100 English films of 1980 ranked by box office. #1: City of the Living Dead ($985 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | $400,000 | $985 million | 2462.50x | |
| 2 | Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | $18 million | $538.4 million | 29.91x | |
| 3 | Superman II | Richard Donner | $54 million | $216.3 million | 4.01x | |
| 4 | The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | $5 million | $200 million | 40.00x | |
| 5 | Airplane! | David Zucker | $3.5 million | $171 million | 48.86x | |
| 6 | The Blues Brothers | John Landis | $270,000 | $115.2 million | 426.67x | |
| 7 | 9 to 5 | Colin Higgins | $10 million | $103.3 million | 10.33x | |
| 8 | Stir Crazy | Sidney Poitier | $10 million | $101 million | 10.10x | |
| 9 | Ordinary People | Robert Redford | $6.2 million | $90 million | 14.52x | |
| 10 | Any Which Way You Can | Buddy Van Horn | $15 million | $70.7 million | 4.71x | |
| 11 | Private Benjamin | Howard Zieff | $9.2 million | $69.8 million | 7.59x | |
| 12 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | $15 million | $67.2 million | 4.48x | |
| 13 | Smokey and the Bandit II | Hal Needham | $17 million | $66.1 million | 3.89x | |
| 14 | Caddyshack | Harold Ramis | $6 million | $60 million | 10.00x | |
| 14 | Popeye | Robert Altman | $20 million | $60 million | 3.00x | |
| 16 | Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | $550,000 | $59.8 million | 108.73x | |
| 17 | The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | $4.5 million | $58.8 million | 13.07x | |
| 18 | Urban Cowboy | James Bridges | $13 million | $53.3 million | 4.10x | |
| 19 | American Gigolo | Paul Schrader | $4.8 million | $52.7 million | 10.98x | |
| 20 | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | $19 million | $50 million | 2.63x | |
| 21 | Hardly Working | Jerry Lewis | $3.4 million | $49 million | 14.41x | |
| 22 | Seems Like Old Times | Jay Sandrich | $44 million | |||
| 23 | Fame | Alan Parker | $8.5 million | $42 million | 4.94x | |
| 24 | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Tommy Chong | $41.7 million | |||
| 25 | Brubaker | Stuart Rosenberg | $9 million | $37.1 million | 4.12x | |
| 26 | Little Darlings | Ronald F. Maxwell | $5.3 million | $34.3 million | 6.47x | |
| 27 | Dressed to Kill | Brian De Palma | $6.5 million | $31.9 million | 4.91x | |
| 28 | Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | $27 million | $27.1 million | 1.00x | |
| 29 | The Jazz Singer | Sidney J. Furie | $14 million | $27 million | 1.93x | |
| 30 | The Elephant Man | David Lynch | $5 million | $26 million | 5.20x | |
| 31 | Bronco Billy | Clint Eastwood | $6.5 million | $24.3 million | 3.74x | |
| 32 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | $18 million | $23.4 million | 1.30x | |
| 33 | Xanadu | Robert Greenwald | $20 million | $23 million | 1.15x | |
| 34 | My Bodyguard | Tony Bill | $3 million | $22.5 million | 7.49x | |
| 35 | The Big Brawl | Robert Clouse | $6 million | $21.5 million | 3.58x | |
| 36 | The Fog | John Carpenter | $1.1 million | $21.3 million | 19.36x | |
| 37 | Altered States | Ken Russell | $15 million | $19.9 million | 1.33x | |
| 38 | The Octagon | Eric Karson | $4 million | $19 million | 4.75x | |
| 39 | The Private Eyes | Lang Elliott | $2.3 million | $18.9 million | 8.24x | |
| 40 | Herbie Goes Bananas | Vincent McEveety | $18 million | |||
| 41 | Honeysuckle Rose | Jerry Schatzberg | $11 million | $17.8 million | 1.62x | |
| 42 | Rough Cut | Don Siegel | $10 million | $16.7 million | 1.67x | |
| 43 | The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | $12.5 million | $16.6 million | 1.33x | |
| 44 | A Change of Seasons | Noel Black | $6 million | $16.4 million | 2.73x | |
| 45 | The Hunter | Buzz Kulik | $16.3 million | |||
| 46 | Hero at Large | Martin Davidson | $15.9 million | |||
| 47 | The Long Riders | Walter Hill | $10 million | $15.8 million | 1.58x | |
| 48 | The Island | Michael Ritchie | $22 million | $15.7 million | 0.71x | |
| 49 | First Family | Buck Henry | $15.2 million | |||
| 50 | Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | $1.8 million | $15 million | 8.33x | |
| 51 | Cruising | William Friedkin | $11 million | $14.8 million | 1.35x | |
| 52 | Prom Night | Paul Lynch | $1.5 million | $14.8 million | 9.86x | |
| 53 | The Nude Bomb | Clive Donner | $8.5 million | $14.6 million | 1.72x | |
| 54 | The Competition | Joel Oliansky | $10.1 million | $14.3 million | 1.42x | |
| 55 | Wholly Moses! | Gary Weis | $4.5 million | $14.2 million | 3.15x | |
| 56 | Oh, God! Book II | Gilbert Cates | $14 million | |||
| 57 | Hopscotch | Ronald Neame | $9.5 million | $13 million | 1.37x | |
| 57 | Middle Age Crazy | John Trent | $5.1 million | $13 million | 2.55x | |
| 59 | The Last Married Couple in America | Gilbert Cates | $12.8 million | |||
| 60 | Atlantic City | Louis Malle | $7.2 million | $12.7 million | 1.76x | |
| 60 | Used Cars | Robert Zemeckis | $8 million | $12.7 million | 1.59x | |
| 62 | The Changeling | Peter Medak | $6.6 million | $12 million | 1.82x | |
| 63 | Battle Beyond the Stars | Roger Corman | $2 million | $11 million | 5.50x | |
| 63 | The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | Charles Jarrott | $6 million | $11 million | 1.83x | |
| 63 | It's My Turn | Claudia Weill | $11 million | |||
| 66 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Peter Sellers | $10.7 million | |||
| 67 | Stardust Memories | Woody Allen | $10 million | $10.4 million | 1.04x | |
| 68 | Up the Academy | Robert Downey Sr. | $5 million | $10 million | 2.00x | |
| 68 | The Hollywood Knights | Floyd Mutrux | $4 million | $10 million | 2.50x | |
| 70 | Serial | Bill Persky | $9.9 million | |||
| 71 | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | $4 million | $9.7 million | 2.43x | |
| 72 | Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen | $10 million | $9 million | 0.90x | |
| 72 | Tom Horn | William Wiard | $9 million | |||
| 72 | Tribute | Bob Clark | $8 million | $9 million | 1.13x | |
| 75 | The Formula | John G. Avildsen | $13.2 million | $8.9 million | 0.67x | |
| 76 | The Awakening | Mike Newell | A$5.3 million | $8.4 million | ||
| 77 | Terror Train | Roger Spottiswoode | $2.7 million | $8 million | 2.96x | |
| 78 | Fatso | Anne Bancroft | $7.7 million | |||
| 79 | Death Watch | Bertrand Tavernier | $7.6 million | |||
| 80 | How to Beat the High Co$t of Living | Robert Scheerer | $4.8 million | $7.5 million | 1.56x | |
| 80 | Foxes | Adrian Lyne | $7.5 million | |||
| 82 | The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | $4 million | $7.2 million | 1.80x | |
| 83 | The Stunt Man | Richard Rush | $6 million | $7.1 million | 1.18x | |
| 83 | The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man" | Richard Rush | $6 million | $7.1 million | 1.18x | |
| 85 | Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson | $40 million | $7 million | 0.18x | |
| 86 | Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | $4 million | $6.7 million | 1.66x | |
| 87 | The Gong Show Movie | Chuck Barris | $6.6 million | |||
| 88 | Alligator | Lewis Teague | $1.8 million | $6.5 million | 3.71x | |
| 89 | Windwalker | Kieth Merrill | $3 million | $6.4 million | 2.13x | |
| 90 | Little Miss Marker | Walter Bernstein | $6.3 million | |||
| 91 | Motel Hell | Kevin Connor | $3 million | $6.3 million | 2.10x | |
| 92 | Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | $6 million | $6.2 million | 1.03x | |
| 93 | Simon | Marshall Brickman | $6 million | |||
| 93 | American Pop | Ralph Bakshi | $5 million | $6 million | 1.20x | |
| 93 | The Mountain Men | Richard Lang | $6 million | |||
| 96 | Hangar 18 | James L. Conway | $5.8 million | |||
| 97 | The Mirror Crack'd | Guy Hamilton | $5.5 million | $5.5 million | 1.00x | |
| 98 | The Dogs of War | John Irvin | $8 million | $5.4 million | 0.68x | |
| 99 | Divine Madness | Michael Ritchie | $5.3 million | |||
| 100 | In God We Tru$t | Marty Feldman | $6 million | $5.2 million | 0.87x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.