
Still Smokin
$15,543,710
47
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
$14,929,552
48
Educating Rita
$14,648,076
49
Private School
$14,049,540
50
The Survivors
$14,000,000

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.