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Top 1979 Movies at the Domestic Box Office


See also: Top 1979 International - Top 1979 Worldwide

Other Domestic Cumulative records: All Time Domestic - All Time Domestic (Inf. Adj.) - All Time Animated Domestic - All Time Sequel Domestic - All Time Non-Sequel Domestic - Top 2023 Domestic - Top 2024 Domestic

This chart contains the total domestic box office for movies released in 1979.

See Top Grossing Movies of 1979 for a list of movies that earned most at the domestic box office during 1979, including films released in 1978 and earlier.

Top 1978 Domestic Top 1980 Domestic
Rank Movie Distributor Domestic
Box
Office
Opening
Weekend
Box Office
Max
Theater
Count
1 Kramer vs. Kramer Columbia $106,260,000 898
2 The Amityville Horror American … $86,432,520 $7,843,467 868
3 Rocky 2 United Ar… $85,182,160 $6,390,537 780
4 Apocalypse Now United Ar… $83,535,860 $118,558 105
5 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Paramount… $82,258,456 $11,926,421 1,002
6 The Muppet Movie Associate… $76,657,000
7 The Jerk Universal $73,691,419
8 Moonraker United Ar… $70,300,000 $7,108,344 788
9 Alien 20th Cent… $65,403,354 $3,522,581 1,750
10 10 Warner Bros. $52,134,699 $3,526,692 706
11 Love at First Bite American … $43,900,000
12 Escape from Alcatraz Paramount… $43,000,000 $5,306,354
13 Meatballs Paramount… $43,000,000 $77,170 7
14 The Electric Horseman Universal $42,670,138
15 Manhattan United Ar… $39,946,780 $485,734 29
16 Starting Over Paramount… $38,200,000
17 The In-Laws Warner Bros. $38,200,000
18 All That Jazz 20th Cent… $37,823,676 $86,229 5
19 The Black Stallion United Ar… $37,799,643
20 The Main Event Warner Bros. $37,198,813
21 The Black Hole Walt Disney $35,841,901
22 The China Syndrome Columbia $35,708,042
23 1941 Universal $34,175,000 $2,701,898 325
24 ...And Justice For All Columbia $33,300,000
25 The Champ MGM $30,441,738 $1,972,684 563
26 Being There United Ar… $30,177,511
27 Chapter Two Columbia $30,000,000
28 Going in Style Warner Bros. $29,900,000
29 The Rose 20th Cent… $29,200,000 $793,063 44
30 Prophecy Paramount… $22,673,340
31 The Warriors Paramount… $22,490,000 $3,529,675 551
32 Norma Rae 20th Cent… $22,228,000 $262,778 48
33 The Bermuda Triangle $22,200,000
34 Dracula Universal $21,000,000
35 A Force of One American … $20,200,000
36 Life of Brian Warner Bros. $20,182,359 $140,044 125
37 Breaking Away 20th Cent… $20,000,000 $17,702 95
38 North Dallas Forty Paramount… $19,010,710 $2,787,479
39 The Seduction of Joe Tynan Universal $19,000,000
40 Hair United Ar… $13,100,000
41 The Concorde: Airport '79 Universal $13,000,000
42 Time After Time Warner Bros. $13,000,000
43 The Frisco Kid Warner Bros. $12,000,000 $160,292 26

The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.