The Most Popular Movies of 1980
July 26, 2026The most popular 1980 movie right now is The Elephant Man. Rankings reflect today's audience buzz for all 149 movies released in 1980, not box office or critic scores. Updated daily.
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Movie
Attention ScoreAttention
1
The Elephant Man
7.2
2
The Shining
4.5
3
The Blue Lagoon
4.3
4
The Empire Strikes Back
2.8
5
Airplane!
1.9
6
Raging Bull
1.5
7
The Blues Brothers
1.4
8
Friday the 13th
1.3
9
Flash Gordon
1.3
10
American Gigolo
1.2
11
Heaven's Gate
1.1
12
Cruising
1.0
13
The Gods Must Be Crazy
1.0
14
Xanadu
0.8
15
Caddyshack
0.8
16
Ordinary People
0.8
17
Popeye
0.7
18
The Fog
0.7
19
Dressed to Kill
0.7
20
Breaker Morant
0.7
21
Somewhere in Time
0.7
22
Superman II
0.6
23
Coal Miner's Daughter
0.6
24
Kagemusha
0.5
25
The Long Good Friday
0.5
26
Little Darlings
0.5
27
Private Benjamin
0.5
28
Altered States
0.5
29
Urban Cowboy
0.4
30
The Final Countdown
0.4
31
Melvin and Howard
0.4
32
The Changeling
0.4
33
Stir Crazy
0.3
34
Any Which Way You Can
0.3
35
The Mirror Crack'd
0.3
36
Smokey and the Bandit II
0.3
37
The Dogs of War
0.3
38
Raise the Titanic
0.3
39
Battle Beyond the Stars
0.3
40
Where the Buffalo Roam
0.3
41
The Apple
0.3
42
Alligator
0.3
43
Prom Night
0.3
44
The Ninth Configuration
0.2
45
Used Cars
0.2
46
One Trick Pony
0.2
47
The Long Riders
0.2
48
My Bodyguard
0.2
49
The Watcher in the Woods
0.2
50
The Big Red One
0.2
51
Can't Stop the Music
0.2
52
He Knows You're Alone
0.2
53
Humanoids from the Deep
0.2
54
Atlantic City
0.2
55
Saturn 3
0.2
56
The Sea Wolves
0.2
57
Bronco Billy
0.2
58
Brubaker
0.2
59
Foxes
0.2
60
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
0.1
61
Bad Timing
0.1
62
The First Deadly Sin
0.1
63
Midnight Madness
0.1
64
Seems Like Old Times
0.1
65
Hopscotch
0.1
66
Stardust Memories
0.1
67
The Hollywood Knights
0.1
68
The Stunt Man
0.1
69
Little Miss Marker
0.1
70
The Exterminator
0.1
71
Don't Answer the Phone!
0.1
72
Herbie Goes Bananas
0.1
73
Shogun Assassin
0.1
74
Honeysuckle Rose
0.1
75
When Time Ran Out...
0.1
76
Tom Horn
0.1
77
The Octagon
0.1
78
Gorp
0.1
79
The Nude Bomb
0.1
80
Motel Hell
0.1
81
Blood Beach
0.1
82
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
83
It's My Turn
0.1
84
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
0.1
85
Return of the Secaucus Seven
0.1
86
Wholly Moses
0.1
87
Up the Academy
0.1
88
North Sea Hijack
0.1
89
Serial
0.1
90
Times Square
0.1
91
The Last Married Couple in America
0.1
92
The Young Master
0.1
93
Home Movies
0.1
94
The Formula
0.1
95
The Big Brawl
0.1
96
First Family
0.1
97
Super Fuzz
0.1
98
Hero at Large
0.1
99
Windows
0.1
100
Inside Moves
0.1
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