Box Office Decades: 1980s

Can you name the Top 10 movies from each year in the 1980s?

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1980: Top 10 Grossing Films
$550M	The Empire Strikes Back
$115M	The Blues Brothers
$103M	9 to 5
$101M	Stir Crazy
$83M	Airplane!
$70M	Any Which Way You Can
$69M	Private Benjamin
$67M	Coal Miner's Daughter
$66M	Smokey and the Bandit II
$59M	Friday the 13th

1982: Top 10 Grossing Films
$797M	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
$270M	Rocky III
$189M	An Officer and a Gentleman
$177M	Tootsie
$127M	Gandhi
$125M	First Blood
$124M	Poltergeist
$111M	Porky's
$96M	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
$78M	48 Hrs.

1984: Top 10 Grossing Films
$333M	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$316M	Beverly Hills Cop
$296M	Ghostbusters
$165M	Gremlins
$91M	The Karate Kid
$87M	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
$86M	Romancing the Stone
$81M	Police Academy
$80M	Footloose
$78M	The Terminator

1986: Top 10 Grossing Films
$357M	Top Gun
$328M	Crocodile Dundee
$138M	Platoon
$131M	Aliens
$115M	The Karate Kid Part II
$109M	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
$93M	Legal Eagles
$91M	Back to School
$84M	An American Tail
$79M	The Golden Child

1988: Top 10 Grossing Films
$354M	Rain Man
$329M	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
$288M	Coming to America
$239M	Crocodile Dundee II
$216M	Twins
$189M	Rambo III
$171M	Cocktail
$151M	Big
$143M	Die Hard
$102M	Working Girl

1981: Top 10 Grossing Films
$389M	Raiders of the Lost Ark
$216M	Superman II
$195M	For Your Eyes Only
$119M	On Golden Pond
$95M	Arthur
$85M	Stripes
$72M	The Cannonball Run
$65M	Fort Apache, The Bronx
$63M	The Fox and the Hound
$61M	An American Werewolf in London

1983: Top 10 Grossing Films
$482M	Return of the Jedi
$201M	Flashdance
$187M	Octopussy
$159M	Never Say Never Again
$127M	Staying Alive
$108M	Tears of Endearment
$90M	Trading Places
$87M	Jaws 3-D
$80M	Superman III
$79M	WarGames

1985: Top 10 Grossing Films
$385M	Back to the Future
$300M	Rocky IV
$300M	Rambo: First Blood Part II
$227M	Out of Africa
$152M	A View to a Kill
$125M	The Goonies
$98M	The Color Purple
$96M	The Jewel of the Nile
$85M	Cocoon
$68M	Witness

1987: Top 10 Grossing Films
$320M	Fatal Attraction
$299M	Beverly Hills Cop II
$214M	Dirty Dancing
$191M	The Living Daylights
$167M	Three Men and a Baby
$123M	Good Morning, Vietnam
$120M	Lethal Weapon
$110M	The Secret of My Success
$98M	Predator
$80M	Moonstruck

1989: Top 10 Grossing Films
$474M	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
$411M	Batman
$332M	Back to the Future Part II
$296M	Look Who's Talking
$235M	Dead Poets Society
$227M	Lethal Weapon 2
$222M	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
$215M	Ghostbusters II
$211M	The Little Mermaid
$161M	Born on the Fourth of July