Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1980
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The list below includes all films using the English language, including movies using other languages as well.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back |
English |
Adventure |
$23,000,000 |
$549,001,086 |
|
| 9 to 5 |
English |
Comedy |
|
$103,300,659 |
|
| Stir Crazy |
English |
Black Comedy |
|
$101,300,000 |
|
| Airplane! |
English |
Comedy |
$3,500,000 |
$83,454,307 |
|
| Any Which Way You Can |
English |
Comedy |
|
$70,687,344 |
|
| Private Benjamin |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$69,847,348 |
|
| Coal Miner’s Daughter |
English |
Drama |
$15,000,000 |
$67,182,787 |
|
| Smokey and the Bandit II |
English,
Spanish |
Comedy |
|
$66,132,626 |
|
| Friday the 13th |
English |
Horror |
$550,000 |
$59,754,601 |
|
| The Blues Brothers |
English |
Comedy |
$27,000,000 |
$57,246,460 |
|
| The Final Countdown |
English |
Action |
|
$56,647,800 |
|
| American Gigolo |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$52,743,674 |
|
| Ordinary People |
English |
Drama |
$6,200,000 |
$52,303,295 |
|
| Popeye |
English |
Musical |
$20,000,000 |
$49,823,037 |
|
| The Blue Lagoon |
English |
Drama |
$4,500,000 |
$47,923,795 |
|
| Urban Cowboy |
English |
Western |
|
$46,918,287 |
|
| The Shining |
English |
Horror |
$19,000,000 |
$46,821,136 |
|
| Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie |
English |
Comedy |
|
$41,675,194 |
|
| Caddyshack |
English |
Comedy |
$6,000,000 |
$39,849,764 |
|
| Brubaker |
English |
Drama |
|
$37,121,708 |
|
| Little Darlings |
English |
Comedy |
|
$34,326,249 |
|
| Dressed to Kill |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$6,500,000 |
$31,899,000 |
|
| Flash Gordon |
English |
Action |
$35,000,000 |
$27,176,825 |
|
| The Elephant Man |
English |
Drama |
$5,000,000 |
$26,026,416 |
|
| Bronco Billy |
English |
Comedy |
|
$24,265,659 |
|
| Raging Bull |
English |
Drama |
$18,000,000 |
$23,417,649 |
|
| Caligula |
English |
Drama |
|
$23,415,490 |
|
| Seems Like Old Times |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$23,200,000 |
|
| Xanadu |
English |
Musical |
|
$22,762,611 |
|
| My Bodyguard |
English |
Comedy |
|
$22,482,952 |
|
| In Search of Historic Jesus |
English |
Documentary |
|
$22,000,000 |
|
| The Fog |
English |
Horror |
$1,100,000 |
$21,445,868 |
|
| Fame |
English |
Musical |
|
$21,202,829 |
|
| Tess |
English |
Drama |
|
$20,093,330 |
|
| Altered States |
English |
Horror |
|
$19,853,898 |
|
| Cruising |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$19,784,463 |
|
| The Octagon |
English |
Action |
|
$19,000,000 |
|
| Hardly Working |
English |
Comedy |
|
$18,000,000 |
|
| Windwalker |
English |
Western |
|
$18,000,000 |
|
| Honeysuckle Rose |
English |
Drama |
|
$17,815,212 |
|
| Herbie Goes Bananas |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,000,000 |
|
| Rough Cut |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$16,656,125 |
|
| The Hunter |
English |
Action |
|
$16,647,800 |
|
| A Change of Seasons |
English |
Drama |
|
$16,400,000 |
|
| Hero At Large |
English |
Comedy |
|
$15,934,737 |
|
| The Island |
English |
Adventure |
$22,000,000 |
$15,716,828 |
|
| The Long Riders |
English |
Western |
$10,000,000 |
$15,198,912 |
|
| First Family |
English |
Comedy |
|
$15,198,912 |
|
| Prom Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$14,796,236 |
|
| The Nude Bomb |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,662,035 |
|
| Oh, God! Book II |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,504,277 |
|
| Wholly Moses! |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,155,617 |
|
| The Competition |
English |
Drama |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| Hopscotch |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| Middle Age Crazy |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| The Last Married Couple in America |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,835,544 |
|
| The Changeling |
English |
Horror |
|
$12,000,147 |
|
| Used Cars |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,715,321 |
|
| The Mirror Crack'd |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$11,000,648 |
|
| The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark |
English |
Adventure |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| It’s My Turn |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| Hangar 18 |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,697,276 |
|
| Stardust Memories |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,389,003 |
|
| Maniac |
English |
Horror |
$350,000 |
$10,000,000 |
|
| The Hollywood Knights |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,000,000 |
|
| Serial |
English |
Comedy |
|
$9,870,727 |
|
| Somewhere in Time |
English |
Drama |
$5,100,000 |
$9,709,597 |
|
| Tribute |
English |
Comedy |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| Tom Horn |
English |
Western |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| Saturn 3 |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| The Formula |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$8,894,289 |
|
| The Big Brawl |
English |
Action |
|
$8,527,743 |
|
| The Awakening |
English |
Horror |
|
$8,415,112 |
|
| Terror Train |
English |
Horror |
$3,500,000 |
$8,000,000 |
|
| How to Beat the High Co$t of Living |
English |
Comedy |
|
$7,500,000 |
|
| Foxes |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,470,348 |
|
| The Big Red One |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,206,220 |
|
| Motel Hell |
English |
Horror |
|
$6,342,668 |
|
| Little Miss Marker |
English |
Comedy |
|
$6,321,392 |
|
| He Knows You're Alone |
English |
Horror |
|
$4,875,436 |
|
| Melvin and Howard |
English |
Comedy |
|
$4,309,490 |
|
| Guyana: Crime of the Century |
English,
Spanish |
Drama |
|
$3,798,102 |
|
| The Idolmaker |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,625,716 |
|
| The Black Marble |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$2,500,000 |
|
| Windows |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$2,200,000 |
|
| Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!) |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,013,193 |
|
| Lion of the Desert |
English |
Drama |
$35,000,000 |
$1,502,136 |
|
| Night of the Juggler |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$50,265 |
|
| Gloria |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$47,019 |
|
| Stunt Rock |
English |
Action |
|
$9,530 |
|
| Inferno |
English,
Latin |
Horror |
|
$164 |
|
| Humanoids From the Deep |
English |
Horror |
|
$160 |
|
| The Apple |
English,
French,
German,
Italian |
Musical |
|
$33 |
|
| The Tempest |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Rockshow: Paul McCartney & Wings |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$0 |
|
| Incubo sulla citta contaminata |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Black Jack |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Cannibal Holocaust |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Forbidden Zone |
English,
French,
German |
Musical |
|
$0 |
|
| Demented |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Last Word |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Without Warning |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Stone Cold Dead |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Nightkill |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| The Watcher in the Woods |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Zombi 2 |
English,
Italian,
Spanish |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Death Ship |
English,
German |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Silent Scream |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Earthling |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| The Ninth Configuration |
English |
Comedy |
$4,000,000 |
$0 |
|
| Battle Beyond the Stars |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Children |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Alligator |
English |
Horror |
$2,000,000 |
$0 |
|
| Cries in the Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Stir |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Times Square |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
