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
Beverly Hills Cop
$234,760,478
2
Ghostbusters
$229,242,989
3
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$179,870,271
4
Gremlins
$148,168,459
5
The Karate Kid
$90,815,558
6
Police Academy
$81,198,894
7
Footloose
$80,035,402
8
Romancing the Stone
$76,572,238
9
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
$76,471,046
10
Splash
$69,821,334
11
Purple Rain
$68,392,977
12
Amadeus
$51,564,280
13
Tightrope
$48,143,579
14
The Natural
$47,951,979
15
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
$45,858,563
16
Revenge of the Nerds
$40,874,452
17
2010: The Year We Make Contact
$40,400,657
18
Breakin'
$38,682,707
19
Bachelor Party
$38,435,947
20
Red Dawn
$38,376,497
21
The Terminator
$38,371,200
22
City Heat
$38,348,988
23
All of Me
$36,403,064
24
Places in the Heart
$34,901,614
25
The Killing Fields
$34,700,291
26
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
$32,980,880
27
Dune
$31,439,560
28
Conan the Destroyer
$31,042,035
29
The Gods Must Be Crazy
$30,031,783
30
Starman
$28,744,356
31
The Last Starfighter
$28,733,290
32
Cannonball Run II
$28,078,073
33
Teachers
$27,774,237
34
A Passage to India
$27,187,653
35
Protocol
$26,186,631
36
Micki & Maude
$26,080,861
37
The Cotton Club
$25,928,721
38
The Muppets Take Manhattan
$25,534,703
39
A Nightmare on Elm Street
$25,504,513
40
The Woman in Red
$25,308,147
41
Moscow on the Hudson
$25,068,724
42
The Flamingo Kid
$23,859,382
43
Sixteen Candles
$23,686,027
44
Missing in Action
$22,812,411
45
A Soldier's Story
$21,821,347
46
Against All Odds
$21,689,062
47
Oh, God! You Devil
$21,538,850
48
Rhinestone
$21,435,321
49
Weekend Pass
$21,058,033
50
Top Secret!
$20,458,340

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.