Editing 1980s in film (section)

== Highest-grossing films ==
{{See also|Lists of highest-grossing films}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"  style="margin:auto; margin:auto; text-align:center"
|+ List of worldwide highest-grossing films
|-
! Rank
! Title
! Studio(s)
! Worldwide gross
! Year
! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}
|-
|1
|''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''
|[[Universal Pictures]]
|$792,942,069
||[[1982 in film|1982]]
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto3">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1982&p=.htm|title=1982 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|2
|''[[Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back]]''
|20th Century Fox
|$538,375,067
|[[1980 in film|1980]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto7">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1980&p=.htm|title=1980 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|- 
|3
|''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''
|[[Paramount Pictures]]
|$474,171,806
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1989&p=.htm|title=1989 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|4
|''[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]]''
|[[Warner Bros.]]
|$411,348,924
|[[1989 in film|1989]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|5
|''[[Back to the Future]]''
|Universal Pictures
|$381,109,762
|[[1985 in film|1985]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/?ref_=bo_gr_ti |title=Back to the Future (1985) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001174650/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0088763/?ref_=bo_gr_ti |access-date=July 14, 2024| archive-date=2020-10-01}}</ref></div>
|-
|6
|''[[Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi]]''
|[[20th Century Fox]]
|$374,593,074
|[[1983 in film|1983]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web |title=Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr638341637/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229141154/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr638341637/ |archivedate=February 29, 2020 |access-date=February 29, 2020 |website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref></div>
|-
|7
|''[[Top Gun]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$357,463,748
|[[1986 in film|1986]]
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name=Numbers1986>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1986| title=Top 1986 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office| work=The Numbers}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1986&p=.htm|title=1986 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|8
|''[[Rain Man]]''
|[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
|$354,825,435
|[[1988 in film|1988]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1988&p=.htm|title=1988 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|9
|''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$353,988,025
|[[1981 in film|1981]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1981&p=.htm|title=1981 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823141929/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/1981/ |access-date=2020-08-23 |archive-date=2020-08-23}}</ref></div>
|-
|10
|''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$333,080,271	
|1984
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto8" /></div>
|-
|11
|''[[Back to the Future Part II]]''
|Universal Pictures
|$331,950,002
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|12
|''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''
|Buena Vista / [[Buena Vista (brand)|Touchstone Pictures]]
|$329,803,958
|1988
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4"/></div>
|-
|13
|''[[Crocodile Dundee]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$328,203,506
|1986
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name=Numbers1986/></div>
|-
|14
|''[[Fatal Attraction]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$320,099,997
|1987
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 1987 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office| url=https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1987| work=The Numbers}}</ref></div>
|-
|15
|''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$316,300,000	
|[[1984 in film|1984]]
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web|title=Beverly Hills Cop (1984)| url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Beverly-Hills-Cop#tab=summary| work=The Numbers}}</ref><ref name="auto8">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1984&p=.htm|title=1984 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|16
|''[[Rambo: First Blood Part II]]''
|[[TriStar Pictures|Carolco Pictures]]
|$300,400,000
|1985
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="mojo">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200215070326/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3697968641/ Box Office Information for Rambo: First Blood Part II] [[Box Office Mojo]] via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved February 8, 2023.</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1985&p=.htm|title=1985 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|17
|''[[Rocky IV]]''
|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|$300,373,716
|1985
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto1" /></div>
|-
|18
|''[[Look Who's Talking]]''
| [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]]
|$296,999,813
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|19
|''[[Ghostbusters]]''
|[[Columbia Pictures]]
|$296,578,797
|1984
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0087332/|title=Ghostbusters (1984) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2024-07-14}}</ref></div>
|-
|20
|''[[Coming to America]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$288,752,301
|1988
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4"/></div>
|-
|21
|''[[Tootsie]]''
|Columbia Pictures
|$241,000,000
|1982
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/dustin-hoffman/tootsie-crossdressing-comedy-dustin-hoffman| work=Paste Magazine| title=Tootsie’s Crossdressing Comedy with a Heart of Gold Shouldn’t Have Worked, but It Did| date=December 17, 2022}}</ref></div>
|-
|22
|''[[Crocodile Dundee II]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$239,606,210
|1988
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4"/></div>
|-
|23
|''[[Dead Poets Society]]''
|Buena Vista / Touchstone Pictures
|$235,860,116
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|24
|''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]''
|Warner Bros.
|$227,853,986
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|25
|''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]''
|Buena Vista/[[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]
|$222,724,172
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|26
|''[[Twins (1988 film)|Twins]]''
|Universal Pictures
|$216,614,388
|1988
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4"/></div>
|-
|27
|''[[Ghostbusters II]]''
|Columbia Pictures
|$215,394,738
|1989
|<div  style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6"/></div>
|-
|28
|''[[Dirty Dancing]]''
|Vestron Pictures
|$214,600,000
|[[1987 in film|1987]]
|-
|29
|''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]''
|C.A.T. Films
|$200,000,000
|1980
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="Gorelik">{{cite news |last=Gorelik |first=Boris |date=12 July 2014 |title=Jamie se treffer: Met Uys, ja – die wêreld in |work=[[Rapport (newspaper)|Rapport]] |publisher=[[Media24]] |url=http://www.rapport.co.za/Weekliks/Nuus/Jamie-se-treffer-Met-Uys-ja-die-wereld-in-20140712 |url-status=dead |access-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714231833/http://www.rapport.co.za/Weekliks/Nuus/Jamie-se-treffer-Met-Uys-ja-die-wereld-in-20140712 |archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref></div>
|-
|30
|''[[Rambo III]]''
|[[TriStar Pictures|Carolco]]
|$189,015,611
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|31
|''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]''
|Buena Vista/Disney
|$184,155,863
|1989
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6" /></div>
|-
|32
|''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''
|MGM
|$177,889,000
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|33
|''[[Cocktail (1988 film)|Cocktail]]''
|Buena Vista / Touchstone Pictures
|$171,504,781
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|34
|''[[Three Men and a Baby]]''
|Buena Vista / Touchstone Pictures
|$167,780,960
|[[1987 in film|1987]]
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto5">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1987&p=.htm|title=1987 Worldwide Gross |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref></div>
|-
|35
|''[[Born on the Fourth of July (film)|Born on the Fourth of July]]''
|Universal Pictures
|$161,001,698
|1989
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto6" /></div>
|-
|36
|''[[Beverly Hills Cop II]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$299,965,036
|1987
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto5" /></div>
|-
|37
|''[[Gremlins]]''
|Warner Bros.
|$153,083,102
|1984
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto8" /></div>
|-
|38
|''[[Big (film)|Big]]''
|20th Century Fox
|$151,668,774
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|39
|''[[Die Hard]]''
|20th Century Fox
|$140,767,956
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|40
|''[[The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$140,000,000
|1988
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto4" /></div>
|-
|41
|''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]''
|[[Orion Pictures]]
|$138,530,565
|1986
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto2" /></div>
|-
|42
|''[[The Karate Kid]]''
|Columbia Pictures
|$130,000,000
|1984
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="worldwide">{{cite news |last1=Hurlburt |first1=Roger |title=Martial Arts Flick Loses Kick Third Time Around |url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-07-03-8902190049-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326043118/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-07-03-8902190049-story.html |access-date=27 January 2021 |work=[[Sun-Sentinel]] |date=3 July 1989 |archive-date=2019-03-26 |quote=The Karate Kid (1984) and the sequel, The Karate Kid Part II, went on to gain critical acclaim and $130 million each at the box office}}</ref></div>
|-
|43
|''[[The Karate Kid Part II]]''
|Columbia Pictures
|$130,000,000
|1986
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="worldwide" /></div>
|-
|44
|''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$129,795,554
|1982
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto3" /></div>
|-
|45
|[[Gandhi (film)|''Gandhi'']]
|[[Goldcrest Films]] / [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC India]]
|$127,767,889
|1982
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="Numbers">{{cite web |title=Gandhi (1982) - Box Office Data, DVD and Blu-ray Sales, Movie News, Cast and Crew Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gandhi#tab=summary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407104900/http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gandhi#tab=summary |archive-date=7 April 2015 |access-date=27 January 2015 |publisher=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]}}</ref></div>
|-
|46
|''[[Rocky III]]''
|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|$124,146,897
|1982
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto3" /></div>
|-
|47
|''[[Good Morning, Vietnam]]''
|Buena Vista / Touchstone Pictures
|$123,922,370
|1987
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto5" /></div>
|-
|48
|''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]''
|Universal Pictures
|$119,285,432
|1981
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto" /></div>
|-
|49
|''[[Shaolin Temple (1982 film)|Shaolin Temple]]''
|Chung Yuen Motion Picture Company
|$111,851,439
|1982
|<div style="text-align: center;">{{Efn|See ''{{Section link|Shaolin Temple (1982 film)|Box office}}''}}</div>
|-
|50
|''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''
|Paramount Pictures
|$109,713,132
|1986
|<div style="text-align: center;"><ref name="auto2" /></div>
|}

In the list, where revenues are equal numbers, the newer films are listed lower, due to inflation making the dollar-amount lower compared to earlier years.