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
Home Alone
$285,761,243
2
Ghost
$217,631,306
3
Dances with Wolves
$184,208,848
4
Pretty Woman
$178,406,268
5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
$135,265,915
6
The Hunt for Red October
$122,012,643
7
Total Recall
$119,394,840
8
Die Hard 2
$117,540,947
9
Dick Tracy
$103,738,726
10
Kindergarten Cop
$91,457,688
11
Back to the Future Part III
$87,727,583
12
Presumed Innocent
$86,303,188
13
Days of Thunder
$82,670,733
14
Another 48 Hrs.
$80,818,974
15
Three Men and a Little Lady
$71,609,321
16
Bird on a Wire
$70,978,012
17
The Godfather Part III
$66,666,062
18
Flatliners
$61,489,265
19
Misery
$61,276,872
20
Edward Scissorhands
$56,362,352
21
Problem Child
$53,470,891
22
Arachnophobia
$53,208,180
23
Awakenings
$52,096,475
24
Look Who's Talking Too
$47,789,074
25
Hard to Kill
$47,410,827
26
GoodFellas
$46,836,214
27
Marked for Death
$46,044,396
28
RoboCop 2
$45,681,173
29
Young Guns II
$44,143,410
30
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
$41,482,207
31
Rocky V
$40,946,358
32
Joe Versus the Volcano
$39,404,261
33
Postcards from the Edge
$39,071,603
34
Mermaids
$35,419,397
35
Darkman
$33,878,502
36
Air America
$31,053,601
37
Predator 2
$30,669,413
38
Green Card
$29,888,235
39
Pacific Heights
$29,381,956
40
Child's Play 2
$28,501,605
41
The Rescuers Down Under
$27,931,461
42
Internal Affairs
$27,734,391
43
Cadillac Man
$27,627,310
44
Memphis Belle
$27,441,977
45
House Party
$26,385,627
46
Jacob's Ladder
$26,118,851
47
The Exorcist III
$26,098,824
48
Navy Seals
$25,069,101
49
Ernest Goes to Jail
$25,029,569
50
Ghost Dad
$24,707,633

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.